Sentences with phrase «film category take»

This year's Academy Award nominees in the animated feature film category take audiences everywhere from Afghanistan to the mind of an infant desperately waging a war against puppies.

Not exact matches

Wednesday, Sundance announced the 58 films eligible for awards in four categories that will play the 2011 festival, taking place January 20 - 30.

The film, nominated in 10 categories, took home 7 Oscars, including two for Cuaron: Best Director and Best Film Editing.

I missed that prediction, instead going for «Extremis,» the other Netflix film, mostly because it was my favorite of the two, and I believed Netflix would take the category.

Of all the films that took home golden statues, American Sniper and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 tied for the most wins, each scoring 5 separate categories.

«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.

For our final edition, we take a look at all nine of the Best Picture nominees — a group that includes some of the finest films nominated in this category in some time, and some of the most forgettable.

Nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary category, the film focuses primarily on the coach and on three youngsters whose fortunes he took a particular interest in: Chavis, Money and O.C..

There was one a film trilogy, featuring outstanding special effects and a central performance from Andy Serkis, that failed twice in an Oscar category before finally taking home the prize on the third try.

Oscar commentators and political pundits took umbrage at the film being shut out of most categories, especially Best Director, even though it was nominated for Best Picture.

The Australian actress made a point of thanking every other person who was also nominated in her category, and took the opportunity to insist that films with a strong female cast make money.

This ought to be chapter three in a series of prediction entries no longer than the amount of time it takes the orchestra to cut off the acceptance speeches of the winners in the short film categories.

Why a person is nominated for a supporting actor or actress Oscar often has a lot to do with riding coattails, which probably explains why it takes so long for awards prognosticators to pin down the nominees in these two categories: It's all about waiting to see which films catch fire at the box office — or on the blogosphere, where most Oscar campaigns seem to be launched nowadays.

Notably, the top films in both the narrative and documentary categories differ from the ones that took home the grand jury prizes, which singled out «I don't feel at home in this world anymore» and «Dina» in the American categories.

«It took enormous creative courage and guts to make this film,» said Margaret Sixel in accepting the Academy Award for best editing for Mad Max: Fury Road, becoming the 12th woman to win the Oscar in the category.

Critics took the film and it was nominated in the Academy category which disqualifies animated films from ever getting the type of due they might deserve.

The premiere will take place just a few hours after the Oscar nominations are announced, with the film - and its star DiCaprio - widely expected to pick up nods in several categories.

Determined by a smaller committee, this category can be relied upon to celebrate the underdog; no film has ever taken this prize in addition to the Best Film award.

Pro: While action films typically take the two sound awards, a musical (a best picture nominee at that) can upset in this category.

Prior to their Oscar wins in respective categories, 12 Years a Slave took best feature, Matthew McConaughey took best actor for Dallas Buyers Club, Cate Blanchett won best actress for Blue Jasmine, Jared Leto took the best supporting actor trophy for Dallas Buyers Club, Lupita Nyong» o won best supporting actress for 12 Years a Slave as well as the film's screenwriter John Ridley for best screenplay.

This much, at least, we know: Who Framed Roger Rabbit belongs to that category of slick and ironic and star - studded Hollywood film that takes as its subject Hollywood and moviemaking and life in Los Angeles, like A Star Is Born or Sunset Boulevard or Singin» in the Rain, like Barton Fink or Boogie Nights or The Player.

In the last two years, wins in key categories at the Indie Spirits have also synced with the Oscars: At the 2014 ceremony, 12 Years a Slave took best feature, Matthew McConaughey took best actor for Dallas Buyers Club, Cate Blanchett won best actress for Blue Jasmine, Jared Leto took the best supporting actor trophy for Dallas Buyers Club, Lupita Nyong» o won best supporting actress for 12 Years a Slave as well as the film's screenwriter John Ridley for best screenplay.

