We enjoyed the birds and lizards, even though didn't get to capture
good pictures of the birds we saw.
Not exact matches
It appears that Las Vegas oddsmakers are not in total agreement with movie experts, as the online gambling site Bovada actually has Three Billboards (20/23) as the odds - on bet to win the
Best Picture race over the likes
of The Shape
of Water (7/5), Get Out (11/2), and Lady
Bird (14/1).
Other indications
of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features
of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order
of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then
birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions
of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations
of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations
of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation
of convergent evolution defeating arguments
of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and...
well... I guess you get the
picture.
The cartoon
well illustrates the tendency
of «
birds of a feather flock together» which is not the
picture of a diverse body with hands, arms, brains, feet, etc..
Each year,
Picture This: Your Great Outdoors attracts shutterbugs
of all abilities, ages and backgrounds, who are encouraged to fan out across the state (and Mass Audubon's Wildwood Camp in Rindge, NH) to take their
best shots
of birds and other animals, friends and family members enjoying the outdoors, and more.
I particularly liked the chapters on «dangerous journeys» (a look at the threats to migrating
birds) and «light effects» (the problems
of comparing
birds in the field to
pictures in books), both being
well presented and illustrated.
«In contrast, the
picture of early
bird evolution in the Southern Hemisphere is mostly incomplete,» Martin says, «but with these tracks, it just got a little
better.»
Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady
Bird,» which won
Best Motion
Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all
of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop
of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»
It's a formidable
Best Picture contender with a strong shot at nominations across - the - board with Kristin Scott Thomas more
of a threat than people think for a Supporting Actress nomination (despite a now more robust competition than evident before Lady
Bird and I Tonya crushed ideas about that particular race).
BEST PICTURE The Big Sick Call Me by Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk The Florida Project Get Out Lady
Bird The Post The Shape
of Water - Winner Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Actress in a Motion
Picture Molly's Game: Jessica Chastain Victoria & Abdul: Judi Dench The Shape
of Water: Sally Hawkins In the Fade: Diane Kruger Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: Frances McDormand I, Tonya: Margot Robbie Lady
Bird: Saoirse Ronan Battle
of the Sexes: Emma Stone
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion
Picture — Musical or Comedy Margot Robbie, I, Tonya Saoirse Ronan, Lady
Bird Emma Stone, Battle
of the Sexes Judi Dench, Victoria & Abdul Helen Mirren, The Leisure Seeker
A24's Lady
Bird, up for five nominations this evening including
Best Picture, is at over $ 48.28 M in its 18th weekend
of release from a weekend gross
of $ 532K in 710 locations.
Best Motion
Picture Call Me By Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk Get Out Lady
Bird Phantom Thread The Post The Shape
of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
And I also enjoyed the victory
of Lady
Bird for top prize in Motion
Picture, Musical or Comedy Actress; as
well as its star for Actress, Motion
Picture, Musical or Comedy (Saoirse Ronan).
Emma portrayed the tennis legend in Battles
Of The Sexes and was nominated for
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion
Picture — Musical or Comedy, but lost out to Saoirse Ronan for her role in Lady
Bird.
Best actress in a motion
picture, comedy or musical Judi Dench, «Victoria & Abdul» Helen Mirren, «The Leisure Seeker» Margot Robbie, «I, Tonya» Saoirse Ronan, «Lady
Bird» Emma Stone, «Battle
of the Sexes» IMMEDIATE REACTION: This category is the battle
of the established grand dames — Mirren and Dench — against the up - and - comers.
Coming in behind «The Shape
of Water» are Greta Gerwig's coming -
of - age dramedy «Lady
Bird» and Luca Guadagnino's summer romance «Call Me By Your Name» with seven nominations each, also including
best picture.
Fox Searchlight's The Shape
of Water tops the nominations list with eleven nominations including
Best Picture and
Best Original Screenplay while Lady
Bird earns nine nominations and Dunkirk earns eight.
Best Picture The Shape
of Water Call Me By Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk Get Out Lady
Bird Phantom Thread The Post Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The National Board
Of Review loved Steven Spielberg's Oscar machine The Post, the New York Film Critics Circle preferred Greta Gerwig's Lady
Bird, and now the Los Angeles Film Critics Association has announced that its
Best Picture isn't Lady
Bird or The Post but Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name.
Only three
best picture nominees were written by women - The Post, Lady
Bird and The Shape
of Water.
BEST ACTRESS IN A MOTION
PICTURE — MUSICAL OR COMEDY Nominees: Judi Dench, «Victoria & Abdul» Helen Mirren, «The Leisure Seeker» Margot Robbie, «I, Tonya» Saoirse Ronan, «Lady
Bird» Emma Stone, «Battle
of the Sexes»
The
best picture nominees, from top left: «The Shape
of Water,» «Dunkirk,» «Lady
Bird.»
Announced in Los Angeles by DGA President Thomas Schlamme, the five nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film represent the
best big - screen helmers
of the calendar year: Guillermo del Toro for «The Shape
of Water» (Fox Searchlight
Pictures), Greta Gerwig for «Lady
Bird» (A24), Martin McDonagh for «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» (Fox Searchlight
Pictures), Christopher Nolan for «Dunkirk» (Warner Bros.), and Jordan Peele for «Get Out» (Universal
Pictures).
