Sentences with phrase «get a best picture nomination»

In addition to Bullock's win, it somehow managed to get a best picture nomination, because 2009 was not the finest year for film.

Last year's crop, however, was a major exception to the rule: No Sundance film got a best picture nomination or any acting nominations.

If you thought that fanboys were upset about The Dark Knight not getting a Best Picture nomination at this year's Academy Awards, just imagine how crushed they will be if Wall - E doesn't win for Best Animated Feature!

Darkest Hour was no slouch though, it got a Best Picture nomination today as well, which should solidify Oldman's chances.

Also getting a best picture nomination (as well as nods for star Brie Larson, adapted screenplay by Emma Donoghue from her novel and director Lenny Abrahamson) was the singular «Room,» an emotional roller coaster whose success led to perhaps the biggest surprise of the morning.

But for the Gotham Awards, it can get a Best Picture nomination right alongside likely Oscar nominee 12 Years a Slave.

If it were up to me, Beauty and the Beast would also get a Best Picture nomination.

But Jordan Peele got a directing nod, Daniel Kaluuya is in the lead actor pack, and it got a Best Picture nomination, too.

Despite its enormous critical acclaim, «Silence» will be only the second Scorsese film in the last 15 years to not get a Best Picture nomination.

Those loyal to the Resistance might be upset that «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» didn't get a best picture nomination.

In a strange turn, Foxcatcher didn't get a Best Picture nomination but its director, Cannes winner Bennett Miller, did.

Aladdin came at the right time for Disney, capitalizing on the worldwide popularity of Robin Williams and widespread enjoyment of hand - drawn animation months after Beauty and the Beast became the first such film to get a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars.

I du n no, I can't say I'm suprised Dark Knight didn't get a best picture nomination.

Entertainment Weekly writer Nicole Sperling noted that «the epic true story of Louis Zamperini has Oscar bait written all over it» and that «Angelina Jolie... will surely give the boys a run for their money» for a Best Director nod, while Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times predicted that «Unbroken» will get a Best Picture nomination but that Jolie will be skipped over when the Best Director contenders are named.

That might be because The Weinstein Co did not get a Best Picture nomination last year.

«Netflix has been unable to get a Best Picture nomination so far,» Belloni says.

Some things to consider: The Big Sick getting a Best Picture nomination is the thing that could surprise a lot of people tomorrow morning, but shouldn't.

«And until they get a Best Picture nomination, filmmakers, in my opinion, will prefer to have their big awards movies go through a theatrical distributor.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale made the Best Actor cut over Robert Redford and Tom Hanks, Her, Dallas Buyers Club, and Philomena all got Best Picture nominations over Saving Mr. Banks, and Sally Hawkins landed a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her work in Blue Jasmine, seemingly taking Oprah Winfrey «s spot from Lee Daniels» The Butler.

Musical or Comedy designation landed Phoenix a Best Actor nod at the Golden Globes (his second straight one in that category perhaps qualifies him for the «funnyman» label), but the film could not get a Best Picture nomination despite a field with only two legitimate Oscar contenders.

Producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown got the Best Picture nomination for «Jaws» and the movie was nominated in three other Oscar categories, but Spielberg never heard his name announced among the nominations.

Denis Villeneuve's futurist dystopian spectacular Blade Runner 2049 comes in with five — and this must surely be the year for cinematographer Roger Deakins, although this gets no best picture nomination.

Breaking Away was one of the fortunate few to get a Best Picture nomination without any tried - and - true ingredients.

It missed out on the SAGs and missed out on the PGAs, and there was basically no way it was going to get a Best Picture nomination.

Yet, the little - seen movie had far less heat surrounding it than, say, The Post, which got the Best Picture nomination and a record 21st nomination for co-star Meryl Streep, but left Tom Hanks in the cold.

Not exact matches

That's because it received a Best Picture nomination but Ben Affleck failed to get a nod as Best Director.

It snagged the Best Picture Oscar although Bruce Beresford failed to get a Best Director nomination.

Despite some genuinely hilarious sequences that, regrettably, are spaced too far apart, this meditation on the things that matter in life is too slow and at times too forced to deserve the high praise it has been getting (including an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film that should have gone to a number of other more worthwhile pictures).

Harris gets an Academy Award nomination for playing a drug - addicted single mother in the deeply serious and Oscar - winning best picture of 2017 (Moonlight) and somebody thinks it's a good idea to cast her in this kind of junk?

