Sentences with phrase «best film nomination»

Unexpected nods for dark horse «Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,» about a son's search for meaning in his father's death, include both a supporting actor and best film nomination.

The increasing divide between good movies and box - office grosses was dramatized when all five best film nominations went to titles that have so far been out - grossed by a documentary about penguins.

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.

The company tracked the number of Internet searches across various platforms for each of the Best Picture nominees during the week before the nominations were announced last month and the week after, and then compared those numbers to the weeks around each film's initial release.

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In addition to Bullock's win, it somehow managed to get a best picture nomination, because 2009 was not the finest year for film.

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.

Last year's winner had an October release, which set the film up well to benefit from the notorious Oscar bump following its Best Picture nomination and eventual win.

Last week, we reported on «Alone but Not Alone,» the unknown song from an obscure, independent Christian film of the same name, which nevertheless netted an Oscar nomination for Best...

This interstellar film from acclaimed director Denis Villaneuve did manage to score quite a few nominations, including one for Best Picture.

In a way, the studios pretty much decide ahead of time which films they want to push for getting those nominations from other Hollywood insiders, and as a result, some of the best films of the year can get ignored.

The Revenant leads all films with twelve Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Best Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Best Director (Alejandro Iñárritu).

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.

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.

The result was the 2010 documentary film Gasland, which went on to earn many accolades including the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, a Best Documentary Directing Emmy and a Best Documentary Oscar nomination.

Unlike previous years, Ghana recorded a lot of new faces on the nomination list; some of whom Included new actor, Joseph Otsiman who got the nod for Best Actor In Supporting Role for his performance in the drama thriller film, The Cursed Ones directed by Nana Obiri Yeboah, who was also nominated for AMAA 2016 Award For Best Director category.

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She appeared in a string of independent films throughout the 1990s, in addition to all the aforementioned Di Cillo titles; she had the lead, opposite Anne Heche, in the acclaimed Walking and Talking (1996), written and directed by Nicole Holofcener, a role which earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actress.

Like fellow French - Canadian drama Incendies (see below) the previous year, Monsieur Lazhar earned an Oscar nomination for best foreign - language film.

«This time, its war, «was the tagline and Aliens went on to become one of the biggest blockbuster films of 1986 and not to mention ending up being nominated for Seven Oscars including a Best Actress nomination for Sigourney Weaver and winning two Oscars for Sound Effects Editing and Special Visual Effects.

While star Johnny Depp's singing earned mixed reviews — and the movie dropped or shortened some of Sondheim's songs — the film as a whole received plenty of critical acclaim as well as a Golden Globe for best picture (with Depp himself earning an Oscar nomination for his performance).

The film received only three Academy Awards nominations: Best Art Direction, Best Visual Effects, and Best Makeup.

His performance as Billy Crystal's put - upon brother in the film won him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor of 1992, as well as a Golden Globe nomination.

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.

The film was an unqualified hit, netting seven Oscar nominations and winning two, a Best Actor for Jack Nicholson and a Best Actress for Helen Hunt.

The movie was nominated for an impressive 13 Oscar Nominations including Best Picture, Best Director (Steven Spielburg), Best Actor (Danny Glover), Best Actress (Whoopi Goldberg), Best Supporting Actress Nominations for Oprah Winfrey and Margaret Avery, along with Best Supporting Actor (Adolph Caesar), and Best Original Musical Score for a Motion Picture (Quincy Jones) which was the first time in any Spielburg produced film that composer John Williams did not compose a film score for a Spielburg movie.

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.

An independent film darling, Ross made her debut in STRANGER INSIDE, winning an IFP Gotham Award for Best Breakthrough and an independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Debut Performance.

Some of his more notable work came from his collaboration with director Spike Lee; over the course of the 1990s, Washington starred in three of his films, playing a jazz trumpeter in Mo» Better Blues (1990), the title role in Lee's epic 1992 biopic Malcolm X (for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination), and the convict father of a high - school basketball star in He Got Game (1998).

