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None of the movies nominated for a best film Academy Award this year have been labeled «religious,» but many have deeply spiritual overtones.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
After racking up a rash of nominations and minor wins at the Academy Awards, a Participant film finally took the big prize when Spotlight won Best Picture in February.
After racking up a rash of nominations and minor wins at the Academy Awards, a Participant film finally took the big prize when Spotlight won Best Picture in 2016.
«It was completely surprising,» Spotlight producer Michael Sugar told reporters after his film claimed the Academy award for Best Picture on Sunday.
No wonder, then, that seven of the films on our list of movies that feature entrepreneurs have been nominated for Best Picture in the Academy Awards (of them, Forrest Gump won the top honor in 1994).
The film earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
The 2015 film, «Amy,» based on the life of singer - songwriter Amy Winehouse, became the highest - grossing British documentary film ever and has now won the Academy Award for Best Documentary.
Now you can add the film American Hustle — which won a Golden Globe for Best Picture and picked up 10 Academy Award nominations this week — to the list, especially if you want to explain how really great salespeople find leads, draw customers, and make deals.
The film has been nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture.
The Academy dubbed it the year's best movie, but it is still an indie film and — Oscar bump or not — it will fall well short of any blockbuster's box - office gross.
One shareholder asked Iger about his plans for Fox Searchlight, the arthouse film division that on Sunday won the Academy Award for best picture for «The Shape of Water.»
The Academy Award - winning film Chariots of Fire (1982) illustrates well the value of play for its own sake.
Every year, movie lovers from around the world watch the Academy Awards to celebrate the best films of the year.
Last night at the Academy Awards, audiences witnessed the most awkward moment in Oscar history: Somehow, the wrong film was announced for Best Picture.
This 2014 Irish film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and rightfully so.
His short film Dear Basketball just won the award for «best animated short» at the 2018 Academy Awards.
There was also Abigail van Buren, better known as newspaper advice columnist Dear Abby, and Abigail Breslin, the actress who received an Academy Award nomination at the age of 10, for her role as Olive Hoover in the film Little Miss Sunshine.
These films documented Academy field studies, local natural areas, and different species, as well as travel by Academy staff and Board members to conduct research for exhibits.
The film follows the story of a young woman, Eilis Lacey, played by Academy Award - nominated Saoirse Ronan, who leaves Ireland in search of a better life.
Hayek, 41, who won an Academy Award nomination for best actress for the 2002 film, «Frida,» said she has struggled with her weight since her daughter Valentina Paloma was born last September.
In 2010, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary and helped bring the world's attention to the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking.
This project will allow Web surfers to perform detailed searches of Wikipedia's content that are impossible today, such as, «Find me all the films nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award before 1990 that ran longer than three hours.»
Hemingway teamed up with Academy Award - winning producer and director Barbara Kopple and the Oprah Winfrey Network to produce the film Running from Crazy, in which Mariel confronts her family's history of mental illness as she explores the path she has taken toward well being.
Keiynan Lonsdale The Australian actor is known for his roles in ABC series Dance Academy and CW series The Flash, as well as for film roles in The Divergent Series: Insurgent and The Finest Hours.
In 1996, McDormand won a Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of sheriff Marge Gunderson in Fargo, yet another Coen brothers film.
In addition to taking home the Oscar for Best Foreign Film at that year's Academy Awards, the film earned star Max von Sydow near universal praise from critics» circles.
The film received only three Academy Awards nominations: Best Art Direction, Best Visual Effects, and Best Makeup.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for their 87th Academy Awards early Thursday morning, recognizing the best films, filmmakers, and on - and off - screen talent of 2014.
Caesar was then hired by Warner Bros and it was during this time that he produced such Warners films as Her Majesty Love (1931, with W. C. Fields) and Fireman Save My Child (1932, with Joe E. Brown) In 1934, Caesar won a «Best Original Story» Academy Award for his now - classic crime yarn Manhattan Melodrama, a film that spawned several remakes, both official and otherwise.
For this great achievement in harrowing filmmaking the Academy awarded the film with seven Oscars, including ones for Best Picture and Best Director.
