Sentences with phrase «film the front runner»

Not exact matches

With that many releases, it is unsurprising that the quality varies considerably, though it almost doesn't matter when you release a film as good as Oscar best picture front - runner Boyhood, the only new film since the launch of Metacritic 15 years ago to receive a perfect 100 Metascore.

Other film front - runners include the coming - of - age story «Boyhood» and World War II code - cracking drama «The Imitation Game,» which have five nominations each, including best picture (drama).

Front - runner for most fun film of 2013.

But the Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations Wednesday started to bring some clarity, focusing the conversation around two front - runners — «Birdman» and «Boyhood» — and crystallizing this year as a particularly strong one for smaller films.

The film had been seen as a best picture front - runner after it picked up a Screen Actors Guild of America honor for its last weekend and nabbed a top prize at the Globes.

«The Artist,» the charming film about Hollywood's transition from silent movies to talkies, and the family drama «The Descendants» were catapulted to front - runner Oscar status Sunday night with an armful of Golden Globes to their names as the awards...

Another point of interest at this year's Globes: Although the categories — and typically the winners — don't align neatly with the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes are of particular interest this year because no one film from 2017 has emerged as a clear front - runner for top cinematic honors.

Chalamet is giving long - time favorite Gary Oldman a run for his money as the front - runner for Best Actor, but even if he doesn't pull that off, it seems likely that the film itself will rank in the top ten.

«The Shape of Water,» Guillermo del Toro's striking, sensual fantasy film, won the Producers Guild of America's top honor Saturday night at the PGA Awards, cementing its place as one of the front - runners of this year's wide - open Oscar best picture race.

The film will be without question one of this year's front runners come award season.

There are few certain front - runners, and the major films in contention have all received recognition in some shape or form.

I would say the front - runner for awards this year is The Artist but all of the films above will have a shot of being represented here as well as at the Oscars.

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.

His dazzling film Dunkirk — a whirring, ticking, intricate product of his singular brain — has had a long journey from summertime front - runner to whatever it is now, and there was some concern that all his relatively cold technical acumen might be overshadowed by the more affective filmmaking of these other auteurs, laying their hearts on the line.

In the film categories, presumed Oscar front - runners La La Land, Manchester by the Sea, and Moonlight dominated alongside Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge and Harvey Weinstein's awards season show horse, Lion.

Lady Bird and Get Out were also snubbed in the best - film category, which instead includes other awards - season front - runners like C.M.B.Y.N., Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, The Shape of Water, and Three Billboards.

But Deakins — whose work on «Blade Runner» has earned awards this year from the British film academy and the American Society of Cinematographers, and makes him an Oscar front - runner — isn't one to complain.

Another basic difference is that Tree of Life is already a front - runner for the best film I will see this year, whereas Green Lantern is a powerful contender for the worst.

«The Social Network,» the acclaimed drama about how Harvard computer nerds created the social networking site Facebook, had been the front - runner during the awards season, winning countless critics honors, including the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn., New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics awards as well as the Golden Globe for dramatic film.

While it's still too early to make definitive predictions for this year's Oscars, since nominations haven't even been announced yet, Boyhood seems to be the front - runner; a film that received the dreaded August wide release date.

With no clear front - runner, a strong surge from a film like «American Sniper» could just be enough to get voters to reward it.

This year's nominations from the Writers Guild of America, which were announced Thursday, only further spotlight how unusual an awards season this is shaping up to be, with no clear front - runners and an eclectic group of films competing against one...

She seemed like a potential front - runner when the film premiered back in Toronto, but has since fallen out of the conversation.

Actor overlap: This year's Oscar lead actor front - runners can be found, for the most part, in independent films.

The year's top - grossing films to date, for instance, include five that could make the visual - effects shortlist: «Captain America: Civil War,» «Deadpool,» «Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,» «X-Men: Apocalypse» and the potential front - runner, «The Jungle Book.»

With no clear front - runner leading up to the 87th Academy Awards, winners were spread across various films, with «Birdman» earning best picture.

Some expect the film's critique to have little bearing on McDormand's front - runner status for best actress or Rockwell's bid for supporting actor.

They'll get a chance to continue if the film is shut out in top categories, but for now, it's a «made film,» a legit contender with the other big boys and probably an early front - runner, alongside the aforementioned Coen brothers flick and Michael Clayton.

While this shouldn't spell huge trouble for Daniel Day - Lewis earning a best actor nomination at the Oscars — he's Daniel Day - Lewis, and this is supposedly his final film — he does lose momentum to the likes of Timothée Chalamet (Call Me by Your Name) and Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour), two early front - runners.

I thought Mara would be one of this season's front - runners for playing the title role in the biblical drama Mary Magdalene, but the Weinstein Company pushed that film to Easter and now Mara's only horse in the race is Una, a stage adaptation in which she confronts the man who took sexual advantage of her as a child.

Based on the pre-Oscar film awards, «Shape» is a front - runner, along with «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.»

It's the only thing of mild interest in a film that's otherwise the obvious front - runner for a few worst - of - 2011 lists — a fate it'll probably avoid only because no one will remember the benighted thing an hour or two after screening it.

There's the usual crop of film awards front - runners to be found here; in addition to the list above, there is also Michael Fassbender, Eddie Redmayne, Rooney Mara, Rachel McAdams and Kate Winslet, but one or two surprising omissions, especially The Martian, Jennifer Lawrence or indeed anyone from Joy (David O. Russell films have tended to be garlanded with at least nominations in the past).

According to The Hollywood Reporter, «Hell or High Water» helmer David MacKenzie and «Patriots Day's» Pete Berg are front - runners to direct the film.

The film, for which production stretched out over years to capture the passage of time, is considered an Oscar front - runner.

Michael Haneke's «The White Ribbon,» another considerable film, was thought to be the front - runner.

But when they just slap on the front - runners and call it a day, they surrender what little power they have among AMPAS and film fanatics like us.

«12 Years a Slave» and «Gravity» became the best picture front - runners after flooring audiences at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals, and little has changed in the ensuing weeks.

Lincoln is another film pegged as a quote on quote front - runner.

Were there bets as to Hoffman's first jump behind the camera, this type of film would have been a front - runner — which is not to say that it's a bad movie, it's just that bit too predictable.

James Rocchi At this point in the discussion of 2014's movies, Awards prognosticators may be lamenting an Oscar race with no clear front - runner, but translate that phrase from «pundit» to «moviegoer,» and it's actually good news — it means that there's a lot of great films that hit theaters this year.

By Greg Hernandez HollywoodNews.com: When you win both the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Golden Globe Award for your performance in a film, it usually makes you a front - runner heading into the Academy Awards.

«Lady Bird» came out as an early front - runner, but as buzz for the film dropped, so did its support in Academy Idol.

The ticking clocks and booming blasts and crashing waves of Dunkirk make Christopher Nolan's World War II drama a no - brainer front - runner, accompanied by a mix of nouveau genre films that are as concerned with lush aural world - building as they are with telling isolated stories.

SCHINDLER»S LIST By David Thomson and Armond White The front - runner for the Oscars is a much better film than a «prestige picture» candidate needs to be, and bless Steven Spielberg for that.

The Stuart Regen Visionaries Series honors forward - thinking front - runners in the fields of art, architecture, design, film, and related disciplines of contemporary culture.