Sentences with phrase «films vying»

In the top category, Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, we have eight films vying for five spots.

Here's a closer look at the European films vying for Oscar glory this year:

Most shockingly, Paul Verhoeven's Elle was not among the nine films vying for five nominations.

This year might be the exception since there are three strong films vying for the big prize — American Hustle, Gravity, and 12 Years a Slave.

The full line - up for the Cannes Film Festival 2018 has been announced, including the films vying for the prestigious Palme d'Or.

Four of five films vying for Best Documentary were made by black filmmakers, including the poignant 13th from Ava DuVernay, the first black woman to be nominated in this category.

Word has it that the films vying for that prize include The Shape of...

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.

As the smaller films vie for recognition at Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards, big - budget blockbusters dominated the weekend's box office charts.

Not exact matches

But the novelty of this has certainly worn off a bit and in the interests of both retaining fan favorites and introducing new personalities, this third film feels a little crammed with characters all vying for the same kind of calculated jokes.

In 1999, Saldana received what seemed to be the ideal first film role when she was cast as a talented but snippy dancer vying for a spot at the fictional American Ballet Company in the dance drama Center Stage.

2017 was a great year for Belgian genre film, with the stylish Let The Corpses Tan and delightful Mon Ange vying for a spot here.

Tony - winning «Fences» star and director Denzel Washington vies for the Oscar with the anticipated film adaptation of August Wilson's classic drama.

There have been far more misses than hits from the Netflix production line since it rumbled into life in 2015, and the shelf - life for films seems to be shortening as more and more projects vie for space.

Elsewhere, the Gotham Independent Film Awards named Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman best film ahead of Boyhood, with Michael Keaton winning best actor for his turn as a faded former star of superhero movies vying to make a comeback.

But the first teaser for the film also featured M'Baku (Winston Duke) as another vying for the throne.

We started with one of this year's Razzie firsts, THE EMOJI MOVIE being the first animated film to vie for the worst picture award before moving on to the industry's love - hate relationship with Rotten Tomatoes; Adam Sandler's opinion of his fans; how Wilson has dealt with a steady diet of bad films for the last 38 years; the odd timing of FIFTY SHADES FREED's release; and who the Razzies consider to be fair game.

In a year where animated films will be vying for the top spots on many a top 10 list, this film solidly holds up the rear.

It's meticulously directed, the foley is as sharp and crowd pleasing as the finest Mamet dialogue, and Krasinski doesn't neglect the emotional core of the film — the family vying to survive, whose tensions, divisions and turmoil we experience in near silence, but with great expressivity and economy.

For example, Garrel casts his own father and son in his movies; in his lovely Summer Hours, Assayas traces the fortunes of a family at the point of dispersal; and Desplechin focuses relentlessly on family dynamics, from his first film, La vie des morts, up through The Sentinel, My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument (where the collegial circle becomes a second, substitute family), Esther Kahn, Kings and Queen, and now A Christmas Tale.

Speaking of dime a dozen, superhero films look to dominate 2016 with Marvel, DC and Fox all vying for the comic book crown.

The film stars Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, and Vying Rhymes and was directed by Christopher McQuarrie.

While Melanie is forced to take a back seat, the two vie for much of the film.

The Motion Picture Academy of Arts & Sciences has announced its short list for the films that will vie for the Best Visual Effects Oscar.

The preferential ballot, in a competitive year with more more than two rivals vying for the prize, means you will have three or more films that collect a large slice of the vote in the first round of counting.

The first U.S. trailer for the Radius - TWC release Macbeth, starring Academy Award nominee Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave) and Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard (La vie en rose) is here and its packed with visual inventiveness and subverts many Shakespearian attempts at this material, which has been produced on television and in film over a dozen times.

I have heard that actors vie to be in an Anderson film, and it's easy to see why.

Enrico is clearly a personal filmmaker — he returns obsessively to themes of time and memory, images of families and homes shattered in the most terrible, irreparable ways — but all his films after Au coeur de la vie... and Zita fail of deftness and suggestibility as visual experiences, being all but indistinguishable from the hackwork of other commercial French filmmakers typified at their best by the «Tradition of Quality» boys.

In all there are 21 films in the main competition all vying for the coveted Palme d'Or.

Ridley Scott is back with another Alien film, Alien: Covenant, a sequel to Prometheus (Michael Fassbender again gets to play the well - spoken robot while Katherine Waterston is on board, no doubt vying to be the new Ripley).

The woman in question, Moon - sook (Ko Hyeon - geong), has two men vying for her affection: a film director named Joong - rae (Kim Seung - woo) and his production designer Chang - wook (Kim Tae - woo).

Vying alongside the high - profile films are smaller ones including Ex Machina and Chappie as well as the big box office whiffs, Tomorrowland and Jupiter Ascending.

