Sentences with phrase «awards hopeful»

My morning started off early with a pair of awards hopefuls at the lush and beautifully designed Princess Of Whales theater in downtown Toronto.

The film is being cited with an honor for its entire ensemble cast, which is a compliment not just to Tarantino, but to a number of Academy Award hopefuls as well.

It was a rough weekend for awards hopefuls that weren't named Victoria & Abdul.

Two acclaimed awards hopefuls expanded in different degrees in their third weeks.

After a break - neck debut pace for fall award hopefuls, the year is starting off decidedly slower for the Specialties, hardly unusual.

With no film establishing an early lead in the Oscar race, most distributors are expanding slowly and being careful not to overextend their contenders — particularly since two other awards hopefuls this season, Warner Bros.» «The Walk» and Universal's «Steve Jobs,» sputtered when they expanded quickly into wide release.

Time will tell, but in this writer's opinion, this film is one of the biggest awards hopefuls of 2018.

The Little Gold Men podcast looks at the early - year awards hopefuls that are sticking around, and the fall releases that might have a hard time being heard.

It's the time of year when awards hopefuls start jostling for position, and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Birdman has long - been tipped for big things.

Some in the audience cringed as the camera immediately cut to Elizabeth Olsen, star of the TWC awards hopeful, «Wind River.»

Spearheaded by a butt - kicking Butkus Award hopeful, the Buckeyes will reassert their Big Ten supremacy

Much like Universal's other prominent awards hopeful Unbroken (which was covered in our previous installment), a trailer for Get On Up has been released, which provides us some insight on the tone of the film and how it will portray Brown.

Fox Searchlight has a pair of awards hopefuls coming to Venice with The Shape of Water from Guillermo del Toro and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and A24 (reigning Best Picture winner with Moonlight) is debuting Lean on Pete from Andrew Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years).

Columbia Pictures awards hopeful Roman J. Israel, Esq. leads a slate of limited release newcomers more crowded than last weekend's.

The Brits are back in the Oscar race big - time, with Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, and Rosamund Pike among the first - time Academy Award hopefuls who will be duking it out in the leading categories.

Instead, the lineup features a clutch of films regarded as possible awards hopefuls.

But is this Warner Bros. also hedging its bets against its two major blockbuster / awards hopefuls Dunkirk and Blade Runner 2049?

Birdman is possibly the strangest of the big studio award hopefuls.

Amazon's rumoured awards hopeful The Big Sick failed to bag any nominations, but fellow outlying contender Get Out has bagged a nod for both Best Actor (Daniel Kaluuya) and Best Comedy.

Moonlight Leads with 7 Nominations, La La Land Earns Six Portman, Huppert, Bening Among Actress Award Hopefuls Sing Street, Captain Fantastic in Unsung Film Race Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, Nocturnal Animals on Campy Flick Short List Insecure, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Westworld Among Series Picks Beyonce, Samantha Bee, Bill Maher, Thrice - nominated Kate McKinnon in Mix Too John Waters Named «Timeless Star»...

Sony Pictures Classics took the devastating awards hopeful «Capernaum» from director Nadine Labaki.

More biographical awards hopefuls Goodbye Christopher Robin and Breathe also failed to attract much interest in their platform debuts.

But do you think that benefit gets somewhat negated by the increased competition that comes with (by my count) at least 10 awards hopefuls opening in the same window?

Though audiences will sadly have to wait a little longer to see Martin Scorsese's «The Wolf of Wall Street» after the director failed to meet the original date, there are still plenty of great movies on tap, including a few award hopefuls, a pair of blockbuster sequels and more.

True Story — One more Academy Award hopeful that's likely crippled by a first quarter release date.

Fox Searchlight's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is among the latest of this year's fall awards hopefuls.

But now that the Venice, Toronto and Telluride film festivals have been and gone, and a whole bunch of awards hopefuls have had their world premieres, the 2017 Oscar race is starting to look a little bit clearer.

In a season filled with blockbusters and awards hopefuls, «Love the Coopers» deserves a very special recognition: This all - star comedy takes elements from every «dysfunctional family coming together for the holidays» movie ever made, combining them into one, large fruitcake... that's as hard as a rock.

Such a release strategy for an awards hopeful is not uncommon.

Focus Features is moving up the release of Matthew McConaughey - led AIDS drama and awards hopeful «The Dallas Buyers Club» from December 6th to November 1st.

The crew is, however, reunited this month as Colleen, Dale (Letterboxd) and I (Letterboxd) look ahead at November which is a mishmash of everything from action adventure (Thor: Ragnarok) and family fare (Coco) to awards hopefuls (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri).

Moving along at Toronto, it seems Mitch Glazer's «Passion Play,» which was as much for the director since he spent 20 years trying to get it made, was hung right out to dry and that Mickey Rourke can be knocked off of anyone's list of awards hopefuls.

It's a situation that manifests nearly every year, where some awards hopeful is deemed problematic, like «Saving Mr. Banks» for glossing over Walt Disney's unsavory views, or «Zero Dark Thirty» for its...

This December, Rothman is banking on a new sci - fi tentpole in the Jennifer Lawrence - Chris Pratt space romance «Passengers» from director Morten Tyldum as well as an awards hopeful with Ang Lee «s «Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.»

It's a situation that manifests nearly every year, where some awards hopeful is deemed problematic, like «Saving Mr. Banks» for glossing over Walt Disney's unsavory views, or «Zero Dark Thirty» for its perceived endorsement of torture.

We're at the point in the year now where even something small as a new look at an awards hopeful can change prognostication in a notable way.

Over the next decade, Anonymous continued to establish its identity, and for every awards hopeful that stumbled like «Rendition» or «The Fifth Estate,» there was a pleasant surprise such as «Winter's Bone,» which also made a star out of a young, largely unknown actress named Jennifer Lawrence.

The Weinstein Company's awards hopeful has struggled since opening just a week before the South African statesman's death

In keeping with the youthful slant of many of this year's awards hopefuls, this year's group of Gray Lady picks skews rather younger, ranging from 13 year - old Kodi Smit - Phee to 24 year - old Anna Kendrick.

The awards hopeful topped one of our writers» individual lists, and had it been released in the UK during the voting period, you'd have to imagine Birdman would have finished up a lot higher in the top ten this year.

An awards hopeful of this type would usually snatch up that Christmas day slot, right?

So while Hollywood chooses this time of year to start shelling their award hopefuls, many of them emotionally draining dramas, the search for a palette cleanser seems more of a necessity than a choice and this year, DreamWorks Animation is delivering the goods.

In 367 theaters rather than 2,000, the Weinstein Company's awards hopeful «Silver Linings Playbook» takes in $ 5.9 M over five days at the box office

His critical hit The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was a box - office failure; his scrappy indie (and awards hopeful) The Birth of a Nation ended up being a P.R. disaster.

It took a longer time than I expected for this awards hopeful from last year to hit Blu - Ray / DVD this year (which is actually fitting considering how it took decades to actually make the flick), but it's worth the wait to me.

Big Eyes seems to be one of the centerpieces of his efforts this year, as evidenced by the fact that he has given it a coveted Christmas Day release date, which remains the most high - profile launching date for an awards hopeful, despite the fact that it has been more than a decade since a December release has won Best Picture.

Victoria and Abdul has cumed $ 21.9 M, still the best of the fall's awards hopefuls, though that may well be ultimately challenged by the likes of Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird and Darkest Hour.