Who will make
early awards season waves at this year's fest?
Guillermo del Toro's «The Shape of Water» emerged as
an early awards season favorite after it bowed at the Venice Film Festival in early September and scooped up the fest's top prize.
The lack of any nominations once again created a void that Wonder Woman felt
earlier this awards season, when the film failed to yield any Golden Globe nominations.
Not exact matches
An
early effort in the holiday
season is an ad campaign surrounding Target's upcoming exclusive box set from country superstar Brooks, the best selling solo artist in U.S. history, that will run during the Country Music
Awards on Nov. 2.
But since the
early»90s, Eastwood has focused less on acting and more on directing, crafting films that frequently make a big splash during
awards season.
The league and its fans already deemed Mcvay the
award half way through the
season... maybe
earlier.
With the fifth
season of the
award winning fantasy series set to kick off
early this month, the folks at talkSPORT have put in the good work to discover just which players could find themselves a new career as actors should they decide to hang up their boots.
It's still
early, but so far the most important score of the college basketball
season has been 163 - 154, the margin by which delegates to the NCAA convention in San Francisco last week passed a proposal to stiffen rules governing the
awarding of athletic scholarships.
Evan Gattis, the
early front - runner for the NL Rookie of the Year
Award, will be 27 when the
season ends.
Benteke's effort is an
early contender for goal of the
season, but he insists personal
awards are of little interest to him and would have swapped his strike for a victory:
Earlier this
season some of the Stars spent a flight home to Dallas comparing their nominees for the NHL's major postseason
awards.
Whilst not all our successful, some of really hit the mark during the
early stages of the
season, with loan players have won man - of - the - match
awards for Stoke City and West Ham United — here are the eight most impressive Premier League loanees so far:
In this week's podcast David Solar and Dan McGuire examine
early EPL action, break down the MLB
Award races and preview the upcoming football
season.
Earlier in the
season Mignolet looked to be on the way out of Liverpool, and it would complete a remarkable turnaround if he can claim the
award.
It didn't take long for Mike Dean to clock up the first big refereeing mistake of the
season when he
awarded Leicester a penalty an the chance to draw level in the
early kick off at Hull.
Winner of the Jimmy Murphy Young Player of the Year
award last
season, Tuanzebe made it onto the first - team bench
earlier in this campaign.
I have a recollection of him officiating a Leicester game
earlier this
season and
awarding them a penalty.
He did cause controversy
earlier this
season in the game between Stoke and Manchester City when he twice
awarded penalties, one for each side, under the new directive at set pieces.
Both men have been shortlisted again for the Ballon d'Or, with Ronaldo's scintillating
early season form seemingly putting him in the driving seat for that
award too.
Last
season and
early this
season, Zidane has put more and more trust in the 21 - year - old and he's getting
awarded more key minutes as time goes by.
Vito Mannone did enjoy a spell of games in the
early part of last
season, with his performance against Fulham at Craven Cottage seeing him claim his first Man of the Match
award as Arsenal ran out 1 - 0 winners.
Following good word of mouth from
early screenings and a best supporting actor
award for Christian Bale from the National Board of Review, The Fighter looks like it will make some noise in the upcoming
award season.
Earlier this week, Franco won the Best Actor prize at the Gotham
Awards and is considered a strong contender as the
season rolls on.
While it was a standout (for some)
early on that
awards season, it quickly lost momentum, only earning an Oscar nom for Cinematography.
Honestly, although Whedon's screenplay will probably be one of the best of the year, the film's limited budget, exposure and
early release make it highly likely to be forgotten come
awards season.
But momentum is a cherished quantity in Hollywood's
awards season, and the trio of
awards give «The Post» — considered a timely tribute to a free press — a resounding
early win.
I Saw the Light had been set for a fall debut in lieu of an Oscar campaign, but with
early reviews firmly in the negative column, Sony Pictures Classics has moved the film away from
awards season.
Earlier in the day, the studio also mapped out the release dates for the long - delayed Avatar sequels, as well as stationed Steven Spielberg's Pentagon Papers film The Post at December 22nd, 2017, setting it up for an
awards season run.
Now that we're actually into the next
awards season (even though many people don't want to even pretend that that's the case... but it is, especially since more and more
early year releases are scoring with Oscar), it makes perfect sense that the First Trailer has dropped for the Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy.