The caustic, darkly comic ballbuster Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri walked away from the Globes with trophies in four of the six categories it was nominated in, and the most awards of any feature film of the night: The movie took the Best Motion Picture — Drama) prize, stars Sam Rockwell and Frances McDormand both took home acting awards in their categories, and director Martin McDonagh won for his screenplay.

All signs point to a win for him in this category — he took the Directors Guild of America prize — even if the Best Picture prospects for his film remain suspenseful.

While its cast, from its talented young leads to a never - better Ben Kingsley as Méliès, was regrettably snubbed, the film vied for Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay honors and likely wound up the runner - up in the first two of those categories to The Artist, a kindred French production which took its love for early cinema in a drastically different direction (full - on emulation) to nonetheless comparably delightful results.

But still, but still... the films nominated for major categories are almost always worth taking a look at.

What and where - Michelle Monaghan and Chris O'Donnell will read the noms: The SAG Award nominations in five film and eight television categories will take place at 6 a.m. PT / 9 a.m. ET on Thursday, Dec. 17.

How far the film's benchmark - defining pedigree will take it beyond the technical categories remains the million - dollar question, but it's safe to say that the honors the Academy bestows on the film on Sunday will also encompass this one.

Darkest Hour «s Bruno Delbonnel is a four - time Oscar nominee and lensing a film that has risen month to month in all top of the line categories so he's to be taken very seriously as a contender.

And while we did love seeing Sylvester Stallone take home his first trophy since his one and only Golden Globe nomination for «Rocky» 40 years ago, there were admittedly few major surprises across the film categories.

The Great Gatsby dominated the film categories, while Redfern Now took the top gong in the television prizes at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts awards

Melancholia, a beautiful film about the end of the world, was nominated in seven categories and took home three awards including the coveted award for European Film 2011.

The Mexican director, whose previous films include Children of Men and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, has so far won the Best Director prize at both the BAFTA and Directors Guild of America awards — strong indicators that he's set to take this category at the Oscars.

At the 2018 Oscars, his latest film project Dear Basketball took home gold in the Animated Short Film category.

• Kris wrapped up 2009 with his take on the year's best films, also offering his own preferred nominees and winners in a range of categories.

The stellar work on Her might just be too understated to take the win, and more contemporary films aren't usually successful in this category so American Hustle seems like a long shot as well.

It has the advantage of being the one movie that is truly like no other nominee in any category — seriously, a black and white silent film in 2011, that takes balls of steel to make — and most importantly, it's being distributed by the Weinstein Company, and if anyone can turn a film like this into an Oscar winner, it's Harvey Scissorhands.

Elsewhere, Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird also did well (despite Gerwig herself losing out on a Best Director nomination in a male - centric category), as Saoirse Ronan won Best Actress, Musical Or Comedy, and the film took home the trophy in its category.

We're going with Mary J. Blige, who has become a standout in her first awards season as a representative of her daring film Mudbound; Octavia Spencer, a former winner who is both well - liked and part of a film industry voters seem to love; and Holly Hunter, perhaps the biggest underdog in this category, but a four - time nominee who proved with her surprise nomination for Thirteen in 2004 that, when Oscar voters are given the chance to notice her, they'll take it.

The Annie Awards, known for predicting the next animated film to take home an Academy Award, honor excellence and achievement in animation, with a total of 36 categories including Best Feature, Best Feature — Independent, Production Design, Character Animation, and Effects Animation to Storyboarding, Writing, Music, Editing and Voice Acting.

Speaking on the process of movie selection and shortlisting, Emirati writer and filmmaker Manal Bin Amro, said: «The main challenge was the large number of entries received from many countries and filmmakers, and also the multitude of excellent films in terms of production, content and cinematic creativity, which created a deep discussion to sincerely try to come up with unbiased and fair results based on a comprehensive cinematic vision that takes into consideration the general approach and categories of the competition.»

This is where the shortlisted entrants in each category come together at the BFI, watch their films on the big screen, and find out who is taking home the first, second and third - place prizes.