For your consideration, here are
the film nominees for the 24th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards — the ensemble and individual performances up for one of Hollywood's highest honors.
The Broadcast Film Critics Assn. announced
its film nominees for the 22nd Critics» Choice Awards on Thursday, with whimsical Los Angeles love story «La La Land» landing 12 nominations.
«The Grand Budapest Hotel,» «Interstellar» and «Birdman» are among the feature
film nominees for the 19th Art Directors Guild Excellence in Production Design Awards.
Awards season kicks into high gear today with the announcement of
the film nominees for the 2017 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards.
Thoughts: The only overlap between the animated short
film nominees for BAFTA or Oscar this year was «Prologue.»
Earlier today, the Producers Guild of America announced their nominees for their year - end awards in both film and television, resulting in a group of 11 feature
film nominees for their top award that were mostly expected, but with a surprise or two thrown in.
Not exact matches
Interestingly, fellow
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film was released last May and had been out of theaters
for months when nominations were announced.
The company tracked the number of Internet searches across various platforms
for each of the Best Picture
nominees during the week before the nominations were announced last month and the week after, and then compared those numbers to the weeks around each
film's initial release.
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Both of those
films were — as widely expected — among eight
nominees for best picture this year, as were longtime Oscar favorite Boyhood and awards - friendly biopics like The Imitation Game, Selma, and The Theory of Everything.
Amour won the Palme d'Or at Cannes last year, and it's a rare double
nominee at the Oscars
for both Best Picture and Best Foreign Language
Film, but this isn't a
film that rests easily among other
films.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the
nominees for their 87th Academy Awards early Thursday morning, recognizing the best
films, filmmakers, and on - and off - screen talent of 2014.
Agnieszka Holland's In Darkness is a familiar but stirring Oscar - season specimen (it's a foreign - language -
film nominee) centering on a spontaneously righteous Gentile, Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz), who becomes a guardian angel
for a small group of Polish Jews after the Nazis and their Ukrainian henchman have «liquidated» their ghetto.
As it happens, the Ireland - based studio was also responsible
for producing world - class Oscar
nominees «The Secret of Kells» and «Song of the Sea,» and though Nora Twomey worked on both
films, «The Breadwinner» marks her solo directing debut, employing a similarly bold graphic style in its telling («hand - drawn» via a program called TVPaint), augmented by colorful story - within - the - story interludes designed to look like stop - motion.
Denmark takes the stage back in a most dramatic fashion with A Royal Affair, recently named one of the five Oscar
nominees for best foreign language
film.
Set against a backdrop of London torn apart by violence, the
film follows one of the champions of Earth's survival: Theo (Academy Award
nominee Clive Owen), a disillusioned ex-activist turned bureaucrat, who faces his own demons and must protect the planet's last remaining hope
for a future generation.
Best animated
film nominee The Croods, Fox's highest - grossing
film last year (though with just $ 587 million worldwide, good
for 11th place overall), was one of just two Oscar nominations
for the studio (the other came
for John Williams» Book Thief score).
For Denmark, the
film, an Oscar
nominee in the foreign - language category, might seem quietly radical, but Mr. Lindholm errs too far on the side of quiet.
A
nominee for the Platform prize at the 2017 Festival, the debut
film by Michael Pearce is a riveting, slow - burning thriller about the limits of love and the darkness inside us.
What makes this
nominee for the best - foreign -
film Oscar singular among Holocaust movies is the way it characterizes the banality of life underground.
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FILM CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES
NOMINEES FOR 50TH ANNUAL JAMES LOUTZENHISER AWARDS
Veteran move and
film actress Archer, is most notable to audiences
for playing Michael Douglas's wife in the 1987 Best Picture Oscar
nominee «Fatal Attraction,» starring Glenn Close as a psycho mistress.
«Birdman» leads
film nominees at this year's Golden Globe Awards with seven bids, including best picture (musical or comedy), best actor
for star Michael Keaton, and supporting actor nods
for Emma Stone and Edward Norton.
The
film also stars Armie Hammer (The Social Network), Jackie Earle Haley (Oscar
nominee for Little Children), Aunjanue Ellis (The Help, TV's Quantico), Gabrielle Union (Bring it On, TV's Being Mary Jane) Aja Naomi King (TV's How to Get Away with Murder) and Penelope Ann Miller (Adventures in Babysitting).