And Paramount earned best picture nominations for its two highest - scoring films last year, Alexander Payne's Nebraska and Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street; in all, the studio collected 13 nominations, trailing only Warner Bros. and Sony.

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.

She is best known for her two previous Holocaust films: the 1985 Angry Harvest (Oscar nomination for Foreign Language Film) and the 1991 Europa Europa (Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplbest known for her two previous Holocaust films: the 1985 Angry Harvest (Oscar nomination for Foreign Language Film) and the 1991 Europa Europa (Oscar nomination for Best Adapted ScreenplBest Adapted Screenplay).

In the seven years since that threequel set box office records and earned a Best Picture nomination, the studio has had some generally liked if not quite loved triumphs (Finding Dory, Brave, Monsters University), one film that most would agree is at least in contention of «masterpiece» status (Inside Out), and some perplexing, unprecedented misses (Cars 2 & 3 plus the aforementioned Good Dinosaur).

Her luck began to change for the better in the late 1990s, when she started garnering luminous reviews for her work both on Broadway — where she earned a Tony nomination for her role in 1998's A View from the Bridge — and onscreen in such films as Big Night (1996) and Mike Nichols» Primary Colors (1998).

He is best known to audiences for his starring roles in the films HOT TUB TIME MACHINE and HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2, as well series regular roles in GREEK and THE OFFICE, for which he and the cast received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.

Still, the company's best 2015 releases were very good indeed, led by Carol, 2015's highest - scoring film (which picked up six of TWC's nine Oscar nominations, though it was somehow left out of the best picture competition).

Paramount's highest - scoring 2014 film, Selma, was one of just two best picture nominees to come from one of the majors, and Paramount finished with 7 Oscar nominations in all (even with Selma's snubs in other categories).

Also starring Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver, the film netted several 2007 Genie Award nominations, but only won one: Best Supporting Actress, which went to Moss.2007 also gave Moss her first taste of financial success since the Matrix films with the surprise - hit thriller Disturbia, a thinly - veiled teenage retread of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece Rear Window.

Best animated film nominee The Croods, Fox's highest - grossing film last year (though with just $ 587 million worldwide, good for 11th place overall), was one of just two Oscar nominations for the studio (the other came for John Williams» Book Thief score).

And, though the studio was shut out of the best picture nominations for the first time since 2010, it still picked up five nominations in other categories for films such as Before Midnight (one of critics» favorites last year) and Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine.

Despite some genuinely hilarious sequences that, regrettably, are spaced too far apart, this meditation on the things that matter in life is too slow and at times too forced to deserve the high praise it has been getting (including an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film that should have gone to a number of other more worthwhile pictures).

After earning an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film for Embrace of the Serpent, director Ciro Guerra returned to the Director's Fortnight with this story of an indigenous Wayuu family caught up in the Colombian drug trade.

The film is «I, Tonya,» well on its way toward gaining nominations and wins from scores of groups handing out end - year awards.

Contributing to both was Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy as well as aging Sherlock Holmes drama Mr. Holmes, even if neither film picked up the acting nominations that some experts had been predicting.

Obviously, since Guillermo del Toro's upcoming film The Shape of Water is going to secure Sally Hawkins with a best actress Oscar nomination, there has to be a primer film where she also plays a small disabled woman with a romantic attraction to fish so that when she wins people like me can say, «I knew she would.

Inside Out is the only Pixar film to earn a nomination in the Best Animated Feature category in the past five years, with Monsters University, The Good Dinosaur, and Finding Dory all missing out.

Comedy films, even those as technically proficient as this one, largely must settle for lesser honors, including Teen Choice Award nominations and the MTV Movie Awards» «Best WTF Moment.»

He noted that the expectations of him since the Oscar nomination have not changed the way he approaches film - making, stating «I try, every film I do, to be as good as I can and that's all I can do.

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.