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

Well... I didn't see up getting a best picture nod as well.

It was cool to see some of the additional films up for Best Picture this year, including District 9 and Up (yes, Pixar finally got their Best Picture nod).

Yeah, it got a Best Picture nod, but in so many ways, Selma still got shafted.

Peele, who is nominated in the best director and best original screenplay category for Get Out, which also got a best picture nod, arrived dressed in a white tuxedo with wife and Brooklyn Nine - Nine star Chelsea Peretti.

More likely though, this movie just missed getting a Best Picture nod and that will end up costing it in the end.

Some had high hopes that it would get a best picture nod, but who are we kidding?

When your second film also gets a Best Picture nod, then you're going to be expected to have one every time out.

But this was a relatively solid year for female - fronted movies, with both Brooklyn and an unexpectedly strong Room getting Best Picture nods.

I for one knew it wouldn't get a Best Picture nod, but I was hoping Jason Mitchell who played Eazy - E would have been recognized in the Supporting Actor category.

Not exact matches

Most of the best picture nominees in recent years are nothing like the Star Wars franchise and, unfortunately, I can't see The Last Jedi getting the nod no matter how great it is.

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

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.

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.

So one of my faves of the year, «The Big Sick,» got an original screenplay nod in a stacked category, but no best picture (I had fingers and toes crossed but wasn't expecting it) and, shockingly, horribly, no Holly Hunter in supporting!

Getting an ensemble nod is always key to the run up for Best Picture.

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

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.

What You Need To Know: On the slim off - chance that you've heard none of the deafening buzz surrounding Steve McQueen «s «Hunger» and «Shame» follow - up (which also stars Michael Fassbender), let's get to it: by all accounts (our own included), lead Chiwetel Ejiofor is anything from a good bet to a surefire winner for this year's Best Actor Oscar, with the film itself a likely player in the Best Picture race and any number of the other actors (Fassbender foremost among them) potentially primed for Supporting Actor nod.

Moving on, Miramax Films didn't manage a Best Picture nod for last year's «Doubt,» but perhaps the studio can get somewhere with the already critically approved «Chéri.»

But the film couldn't get over a larger hump — it failed to land a best picture nomination and didn't score a director nod for Haynes.

The upcoming fan uproar for all things «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» — You won't see me in the picket line, but just sit back and watch the populist hatred grow today and this month for «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» getting ONLY five nominations (Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Original Score, Film Editing, and Visual Effects) and no nod for Best Picture.

Mary J. Blige garnered a supporting actress nod for her role in Netflix drama Mudbound, while Jordan Peele's Get Out will be up for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy.

Damien Chazelle's homage to old Hollywood received a nod for Best Motion Picture, Musical Or Comedy; Stone and Gosling each got recognition in their respective acting categories; and Chazelle was nominated in Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Currently teetering as a will - it - or - won't - it Best Picture hopeful, Moonrise Kingdom has performed surprisingly well in the precursors, landing a Golden Globe nod for Best Picture — Comedy, getting shortlisted by the AFI, and clinching a heap of Indie Spirit nominations.

Although Rebecca did win the Oscar for Best Picture this award was picked up by the producer David O. Selznick so Hitchcock is often seen as the most famed and celebrated director to never get an Oscar nod.

Its main competitors for Best Picture are now the horror - satire Get Out and the teen coming - of - age dramedy Lady Bird, each of which received nominations for their screenplays as well as Best Picture and Director nods.

And with the haunting score by Thomas Newman and the theatrical directing of Sam Mendes, this is a movie that I would not be surprised to see getting a nod for best picture at the Oscars this year.

Armie Hammer & Michael Stuhlbarg for Call Me By Your Name It isn't like Call Me By Your Name got shut out — Luca Guadagnino's swooning romance scored deserved Best Picture and Best Actor nods.

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 Pictbest 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 PictBest Director, that severely hurts Zero Dark Thirty's chances of winning Best PictBest Picture.

