Hidden Figures taking the prize for Best Ensemble in a Motion Picture honestly seems right on brand as it's
big ensemble with name actors in a movie everyone likes, without the big Oscar nominee in the race.
Both films have
big ensembles with popular SAG actors.
Not exact matches
The upcoming reboot of the Ghostbusters franchise features one of the funniest
ensemble casts of any film this year: Along
with stars Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, the sci - fi comedy will also feature appearances by Cecily Strong, Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd and a bunch of other
big names.
Unlike other independent films in which
big names are ridden into the ground like a sweaty mule, shoehorned into every possible scene in the movie, «Moms» Night Out» has an
ensemble cast - an amazing feat for a film
with a budget just under $ 5 million, according to Andrew and John Erwin, the brothers who directed the film.
It's the
big band of wine — a complex
ensemble of harmoniously arranged flavors that is rich and smooth
with tight upbeats.
With only three weeks left until baby boy's
big arrival, Amber Rose and her fiancé Wiz Khalifa graced the red carpet in coordinated black and white
ensembles during Sunday's Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
This kurti being a little different from the ordinary kurti style, along
with the mesmerizing
big print and bell sleeves, adds a dash to the
ensemble.
Complete your
ensemble with a pair of trendy brown loafer shoes and a
big faced ceramic watch.
Once again it started
with a makeup look I saw on Ivete Sangalo (an axe singer from Brazil) who was wearing a
big cat eye and red lips and so I wanted to try on the look and automatically associated
with a bit of goth, all black
ensemble.
Understated elegance seemed to be the
biggest trend at the prestigious event,
with countless stars opting for subtle sophistication over flashy
ensembles.
The movie is both a tribute to the skill of Fruitvale Station and Creed director Ryan Coogler, who almost effortlessly scales up to a much
bigger budgetary level
with Black Panther, and to an
ensemble cast full of actors who'd rarely get asked to play parts like these in a blockbuster like this.
The Five Musketeers are easily one of the funniest
ensembles to hit the
big screen in the past five years, and the deal is sweetened by the presence of Rosamund Pike as Oliver's sister Sam, who is not only lovely, but works well
with this rag tag team of friends in comedy and action.
With its SAG Awards
ensemble nomination and multiple Golden Globes nods, Adam McKay's dramedy about the 2008 financial debacle, «The
Big Short,» continues to grow in estimation.
The 2009 comedy was a
big hit
with both audiences and critics, putting a smart spin on the zombie genre
with an excellent
ensemble and one of the best - used...
Fences won
big too
with four awards — Best Actor (Denzel Washington), Supporting Actress (Viola Davis), Adapted Screenplay and
Ensemble.
• Rounding out the cast are James Gandolfini as «
Big Dave» Brewster (the Coens» third «
Big» in a row, following David Huddleston's Lebowski and John Goodman's «
Big Dan»), along
with a variety of Coens
ensemble returnees.
It's the ideal climax for a film that sees L.A. as one
big stage, its people an
ensemble of
big personalities
with big passions and desires.
Deadpool 2 will be packed
with new characters, bringing a number of mutants over from the comics and continuing Fox's habit of
big X-Men
ensembles.
Diverse casts in films like Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, the Fast and the Furious series, Twilight and Hunger Games have always yielded
big business, but Black Panther,
with its near - total Black
ensemble cast, is a groundbreaking landmark for Hollywood.
This is one of those sprawling urban tales — like Paul Haggis» Crash or Michael Winterbottom's Wonderland —
with big ensemble casts playing characters whose lives intersect in surprising ways.
«Whiplash,» a
big Sundance fave this year, is about a drumming prodigy, Andrew Neyman (Miles Teller), who tangles
with Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), the fearsome jazz conservatory instructor whose elite
ensemble he desperately wants to join.
But the ace in the hole is the fact that this movie features the
biggest ever
ensemble of beloved superhero characters,
with Avengers new and old rubbing shoulders
with the Guardians of the Galaxy and just about anybody who has ever shown even the slightest hint of super-ability.
Hollywood has been trying to get this massive
ensemble of classic fairy tale characters together in a film since the early»90s and Disney gave the
big opportunity to Chicago director Rob Marshall,
with Lapine adapting the story to script.
There are a lot of films that could make it in the
ensemble race if you go by
big casts
with lots of respectable actors in them and studio marketeers pushing those movies.
Let's be clear: the characters of The
Big Short are constructs
with no dimension beyond their surface quirks and McKay, who has the chops for
ensemble comedy and visual humor, hasn't any idea how to stage or shoot a dramatic scene.
An indulgent
ensemble exercise about the realisations that come
with encroaching age, Little White Lies is — like its collection of protagonists — too caught up in its own dramas to see the
bigger picture.
But in the scheme of things he's just another player in a
big, messy, tangled
ensemble piece
with a weird and wonderful cast in a free - for - all chase for the letter, the film's Maguffin in every sense of the term.
SAG voters love volume here, giving the
ensemble award to the movie
with the
biggest cast five years running.
These new details, combined
with a stellar
ensemble containing Blanchett, Mara, Kyle Chandler, Sarah Paulson, John Magaro, and Carrie Brownstein, make for a very promising return to the
big screen for Haynes.
Following up on the Cinema City romantic comedy Seven Years Itch, To re-teamed
with producer - writer - star (not necessarily in that order) Raymond Wong Bak - Ming for an
ensemble film designed for release during the Lunar New Year holiday, a week - long (more or less) celebration that is the highlight of the Hong Kong film release calendar, when all of the
big, star - studded blockbusters hit theatres.
