Sentences with phrase «chance at winning film»

Imagine how it felt to call and tell her that in the 2018 Oscars, two films with transgender people in starring roles have a real chance at winning film's greatest honor.

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The strange thing for me about recent insipid performances and disastrous results is that I am calm before the Spurs game.This does not mean in the slightest that I am confident but it has now reached the point where it can't get much worse.If we were still in with a realistic chance of winning the league -LCB- not un-reasonable expectations of wins against Blackburn, Sunderland, West Brom and Liverpool would have had us ahead of Man Utd -RCB- I would have at best been hiding behind the settee or at worse avoiding the game totally and watching a crap film until 10 0 / clock.

Both actors jumped at the chance to perform in «Driving Miss Daisy,» which began as an off - Broadway play and inspired the Oscar - winning film starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman.

«I'm a personal fan of Bong Joon Ho's epic film, and jumped at the chance to honor his original vision, yet expand upon the world and characters with a diverse, award - winning cast,» said Sarah Aubrey, executive vice president of original programming for TNT.

The film is fuelled by the vicarious thrill provided by a lot of money, romantic imprisonment, a nice wardrobe, pulling one over on an arrogant jerk, and having a chance at winning back the starlet.

In the titular role, Dafoe stands a good chance at riding an overdue narrative to a win if the film turns out well.

You can see Stanton's work for yourself; all you have to do is head over here and register for the chance to win a free pair of tickets to a showing of the film at the Music Box, courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.

But Javier Bardem won the Best Actor award for the film at Cannes, so there's a reasonable chance that the film will score a little extra award season attention for Roadside Attractions.

From his early films Benny's Video (1992) and 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) to his Palm D'Or and Academy Award winning Amour (2012), he has used cinema to paint a portrait of humankind alienated in modern society, lacking in compassion at best and utterly amoral at worst.

Unlike the last few years, there are now at least three films that have a very good chance of winning the Best Picture trophy at the Oscar ceremony in February, and it looks like we'll be witness to a pretty intense fight to the finish line.

Carol brings up another key issue in the best - actress predicament: category fraud, the term for what happens when a performer in a lead role campaigns for a supporting Oscar (often at the insistence of the film's marketing team), theoretically increasing their chances of ultimately winning a statuette.

Winning best actor, best director and Palme D'Or at Cannes in 1993, Naked won the critic's award at the Toronto International Film Festival, and both the New York and London Film Critic Circles considered it best film of the year, so maybe I am stretching what is meant by Hidden Treasure, but given a chance I will praise this film shamelessly.

Being obsessed with the Oscars it is often difficult to watch certain films without that «handicap» of only judging a film based on its chances to win awards, and that should not at all be the only thing going in one's mind while watching a film.

I have always thought Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty are the two films considered to have the best chance at taking the top prize, but with Kathryn Bigelow not getting a nod for Best Director, that severely hurts Zero Dark Thirty's chances of winning Best Picture.

Chances are you've at least heard of Norma Rae, even if you haven't actually seen the Oscar - winning film that bears her name.

Compared to many of the other films in this year's Best Picture race, its chances of winning are low; we discuss why, and what it means that it was nominated at all.

With the recent domination by Birdman at the PGA, DGA and SAG, this win for Boyhood was as important for the film's Oscar chances as you might imagine.

But Netflix has never won an Oscar for a feature film, and Best Documentary Feature may well be there best chance at breaking that particular glass ceiling this year.

Since 2009 the Academy increased its Best Picture nominees from five to a maximum of 10, so although a SAG nomination is harder to come by, a film's chances of winning the ensemble award once nominated is up to twice as high as at the Oscars.

After her success at the 25th Galway Film Fleadh, winning the Best Irish Feature Award for her film Run & Jump; here's a chance to catch Steph Green's Oscar - nominated short New Boy, which won Best Narrative Short at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar.

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