Kansas City, Missouri - The Kansas City
Film Critics Circle, the second oldest
film critic organization in the country, released their
nominees for the 50th Annual James Loutzenhiser Awards, recognizing the best in
film for 2015.
Oscar
nominee will reunite with his Drive co-star Christina Hendricks
for dark fantasy
film set in a macabre underworld
That
film, as well as all four other
nominees for best
film (Bridge of Spies, Carol, The Revenant and Spotlight), hails from the US.
Villenueve, an Academy Award and BAFTA
nominee for his 2011
film «Incendies,» delivers one of the greatest Hollywood debuts I can remember in recent history.
Superlative work is also done by multiple Oscar -
nominees Bruno Delbonnel (the cinematographer who worked with Burton on Dark Shadows in 2012), and Danny Elfman (the composer who has written wonderful scores
for many Burton
films beginning with Bettlejuice in 1988).
It was by far the most commercially successful
film among Spirit Awards
nominees with more than $ 250 million in worldwide box office
for Universal.
This year shouldn't have any leftover winners from last year looking
for nominations but there is a chance that
nominee Isabelle Huppert (Elle) could crash Best Actress as her
film screened just outside of last season's deadline.
The full - time awards pundit predicts
nominees, sometimes even winners, months before a
film has even left the editing room («Could it be two in a row
for Eddie Redmayne?!»)
(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French
film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French
film and,
for that matter, any non-English-language
film, save
for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language
film Oscar
nominee three years ago
for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian
nominee Bullhead.
If Get On Up is in fact Universal's second campaign priority, it does not bode well
for the
film; Universal has not had two Best Picture
nominees since 1995's Apollo 13 and Babe.
The New York and Los Angeles
film critics have already picked their best movies of the year, and now their Broadcast
Film Critics Association and Broadcast Television Journalists Association are preparing to follow suit by announcing the
nominees for the Critics» Choice Awards, with winners of which will be announced...
I didn't see any of this year's
nominees (thank goodness), so my own personal Razzie
for the year's worst
film has to go to 1911, a Chinese historical epic starring Jackie Chan that is painfully, hilariously bad.
Other
nominees include Australian actor Margot Robbie, who began her career playing Donna Freedman in the long - running soap Neighbours and made her name in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street opposite Leonard DiCaprio, and Shailene Woodley, who was nominated
for a Golden Globe
for her role in the 2011
film The Descendants, starring George Clooney, and took the lead role in the 2014
film adaptation of The Fault In Our Stars.
Actress Rita Wilson angled
for equal representation at the Critics Choice Awards, accusing the awards ceremony
for failing to show the
film clips of female
nominees.
In a year that saw the Academy heavily criticized
for its noticeably white
nominees across every major category, the inclusion of Tyldum as Best Director and the title amongst the Best Picture
nominees came as a bit of a surprise considering the
film's very routine, unavoidably square structure as a well - intentioned, noble biopic.
It's rare
for the cinematography prize to go to a
film not nominated
for best picture — not that Deakins hasn't had more shots on goal than many of his contemporaries; five of his 14 notices have come
for best picture
nominees, and one of them, «No Country
for Old Men,» won the big prize.
The
film has dominated the
nominees, and is up
for a total of ten awards, including Best Picture.
Premiering at the Cannes
Film Festival, the
film is the first English - language effort from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, whose 2009
film «Dogtooth» was an Oscar
nominee for Best Foreign Language
Film.
Writing a recent column predicting the
nominees for the crafts categories (cinematography, production design,
film editing and the like), I kept typing the name of one movie over and over again: «Mad Max: Fury...
At 24, he was the youngest
nominee ever
for a best directing Oscar
for Boyz n the Hood, which he wrote while a
film student at the University of Southern California.
Alongside it's Oscar
for Best Foreign Language
film of 2016, it was also a
nominee for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes
film festival with Farhadi winning Best Screenplay and Shahab Hosseini winning Best Actor.
The
nominees for this year's Golden Raspberry Awards were just announced, naming some of the worst
films of the year.
In the meantime, please see below
for a complete list of the PGA's
nominees in
film and television:
And yet the musical La La Land, arguably the whitest of the year's
nominees (Manchester by the Sea comes close), made its own kind of history by tying the Academy record — set by All About Eve in 1950 and Titanic in 1997, respectively —
for the most nods ever
for one
film: 14.