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Jason from MNPP here with this week's «Beauty vs Beast» contest - we've been more or less working our way through the year's big awards contenders over the past few weeks, with a Three Billboards here and a Phantom Thread there, and knowing what you know about my oft - expressed personal... predilections... you'd be forgiven for expecting a proper Call Me By Your Name showdown at some point.

The 2016 Napa Film Festival, kicking off November 9th, has set up quite an impressive slate of big awards contenders including Lion, 20th Century Women, Elle, and Miss Sloane, which closes the festival on the 13th.

For those who don't know, most studios use the fall film festivals as a kind of launching pad for their big awards contenders.

Opening on Christmas Day, it seems to me that it will make a better trip to the movies for older families (no young kids) than would some of the big award contenders.

Call Me By Your Name, which is also a big awards contender this year, receiving the most Independent Spirit Award nominations, grossed nearly $ 405K in just four New York and L.A. theaters.

The other big awards contender, The Shape of Water, won the second highest number of awards, with Guillermo del Toro bagging Best Director, composer Alexandre Desplat collecting Original Music and the Production Design team also honoured.

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Part love story, part adventure (the plot revolves around what happens when their ship carrying thousands of sleeping passengers starts to malfunction), the movie could be the award show's big - budget contender.

And for Joe Hart to come through as a talisman, having beaten the big names like David Silva, Mario Balotelli, Gareth Barry and having ousted Shay Given from his throne, there is no doubt that he is a strong contender for the PFA award.

Sam Elliott gets the role of his long acting career in The Hero, and as he told a packed audience at Deadline's 7th annual The Contenders awards - season event last month, the biggest surprise of all for him was that he actually got to play an actor for the first time.

Two leading Oscar contenders also won awards: «Spotlight,» the drama about newspaper reporters investigating sex abuses in the Catholic Church, for original screenplay, nd «The Big Short,» the financial crisis dramedy, for adapted screenplay.

And yet one of the season's biggest prizes for new talents, BAFTA's Rising Star award, has just announced its five contenders for 2017 honors: Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out), Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth), Josh O'Connor (God's Own Country), Tessa Thompson (Thor Ragnarok), and Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name and Lady Bird).

So, seizing the opportunity of a sympathetic audience, and amidst a season where many of the 84 movies put forward by their home countries as Academy Award contenders are floating around at festivals — big and small, rural and urban, American and elsewhere — I thought I'd weigh in on the titles I've caught.

Regardless of how much big - screen work they've done before, they make up one of the best ensemble casts of the year, but standing first among them is Tessa Thompson, who gives a revelatory performance that in a just world would be a serious awards contender.

This year, more than ever, several big - time Hollywood actors and filmmakers have served as producers on some of the prime awards contenders — with no other involvement in the movie whatsoever.

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Whether or not he's telling the truth remains to be seen, but one thing is certain: with Anderson behind the camera and a cast that includes Hoffman, Amy Adams and Joaquin Phoenix (making his big screen return after wasting the last few years making «I'm Still Here»), «The Master» will likely be a contender in nearly every major category come awards time.

Of, for those still catching up on this year's awards contenders, we also have a list of which 2018 Oscar nominees are on VOD, from Netflix's documentary contenders, Icarus and Strong Island, to Amazon Prime Video's The Big Sick.

Blade Runner 2049 is a critical darling, and it's shaping up to be one of this year's biggest contenders at the Academy Awards.

Winter / Spring 2017 includes awards - season contenders, multiple Vin Diesel movies, a Disney re-telling, big franchise sequels, reboots - and more!

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS»S Best Adapted Screenplay win proves less of a reliable prediction for the Academy Awards, as its biggest contender in this category, 12 YEARS A SLAVE, was not eligible for the WGA award.

Top awards - season contenders and perhaps your faves, Julianne Moore (Still Alice), Reese Witherspoon (Wild), Amy Adams (Big Eyes), Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), Patricia Arquette (Boyhood), Hilary Swank (The Homesman), and Laura Dern (Wild) sat down with Hollywood Reporter for an hour - long roundtable about the industry.

«Atomic Blonde» is being distributed by Focus Features, a studio best known for their indie, arthouse films and awards season contenders that don't usually make big bucks at the box office.

Here's a rundown of where you can see the contenders on the big screen before the Feb. 22 Academy Awards.

Despite being more aesthetically pleasing than Michael Bay's garishly executed Pearl Harbour, Nolan's big film in service of a small story has more in common with that much - maligned war pic than more serious minded award season contenders of past years like Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Peter Weir's Gallipoli or Terence Malick's The Thin Red Line.

When we are given the chance, it's unlikely to be an awards contender or be positioned by a studio and or supported by a marketing team to do big numbers at the box office.