The
Big Sick and Mudbound are the other two SAG
ensemble nominated films but neither made the cut
with the editors.
Robert Duvall, eminent character actor of the Hackman - Caan generation of difficult
big - screen guys, returns to the director's chair
with Wild Horses, a dawdling and sometimes damn near unintelligible
ensemble piece set in a Texas border town.
To my mind, The Shape of Water is easily one of the most powerful
ensembles of the year, along
with those that are also being recognized, like Mudbound and Three Billboards and The
Big Sick.
Other
big winners include the cast of «Mudbound» as the Best
Ensemble, along
with Dee Rees and Virgil Williams for penning the Best Adapted Screenplay.
Actor - turned - filmmaker Ben Affleck brings this riveting, intense thriller of a story to life on the
big screen in Argo, starring an
ensemble cast including Affleck,
with Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Scoot McNairy and Clea DuVall.
Spotlight won Best Picture at the 21st annual Critics» Choice Awards on Sunday night in Santa Monica, along
with best original screenplay and best
ensemble, but Mad Max: Fury Road took home nine prizes,
with best director (George Miller) being the
biggest.
And though she's gone through the rite of passage of a ropey SyFy movie
with «Flying Monkeys» (it's exactly what it sounds like...), Bahrani's melodrama seems to have brought her to the attention of some
big names,
with a part in the
ensemble of Sofia Coppola «s «Bling Ring» coming up, as well as the younger version of Josh Brolin «s wife in Jason Reitman «s «Labor Day.»
Of the entire
ensemble, only Sharon Stone seems in tune
with the nature of the first film, delivering an over-the-top, balls - out performance that few
big - name actresses would ever be associated
with.
Shimmering
ensemble: The
big - screen queen added extra sparkle
with a diamond choker and chic ear cuff, and took the opportunity to flash her wedding ring
Additionally, Eckhart (boasting a mustache worthy of its own billing) offers great support as Sully's first officer, while the
ensemble of character actors like Mike O'Malley, Chris Bauer, Ann Cusack and Jamey Sheridan lend an authenticity to the project that you wouldn't get
with bigger names.
By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: It was a
big win for «Little Fockers» at the box office on Wednesday as the
ensemble comedy — the third in the «Meet the Parents» franchise — topped several newcomers to lead the daily box office and charge into the holiday frame
with some momentum.
The
bigger issue
with the
ensemble piece is that, it could be argued that, while everyone gets a character arc, no one gets enough time to do it justice.
Instead, Kumail Nanjiani's autobiographical «The
Big Sick» followed up its rough Globes morning
with not just a best
ensemble nod but a supporting actress nomination for Holly Hunter.
There's a lot to like in Noah Baumbach's «The Meyerowitz Stories,»
with its stellar
ensemble cast, but most people won't see it on the
big screen.
«Avengers: Infinity War» will boast Marvel's
biggest cast to date,
with Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Chris Pratt, Jeremy Renner, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brie Larson, Karen Gillan and Zoe Saldana confirmed as just part of the sprawling
ensemble.
Big Stone Gap, Adriana Tigliani's first feature based on her semi-autobiographical novel, is a feel good rom com
with Ashley Judd headlining a terrific
ensemble cast.
But «The
Big Stick» is not one of those semi-awful, schematically spelled out conflicts such as the unfunny «My
Big Fat Greek Wedding», but rather features a crackerjack script graced
with a marvelous
ensemble that mixes melodrama and broad comedy, and comes across like a hilarious memoir based on Kumail's actual marriage to Emily in one of the most beautiful stories of love and its conflicts you may run across in the theaters this year.
Only now their budget was
bigger, they were working
with DreamWorks and Pathé, and the voices included Mel Gibson as an arrogant American chicken among an
ensemble of winged prisoners in Yorkshire desperate to escape a vicious farm and its chicken - pie machine.
A well produced 16 - minute making - of featurette includes interviews
with Kelly and almost all of the cast, as well as The
Big Chill co-writer Barbara Benedek; it opens
with Kelly playing the assembled crew a special shout - out from Los Angeles deejay Richard Blade, and features a lot of talk about both the specific players and general nature of
ensemble pieces.
Previously announced honorees include Jake Gyllenhaal for «Hollywood Actor Award» for the film Stonger; Kate Winslet for «Hollywood Actress Award» for the film Wonder Wheel; The
Big Sick for «Hollywood Comedy
Ensemble Award»; Jamie Bell for «New Hollywood Actor Award» for his role in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool; Common, Andra Day and Diane Warren for «Hollywood Song Award» for the original song «Stand Up For Something»
with music by Diane Warren, lyrics by Diane Warren and Commong and performed by Andra Day featuring Common, in the film Marshall; Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson and Cynthia Sikes Yorkin for «Hollywood Producer Award» for the film Blade Runner 2049; Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber for «Hollywood Screenwriter Award» for The Disaster Artist; Coco for «Hollywood Animation Award»; and Mudbound for «Hollywood Breakout
Ensemble» Award; Sam Rockwell for «Hollywood Supporting Actor Award» for his role in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Allison Janney for «Hollywood Supporting Actress Award» for her role in I, Tonya, Mary J. Blige for «Hollywood Breakout Performance Actress Award» for her work in the film Mudbound; Timothée Chalamet for «Hollywood Breakout Performance Actor Award» for his role in the film Call Me By Your Name; and the cast of I, Tonya including Margot Robbie, Allison Janney, Sebastian Stan, Paul Walter Hauser, Julianne Nicholson and Caitlin Carver for the «Hollywood
Ensemble Award.»