Sentences with phrase «for best director»

I am mourned on tonight's panel episode as we're joined by Gaby to talk about our picks for Best Director in this years Academy Awards.

It did make the National Board of Review's top ten — and will likely make the AFI's top ten, as well — but even if Martin Scorsese is nominated for Best Director by the DGA and Oscar, that doesn't guarantee under the current system the film is in for Best Picture.

McQueen is nominated for best director and if he wins he would be the first black filmmaker to win that award.

Before James Eagan Holmes opened fire in a Colorado screening of The Dark Knight Rises, ultimately leaving 12 viewers dead, there might have been a chance for Nolan's trilogy capper to at least crack the Best Picture shortlist, if not shuffle him into the running for Best Director.

«Get Out» also picked up nominations for Best Director and Best Picture, while «I, Tonya» was nominated for Best Editing and Best Actress.

Guillermo del Toro paid tribute to Mexico, to immigrants and to the borderless «world of filmmakers» as he accepted Oscars for best director and best picture Sunday night.

I have always thought Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty are the two films considered to have the best chance at taking the top prize, but with Kathryn Bigelow not getting a nod for Best Director, that severely hurts Zero Dark Thirty's chances of winning Best Picture.

Released near the end of 1985 locally and the spring of 1987 in the US, My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund in its native tongue) would earn Hallström Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay (the latter shared with three co-writers), two categories rarely recognizing foreign films.

Affleck had a great shout for best director but sadly the academy don't see it that way.

Yesterday, Greta Gerwig became the fifth woman ever to be nominated for Best Director at the Academy Awards.

Two men fight against all odds to try to be together in this Oscar winner for Best Director.

Boyz n the Hood made $ 56 million at the box office from a budget of just $ 6 million, and Singleton was nominated for two Oscars, for Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Speaking at a pre-Grammys party in Los Angeles, in comments published on 11 February by Vulture, the 76 - year - old actor said Jolie ought to have picked up a nod for best director.

In 1985, he received the Cannes Film Festival award for best director, for Rendez - vous starring Juliette Binoche.

His debut film American Beauty (1999) earned him an Academy Award for Best Director.

My personal favourite is Blue, but in saying that I feel a bit bad for Red, the concluding chapter that is so expertly tuned and perhaps the most artistically sound, that it's easy to see why it snagged itself Oscar nominations for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography.

But reviews from Berlin, where Isle Of Dogs won the Silver Bear for Best Director, were almost universally glowing.

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.

No nod for Best Picture this time round but, an impressive eight Oscar nominations in total, including Spielberg's first nomination for Best Director, a win for Vilmos Zsigmond's cinematography and a Special Achievement Award for Frank E.Warner's sound effects editing.

No Luca Guadagnino or Steven Spielberg for Best Director The story of Best Director turned into the crowning of two incredible debut directors who aren't white men — Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele.

Or that Greta Gerwig deserves a nomination for best director because Harvey Weinstein?

Live By Night Rated R for strong violence, language throughout, and some sexuality / nudity Rotten Tomatoes Score: 35 % In the follow up to his Oscar win for best director for Argo, Ben Affleck takes on this prohibition - era gangster film, adapted from the novel by Dennis Lehane.

Greta Gerwig joins only four other women ever to be nominated for Best Director, for her drama «Lady Bird,» for which she also got a Best Original Screenplay nod.

Having enjoyed success at the Golden Globes and PGA Awards, Guillermo del Toro added the Directors Guild of America's Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film award to his mantelpiece last night at the DGA Awards, putting the filmmaker firmly in the driving seat for Best Director at the Oscars with his fantasy romance The Shape -LSB-...]

First of, Greta Gerwig is nominated for Best Director.

Like Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick didn't get much love from the Academy — between them, they won a grand total of zero awards for Best Director.

Del Toro is coming off his best year yet after not only winning the Academy Award for Best Director for The Shape of Water, but also claiming a producing Oscar with the film's Best Picture win.

Linklater also won for Best Director and Patricia Arquette garnered the Best Supporting Actress Award.

