Sentences with phrase «film get a nomination»

Best Picture: Three of the past five years have seen the festival's Grand Jury Prize for best U.S. dramatic film get a nomination for best picture («Precious» in 2009, «Winter's Bone» in 2010, and «Beasts» in 2012 — «Like Crazy» and last year's «Fruitvale Station» did not).

Ultimately, I wouldn't bank on this film getting any nominations, but if it's good enough, it'll definitely be under some kind of a consideration.

Four of the past six years have seen the festival's Grand Jury Prize for best U.S. dramatic film get a nomination for best picture («Precious» in 2009, «Winter's Bone» in 2010, «Beasts» in 2012, «Whiplash» in 2014 — «Like Crazy» and «Fruitvale Station» were the exceptions).

Not exact matches

In addition to Bullock's win, it somehow managed to get a best picture nomination, because 2009 was not the finest year for film.

Unlike the Academy Awards, which are voted on by a huge coalition of film industry pros, the Golden Globes are determined by a tiny cabal of people who aren't really connected to the film industry and possibly not to reality either because, hoo boy, this year's nominations are in and we've got some questions.

In a way, the studios pretty much decide ahead of time which films they want to push for getting those nominations from other Hollywood insiders, and as a result, some of the best films of the year can get ignored.

Unlike previous years, Ghana recorded a lot of new faces on the nomination list; some of whom Included new actor, Joseph Otsiman who got the nod for Best Actor In Supporting Role for his performance in the drama thriller film, The Cursed Ones directed by Nana Obiri Yeboah, who was also nominated for AMAA 2016 Award For Best Director category.

Some of his more notable work came from his collaboration with director Spike Lee; over the course of the 1990s, Washington starred in three of his films, playing a jazz trumpeter in Mo» Better Blues (1990), the title role in Lee's epic 1992 biopic Malcolm X (for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination), and the convict father of a high - school basketball star in He Got Game (1998).

Despite some genuinely hilarious sequences that, regrettably, are spaced too far apart, this meditation on the things that matter in life is too slow and at times too forced to deserve the high praise it has been getting (including an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film that should have gone to a number of other more worthwhile pictures).

Allison Williams starred in Jordan Peele's Academy Award - nominated film, GET OUT, for which she garnered a Screen Actors Guild ensemble nomination for her performance.

That might be why it ended up with a whopping 14 nominations, and now remains the only film to get that many nominations and not win best Picture, as you can see over at FilmSite.org.

The second Hanks film this Fall isn't one that's going to get him nominations (though a Critics Choice Best Actor in an Action Movie nod could be a possibility).

So far Silver Linings has placed Lawrence and Cooper in privileged positions for Academy Award nominations and not unlikely is the possibility of the film getting recognition in the Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and of course Best Director categories.

Last year's crop, however, was a major exception to the rule: No Sundance film got a best picture nomination or any acting nominations.

I saw the Bier film in Toronto and I hope it gets a nomination.

I love Mara in this film (oh, if only cheekbones could get Oscar nominations...) and the style was gorgeous.

So, despite it being tricky to get two nominations for one film, I'm keeping both of them in.

In the post-Moonlight age (and with nominations this year for gay - themed films such as Call Me By Your Name, or those with mild gay content like Lady Bird), we thought it might be time to look back at 10 LGBTQ movies that despite deserving some Academy Awards love got no Oscar nomination (including one — believe it or not — from 2017!).

It all comes down to the next five days because what nominations a film gets, how many nominations it gets will decide whether it wins in its chosen categories or not.

Zoe Saldana («Infinitely Polar Bear»), Ellen Dorrit Petersen («Blind»), Keira Knightley («Laggies»), Elle Fanning («Low Down») and Kristen Wiig («The Skeleton Twins») will all surely get kind reviews when their films find theatrical release... But Oscar nominations seem pretty unlikely (at least for now).

Despite frequently getting nominations in other categories for previous films, that marquee category has remained elusive.

It was Boys» Night Out Thursday morning at the Oscars, as the two films that got the most nominations — Alejandro G. Iñárritu's «The Revenant» with 12 and George Miller's «Mad Max: Fury Road» with 10 — were decidedly masculine, action - heavy affairs.

She's certainly respected enough to get a nomination for a James Bond film, but it's still a nomination for a James Bond film.

«Theory of Everything» producer Lisa Bruce, whose film got three nominations, was pleased that both Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones were nominated, since their performances were so linked.