Bennett Miller is not a director to underestimate; both Capote and Moneyball earned Best Picture nods and got multiple actors from the cast nominated.

The movies «Boyhood» and «Birdman» have been frontrunners for some time and they received nods for Best Picture, as did «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» which got a boost when it received the best comedy or musical prize at the Golden GloBest Picture, as did «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» which got a boost when it received the best comedy or musical prize at the Golden Globest comedy or musical prize at the Golden Globes.

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.

Kaluuya picked up a nod for his role in Get Out, Jordan Peele's stirring social thriller, which also picked up a slew of other nominations, including best original screenplay, best director, and best picture.

There's almost no way this doesn't get Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay nods, and after Jordan Peele's recent DGA nomination, he's a decent bet for a Best Director spot as well.

While the film did manage to win Best Picture and Best Actress in the Comedy / Musical categories at the Golden Globes, the film failed to receive a Best Director nod there, and also failed to get Best Film and Best Director nods at the BAFTA Awards.

Doubts seemed to be confirmed when David O. Russell failed to get a Globe nod for director (only Driving Miss Daisy has ever won Best Picture in the musical / comedy category without a nomination for director), and more importantly, a DGA nomination.

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.

Ben Affleck didn't get nominated for best director but for the first time since Driving Miss Daisy won its best picture award in 1990, malady the directorial nod proved unnecessary.

The Imitation Game is an enjoyable and well - done biopic that lacks a certain intangible hook which holds it back in my mind from a Best Picture nomination, despite some of the nods it has already gotten.

The movie got nods for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Music (Original Score), Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing.

His sci - fi thriller Inception broke through the barrier of earnestness to the best picture category in 2011 and it scored him a second screenplay nod (the first was for Memento) but it looks like he might finally get the ultimate recognition for his next film Dunkirk.

Deakins got his first Oscar nomination for his work on 1994's The Shawshank Redemption, and through the years, he's been nominated for all kinds of movies, from Best Picture nominees (No Country for Old Men; Fargo; The Reader) to more offbeat but lush achievements, working with directors like the Coen Brothers (whose movies make up for 5 of Deakins's 14 nods), Martin Scorsese (Kundun), Sam Mendes (Skyfall), and Angelina Jolie (Unbroken).

Rounding out the best picture category were the romantic drama «Call Me by Your Name,» the Winston Churchill biopic «Darkest Hour,» the coming - of - age dramedy «Lady Bird,» the period romance «Phantom Thread,» the Pentagon Papers drama «The Post» and the smash hybrid of horror and social satire «Get Out,» which picked up four nominations overall, including writing and directing nods for Jordan Peele and a lead actor nomination for Daniel Kaluuya.

While it didn't garner a Best Picture nomination or best director nomination for Paul Thomas Anderson, the film's acting ensemble earned three nods total, with Joaquin Phoenix earning a nomination for Best Actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman getting one for Best Supporting Actor, and Amy Adams snagging a nod for Best Supporting ActrBest Picture nomination or best director nomination for Paul Thomas Anderson, the film's acting ensemble earned three nods total, with Joaquin Phoenix earning a nomination for Best Actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman getting one for Best Supporting Actor, and Amy Adams snagging a nod for Best Supporting Actrbest director nomination for Paul Thomas Anderson, the film's acting ensemble earned three nods total, with Joaquin Phoenix earning a nomination for Best Actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman getting one for Best Supporting Actor, and Amy Adams snagging a nod for Best Supporting ActrBest Actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman getting one for Best Supporting Actor, and Amy Adams snagging a nod for Best Supporting ActrBest Supporting Actor, and Amy Adams snagging a nod for Best Supporting ActrBest Supporting Actress.

The internet may still be upset that Deadpool didn't get Best Picture or Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar nods, but in 2016, the stars aligned for Ryan Reynolds.

This year's Oscar nominees, for example, are filled with history - makers like Rachel Morrison, who became the first woman ever to be nominated for cinematography, and Jordan Peele, the third person ever to get best picture, directing, and writing nods for his first film.