Spencer Tracy stars in Riffraff (1936), Franchot Tone and Cary Grant vie for Harlow in Suzy (1936) and Harlow takes on a criminal Robert Taylor over Personal Property (1937), while the collection is completed by Saratoga (1937), Harlow's final film.

On the drama front, films as diverse as Bill Pohlad's Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy, Nanni Moretti's touchingly personal Mia Madre, and Kornél Mundruczó's White God all vied for inclusion, if ultimately edged out by the likes of Todd Haynes's flawless Carol and John Crowley's quietly powerful Brooklyn.

Ahead of the finale for its 11.22.63 original series, Hulu has gone ahead and announced the rest of its latest TV and film additions that will vie for your streaming attention next month.

10:15 pm — TCM — Double Indemnity Quite probably the most definitive film noir film in existence (vying only with The Big Sleep in my head, anyway) has insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) being seduced by bored housewife Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) and convinced by her to help murder her husband for the insurance money.

The first looks at those films which will be vying for Oscars next year have already happened, at Sundance and Cannes.

And while Hooper didn't make the Best Director Oscar cut for Les Miserables, he did land a DGA nomination for that film — a film for which his direction is largely responsible for its shortcomings — so it's probably wise to count him among those vying for a Best Director nomination.

Though she turned down a small (nude) role in Breathless, she was soon cast in Godard's next film, Le petit soldat (1961), at age twenty, and would go on to appear in six more of his films during the sixties, including the iconic Vivre sa vie and Band of Outsiders (she and Godard would also cameo together in Agnès Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7).

It's that magical time of year when film come to a head, colliding in a battleground of prestige, vying for golden statuettes that boast careers and fatten paychecks.

Felicity Jones, Riz Ahmed and Diego Luna confirmed as rebel alliance fighters vying to steal plans to the first Death Star in Gareth Edwards» «Anthology» film

Check out a few new images from two films expected to vie for top honours during this forthcoming awards season.

The film takes place in a world where two candidates are vying for the Democratic nomination for President.

One of the problems with the film, which held true in the 1980s, when the G.I. Joe franchise entertained kids through TV cartoon shows and comic books, is that there are too many characters vying for too little screen time.

My favorite new films seen in Argentina, mostly at Pantalla Pinamar, Buenos Aires International Film Festival and Mar del Plata International Film Festival Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016) Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016) El invierno (The Winter, Emiliano Torres, 2016) Bacalaureat (Graduation, Cristian Mungiu, 2016) Sing Street (John Carney, 2016) The Carer (János Edelényi, 2016) Ucitelka (The Teacher, Jan Hrebejk, 2016) Jamais de la vie (The Night Watchman, Pierre Jolivet, 2016) I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach, 2016) Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, 2016) Umi yori mo Mada Fukaku (After the Storm, Koreeda Hirokazu, 2016) Busanhaeng (Train to Busan, Yeon Sang - ho, 2016) L'avenir (Things to Come, Mia Hansen - Løve, 2016) Wajib (Annemarie Jacir, 2017) Chaco (Danièle Incalcaterra & Fausta Quattrini, 2017) Una mujer fantástica (A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián Lelio, 2017) La familia (Gustavo Rondón, 2017) Last Flag Flying (Richard Linklater, 2017) Lucky (John Carroll Lynch, 2017) Taeksi Woonjunsa (A Taxi Driver, Jang Hun, 2017) Good Time (Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie, 2017)

Chapter 2 is an analysis of the soundtrack of Sauve qui peut (la vie) made with Anne - Marie Miéville — a film which «looks back to the problematic status of the human body and voice in early sound cinema» (Fox, 34).

There is a lot left unexplained also, particularly the intentions of the various parties vying for the very important refugee Kee (Claire - Hope Ashitey), but for all its simplicity it remains a very powerful film.

The franchise already has a ravenous fan base going in to the first film of the series, and with a talented cast of young talents and seasoned vets in tow, Divergent has a strong chance of setting itself apart in the sea of YA contenders vying for the attention of young fanatics.

Jennifer Garner (Men, Women, & Children)-- I'm bullish on this new Jason Reitman film (I love Chad Kultgen's novel), but I'm not sure what'll happen with all of the actors and actresses vying for nominations.

New high - definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Scenario de «Sauve qui peut (la vie)» (1979), a short video created by director Jean - Luc Godard to secure financing for «Every Man for Himself» New video essay by critic Colin MacCabe New interviews with actor Isabelle Huppert and producer Marin Karmitz Archival interviews with actor Nathalie Baye, cinematographers Renato Berta and William Lubtchansky, and composer Gabriel Yared Two back - to - back 1980 appearances by Godard on «The Dick Cavett Show» «Godard 1980», a short film by Jon Jost, Donald Ranvaud, and Peter Wollen, featuring Godard Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic Amy Taubin