It was bypassed by the main groups in New York and L.A., but it won in Boston and among the New York online critics — and so far in the best picture, best director, best actor and best supporting actress categories, it has won more
awards than any other film.
Not exact matches
The movie, from Time Warner's (TWX) Warner Bros., won
awards in categories such as costume and production design, as well as makeup and two sound categories on its way to scoring more total Oscars
than any
other film Sunday night.
Take away The Wind Rises, which was briefly screened in 2013 only to qualify for
awards (which it did, collecting an Oscar nomination for best animated
film), and Disney's 2013 average drops to 53.4 (the studio's lowest average since 2010), though that was still higher
than four
other major distributors last year.
The same would hold true of a Lead Actor bid for Boseman — though James Brown is an enormously compelling real - life figure whose life is replete with the material that wins actors
awards, the Best Actor race more
than any
other acting category is closely tied to the Best Picture race, and Boseman will likely struggle against competitors in stronger
films overall.
Other films receiving more
than one
award were «Capote» (best actor to Philip Seymour Hoffman and best adapted screenplay to first - time screenwriter Dan Futterman) and «Crash» (best original screenplay to Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco and best ensemble acting).
The biggest beneficiary is The Big Short, which climbed all the way up to lock status on the strength of being the only
film other than Spotlight to sweep all the important industry
awards.
Indeed, Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water is nominated for more Academy
Awards (13)
than any
other film released in the last 12 months.
Commercially successful, critically adored, winner of an original screenplay Academy
Award, and more influential
than any
other indie ever, it was enough to secure Tarantino a place in
film's history books and announce him as the writer / director to watch of his generation.
Because of this, Karlson drew the assignment of directing the
film's sequel, Ben (1972), featuring an Academy
Award nominated title song sung by none
other than Michael Jackson.
Lady Bird, as it happens, was one of the two
films to win multiple
awards from NYFCC; The Florida Project was the
other, and as far as I'm concerned there are no two
films more deserving of multiple
awards than those.
Given the reviews from both coasts and nearly everywhere in between it just wouldn't make sense if any
film other than «The Social Network» won both of these groups» best picture
awards.
They are formulated using a combination of personal impressions (from advance screenings), publicly available information (release dates, genres, talent rosters and teasers / trailers often offer valuable clues), historical considerations (how
other films with similar pedigrees have resonated), precursor
awards (some groups have historically correlated with the Academy more
than others) and consultations with industry insiders (including fellow members of the press,
awards strategists, filmmakers and voters).
The gamble — which also re-teamed the Coens with No Country producer Scott Rudin — paid off handsomely: True Grit grossed more
than twice as much as any of their
other films and received Academy
Award nominations in a remarkable 10 categories.
-- Director Juan Antonio Bayona's «A Monster Calls» will enter Spain's annual Goya
Awards on February 4, 2017 with more nominations
than any
other film.
Nebraska will likely be remembered more for Bruce Dern's strong performance at the heart of the
film than it will be for most
other respects, though it isn't the sort of must - see turn that will garner popular interest outside of
Awards committees and longtime Dern fans.
To further her home country stardom, in 1994, she went on to star in the
film El Callejón de los Milagros (Miracle Alley), which won more
awards than any
other movie in the history of Mexican cinema.
It is a very cool story with a very hilarious Borat - Ozzy type character... this is just a great movie and since it's a comedy but achieves so much more... maybe it should win best
film awards... I feel excited for the cast but also for the original the room cast... I hope somethings good comes to them
other than just Greg and Tommy...
If the Academy gives this
award to any
film other than its rightful owner, I quit.
Mudbound has had a bigger push and better showing with
awards for Netflix
than any
other film they've had but is it enough?
But the Christopher Nolan
film worked for audiences and critics, and now is firmly in the
awards - season firmament (in fact, Nolan so far has received more Best Director prizes from critics groups
than any
other filmmaker this... Read
La La Land: Damien Chazelle's love letter to Hollywood came into TIFF with more heat
than any
other film: It infatuated audiences at the Venice
Film Festival, where Emma Stone won a best actress
award, and continued to wrap North American critics around its lithe little finger in Toronto.
It's something that should be borne in mind when it comes to
awards voting, which work on a «survival of the fittest» basis: some
films simply take longer
than others to make a collective (or selective) impact.
While
films and their leading actors are split into «drama» or «musical or comedy» categories, the Golden Globes» supporting actors hail from all
films; for that reason the two categories have a stronger correlation to the eventual Academy
Award nominations
than most
others.
In an analysis of 1,132
films, Simonton found that the Oscars do matter; they provide meaningful information about creativity and achievement in the cinema and are more representative of these positive phenomena
than any
other awards platform.