Sentences with phrase «film nabbed»

The film nabbed the top honors of Best Picture for producers Emilie Georges, Luca Guadagnino, James Ivory, Howard Rosenman, Peter Spears, Rodrigo Teixeira.

Surprising absolutely no one, the film nabbed an R rating.

Which film nabbed the big prize that year, you ask?

Elsewhere, the film nabbed a prize for Best Editing, turning 10 nominations into 6 wins.

Not exact matches

The Hollywood director - producer of The Usual Suspects, Jack the Giant Slayer and the X-Men films has nabbed a seat on an upcoming spacing flight.

Jake Jake Gyllenhaal nabbed a feature for Elle this week in support of his new film Stronger, in which he portrays real - life Boston bombing survivor Jeff Bauman.

In the meantime, Cooper would nab starring roles in more and more films, like the thriller Limitless and the big screen adaptation of The A-Team.

The following year, he played blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo in the film Trumbo (2015), nabbing Cranston his first Academy Award nomination.

TIFF nabbed the premiere of the film, which is about the American political campaign strategies used during the ’02 presidential elections.

Though she doesn't have too many scenes, Jacki Weaver does fine work in Silver Linings Playbook as De Niro's wife, and that film's frontrunner status may nab her a nomination in this category as well.

When you realize, at the end of the film, that you won't care whether Richie is nabbed for prison or whether he gets away with it, you will know that you had absolutely no rooted interest in his story whatsoever.

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.

It would seem the film fell victim to the twin vagaries of executive shifts at the studio and failing to gather enough momentum to nab that all - important greenlight.

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.

Unusually for a Best Picture winner, the film failed to nab any acting nominations.

«Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» also nabbed five nominations alongside Luca Guadagnino, Greta Gerwig films

Speaking of Netflix, they've also nabbed a yet untitled film by writer - director Dan Gilroy.

Shyamalan's previous film, 2015's The Visit, nabbed $ 25.4 million domestically during its opening weekend.

With a sequel already in the works, it seems like studios now want to ride the film's surprising commercial success by nabbing Reynolds for...

In the film's central set piece, Crenna is lowered onto a moving train from a helicopter, and stealthily breaks into a compartment to nab two briefcases full of drugs.

Netflix will never nab films with mainstream cinematic quality, simply because another studio would spend more to capture that film for theatrical distribution.

«Birdman» nabbed the Best Feature award with the star of the film Michael Keaton taking home the award for Best Male Lead.

Netflix nabbed its first feature film Oscar at the 2018 Academy Awards last night, with Icarus winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary.

And before this year's sudden glut of Costner fare, the actor hadn't been ubiquitous since the 1990s, a decade that often saw him star in up to three films per year, and one that kicked off with Dances with Wolves, a western that nabbed seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for Costner.

Both films premiered in competition with «Girl» winning the best first film award, the Camera d'Or, while «Lazzaro» nabbed Best Screenplay.

The winners of the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced last night at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California with The Revenant pulling off a sweep of top three categories including best drama film, and The Martian hilariously picking up best comedy, while Amazon's «Mozart in the Jungle» and USA's «Mr. Robot» overcame intense competition to nab the highest television honors.

The Conjuring was one of the biggest films of last year in terms of payback on budget so it's hardly surprising the creepy doll that featured in the plot, Annabelle, has nabbed her own flick.

Oh, and Ava DuVernay's much - acclaimed Selma, the Martin Luther King film that nabbed a shockingly scant two nods.

As Variety observed, «this marks the first time in recent memory that films both led and directed by African - Americans have nabbed the first and second place spots at the box office.»

Not surprisingly, Sony Pictures Classic nabbed the film.

When it comes to LGBTQ representation, the films with the best chance for nabbing some academy recognition are «Battle of the Sexes,» in which tennis and lesbian icon Billie Jean King is played by reigning Oscar champ Emma Stone, and Luca Guadagnino's «Call Me by Your Name,» in which Timothée Chalamet delivers a breakthrough performance as a 17 - year - old boy who falls in love for the first time.

Nothing is set in stone for the DCEU slate right now outside of the three films that have already nabbed release dates and are in various stages of production: Aquaman, Shazam!

Director Joe and Anthony Russo's film is already pacing to be the top superhero preseller in Fandango history, a title that was nabbed by «Black Panther» just earlier this year.

He's still adding people to the film, with Nicholas Hoult nabbing a role.

Every now and again, a film comes along that is so delicately crafted that it reminds you that cinema is an art form, rather than simply a vehicle for aging celebrities to nab a paycheck.

WHY IT MIGHT NOT SUCCEED: It's easy to look at a film and predict possible Oscar nominations — especially with such an Oscar bait - y movie such as this — and it's another to actually expect it to nab any awards on the big night.

But the film has swooped in and nabbed the Toronto Film Festival's People's Choice Award when many were predicting «The Artist» would charm its way to the prize.

Wright's latest Oscar contender is the Winston Churchill film Darkest Hour, for which the director likely will see his current leading man, Gary Oldman, nab a nomination for his portrayal of the British Bulldog.

The buzz is short - lived, however, for soon the Point Break - ish plot (undercover cop must infiltrate world of street racing to nab some high - speed truck hijackers / robbers) takes over and the film must rest on the meager talents of pretty boy Paul Walker, who plays cop Brian O'Connor.

That film — which nabbed Simien an Independent Spirit Award for his screenplay — weaved together satire and social commentary in its tale of four interconnected black students on a journey of self - discovery at an Ivy League college.

Cannes 2018: Universal nabs the film that also stars Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Lupita Nyong» o and Fan Bingbing

It might not be October, but from the latest from Alexander Payne and Alex Gibney to sure fire bets for Matthew McConaughey and Judi Dench to nab Oscar nominations, here's 6 films you should definitely try and see this November:

Not to be outdone by SPC and IFC (they just nabbed films Mungiu's Graduation and the Dardenne's The Unknown Girl), it pays to have longstanding relationship with world renowned auteurs and Richard Lorber can attest to this with his preemptive pick - up of Bruno Dumont's latest.

That film turned out to be quite good, so my hopes were high for Racing Extinction, another activist environmental documentary that nabbed J. Ralph another surprise Best Song nomination.

While some thunder was stolen from Telluride, who managed to nab a handful of high profile pictures to show off first — «Labor Day,» «12 Years A Slave,» «Prisoners» — one could argue that it's in Toronto where the sustainability of a critically acclaimed film, the ability to survive the conversation through the noise and buzz of the season, is truly tested.

Soderbergh's «Logan Lucky,» a Southern heist comedy starring Adam Driver and Channing Tatum, might have been expected to nab a slot in Cannes, especially since it marks the director's return to feature film helming after a much - ballyhooed retirement — not to mention that Soderbergh is a Palme d'Or winner who had debuted several films on the Croisette.

But perhaps most remarkable was the fact that it nabbed a Best Picture slot: Depending on how flexible you are in defining «horror,» Get Out is just the fifth (or sixth) fright film in the ceremony's history to ever receive that honor.

IFC Films nabbed U.S. rights to «Mad Men» star John Slattery's directorial debut film, «God's Pocket,» the company said Wednesday.

Ingrid Bergman won a Supporting Actress Oscar for the 1974 film, which nabbed a Best Actor nomination as well for Albert Finney as Poirot.

Flights of fancy also imbued Nguyen's previous feature Rebelle, which premiered at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival, where Congolese newbie Rachel Mwanza won best actress, before going on to nab an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film.