Sentences with phrase «best films this year»

One problem, of course, is that Universal also managed to release just two good films all year — the very same two movies that also were its biggest hits of the year.

BEST FILM Another Year (director Mike Leigh) The Arbor (director Clio Barnard) The...

I always see some of the best films each year at film festivals, but there's always hidden gems and discoveries to be found outside of fests.

The Online Film Critics Society recognizes the best films each year with awards in various categories.

While I did see a lot of good films this year, choosing my overall favorites wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.

Many are calling 2012 the best film year of the new decade (so far), and it's easy to see why.

You definitely don't want to miss it when it hits theaters soon, it's one of the best films this year.

Most of the best films this year really are about that.

It's one of the best films this year.

The best films this year focused on how people interact, how they seclude themselves from others, and how what they ultimately choose to do with their lives says about them and, by turns, us.

Not exact matches

Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.

So, the studio's biggest question mark of the year will be November's Justice League, which will bring together several superheroes from that universe of films, including Wonder Woman as well as Batman and Superman.

Best foreign language film of the year «The Broken Circle Breakdown» Belgium «The Great Beauty» Italy * WINNER «The Hunt» Denmark «The Missing Picture» Cambodia «Omar» Palestine

The oddity is compounded by the fact that, in recent years, the trappings of the disaster film have overtaken other genres as well.

The Harry Potter book series and film franchise, worth well over $ 21 billion, continues to attract avid fans — even as many as nineteen years after author J.K. Rowling penned the first novel.

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

Apple's marketing through the years may well be some of the most innovative ever, starting with the 1984 Super Bowl commercial from film director Ridley Scott.

Though the Best Actor category is often brutally crowded, Spall is likely one of the year's first legitimate Oscar contenders - and, the actor admitted at the same lunch, he's also a candidate for an unlikelier honor if the film catches on after Sony Pictures Classics releases it in December.

Only in the past few years have a large percentage of films been shot digitally, and shooting on celluloid is still alive and well.

These leaks are inevitably some of the best films of the year — because those are the ones sent to awards judges for consideration.

This summer's box - office totals have also suffered from the expansion of blockbuster season as a handful of films likely to be among the year's biggest releases are slated to come out this fall, among them best - selling novel adaptation Gone Girl, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, and the latest Hunger Games installment.

Still, while Guardians of the Galaxy has vaulted past its summer of 2014 competition, the movie is still barely inside the top 20 grossing Disney films of all - time and it entered Labor Day weekend slightly behind Captain America: The Winter Soldier for the company's (and the industry's) best - performing film of the year.

It's worth noting that another Fox Searchlight film, Birdman, was among the lowest - grossing Best Picture Oscar winners of all - time, but it went on to gross more than $ 100 million worldwide, while 12 Years a Slave (another slavery - themed period drama) grossed $ 187 million in global ticket sales, according to Box Office Mojo.

Since launching a few years ago, the brand's products have been worn by Beyoncé and her dancers on tour, as well as by the cast of the blockbuster film Hidden Figures.

In fact, only one film in recent years saw lower ticket sales before taking home the golden statue with the «Best Picture» inscription.

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.

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.

In fact, the last time a year's highest - grossing film also took home the Best Picture Oscar was in 2003, when the top film was The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which raked in more than $ 500 million in adjusted domestic sales.

The partnership will officially launch at the 5th Annual ARRAY Soiree at this year's Sundance Film Festival where DuVernay and Indiegogo co-founder, Danae Ringlemann, will host 50 industry influencers, executives and creatives for a discussion on the present state of diversity in film as well as brainstorming ideas for the future.

The thin film solar maker is also reviving its EPC division with a goal to build 1 GW of solar projects each year, as well as increasing its presence in O&M services.

The Oscar - winning film, which premiered 75 years ago, showed us who the good guys were.

They eventually were taken over by a Canadian firm (well, the Canadian assets anyway) a few years ago some time after a Veco executive was secretly filmed in a hotel room bribing some Alaska gov» t officials.

Though she's appeared in some mainstream shows and movies (like The 40 - Year - Old Virgin), the blonde bombshell is obviously best known for her adult film career and accomplishments, though she'll probably be best remembered for her affair with Trump.

In the Best Picture race, the biggest hits were the World War II flick «Dunkirk,» which last year grossed around $ 188 million in U.S.ticket sales, good for 14th place on the box office charts, and Jordan Peele's horror film «Get Out,» which tucked in just below «Dunkirk» with $ 176 million in domestic sales.

Based on the best - selling book of the same name, the film tells the real - life story of Colton Burpo, a 4 - year - old boy who awakens from surgery with eye - popping tales of the great beyond.

It was he, along with Ismail Merchant, who filmed Howards End and so many other literary adaptations some years ago, many of them quite good.

That's just an aside, though, to a film that's otherwise a suspenseful thriller with some of the best performances of the year from Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Goodman.

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.

I am happy, for example, to recommend MUD, the film most scandalously left off this year «s list of Oscar - nominees for Best Picture, to any movie - lover.

It is, as well, an antidote to Mississippi Burning, a dishonest, award - winning new film in which blacks wait patiently and fearfully in the background for deliverance by two white FBI agents, played by Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe, who zealously bend the law in the interest of justice — a film one fears will have a profound effect on the way many Americans view their nation in the King Years («The Dream Dafoed,» as the Village Voice put it).

Selma, director Ava Duvernay's film about the 1965 Voters» Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, has been touted as the best film of the year, thanks in no small...

The film represents a 27 - year filmmaking journey as well as a search for the essence of his own faith.

None of the movies nominated for a best film Academy Award this year have been labeled «religious,» but many have deeply spiritual overtones.

Because many of the best films in a given year tend to release during the...

Every year, movie lovers from around the world watch the Academy Awards to celebrate the best films of the year.

I am happy, for example, to recommend MUD, the film most scandalously left off this year «s list of Oscar - nominees for Best Picture,....

And while it's true that every branch of Christianity has been racked with scandal over the years, films like the Oscar - winning Spotlight and Netflix true crime series The Keepers do a much better job of creating compelling art that raises questions about faith and morality.

Last night, the 31 - year - old won the prize for Best Screenplay and Best Director, with his film winning Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, and its stars, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, winning Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

Better yet, how would they feel if their 16 year old daughter was bumping and grinding on film or in front of h0rny 50 year old men?

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