Sentences with phrase «ever got the nomination»

I hate Ted Cruz, and I think I'll take cyanide if he ever got the nomination,» the Long Island Republican cracked.

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Nobody without political or military experience ever gets a presidential nomination.

The nominations obsession encourages the sticks and carrots beloved of machine politicians — «nominate her and you'll never get a shadow job» — while squeezing daylight and air out of the process ever further.

No one was ever expecting Apichatpong Weerasethakul's «Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives» to get an Oscar nomination, and they were right.

Ever since Get Out opened last February, I'd been cautioning that, realistically, an Original Screenplay nomination was its best bet for Oscar (because based on Oscar history, it was, but Oscar seems ready for a new phase).

With his Oscar nomination for Best Director, Get Out's Jordan Peele became only the fifth black director to ever be nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Mike Leigh, meanwhile, must be content with chalking up his sixth vain nomination — will the general Academy voters ever get his genius?

by Ian Pugh Beyond its pale stab at indie street cred and an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay (which are almost one and the same these days), Lars and the Real Girl shares with Juno an invitation to partake in a never - ending stream of laughs over its premise until it basically flips a switch and instructs you to get emotional over it — the supposed target of discussion here being nothing less than that ever - popular subject of paternalistic revulsion, mental illness.

The superhero genre just got its first - ever screenplay nomination with Logan this year.

Sure, Les Miserables got eight nominations, including the expected acting nods for Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, and Daniel Day - Lewis is poised to make history as the first - ever three - time winner of the Best Actor Oscar, this time for a performance in Lincoln that ranks among his very best.

Comedy Central's «Key & Peele» got their first ever SAG nomination this year.

Doubts seemed to be confirmed when David O. Russell failed to get a Globe nod for director (only Driving Miss Daisy has ever won Best Picture in the musical / comedy category without a nomination for director), and more importantly, a DGA nomination.

Daniel Kaluuya, the star of Jordan Peele's social commentary and directorial debut Get Out, which has garnered four Oscars nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor, recently sat down with W to talk about the first album he ever bought, racism in America, and the reaction to his hit movie.

I wonder if she'll be the first actress ever to get back - to - back supporting actress nominations for playing THE EXACT SAME PART.

Warner Bros. will mount an Oscar campaign for Wonder Woman, Gal Gadot and director Patty Jenkins, striving to get first - ever comic book film nominations.