Sentences with phrase «film academy members»

Studio execs from 20th Century Fox met with Oscar consultants a few days ago to mull this question: What happens when the year's most acclaimed acting turn to date comes in a movie that skews about two generations too young for most film academy members?

Vulture spoke to 14 new film academy members who were mostly «unfazed» by the backlash.

Not exact matches

The majority of the over 1,300 films were original films created by Academy staff, Board members, and local naturalists, created between the mid 1920s and the 1980s.

These films documented Academy field studies, local natural areas, and different species, as well as travel by Academy staff and Board members to conduct research for exhibits.

In our first week's hours - long phone conversations and daily multiple emails, he's already invited me to Academy - members - only film viewings and — get this — the Academy Awards ceremony!

Several hundred Los Angeles - based academy members screened submissions for the foreign language film category late last year.

If A Single Man has the brains to match its good looks, and somehow fails to make the final ten, then I'll wonder what happened to the Academy members who annually select Best Picture nominees like Atonement, Brokeback Mountain, Sideways, Lost in Translation, The Hours, Gosford Park, and other films that play to literate stylish taste.

Academy Award ® winner Bill Condon will direct both films starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner along with Billy Burke as Charlie Swan as well as returning members of the Cullen Family including Peter Facinelli as Carlisle, Elizabeth Reaser as Esme, Jackson Rathbone as Jasper, Nikki Reed as Rosalie, Ashley Greene as Alice and Kellan Lutz as Emmett.

Voted on by 111,228 eligible SAG - AFTRA members and coming just over three weeks before Academy Awards ballots are due, the SAG Awards tend to honor character - driven films with sprawling, starry casts, like last year's winner, «American Hustle,» 2013's «Argo» and 2012's «the Help.»

Academy members filled the rooms at three private tastemaker screenings before the film's November AFI Fest premiere, with many attendees taking to social media afterward to lavish it with praise.

But as a new member of the film academy, she's almost as giddy as her first day on set.

With a promised 1,000 additional hours of content in 2017, a major focus this year and beyond is their ability to both penetrate the original film world, and receive recognition for their efforts from Academy members at the Oscars — something that Amazon can now boast about after Casey Affleck scored a Best Actor win for Manchester by the Sea.

Factor in how good the film might be considering the talent involved, and you very well could have something that all manner of Academy member could go for.

Just enough individual Academy members wanted those films to represent Hollywood in front of the entire world.

Personally, I usually disagree with Deep Vote's opinions, but now I wonder if other Academy members share his enthusiasm for the film.

«Labyrinth» has the edge because the box - office is surprisingly strong for a subtitled film and because it is up for six Oscars, a sure sign that academy members really like it.

So giving best picture to a film that celebrates the beauty of being who you are was something that academy members could not resist doing.

The same can be said about Academy members in 1990, who famously screwed Martin Scorsese out of the Best Director statuette for Goodfellas in favor of Costner's proficient but overrated work; 13 years after its original release, the film remains nothing more than a well - polished but generic example of epic Hollywood filmmaking.

Her film reviews also appear in a variety of alternative - weekly newspapers across the U.S. Johanson is one of only a few film critics who is a member of The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (the Webby organization), an invitation - only, 500 - member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities.

After months of screenings involving volunteer members of the Academy, the 85 - film longlist of Foreign Language Oscar submissions will soon be whittled down to...

If knowing a lot about film would be a criteria to be a member, why isn't Roger Ebert in the Academy then?

This is your chance to throw it out there to any Academy members who might read this site — and might scroll down the comments and read YOUR BEST TAKE on what film or contender you'd like to see honored.

He is also pleased with the Academy members» strong backing for another British pic distributed by the studio, «The Danish Girl,» including in the British film category, where Clark expects the film to be a strong contender.

This early Oscar contender has faded a bit from memory, and while the merits of Lee Daniels» film have been plenty debated among critics groups, it seems to have gone over well with Academy members.

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Joining the returning cast members are Academy Award ® nominee Jackie Earle Haley, Alon Aboutboul («The Dark Knight Rises»), Charlotte Riley, and Waleed Zuaiter (from the Academy Award ® nominated film «Omar»).