It also snared Tarantino his first writing and directing Oscar nominations since Pulp - and got a Best Picture nod, too.

That might be why it ended up with a whopping 14 nominations, and now remains the only film to get that many nominations and not win best Picture, as you can see over at FilmSite.org.

Both Lady Bird and Get Out walked away with big nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director for both.

So far Silver Linings has placed Lawrence and Cooper in privileged positions for Academy Award nominations and not unlikely is the possibility of the film getting recognition in the Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and of course Best Director categories.

Snub: Mandy Patinkin (pictured right), «Homeland» Supporting Actor - Drama Though «Homeland» returned to the Best Drama race, Patinkin was passed over after getting nominations for the last two years.

Best Picture: Three of the past five years have seen the festival's Grand Jury Prize for best U.S. dramatic film get a nomination for best picture («Precious» in 2009, «Winter's Bone» in 2010, and «Beasts» in 2012 — «Like Crazy» and last year's «Fruitvale Station» did nBest Picture: Three of the past five years have seen the festival's Grand Jury Prize for best U.S. dramatic film get a nomination for best picture («Precious» in 2009, «Winter's Bone» in 2010, and «Beasts» in 2012 — «Like Crazy» and last year's «Fruitvale Station» diPicture: Three of the past five years have seen the festival's Grand Jury Prize for best U.S. dramatic film get a nomination for best picture («Precious» in 2009, «Winter's Bone» in 2010, and «Beasts» in 2012 — «Like Crazy» and last year's «Fruitvale Station» did nbest U.S. dramatic film get a nomination for best picture («Precious» in 2009, «Winter's Bone» in 2010, and «Beasts» in 2012 — «Like Crazy» and last year's «Fruitvale Station» did nbest picture («Precious» in 2009, «Winter's Bone» in 2010, and «Beasts» in 2012 — «Like Crazy» and last year's «Fruitvale Station» dipicture («Precious» in 2009, «Winter's Bone» in 2010, and «Beasts» in 2012 — «Like Crazy» and last year's «Fruitvale Station» did not).

You have to go back to 2012 to find a year when the Best Picture winner did not get either a Gotham nomination or win the Gotham.

Popular favorite «Get Out» received nominations in the best picture, actor, director, and original screenplay categories.

4) Being attached to a Best Picture nominee or a film that got close to Best Picture - Meaning, it has a powerful Oscar strategist behind it and it gets enough nominations to be «in the conversation.»

The 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations have been announced and Jordan Peele's completely different but also masterful social thriller Get Out, scored five nods in total including Best Director and Screenplay for Peele, as well as Best Picture, Actor, and Editing.

Only once in DGA / Oscar history did only two directors from the DGA's list get Oscar nominations and of course, the one who won the DGA also won the Directing Oscar and Best Picture, Robert Wise and The Sound of Music.

As we get closer to Ender's Game and more people hear about the movie, it wouldn't surprise me if people see Abigail Breslin's name and immediately picture a Valentine the same age as Breslin's character in Little Miss Sunshine, the role that got her a Best Supporting Actress nomination in the 2007 Academy Awards.

It was assumed it would get in here rather easily, but instead, it looks like it's effectively been eliminated from the competition, and subsequently for Best Picture (no nomination here equals no chance of winning the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, and nowadays no screenplay Oscar means no Best Picture Oscar).

Writer / director Jordan Peele's satirical horror film, Get Out, scored 6 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.

Film: Get Out Director: Jordan Peele Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener, Caleb Landry Jones Oscar Nominations (4): Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay Where to Stream: HBO Now / Go, Available for order on Amazon Video

And Get Out is riding high today, with Jordan Peele's flashy triple - nomination and the Best Picture inclusion.

With his Oscar nomination for Best Director, Get Out's Jordan Peele became only the fifth black director to ever be nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

I'll start my review for Wonderstruck like this: If Wonderstruck doesn't get a nomination for best picture this year then something is horribly wrong.

SNUB: Jordan Peele, for directing and writing «Get Out» The horror movie earned two nominations for best picture musical / comedy and lead actor Daniel Kaluuya.

Now, as the year closes out, Get Out has become an awards season frontrunner, named Gotham Independent Film Awards» Best Feature and listed among the National Board of Review's top 10 films and earning a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy.

Though the film debuted to not terrible reviews, there also wasn't much buzz around Clint Eastwood getting another Best Director nomination, let alone the movie earning a Best Picture nod.