In an industry where
awards - season hopefuls make their debuts during the Sundance Film Festival — more than 12 months before the Academy Awards at which they'll hopefully compete — and where certain films (like Get Out) can sustain a prestige narrative for an entire year, it's really never too early to start predicting which films will make a splash at next year's O
awards -
season hopefuls make their debuts during the Sundance Film Festival — more than 12 months before the Academy
Awards at which they'll hopefully compete — and where certain films (like Get Out) can sustain a prestige narrative for an entire year, it's really never too early to start predicting which films will make a splash at next year's O
Awards at which they'll hopefully compete — and where certain films (like Get Out) can sustain a prestige narrative for an entire year, it's really never too
early to start predicting which films will make a splash at next year's Oscars.
Of course it's
early, but perhaps this is the start of Kiki's back - to - back
awards season tour.
There are certain arbitrary rules that seem to define
awards season: Movies released
early in the year will be ignored; Horror never gets nominated; First time directors don't have a chance; Stories about racism should be told through a white gaze.
The star of the
awards season contender «Molly's Game» grew emotional in recalling her first trip to the festival five years
earlier, telling a story of spying on Oldman while he was eating lunch.
Their decision to launch with Detroit and release it wide in
early August, a full month in advance of what is considered the real start of the Hollywood's half - year
awards season, may warrant some questions.
The annual Britannia
Awards — which run early in awards season — are bestowed upon the best creative talents in the industry for their contribution to the long - standing collaboration between the U.K. and U.S. indus
Awards — which run
early in
awards season — are bestowed upon the best creative talents in the industry for their contribution to the long - standing collaboration between the U.K. and U.S. indus
awards season — are bestowed upon the best creative talents in the industry for their contribution to the long - standing collaboration between the U.K. and U.S. industries.
It's one that we've already named one of The Best Films Of The Year... So Far, and in addition to putting Brie Larson into the
awards season conversation
early on (while she won't get into the Oscars, the Indie Spirits are calling her name) it firmly marked the arrival of director Destin Cretton.
But its place on the calendar, in February, doesn't quite fit with the
awards -
season - obsession of Hollywood, and so its line - up is often less star - studded than its rivals, with its biggest premieres often coming from movies that screened in the U.S. months
earlier.
Earlier in the
season, especially after Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig were not nominated for best - director Golden Globe
awards, it looked as if the directors» race might be tinged with injustice, a distillation of creaky prejudices about women and people of color directing movies.
While there was brief talk
earlier this year that Fox Searchlight might possibly drop Wes Anderson «s «The Grand Budapest Hotel» into the
awards season race, it doesn't look like that's going to happen.
Awards season came
early this year, at least for me.
Grabbing mentions in Best Film and Director (George Miller) and Charlize Theron for Best Actress, the film's critics
awards success has been the most exciting and refreshing thing in this
early season.
Or maybe it was just that the brothers» latest, The Kid With A Bike, received a U.S. release
early in the year, far from
awards season.
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.
Not everyone enjoyed Dan Gilroy's directorial debut when it premiered at Toronto
earlier this month, but the majority of people that did really loved it, leading many to believe that Gyllenhaal could finally earn his first Best Actor nomination come
awards season.
That just seems a little too
early to stick in the memory of voters during
awards season.
Samuel Brace with three actors who should star in True Detective
season 3 alongside Mahershala Ali... We have learned today that Academy
Award Winning actor Mahershala Ali (Moonlight) is in
early talks to star in the third
season of HBO's True Detective.
Some of the winners» names were familiar just kicked - off
awards season — Alexander Payne's Hawaiian - set «The Descendants» was named Best Picture, as it also was recently by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association — but perhaps the biggest winner of the night was Nicolas Winding Refn's neon - lit, criminally overlooked «Drive,» which sadly withered on the box office vine
earlier this fall and yet sped off with the most trophies Sunday night.
As one of the
early film
awards events of the
season — and a venue where attendees already know they've won — the New York Film Critics Circle
awards is a fine opportunity to see leading Oscar contenders try out their speech material.
And while it's still too
early to say for sure, the film looks like it could be a contender on the
awards circuit when Oscar
season heats up later this year.
It's far too
early, of course, to make concrete predictions on how Lady Bird will weather the
awards season.