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.
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.
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.
Nominations:
Best picture, best director, best film editing, best original score, best sound mixing, best sound edi
Best picture,
best director, best film editing, best original score, best sound mixing, best sound edi
best director,
best film editing, best original score, best sound mixing, best sound edi
best film editing,
best original score, best sound mixing, best sound edi
best original score,
best sound mixing, best sound edi
best sound mixing,
best sound edi
best sound editing
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 Screenpl
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 Screenpl
Best 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.