The sumptuously filmed classical drama will be a strong awards contender (for cinematography as well as foreign film) and could prove an art - house hit in North America, adding to such Amazon successes as Kenneth Lonergan's «Manchester by the Sea» (Roadside Attractions) and Asghar Farhadi's «The Salesman» (Cohen Media), which both won Oscars, as well as last year's Sundance acquisition, summer hit «The Big Sick» (Lionsgate), which earned an Original Screenplay nomination.

Oscar nominated film editors Jay Cassidy and Alan Baumgarten joined me onstage last month for our big awards season event, The Contenders Presented By Deadline.

Michael Moore was the last to appear at Deadline's big awards season event, The Contenders Presented By Deadline, on November 7th to talk about his latest documentary, Where To Invade Next, in front of the AMPAS and key guild members attending the all - day Oscar primer at the DGA Theatre.

At Deadline's big day - long awards - season event The Contenders Presented By Deadline last month, Youth composer David Lang explained his process to a packed DGA Theatre audience of AMPAS and guild voters.

Actor Jason Segel and Director James Ponsoldt talked End Of The Tour, their acclaimed movie about the Rolling Stone magazine interview of author David Foster Wallace when they came to participate in Deadline's big awards season event, The Contenders Presented By Deadline which took place last month in front a packed audience of AMPAS and key guild members at the DGA.

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For the first time in the five - year history of Deadline's annual big awards - season event The Contenders Presented By Deadline, I got to host an all - female panel thanks to Focus Features, which spotlighted two contenders: The Danish Girl and SuContenders Presented By Deadline, I got to host an all - female panel thanks to Focus Features, which spotlighted two contenders: The Danish Girl and Sucontenders: The Danish Girl and Suffragette.

Sicario came to Deadline's big awards season event, The Contenders Presented By Deadline which was held at the DGA last month in front of a packed audience of AMPAS and key guild members.

The Irish spirit came to our big awards - season event The Contenders Presented By Deadline, which took place earlier this month in front of a packed DGA theater full of AMPAS and guild members.

Certainly one of the most acclaimed, as well as harrowing movies on display at our big 5th annual awards season event The Contenders Presented By Deadline (which took place in front of a packed DGA house full of AMPAS and Guild voters earlier this month) was Son Of Saul, Hungary's official entry into the Best Foreign Language Film race.

At Deadline's big awards - season event, The Contenders Presented By Deadline, held in front of a packed audience of AMPAS and key guild members last month at the DGA, Sony Pictures Classics highlighted its Sundance pickup Grandma, which since has earned Golden Globe and Critics» Choice nominations for star Lily Tomlin.

The Shape of Water was awarded the big prize for film, defeating 10 other contenders, including The Big Sick, Call Me by Your Name, Dunkirk, Get Out, I, Tonya, Lady Bird, Molly's Game, The Post, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Wonder Wombig prize for film, defeating 10 other contenders, including The Big Sick, Call Me by Your Name, Dunkirk, Get Out, I, Tonya, Lady Bird, Molly's Game, The Post, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Wonder WomBig Sick, Call Me by Your Name, Dunkirk, Get Out, I, Tonya, Lady Bird, Molly's Game, The Post, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Wonder Woman.

Amazon's rumoured awards hopeful The Big Sick failed to bag any nominations, but fellow outlying contender Get Out has bagged a nod for both Best Actor (Daniel Kaluuya) and Best Comedy.

I'd love to pick Whiplash here just to make things interesting, but The Imitation Game is a relatively big, relatively conventional awards - season contender in a year that saw precious few of them, and the story that it tells is a tremendous one.

Contenders for the UK's top video game awards revealed; Uncharted 3, Little Big Planet 2 also hotly tipped.

The Spirit Awards cap nominees at a budget of $ 20 million or less, which eliminates some bigger - budget awards contenders like «Dunkirk.&Awards cap nominees at a budget of $ 20 million or less, which eliminates some bigger - budget awards contenders like «Dunkirk.&awards contenders like «Dunkirk.»

But thanks to some non-traditional contenders sneaking their way into major awards conversations, and services like Netflix snagging the rights to big - name features, plenty of 2017's best and most lauded films are already available to stream and rent.

Cannes hasn't been the best launching point for major Oscar contenders as of late (for winners, at least) so looking to the two highest profile films that lost — Wonderstruck and Happy End — I don't think their losses here will have a big impact on their awards chances.

The wins for The Revenant mark the movie's first big wins in this year's awards race, which until now has looked like an also - ran to supposedly stronger contenders like Spotlight and The Big Shobig wins in this year's awards race, which until now has looked like an also - ran to supposedly stronger contenders like Spotlight and The Big ShoBig Short.

It's launching a pair of expensive - looking period - set miniseries, a long - anticipated Marvel spin - off, a sophomore run for one of the best TV cult comedies of the past 10 years and their big - league awards contender film of the year.

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«The Way, Way Back» doesn't have enough emotional punch to be an awards contender, but in a summer filled with big budget blockbusters, leave it to a quaint coming - of - age comedy to stand out as the best of the season.