La La Land leads this year's
film nominees with a total of seven mentions, followed by Moonlight with six.
La La Land led this year's
film nominees with a total of seven mentions, followed by Moonlight with six.
Not exact matches
Interestingly, fellow
nominee Mad Max: Fury Road «s search volume dropped more than 85 % around its nomination, though that might have something to do
with the fact that the
film was released last May and had been out of theaters for months when nominations were announced.
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film, «SPOILER — How a Third Political Party Could Win,» features interviews
with 2008 Constitution Party presidential
nominee Chuck Baldwin and 2000 Reform Party presidential
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Why did the studio behind the year's highest - scoring
film (nine - time Oscar
nominee 12 Years a Slave)-- and a fairly strong overall
film slate — finish 2013
with only the eighth - highest average Metascore?
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.
Paramount's highest - scoring 2014
film, Selma, was one of just two best picture
nominees to come from one of the majors, and Paramount finished
with 7 Oscar nominations in all (even
with Selma's snubs in other categories).
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).
Ranked 8th among all studios (by average Metascore) in 2013, Fox Searchlight shot up to # 3 last year by avoiding any negatively reviewed
films and impressing critics
with best picture
nominees Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
«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.
We'll link to a full list of
nominees as and when we have one and follow that up
with news stories, a gallery and the thoughts of our lead
film critic, Peter Bradshaw.
Third - billed Domhnall Gleeson is good enough in his sporadic role, which virtually guarantees him two Best Picture Oscar
nominees this year (along
with Brooklyn) and a presence in four of the year's most acclaimed
films (
with Ex Machina and Star Wars: The Force Awakens) without being terribly noteworthy or conspicuous in any of them.
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).
Ejiofor is at the center of an embarrassment of acting talent throughout this
film with even smaller roles occupied by the likes of Brad Pitt, Michael K Williams, Paul Giamatti, Paul Dano, and last year's Oscar
nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild).
Both
films feature in the Best Picture lineup, as does «Public Enemy Number One,» a sprawling biopic of gangster Jacques Mesrine that has been a local box - office smash and leads all
nominees with 10 bids.
Three
films considered surefire Oscar
nominees — «The Lego Movie,» «Life Itself» and «Force Majeure» — didn't find favor
with the academy in, respectively, the animation, documentary and foreign - language categories.
The
film also navigates the very tricky path of a budding relationship between Will and new Army widow Olivia (two - time Oscar
nominee Samantha Morton),
with all its false starts and resonant awkwardness.
Oscar
nominee will reunite
with his Drive co-star Christina Hendricks for dark fantasy
film set in a macabre underworld
He also managed to avoid the topic of sexual abuse while speaking
with Best Supporting Actor
nominee Christopher Plummer about the trials of
filming «All the Money in the World» — a movie in which he replaced Kevin Spacey in reshoots after actor Anthony Rapp accused Spacey of trying to «seduce» him when Rapp was 14 years old.
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film with Oscar winners,
nominees, and hopefuls?
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).
The
film features an A-list supporting cast that includes Oscar - winners Kate Winslet and Octavia Spencer and
nominee Naomi Watts, along
with effective performances on the part of Theo James, Ansel Elgort, Zoe Kravitz and Miles Teller.
It was by far the most commercially successful
film among Spirit Awards
nominees with more than $ 250 million in worldwide box office for Universal.
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...
Dean Devlin (writer / producer, «Independence Day») makes his feature
film directorial debut
with suspense thriller «Geostorm,» starring Gerard Butler («Olympus Has Fallen,» «300»), Jim Sturgess («Cloud Atlas»), Abbie Cornish («Limitless»), Alexandra Maria Lara («Rush»), Daniel Wu («The Man
with the Iron Fists,» «Warcraft: The Beginning»),
with Oscar
nominees Ed Harris («The Hours,» «Apollo 13») and Andy Garcia («The Godfather: Part III»).
The DVD has a short feature on the making of the
film, which was created
with off - the - shelf software as a sort of low - rent counterpart to the computer animation applied in fellow
nominees «Shrek» and «Monsters, Inc.» The disc also has two music videos, a dozen promotional TV spots, seven games playable on computer DVD - ROM drives and full - screen and widescreen versions of the
film.
Oscar
nominee and likely winner, JK Simmons, is also in this
film along
with Anna Kendrick.
With the Oscar nominations being announced this week, here are glimpses of some of the
nominees, plus upcoming features... The Grand Budapest Hotel Wes Anderson's latest
film The Grand Budapest Hotel boasts an enviable cast headed by Ralph Fiennes and featuring some frequent Anderson collaborators such as Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman and Tilda Swinton.