Among the biggest surprises came in the race for Best Director, where Tom McCarthy was left out in favor of «The Big Short» helmer Adam McKay.

In 2001, he was nominated for best director twice at the Academy Awards, for Traffic and Erin Brockovich.

The screenplay received a Bradbury Award nomination from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and the film received, among other honors, the Empire Award for Best Director; a Comedy Central Comedy Award for Best Director; two Scream Awards; a GLAAD Media Award nomination for Outstanding Film — Wide Release; and two Satellite Awards including Best Picture — Comedy or Musical.

Ava DuVernay became the first black woman with a film nominated for Best PIcture with Selma in 2014, but she was not nominated for Best Director — though she absolutely should have been.

Alejandro González Iñárritu edged out Linklater for Best Director for his bravura work on the dizzying Birdman, while Wes Anderson scored Best Screenplay for The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Hitchcock was up for Best Director, but lost to John Ford for The Grapes of Wrath.

Guillermo del Toro, who won for best director and best picture, sat with his two newly personalized Oscars on a sofa near the engraving table.

SURPRISE: Paul Thomas Anderson for «Phantom Thread»: It feels weird to call it a surprise that an acclaimed filmmaker like Anderson got a nomination for Best Director, but in such a competitive field, not many awards analysts expected him to sneak in and take a nod for his work immersing audiences in Reynolds Woodcock's meticulous world.

No women of color have ever been nominated for the Best Director Oscar.

Jordan Peele is now the fifth black man to be nominated for the Best Director Oscar, following Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, 2017), Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave, 2013), Lee Daniels (Precious, 2009), and John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood, 1991).

The video highlighted Greta Gerwig, the fifth woman to ever be nominated for best director, Yance Ford, the first transgender nominee for «Strong Island,» Dee Rees, whose «Mudbound» scored a historic cinematographer nomination and the Pakistan - born Kumail Nanjiani, nominated for «The Big Sick.»

McQueen was also nominated for Best Director, but lost to Alfonso Cuaron for «Gravity,» unfortunately.

Altman received five Academy Award nominations for best director, his last for one of the auteurist highlights of the early 21st century, «Gosford Park.»

I can't finish reading the list of the top contenders for best director 2011.

Selma will likely continue to ascend the box office when it opens wide this week, especially with its awards buzz and Ava DuVernay becoming the first African - American woman to be nominated for a Best Director Golden Globe.

The feature films nominated for Best Film this year are «Frank» which gives an insight into the weird and wonderful world of the enigmatic musician; the gritty urban family drama of «Glassland»; the raw, moving and honest «I Used to Live Here»; the feel good true - life story of «Noble»; the poignant and sensitive exploration of mental health in «Patrick's Day», and the beautiful Irish animated fantasy «Song of the Sea»; Three of the Best Films also get nominations for Best Director; Lenny Abrahamson for «Frank»; Gerard Barrett «Glassland» and Terry McMahon for «Patrick's Day», with John Carney also in that category for the musical drama «Begin Again».

«La La Land» leads all films this year with 12 nominations including Best Picture, Ryan Gosling for Best Actor, Emma Stone for Best Actress, Damien Chazelle for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, Linus Sandgren for Best Cinematography, David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds - Wasco for Best Production Design, Tom Cross for Best Editing, Mary Zophres for Best Costume Design, Two Best Song Nominations for «Audition (The Fools Who Dream)» and «City of Stars,» and Justin Hurwitz for Best Score.

Guadagnino shared in the award for best director with Guillermo del Toro for «The Shape of Water.»

I also did my directing charts before and those told me that it's pretty rare to be nominated for Best Director for Globes and Critics Choice and not get in for Best Picture.

If Social Network were to win both major critic awards and remain a far frontrunner for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, the writing on the wall becomes clear for Oscar night.

When you collate these wins and nominations (just in the last 14 years, let me remind you) to women nominated for Best Director in the narrative - feature category, the disparities are embarrassing and ignoble.

If I had told you ten years ago that Armageddon star Ben Affleck would once be a serious contender for the Best Director Oscar, you'd have laughed in my face.