Sentences with phrase «good war picture»

Jolie has an eye for what makes a good war picture — as evidenced by In the Land of Blood and Honey — so this shall be another exciting directorial entry into her filmography.

And the best war picture ever filmed.

Not exact matches

The good news for Spielberg and Time Warner Inc.'s film division is that the next big superhero picture, Walt Disney Co.'s «Avengers: Infinity War,» doesn't open until April 27.

Paltrow was the Weinsteins» It Girl back in 1995, right after Se7en put her on the map and just before The Pallbearer and Emma — the latter earning her the top - billing spot two years later in Miramax's first Best Picture - winner, Shakespeare in Love, beating Steven Spielberg's war epic, Saving Private Ryan, which, to this day, is still a shock.

Best Picture: «The Shape of Water» Lead Actor: Gary Oldman, «Darkest Hour» Lead Actress: Frances McDormand, «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» Supporting Actor: Sam Rockwell, «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» Supporting Actress: Allison Janney, «I, Tonya» Director: «The Shape of Water,» Guillermo del Toro Animated Feature: «Loving Vincent,» Animated Short: «Revolting Rhymes» Adapted Screenplay: «The Disaster Artist» Original Screenplay: «The Big Sick» Cinematography: «Blade Runner 2049» Roger Deakins Best Documentary Feature: «Last Men in Aleppo» Best Documentary Short Subject: «Traffic Stop» Best Live Action Short Film: «The Silent Child» Best Foreign Language Film: «The Insult» (Lebanon) Film Editing: «Baby Driver» Sound Editing: «Dunkirk» Sound Mixing: «Dunkirk» Production Design: «The Shape of Water» Original Score: «Star Wars: The Last Jedi Original Song: «This Is Me» from «The Greatest Showman» Makeup and Hair: «Darkest Hour» Costume Design: «Phantom Thread» Visual Effects: «Star Wars: The Last Jedi»

In the Best Picture race, the biggest hits were the World War II flick «Dunkirk,» which last year grossed around $ 188 million in U.S.ticket sales, good for 14th place on the box office charts, and Jordan Peele's horror film «Get Out,» which tucked in just below «Dunkirk» with $ 176 million in domestic sales.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi offers a picture of heroism that helps us better understand how to witness to hope and truth in our own galaxy.

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.

The first and only one to be nominated for best picture at the Oscars was the original Star Wars: A New Hope.

Well, this is the picture perpetuated by the Mommy War mentality, an archaic notion that reduces grown women to catty school girls.

Whether or not William Randolph Hearst ever really said «You supply the pictures, I'll supply the war,» everyone knows that a war, any war, is good for the news business.

The 1957 British - American World War II epic directed by David Lean won seven Academy Awards (including Best Picture).

With more than 400 medal of honor recipients dating back to the civil war, Hispanic Americans - past and present - have Military life is captured a round up of the best US Army pictures of the year 2017

With past Oscar nominees such as Elizabeth, The Queen, The Young Victoria and 2010's best - picture winner The King's Speech, the British have monopolized the royal biopic the way Americans have colonized the Second World War movie.

With stunning performances from its cast, the film occur during the First World War, and it shows us the chaos, and considering the fact that this was made in 1930, it's an impressive feat in filmmaking, as what we have here is a picture that captures the fear and agony of combat, and it's a well made movie for its time, and it still looks great after all these years.

He returned to the Oscar race in 2014 playing the title role in Clint Eastwood's 21st century war drama American Sniper, for which he also was nominated for Best Picture, having served as a producer on the film.

Critics Consensus: Subsequent war epics may have borrowed heavily from the original Best Picture winner, but they've all lacked Clara Bow's luminous screen presence and William Wellman's deft direction.

Like many other second - echelon Hollywood actors, Lundigan found the going rough after the war, though as a Fox contractee he managed to land occasional good parts in such pictures as Pinky (1949) and I'll Get By (1950).

And Disney was the only major studio to score two best picture nominees (the aforementioned The Help, plus Steven Spielberg's War Horse) this year.

Critic Consensus: Subsequent war epics may have borrowed heavily from the original Best Picture winner, but they've all lacked Clara Bow's luminous screen presence and William Wellman's deft direction.

Most of his best 1950s films were westerns, which like his war pictures favored slowly escalating personal tensions over wanton gunplay.

Third - billed Domhnall Gleeson is good enough in his sporadic role, which virtually guarantees him two Best Picture Oscar nominees this year (along with Brooklyn) and a presence in four of the year's most acclaimed films (with Ex Machina and Star Wars: The Force Awakens) without being terribly noteworthy or conspicuous in any of them.

For many this year, Oscar competition has focused on the family films «Hugo» and «War Horse,» which have received so much recognition from the Academy — «Hugo» leads the pack with the most nominations this year (although «The Artist» and «The Descendants» will offer stiff competition when the envelope is opened for Best Picture on Feb. 26).

World War II movies are still a reliable genre — two of the nine best picture nominees of 2017 were set during that wartime — but the Great War, «Wonder Woman» aside, rarely gets much love.

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Other film front - runners include the coming - of - age story «Boyhood» and World War II code - cracking drama «The Imitation Game,» which have five nominations each, including best picture (drama).

Five other feature films complete the Best Picture line - up, including the financial crisis comedy - drama «The Big Short,» Cold War - era drama «Bridge of Spies,» coming - of - age tale «Brooklyn,» harrowing drama «Room,» and journalism docu - drama «Spotlight.»

The World War I drama Wings, which would become the first winner of the Best Picture Oscar, is clearly cut from the same cloth and not quite as effectively.

Samuel Maoz's Lebanon is a good old - fashioned Sam Fuller war picture, all capital letters and tight close - ups.