Best Motion
Picture — Comedy / Musical: Get Out Lady
Bird Battle
of the Sexes The Big Sick I, Tonya or Downsizing or The Disaster Artist
Best Picture: The Florida Project
Best Director: Guillermo del Toro, The Shape
of Water
Best Actress: Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Best Actor: Andy Serkis, Planet
of the Apes
Best Supporting Actress: Laurie Metcalf, Lady
Bird Best Supporting Actor: Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project Adapted Screenplay: Call Me by your Name Original Screenplay: Get Out, Jordan Peele Editing: Baby Driver Score: Phantom Thread Production Design: Shape
of Water Cinematography: Blade Runner
Best Foreign Language
Picture: BPM
Best Documentary: Faces Places
Best Animated Feature: Coco
Best Picture Get Out or Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri or The Shape
of Water Lady
Bird Dunkirk Call Me By Your Name The Big Sick The Post The Florida Project Darkest Hour
Get Out, the winner, was seen as the favorite but there were also trumpets blared for Lady
Bird «s last stand to stake a claim
of a guild win (it did not) and then the creeping feeling that if The Shape
of Water is the
Best Picture frontrunner then it winning WGA wouldn't be out
of the blue and could signal a true lead.
Saoirse Ronan (left) and Laurie Metcalf star in «Lady
Bird,» one
of two highly personal films nominated as
best picture.
Best Motion
Picture, Drama: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Motion
Picture, Comedy or Musical: Lady
Bird Best Actress, Drama: Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Actor, Drama: Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Best Actress, Motion
Picture, Comedy or Musical: Saoirse Ronan, Lady
Bird Best Actor, Motion
Picture, Comedy or Musical: James Franco, The Disaster Artist
Best Supporting Actress: Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Best Supporting Actor: Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Director: Guillermo del Toro, The Shape
of Water
Best Screenplay: Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Animated Motion
Picture: Coco
Best Foreign Language Film: In the Fade
Best Original Score: Alexandre Desplat, The Shape
of Water
Best Original Song: «This Is Me» — The Greatest Showman
Best Picture Dunkirk Lady
Bird Phantom Thread
Best Actor Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name Daniel Day - Lewis, Phantom Thread Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Best Actress Sally Hawkins, The Shape
of Water Frances McDormand,...
Call Me By Your Name, Get Out, Lady
Bird and Phantom Threat all join Dunkirk, Darkest Hour, The Post, The Shape
of Water and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri in the race for
Best Picture.
Best Screenplay, Motion
Picture Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri The Shape
of Water Lady
Bird The Post Molly's Game
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion
Picture, Comedy or Musical Saoirse Ronan, Lady
Bird Judi Dench, Victoria & Abdul Helen Mirren, The Leisure Seeker Margot Robbie, I, Tonya Emma Stone, Battle
of the Sexes
Five
of those films — «Call Me By Your Name,» «Get Out,» «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» «Phantom Thread» and «Lady
Bird» — are nominated for
best picture.
Lady
Bird's writer and director Greta Gerwig accepted the
Best Picture award on the verge
of tears, excitedly praising the film's actors and crew in a similarly rushed speech.
Best Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Motion
Picture Allison Janney, I, Tonya Mary J. Blige, Mudbound Hong Chau, Downsizing Laurie Metcalf, Lady
Bird Octavia Spencer, The Shape
of Water
Best Picture: * Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Get Out The Shape
of Water Lady
Bird Dunkirk Call Me By Your Name The Post The Florida Project
So, it's not surprising that an impressive number
of powerful women were also honored for their work both on the small screen, with Big Little Lies and The Handmaid's Tale, and on the big screen, with first - time writer - director Greta Gerwig winning
Best Motion
Picture, Comedy for her directorial debut, Lady
Bird, along with leading lady, Saoirse Ronan winning
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion
Picture, Comedy.
Best Picture (Drama) seems like a showdown between The Shape
of Water and The Post, while Lady
Bird and Get Out are the frontrunners in the comedy category.
If Oscar winners were chosen based on barrels
of tears shed, Coco, Lady
Bird, and Call Me by Your Name would be in a dead heat for
Best Picture.
With Oscars on Sunday, moviegoers will definitely make a point about seeing this year's crop
of best picture nominees specifically those still in theaters, read The Shape
of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; The Post, Call Me By Your Name, Darkest Hour, Lady
Bird, and Phantom Thread.
Nominated for five Academy Awards including
Best Picture but going home empty - handed, Lady Bird remains one of the best films of 2017, and has just been released on DVD by A24 / Lionsg
Best Picture but going home empty - handed, Lady
Bird remains one
of the
best films of 2017, and has just been released on DVD by A24 / Lionsg
best films
of 2017, and has just been released on DVD by A24 / Lionsgate.
The addition
of «Lady
Bird» to Prime Video comes under Amazon's multiyear pact with A24, which also covers 2017 Oscar - winning
best picture «Moonlight,» among other films.
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.
Best Picture - Phantom Thread
Best Actor - Daniel Kaluuya for Get Out
Best Actress - Sally Hawkins for The Shape
of Water
Best Supporting Actor - Willem Dafoe for The Florida Project
Best Supporting Actress - Laurie Metcalf for Lady
Bird Best Director - Paul Thomas Anderson for Phantom Thread
Best Screenplay - Greta Gerwig for Lady
Bird Best Cinematography - Hoyte Van Hoytema for Dunkirk
Best Documentary - Dawson City: Frozen Time
Best Foreign - Language Film (awarded in memory
of Jay Carr)- The Square
Best Animated Film - Coco
Best Film Editing (awarded in memory
of Karen Schmeer)- David Lowery for A Ghost Story
These three are the highest rated films
of the year, dominated critics wins early on (Get Out is still the
Best Picture critics leader) yet only Lady
Bird has managed a Golden Globe
Picture win.
The 21 - year - old actor received his breakout role in two - time Oscar winner «Manchester by the Sea,» which earned Hedges his first nomination, and two
of his 2017 dramas, «Lady
Bird» and «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» landed
best picture nominations.
Best Picture: «Call Me by Your Name» «Darkest Hour» «Dunkirk» «Get Out» «Lady
Bird» «Phantom Thread» «The Post» «The Shape
of Water» «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri»