Sentences with phrase «earning big nominations»

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The two big winners, with 12 nominations apiece, were the musical productions of «Mean Girls» and «SpongeBob SquarePants,» earning Tina Fey a nod for her adaptation of her wickedly funny 2004 film of the same name.

He earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination for «Silver Linings Playbook,» but reuniting with Scorsese is just what his big screen career needs most right now.

The film, which stars Ruth Negga and Joel Egerton, has already become one of the year's biggest critical breakouts, earning four Critics Choice Awards nominations and recognition at the Cannes Film Festival.

In 2007 he landed the leading role in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory and it grew to be one of the most popular shows on TV, earning Galecki Emmy, Golden Globe, and Sag nominations in 2011 for his work on the show.

Her luck began to change for the better in the late 1990s, when she started garnering luminous reviews for her work both on Broadway — where she earned a Tony nomination for her role in 1998's A View from the Bridge — and onscreen in such films as Big Night (1996) and Mike Nichols» Primary Colors (1998).

True, the studio did have some financial success with its latest Mission: Impossible installment, impressed critics with Charlie Kaufman's stop - motion - animated oddity Anomalisa, and earned a best picture nomination with The Big Short.

The news comes at a time when Ray Donovan, which stars Liev Schreiber as the titular main character of the drama, is having its best year ever — having grown in year - over-year ratings and earning its biggest haul of Emmy nominations yet.

-- After being completely blanked in the Golden Globes nominations, the sleeper hit romantic comedy «The Big Sick» made a much healthier showing in the SAG nominations, earning a rather surprising spot in the ensemble category as well as a supporting actress nod for Holly Hunter.

«Hillbilly Elegy» «The Shape of Water» took home the biggest award at last night's Oscars ceremony, and while it didn't take home the statue for best original screenplay, writer - director Guillermo del Toro earned a nomination, and it's no surprise that his co-writer Vanessa Taylor is already prepping to write a new script.

Premium pay channel HBO dominated the nominations Thursday for the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards, earning a stunning 104 nods, including honors for its two freshman series, «Game of Thrones» and «Boardwalk Empire,» as well as the acclaimed miniseries «Mildred Pierce» and the TV movies «Cinema Verite» and «Too Big to Fail,» about the nation's banking crisis.

«Sex and the City» earned 54 Emmy nominations, with seven wins; there were two big - screen adaptations, and the series remains popular in repeats.

Nanjiani is coming off the hit indie The Big Sick, which he co-wrote, executive produced and starred in, earning an Oscar nomination for his writing efforts along with wife Emily V. Gordon.

The George Miller directed film was one of the biggest hits of last year and went on to earn Oscar nominations in various categories.

Day, who began her show business career as a big band singer and musical performer, largely retired from acting after two decades of celebrated performances — including her role in the 1960 comedy Pillow Talk, which earned her an Oscar nomination.

«Big Short» not only snuck into the Best Picture category but it earned McKay a Best Director nod, an Adapted Screenplay nomination (shared with Charles Randolph) and the film took an Editing slot as well.

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 Screenplay.

Steve Carell — «Foxcatcher» took him to the Oscars and «The Big Short» earned him another Golden Globe nomination.

Notably, «Spotlight,» «The Big Short» and «Straight Outta» have earned two out of three key indicators for a Best Picture nomination from SAG and, now, the PGA.

Oswalt, who earned a Spirit Award nomination for playing a crazed football fan in 2009's «Big Fan,» plays an exceptionally helpful employee of the online dating site eHarmony in Ben Stiller's «The Secret Life of Walter Mitty» this Christmas.

Director Denis Villeneuve just broke through big time with Arrival last year, which earned 8 Oscar nominations including one for himself as Best Director.

When Jordan Peele got the news that the biggest gamble of his career had just earned four major Academy Award nominations, including best picture, best director and best original screenplay, he got on the phone with his «Get Out» star, Daniel Kaluuya — and broke down in tears.

This double win of both of the big awards reminds of when Precious won both in 2009 (later earning six Oscar nominations).

Perhaps the biggest surprise of 2017 was Jordan Peele's Get Out, a movie that just might earn shlock horror peddlers Blumhouse Pictures a Best Picture nomination at the Academy Awards.

