Sentences with phrase «director nomination even»

Not exact matches

Even as the parenting dramedy «The Kids Are All Right» hauled in the nominations — for best picture, original screenplay, lead actress (Annette Bening) and supporting actor (Mark Ruffalo)-- director and co-writer Lisa Cholodenko expressed a degree of shock that «Kids» co-lead Julianne Moore had been overlooked.

Writer and director Adam McKay made an impressive jump from directing feature comedies like Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Step Brothers to the real life The Big Short, even earning an Oscar nomination for Best Director and a win for Best Adapted Scrdirector Adam McKay made an impressive jump from directing feature comedies like Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Step Brothers to the real life The Big Short, even earning an Oscar nomination for Best Director and a win for Best Adapted ScrDirector and a win for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Guillermo del Toro won the director prize for his fantastical love story «The Shape of Water,» which went into the evening with 12 nominations but took home just three awards.

SNUB: Tom Hanks.Sully had already lost a lot of its steam going into awards season, but even if the film as a whole and director Clint Eastwood weren't exactly shoo - ins anymore, we figured Tom Hanks would at least get a Golden Globe nomination.

An auspicious breakthrough for Mitchell (who scored a Best Director nomination last week from the Independent Spirit Awards), the film excels through harmonious design elements that serve an open metaphor that dynamically allows various interpretations — and also rattle even the toughest of nerves.

Even without a Picture or Director mention the biopic scored four nominations: Actor (Michael Fassbender), Supporting Actress (Kate Winslet), Screenplay and Score.

Don't forget: Ben Affleck didn't even get a nomination for Best Director and Argo STILL won Best Picture.

Laura Poitras — «Citizenfour» Easily the most talked - about non-fiction film of the year, a front - runner for the Documentary Oscar (and even, some suggest, a dark horse for a Best Picture nomination), «Citizenfour» looks to make director Laura Poitras, if she wasn't already, one of the best known documentarians working today.

Reitman is probably second most famous for being the father of Jason Reitman, director of films such as Thank You For Smoking, Young Adult and Juno, and even Produced his way to his only Oscar nomination on Jason's Up In the Air.

On Instagram earlier today, Chi - Raq director Spike Lee announced that he will be skipping the Oscars in protest of the Academy's second - consecutive year of entirely white actor nominations («and let's not even get into the other branches»).

Proving that even the most common means of cinematic pulp could be used to transcendent ends, the director's efforts found popular praise, garnering him both Oscar and Golden Globe nominations (among many), and paving the way for his riskier arthouse fare.

Argo, Ben Affleck's third feature film, is looking more and more like a lock for the Best Picture prize at Sunday's Oscars, and even if the man himself didn't get a Best Director nomination, it's still a remarkable culmination of one of the most fascinating second acts in Hollywood.

Leone is even more notable than the other directors on our list as not only did he never receive an Oscar for direction he didn't even once get a nomination despite producing such classic Spaghetti Westerns like the trilogy of A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Even a nomination would break John Huston's record for oldest nominated director («Prizzi's Honor»).

Wong's second film in 1990, «Days of Being Wild», was an even greater critical success, receiving nine HKFA nominations and winning five, including Best Picture, Best Director for Wong, and Best Actor for Leslie Cheung.

We all * knew * that Essie Davis would be nominated for The Babadook, Gugu Mbatha - Raw would be nominated for Beyond the Lights, and Ava DuVernay would pick up a Best Director nomination for Selma... but even when we know it's going to happen, it's still intensely gratifying to see justice served and to see the Academy make their choices with the deep wisdom and sophisticated taste that we've come to expect from them year in and year out.

He directed The Cable Guy with Jim Carrey, Zoolander and Tropic Thunder and now returns to the director's chair in what some are calling a film that may even be looking at Oscar nominations.

And in terms of historical stats, it won big with SAG and BAFTA... but wait, it didn't even get a Best Director nomination, so it can't win Best Picture, can it?

Writer / director Damien Chazelle looks primed for that «wunderkind screenplay nomination» slot, and veteran character actor J.K. Simmons is a slam - dunk for a Best Supporting Actor nomination, and maybe even a win.

That being said, the chances of these five being your Oscar nominated directors are statistically very slim and the safe bet would be that Spielberg (or even Haynes) knock Miller or possibly even Scott from contention when Oscar nominations are announced early Thursday morning.

Even though Birdman came in with the most BAFTA nominations compared to Boyhood, it still did not win anything except Cinematography, before going on to win Picture, Director, Screenplay, Cinematography at the Oscars.

However, even Damien Chazelle missed a director nomination for «Whiplash,» which was loved by Oscar.

Despite the hysteria, it may not be appropriate yet to call a time of death on the decades and decades» worth of precedent that will be shattered when Argo wins Best Picture despite very conspicuously not being nominated for its director, not having even remotely close to the year's highest nomination tally (it trails behind four other films), and not having even a halfway plausible shot at winning more than two other categories aside from this one.

Remarkably for someone who hasn't directed a film for more than a decade, it's very good indeed, fully deserving of the six Oscar nominations it received last week — including a slightly unexpected but no doubt very welcome Best Director nod for Gibson himself — and standing up to comparison with Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima and even Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter.

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Chris Arbogast, Director of Marketing at Nyko Technologies: «The nomination for CNET's «Best of CES» award was an honor in itself, but taking home the award for the gaming category is an even greater privilege.

We can only assume that @JDTwitt is no match in the kitchen, which may explain why the Shorty Awards ranked this JD Supra director of communications second, even though he matched Black in nominations.