Directed by Craig Gillespie and coproduced by Robbie herself, I, Tonya is a supercharged Scorsesian rise - and - fall sports movie: trashy, funny, devastating and anchored by a star turn that will be talked about long
beyond awards season.
At its peak, a Weinstein campaign's optics had the power to silence the competition and absorb all the attention in the room, well
beyond awards season: For much of the country, Weinstein and his movies became synonymous with American independent film.
What better to do, then, than to look
beyond awards season and run down our most anticipated movies of 2016?
Not exact matches
The Player of the Year
award is usually reserved for a representative from the Premier League champions, but if Mohamed Salah is half as good in the second half of the
season as he has been in the first, it will be impossible to look
beyond the Egyptian revelation, regardless of where Liverpool finish.
It's hard to look
beyond Ryan Sessegnon when naming the best young player in the Championship this
season, but Norwich City «s James Maddison is pushing him hard for the
award.
One of many ways it does so is by presenting its Be Kind
Award, which is given to those young athletes, coaches, parents and officials who go above and
beyond in showing an act of kindness during the youth sports
season.
But
beyond that, it was «Gomorrah» all the way, marking an auspicious start to the
awards season for a contender generating buzz
beyond just the Best Foreign Language Film category.
Beyond the inside - the - mediasphere headaches of scheduling and other logistics, the transition only served to underscore how the festival continues to be torn between premieres of Hollywood films hitting theaters within weeks, the carefully calibrated launch of
award -
season hopefuls, the rediscovery of films from earlier in the festival year, and the emergence of new international and independent titles.
The Duke of Cambridge presented the
Beyond Theatre
award, the first prize of the evening, to Sir David Attenborough for his outstanding contribution to broadcasting, while Sir Kenneth Branagh took home the Lebedev Award for his season of productions at the Garrick Theatre in London's West
award, the first prize of the evening, to Sir David Attenborough for his outstanding contribution to broadcasting, while Sir Kenneth Branagh took home the Lebedev
Award for his season of productions at the Garrick Theatre in London's West
Award for his
season of productions at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End.
Beyond this aspect of
awards season, the other thing we often consider is validation, the idea that our peers or our betters agree with our opinions about movies and honor them for their work.
The main positive that comes out of
awards season (
beyond that underlying current of a vainglorious industry enthusiastically patting itself on the back for just how awesome it is) is exposure for films that might not have been seen by as wide an audience without the
awards show bump.
In no particular order, here are some ladies to be on the lookout for come
awards season and
beyond.
«The Gift» has not received even the sort of minor
awards recognition it deserved this
season and any love for Heller and «Diary» proves the love for the Sundance drama is spreading
beyond it's limited theatrical run this past summer.
Beyond that, it's probably not even worth discussing the other nominees, because Paulson, already an Emmy winner for playing Marcia Clarke, is as close to a sure - thing as we'll see at any
awards show this
season.