Supporting actors, including Oscar winners Lupita Nyong» o (12 Years a Slave) and Forrest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland), Oscar
nominees Angela Bassett (What's Love Got to Do
with It) and Daniel Kayuula (Get Out), heavy - hitters Danai Gurira (TV's The Walking Dead) and Sterling K. Brown (TV's This is Us), and scene - stealing Letitia Wright (Steven Spielberg's upcoming Ready Player One), round out the
film's impressive lineup.
Angelina Jolie and Michael Haneke are two of the more high - profile filmmakers among the 92 whose
films were submitted, which will have to be culled down to a shortlist of nine
with the final five
nominees announced in January.
Fellow 2016 Oscar
nominee Matthew Heineman — director of the acclaimed documentary Cartel Land — sits down
with Deakins to discuss the overlapping themes of their respective
films.
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.
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.
The three - time Academy Award
nominee's recent
film work includes Tim Burton's supernatural «Dark Shadows» and the crime comedy «The Family»
with Robert De Niro.
2015 TRIBECA
FILM FESTIVAL: Scottish director John Maclean mimics the heart and charisma of the old western with his feature film debut «Slow West» starring Kodi Smit - McPhee and Academy Award nominee Michael Fassben
FILM FESTIVAL: Scottish director John Maclean mimics the heart and charisma of the old western
with his feature
film debut «Slow West» starring Kodi Smit - McPhee and Academy Award nominee Michael Fassben
film debut «Slow West» starring Kodi Smit - McPhee and Academy Award
nominee Michael Fassbender.
What would have been nominated Oscar had the 5 - 10
nominee rule that they have now,
with shortlist size determined by the size of each
film's voting block?
If one
film has a legitimate gripe of being left out of the 10 Best Picture
nominees this year, it's Affleck's taut bank - robbing thriller, Maybe he'll have a better shot
with his next project, which we're hearing might be «Argo.»
For instance, I could see I Tonya making it to Oscar for that rare «contemporary»
nominee (yes, the 90s are still officially considered temporary
with guilds) and among period
films I could see competing for the Oscar even without a guild precursor nod it's never wise to underestimate the pull of previous players as the Guilds can be highly «clubby».
We see the inevitable end to her relationship
with fellow high - school thespian Danny (recent Oscar
nominee Lucas Hedges shares one the
film's most significantly meaningful exchanges
with Ronan) as well as the toxic dalliance
with a spoiled little rich girl played
with perfect obliviousness by Odeya Rush.
For her a source of inspiration was the
film's elaborate hotel lobby set, created by production designer Adam Stockhausen, a previous Anderson collaborator and recen Oscar
nominee for his work on «12 Years a Slave,» in a former department store in the storybook German town of Görlitz, near the border
with Poland and the Czech Republic.
The Revenant will continue to play second - run cinemas and
film societies, and could conceivably catch The Martian, which is currently the biggest - grossing of all the best picture Oscar
nominees in the UK (
with # 23.59 m).
Holland first came to international fame (and Oscar love)
with her big arthouse hit and WW II drama Europa Europa (1990) and was recently in the hunt again
with the foreign
film nominee In Darkness (2011).
Nyong» o (who made her feature
film debut
with this movie, never mind being a first - time
nominee) snagged the Screen Actors Guild prize, but Lawrence did win the Golden Globe and British Academy of
Film and Television Arts prize.
With that said, however, this week's offerings are even better, including several Oscar
nominees and one of the coolest cult
films ever made.
The
film, which stars Academy Award
nominee Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air, Bates Motel), Patrick Wilson (Insidious), Ron Livingston (Office Space, Adaptation) and Lili Taylor (Hemlock Grove), will screen in two theaters at the Regal Cinema at L.A. LIVE on June 21, first at 10:00 pm in Regal House 11 and 10:30 pm in Regal House 10
with both screenings followed by a Q&A
with Wan.
When Ridley Scott announced that his latest
film would undergo unprecedented reshoots in order to replace actor Kevin Spacey
with Christopher Plummer, few of us could have predicted that it would go on to become a Golden Globe
nominee mere weeks later.
With sincerest appreciation of all the great work that's been done in
film this year, the Alliance of Women
Film Journalists is pleased to announce the
nominees for the 2013 EDA Awards.
The
film and television
nominees were thankful, the costars gave props to one another and the snubbed — and those who recognized them — voiced their grievances
with the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. following the early morning announcement.
The other
nominees for
film were the Oscar - nominated The Disaster Artist, Logan, Molly's Game and Mudbound
with The Lost City of Z and Wonder Woman rounding out USC.
Dunst was rewarded for her dazzling performance
with the Best Actress award at the 2011 Cannes
Film Festival; she alone has generated much of the
film's Oscar buzz and may very well find herself a
nominee come January.