If that's the case, conventional wisdom says that an early release date bodes poorly for the film as it will have time to be long forgotten by Academy members.

While the media debates whether or not the rescinded Oscar nomination is a slight agains faith based films, or just a disciplinary warning to the Academy Awards» voting members and contestants, there is one thing that's clear: All this attention will be a real blessing for the publicity department of this little, independent movie.

It's that most wonderful time of the year in which one group of people (journalists) try to figure out what another group of people (Academy members) think are the best films and performances of the year.

They are formulated using a combination of personal impressions (from advance screenings), publicly available information (release dates, genres, talent rosters and teasers / trailers often offer valuable clues), historical considerations (how other films with similar pedigrees have resonated), precursor awards (some groups have historically correlated with the Academy more than others) and consultations with industry insiders (including fellow members of the press, awards strategists, filmmakers and voters).

The organization's Voting Academy is comprised of four branches, which include, film, television, independent and music, representing over 110 members, which includes film critics, filmmakers, actors and music industry professionals.

The film's immersive depiction of the misery of plantation life as well as hangings, near - lynchings, whippings, a rape and numerous other scenes of brutal punishment proved too much for a handful of academy members Sunday night, though the mid-screening walkouts were minimal.

They are often silly in nature, and rely so heavily on backstory and intertextuality that you'd probably discover Atlantis before finding one non-Disney affiliated Academy member who's seen every single MCU film, let alone cares about them when it comes to anointing the year's best in cinema.

Baker protégé Rob Bottin's work on that film was arguably equal to that of his mentor (who left Bottin in charge of The Howling «s effects after he exited the project for the bigger - budget American Werewolf), and yet the Academy couldn't even be bothered to nominate him (or, perhaps more likely, its members simply couldn't bring themselves to watch a low - budget horror movie not put out by a major studio).

Only about 1,000 of their 160,000 members are in the film academy.

«If you do like the film, it's an actors» film and you vote for them,» said a veteran Academy member.

Yes, she is a co-lead in a popular film with the older Academy members, but the performance itself has never been the distinctive focal point of the film's praise.

A surprise win at the Globes, if it pushes enough Academy members to watch or reconsider a film or performance they had forgotten about, could give a film the extra nudge it needs.

But there are over 6,000 academy members, each of whom have to watch a large number of films before entering their ballot, so it's likely they weren't planning to fill their ballots until the last minute.

For the second year in a row, Michael Kunkes and Editors Guild Magazine polled recent Oscar - winning and - nominated guild members, along with a sampling of film critics, to gauge the prevailing award - winds in the three catagories of guild achievement recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Best Achievement in Film Editing, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing.

In addition, older members who have not worked in the film industry in recent times — after an analysis is conducted of a 10 - year period — have been expelled from the Academy, prompted by a significant change in 2016.

James Franco — who was an early favorite to be nominated in the best - actor category before accusations of sexual misconduct arose, losing him the votes of at least some Academy members — was a no - show, even though his film, The Disaster Artist, was nominated in the best - adapted - screenplay category.

Perhaps more importantly, the film is so visually banal and formally undistinguished that it feels ideally suited for the television sets where most Academy Members and Critics Group Voters end up watching films.

It's clear she put a lot of thought into her selections, as did the male Academy member in my Friday column, both of whom often praised the talent and / or technique of films that they felt didn't reach their Best Picture heights.

Perhaps the most promising indicator that the film would get some Oscar recognition came with the film's Producers Guild of America nomination for Best Picture, since the group's industry membership also includes some members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

«Dear Jack,» wrote the respected director and industry leader Norman Jewison, «When every Academy member can view all the films in contention, then it's a fair and even playing field.

As for why Telluride is such an appealing place to bring a films, it's the festival directors» tastes, the abundance of Academy members who attend it, and one other factor, Hope says — «The altitude.

Earlier this year the Academy made good on its promise to become more inclusive by inviting an unprecedented number of new members, many of whom are women and minorities working in film.

Enough to get Academy members to vote for a bad film?

I tthink the Academy members are almost always happy to see a Leigh film, particularly since there are so many actors in the organization (Leigh is definitely an actor favorite).