Mr. Abraham has appeared in more than 80 films, including AMADEUS, for which he received the Academy Award for Best Actor, as well as Golden Globe and LA Film Critics Awards.
The unanimously - praised film with a modest budget of $ 23 million deservedly won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (the first for Spielberg), Best Cinematography (Janusz Kaminski), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score (John Williams), Best Editing (Michael Kahn), and Best Art Direction.
Though it's among the best - reviewed movies of the year and is just about guaranteed to be 2011's # 1 film by earnings, don't expect Deathly Hallows Part 2 to score a Best Picture Academy Award win like Lord of the Rings: Return of the King best - reviewed movies of the year and is just about guaranteed to be 2011's # 1 film by earnings, don't expect Deathly Hallows Part 2 to score a Best Picture Academy Award win like Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Best Picture Academy Award win like Lord of the Rings: Return of the King did.
For her work in the film, Mulligan won a number of critics awards for Best Actress, as well as garnering nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press, the Screen Actors Guild, and the Academy.
Her performance in the Academy Award ® nominated film LAGAAN for which she was nominated for a Zee Cine Award (Indian Oscar) for Best Supporting Actress, brought her to the attention of American audiences.
A great deal of the impact in The Piano Teacher comes from Isabelle Huppert's performance, which comes as her finest career moment, as well as one of the year's early choices for 2002's Best Actress (personal list, of course: I highly doubt that the conservative Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be able to make it through the film).
(Ian Holm was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor in his role as Abrahams» coach), and this powerful film ended up with four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Costume Design, and Best Original Score.
The film went on to sweep the Academy Awards and it won Spielberg his first Best Director Oscar.
The 10th film to be released on Blu - ray Disc with a Dolby Atmos - encoded soundtrack, and having won an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing, this film provides a great home theater viewing experience.
The second film's success was perhaps even more staggering than the first: The Godfather, Pt. 2 garnered six more Oscars, including a win for Coppola in the Best Director category; Robert DeNiro won his first Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor field; and the movie itself became the first and only sequel ever to win Best Picture honors.Next, Coppola began adapting the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness, transferring its story to the heart of the Cambodian jungle at the height of the conflict in Vietnam.
Malkovich met with near - universal critical praise and garnered an Academy Award nomination for the neophyte feature director — as well as supporting actress Catherine Keener and writer Charlie Kaufman — though Stipe and the film itself were passed over for a Best Picture nod.Despite Single Cell's increasing prominence in the industry, Stipe continued to support C - Hundred for smaller - budgeted niche features such as writer - director Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward and McKay's coming - of - age drama Our Song, both of which were featured at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.
If Boyhood captures this year's best picture trophy as widely expected, it will mark the second year in a row that Academy voters have opted for the year's best - reviewed film.
Taking place in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia, and Paris, and shot in Academy ratio black and white, the well - reviewed film follows two mismatched musicians, Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) and Zula (Joanna Kulig) through their up - and - down romance.
Some detractors have criticized the film's depiction of the tribes as simplistic; such objections did not dissuade audiences or the Hollywood establishment, however, which awarded the film seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
I am grateful that the Academy Awards uncharacteristically chose not to take this film's bait, opting to reward better films like Argo (Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay) and Life of Pi (Best Director).
The film went on to win the inaugural Writers Guild of America best documentary screenplay award as well as garner an Academy Award nomination for best feature documentary.
Winner of the very first Best Picture Academy Award, this film is one that every movie buff should see.
The bicentennial film was the recipient of five Academy Award nominations - Best Director, Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (2)(Ronee Blakely and Lily Tomlin), with its only win for Best Song («I'm Easy», sung by Keith Carradine).
Ford became best known for his Westerns, of which he made dozens through the 1920s, but he didn't achieve status as a major director until the mid -»30s, when his films for RKO (The Lost Patrol [1934], The Informer [1935]-RRB-, 20th Century Fox (Young Mr. Lincoln [1939], The Grapes of Wrath [1940]-RRB-, and Walter Wanger (Stagecoach [1939]-RRB-, won over the public, the critics, and earned various Oscars and Academy nominations.
Since then, he has directed critically acclaimed, award - winning films including Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Silence.