Though I do not place War Horse on a level with Schindler's List (1998), it can not be denied that the picture is one of the directors» best and certainly one of the finest of the year.

Sicario, a fall release that addressed the war on drugs in both the United States and Mexico, led all films with five nominations including Best Picture and Best Director for Denis Villeneuve.

Five other feature films complete the Best Picture line - up, including the financial crisis comedy - drama «The Big Short,» Cold War - era drama ``

It's an often - overlooked fact that Star Wars was nominated for both Best Picture and Best Director back in 1978 — though it lost to Annie Hall in both categories, and had to console itself with seven technical awards.

In the category of best actor in a motion picture - musical or comedy, the nominees are: Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd), John C. Reilly (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story), Ryan Gosling (Lars and the Real Girl), Tom Hanks (Charlie Wilson's War), and Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Savages).

You sound like the people who cheered when Annie Hall beat Star Wars for best picture.

BEST LIMITED DOCUMENTARY SERIES (TV / STREAMING) The Defiant Ones (HBO) Five Came Back (Netflix / Amblin Television, IACF Productions, Netflix, Passion Pictures, Rock Paper Scissors Entertainment) The Keepers (Netflix / Film 45, Tripod Media) The Nineties (CNN / CNN, Playtone, Herzog & Company) Planet Earth II (BBC America, AMC, SundanceTV / BBC Natural History Unit, BBC America, ZDF, Tencent, France Télévisions) The Vietnam War (PBS / Florentine Films, WETA - TV Washington)

Sicario, which tells the story of an FBI agent who becomes embroiled in the drug war on the U.S - Mexico border, was nominated in Best Picture, Best Director (Denis Villeneuve), Best Supporting Actor (Benicio Del Toro), Best Original Screenplay (Taylor Sheridan), Best Editing (Joe Walker) and Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins).

It's understandable that guilty survivors who saw what these men saw are permanently damaged, but it doesn't make the dramatic redundancy any more subtle or shake off the memory of the picture's best war - themed forebears.

Christopher Nolan's epic World War II blockbuster Dunkirk received 7 nominations, including Best Picture and Nolan as Best Director.

Taking the Best Picture prize was Dunkirk, writer - director Christopher Nolan's epic depiction of the evacuation of Dunkirk during World War II.

Extras include a newsreel from the 1942 Academy Awards (where Mrs. Miniver walked away with 6 awards, including Best Picture), a cartoon Blitz Wolf, a trailer, and a couple WWII - era shorts, For the Common Defense, and the kind of hilarious Mr. Blabbermouth, about the dangers of shooting your mouth of with gossip and negative talk on the home front during times of war.

BEST PICTURE: The popular vote among moviegoers would surely go to «Sniper,» Clint Eastwood's grim, down - the - barrel look at the Iraq war, and his account of the unsung burden of sacrifice borne by those who serve and their families.

Best motion picture of the year «Amour» «Argo» «Beasts of the Southern Wild» «Django Unchained» «Les Misérables» «Life of Pi» «Lincoln» «Silver Linings Playbook» «Zero Dark Thirty» Performance by an actor in a leading role Bradley Cooper in «Silver Linings Playbook» Daniel Day - Lewis in «Lincoln» Hugh Jackman in «Les Misérables» Joaquin Phoenix in «The Master» Denzel Washington in «Flight» Performance by an actress in a leading role Jessica Chastain in «Zero Dark Thirty» Jennifer Lawrence in «Silver Linings Playbook» Emmanuelle Riva in «Amour» Quvenzhané Wallis in «Beasts of the Southern Wild» Naomi Watts in «The Impossible» Performance by an actor in a supporting role Alan Arkin in «Argo» Robert De Niro in «Silver Linings Playbook» Philip Seymour Hoffman in «The Master» Tommy Lee Jones in «Lincoln» Christoph Waltz in «Django Unchained» Performance by an actress in a supporting role Amy Adams in «The Master» Sally Field in «Lincoln» Anne Hathaway in «Les Misérables» Helen Hunt in «The Sessions» Jacki Weaver in «Silver Linings Playbook» Achievement in directing «Amour,» Michael Haneke «Beasts of the Southern Wild,» Benh Zeitlin «Life of Pi,» Ang Lee «Lincoln,» Steven Spielberg «Silver Linings Playbook,» David O. Russell Best foreign language film of the year «Amour,» Austria «Kon - Tiki,» Norway «No,» Chile «A Royal Affair,» Denmark «War Witch,» Canada Best animated feature film of the year «Brave,» Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman «Frankenweenie,» Tim Burton «ParaNorman,» Sam Fell and Chris Butler «The Pirates!

We also consider whether «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» could be the franchise's first Best Picture nominee since the 1977 original, «A New Hope.»

Movies that it beat that you could also watch: This was the year where Best Picture included three World War II movies and two Elizabethan ones.

Steven Spielberg's Cold War thriller (well... it's thrilling to some people) could well vacuum up several crafts nominations (cinematography, production design, editing) on its way to a best picture nod.

Also # 16 Cinematic Lump of Coal: The 11th Best Picture BFCA nominee (smh) is Star Wars, which I love but only in one category why not reopen all voting then?

The list changes on a daily basis, but I love: Ben - Hur, Spartacus, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Avalon, The Lion in Winter, The Omen, Star Wars, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Diary of Anne Frank, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lawrence of Arabia, Under Fire, etc etc etc etc..

As awards season kicks into high gear this month, certain films that aren't «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» should see box - office gains from conversations about and nominations for the best pictures and acting performances of 2015.

The picture questions whether there are actually good sides in war and does a remarkable job tallying the dreadful civilian toll when the power - mad make their ideological grabs.