Film noir movies with bigger budgets and brighter star power might have earned nominations but ultimately lost the Oscar.

After making a big impression at last year's Cannes Film Festival, dominating Telluride in the fall, and earning an Oscar nomination in the Foreign Language Film category, Damián Szifrón's Wild Tales finally gets unleashed on North American audiences this week.

Both did, however, earn a SAG ensemble nomination, which is a much bigger deal.

Surging was Adam McKay's finance farce «The Big Short,» which earned four nominations, including best picture, comedy.

Not only is the biracial Irish actress tearing up the small screen as the badass Tulip in AMC's «Preacher,» but her first major role on the big screen earned her a Best Actress Oscar nomination.

Zemeckis is coming off his biggest critical hit since «Cast Away» in «Flight,» which earned Oscar nominations for star Denzel Washington and writer John Gatins.

Outside of the Oscar bubble «Big Short» has a chance to earn a Best Ensemble nomination from the SAG Awards and both Carell and the movie are likely locks to get nominated in there respective Golden Globe comedy categories.

SNUB: Holly Hunter for «The Big Sick»: Kumail Nanjiani's true - story dramedy earned a screenplay nomination, but Hunter, who was considered an early contender for Best Supporting Actress last summer for her performance as Kumail's tough but loving future mother - in - law, ended up sliding out of the final list.

Emma Thompson is set to return to the big screen as the lawyer who earned her an Oscar nomination in 1994.

Close earned Academy Award nominations for her roles in «Dangerous Liaisons,» «Fatal Attraction,» «The Natural,» «The Big Chill,» «The World According to Garp» and «Albert Nobbs,» the latter of which she also co-wrote and produced.

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.

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 Big Short,» «Room» and «Spotlight» also earned Best Director nominations.

SAG's TV nominations weren't particularly surprising: HBO's Big Little Lies saw four actors (Alexander Skarsgard, Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, and Laura Dern) earn nominations, tied among shows with Stranger Things.

Female - led shows like Big Little Lies and Feud: Bette and Joan led the pack with six and four nominations each, while on the film side, The Shape of Water earned seven nominations.

On the Television side, Big Little Lies, Feud: Bette and Joan and Twin Peaks: The Return earned nominations for TV Drama of the Year while The Good Place, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and GLOW were nominated for TV Comedy of the Year.

Thanks to Musical or Comedy designation, Weinstein earned multiple Golden Globe nominations, as expected, for Big Eyes and St. Vincent.

On television, Paxton brought comllex dimensions to his polygamist character in «Big Love,» which ran from 2006 - 2011, earning three Golden Globe nominations for his work on the series.

Films such as «The Shape of Water» and «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» are expected to earn multiple nominations this year following big wins at the Golden Globes and Critic Choice Awards.

Spike Jonze Indie Work: Jonze was one of the best - loved music video directors of the 1990s who, after a brief flirtation with a big - budget debut for Sony in the shape of an adaptation of «Harold And The Purple Crayon,» arrived in features with the staggeringly imaginative «Being John Malkovich» in 1999, which earned him a Best Director Oscar nomination.

2010's «Winter's Bone» not only went on to earn four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, it essentially launched the career of one of the biggest actresses of the entire decade in Jennifer Lawrence.

Thank goodness, then, that the remaining field will be filled out by almost universally beloved picks — 22 - year - old breakout Timothée Chalamet, craft - defining veteran Daniel Day - Lewis, and in our big swing, Get Out's Daniel Kaluuya, who earned both the Golden Globe and SAG nominations that suggest he's really in the race.

The last time Universal screened one of their big summer comedies at South by Southwest, it turned out to be «Bridesmaids «-- a movie that not only went on to be a massive financial success (and a breakthrough for its cowriter / star Kristin Wiig) but a critical one as well, even earning an Academy Award nomination for its screenplay.

Just days after Morrison wrapped work on the Dee Rees - directed film that would earn her the Academy nomination, she hopped on a plane to South Africa for her next big project, «Black Panther.»

In a departure from his cynical big - screen roles, Douglas brought real sympathy to his portrayal of tortured artist Vincent Van Gogh in Vincente Minnelli's biopic — and the actor earned his third Oscar nomination for Best Actor.