4) Being attached to a Best Picture nominee or a film that got close to Best Picture - Meaning, it has a powerful Oscar strategist behind it and it gets enough nominations to be «in the conversation.»

The film adaptation is getting rave reviews locally in London, as Smith throws her hat in the crowded race of over 65 actresses looking for an Oscar nomination.

Jordan Peele, who scored two personal nominations for best director and original screenplay, as well as two more nominations for «Get Out,» seemed almost stunned, reacting with a gif of Kaluuya in one of the film's iconic scenes and asking «What's the opposite of the sunken place?»

Jordan Peele, who scored two personal nominations for best director and original screenplay, as well as two more nominations for «Get Out,» seemed almost stunned, reacting with a gif of Kaluuya in one of the film's iconic scenes and asking...

Writer / director Jordan Peele's satirical horror film, Get Out, scored 6 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.

She got a Globe nomination, but missed a SAG in favor of the inexplicable nomination for Naomi Watts which, again, likely has more to do with many voters not seeing the film yet.

A comic book film finally got a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination.

Of course, nobody would expect a Rob Zombie film to get any sort of attention at the Academy Awards, but I truly believe that if Moseley's terrifying performance as Otis Driftwood were nestled inside a more Oscar - friendly movie, he would've had no problem nabbing a nomination.

Initialtly, Oldman was the man that Spielberg and other producers of the film decided that Oldman was an easy get nomination wise for the movie «The Contender».

Breakout horror film, Get Out, leads the pack with six nominations, along with Beauty and the Beast and Stranger Things with four.

(The incredibly catchy tune, which plays umpteen times, was responsible for getting the film an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song.)

Because, in all honesty, as good as he was in the film, Zachary Quinto won't get an Oscar nomination... Golden Globe nomination MAYBE...

Rant by FF2 Editor - in - Chief Jan Lisa Huttner Wan na know what happens when a terrific actress like Jennifer Jason Leigh gets her one and only Oscar nomination for playing a punching bag in Quentin Tarantino's execrable film The Hateful Eight?

Oyelowo missed a SAG nomination, but that probably has more to do with very few SAG voters getting a chance to see the film than it does his actual performance.

Or that Meryl Streep's lead actress nomination for «August: Osage County,» the screen version of Tracy Letts» Pulitzer Prize - winning drama, is in comedy, no matter that the work owes as much to Eugene O'Neill as it does to Edward Albee, or that Julia Roberts» nomination for supporting actress in the film doesn't get classified as comedy or drama.

The only major awards nominations «All the Money» has a chance at are the BAFTAs (noms out Jan. 9) and The Oscars (noms announced Jan. 23)-- if Scott, Plummer and crew can get filming and editing done in time.

«Dunkirk» is big and bold and «The Post» is serious and timely, but the film with the most Globe nominations, «The Shape of Water,» is gloriously imaginative filmmaking whose biggest competition might have been two films that ended up being categorized as comedies, «Get Out» and «Lady Bird.»

As we get closer and closer to Oscar nominations, guilds and other industry associations are announcing their nominees for the best in film of 2012.

But we'd figured the film as a whole would be a bigger contender this year, so it was slightly astounding that Jackie got a whopping zero additional nominations.

Oh, and Meryl Streep got a nomination for Into the Woods, because everyone loves Meryl regardless of the film she shows up in.

Despite its enormous critical acclaim, «Silence» will be only the second Scorsese film in the last 15 years to not get a Best Picture nomination.

We must also give kudos to Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, who share a writing nomination for «The Big Sick,» a film that hasn't gotten enough awards season love; Kazuhiro Tsuji, who is nominated, for the third time, this year for the «Darkest Hour» makeup; and Agnès Varda and James Ivory who, at 89, are our oldest nominees this year (and the oldest on record), for the documentary «Faces Places» and adapted screenplay of «Call Me by Your Name,» respectively.

Now, as the year closes out, Get Out has become an awards season frontrunner, named Gotham Independent Film Awards» Best Feature and listed among the National Board of Review's top 10 films and earning a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy.

Though the film debuted to not terrible reviews, there also wasn't much buzz around Clint Eastwood getting another Best Director nomination, let alone the movie earning a Best Picture nod.

Speaking about The Florida Project, Baker lamented that it took a big name like Willem Dafoe for the film to become a more mainstream success and get award nominations.

SNUB: Tom Hanks.Sully had already lost a lot of its steam going into awards season, but even if the film as a whole and director Clint Eastwood weren't exactly shoo - ins anymore, we figured Tom Hanks would at least get a Golden Globe nomination.