It was nominated for eight Critics» Choice Awards (it won one, for Best Editing), three Golden Globes, and will compete in the upcoming BAFTAs (again with eight nominations), as well as
guild awards like the SAGs, PGAs, and DGAs, where it got nominations in all of the top categories.
Not exact matches
Part of that likely has to do with the absence of many truly great movies this year, and the fact key contenders —
like «The Shape of Water» (the pick by the directors and producers
guilds) and «Get Out» (the WGA's original screenplay winner)-- come from genres that seldom receive top
awards recognition.
With that in mind, I'm reluctant to pick The Shape of Water as this year's Best Picture winner: It received the most nominations and several
guild wins, but
like La La Land (which also breezed through
awards season until the final night), it's a retro pastiche.
Hey, she knows what she
likes: The day before wearing Oscar de la Renta and Brian Atwood to the SAG
Awards, the wears the same designers at the Producers
Guild Awards in Beverly Hills.
The color story at the Golden Globes was all about rich tones
like greens and reds, while bright pinks and oranges were splashed all over the Screen Actor's
Guild Awards red carpet on Sunday.
At the 2012 Screen Actors
Guild Awards, Glee actress Lea Michele showed us what Princess Aurora's gown would've looked
like if it were designed by Valentino.
Since we continue to predict not just the Oscars but the narrative of the season, it seems
like a good time to venture off some guesses for the coveted Screen Actors
Guild Awards.
The Emmy
Award - winning, and Golden Globe, Screen Actors
Guild and Tony
Award - nominated actor could be still coasting on the success of his turn as the lead of Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom, which came to an end in 2014, and which felt
like the gilded cherry atop a career cake that has encompassed everything from The Purple Rose of Cairo to Dumb and Dumber, The Hours, Good Night, and Good Luck and The Squid and the Whale.
Trying to predict the Screen Actors
Guild award nominations is a lot
like the photo of the group's statue above; the comic smiling face and the sad face of tragedy.
Ceremonies
like the Art Directors
Guild's
Awards and the American Cinema Editors» Eddie
Awards offer some much - deserved accolades to films and artists that often escape the spotlight at the Academy
Awards... and they also offer a way for us to narrow down our Oscars betting pools.
A couple days before they and their fellow cast members earned Screen Actors
Guild award nominations for Best Ensemble, Henderson and Adepo spoke with RogerEbert.com about Washington's approach to direction, immersing themselves in the period and acting opposite giants
like Davis and (in Henderson's case) Daniel Day - Lewis.
The nominated five by the Writers
Guild mirrored the nominated Oscar five and it looks
like Jonze has picked up the necessary steam especially after also winning the Golden Globe
award.
Elizabeth Karlsen, one of the producers on Todd Haynes» «Carol,» told Variety that the
awards season felt
like a roller - coaster ride this week, following the Producers
Guild of America's decision to leave the film out of its nominations list on Tuesday; now the pic's team were on a high again with its very strong showing in the BAFTA race.
It seemed
like The Social Network had a clear path to the Academy
Awards, but the dastardly Producers»
Guild of America may prove an obstacle.
On the other hand, there is something
like a 96 percent correspondence between the winner of the Directors
Guild of America
Award and the Oscar, and Clint Eastwood won the DGA
Award this year.
Like Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour) in Best Actor, Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) has dominated
awards season by winning the Golden Globe, Critics» Choice and Screen Actors
Guild awards.
While the
likes of Russell Crowe, Halle Berry and Sissy Spacek have all featured predominantly in other
awards ceremonies to date, the actors
guild has included a number of interesting choices in the Best Leading and Supporting Performances categories.
The film is a major threat for the Cast Ensemble
award at the upcoming Screen Actors
Guild awards, with supporting players
like Mahershala Ali (charming as ever), Jim Parsons (playing an against - type), Kirsten Dunst (feverishly addictive in her mean woman role), and Glen Powell (playing the late John Glenn) all crucial to the film's inevitable success.
Last year's Screen Actors
Guild Awards felt sort of
like a turning point in our modern age of celebrities publicly speaking out on political topics, coming right on the heels of President Shithole's first attempt at a travel ban.
Already an Emmy behemoth and a ratings winner, Big Little Lies looks likely to keep scooping up
awards once it arrives at the various industry
awards that mark the next stage of
awards season, including a few —
like the Producers
Guild awards — where it's been classified as a drama series, thanks to the fact that it will have a second season coming at some point.
While it doesn't look
like we'll be getting much in the way of extras, at least we get a behind the scenes look at the making of the film, in addition to McDonagh's Academy
Award - winning short film from 2004, so if you were as enamored with this future Oscar winner as the critics and
guilds have been, then be sure to note the February 13th (Digital HD) and February 27th (Blu - ray / DVD) release dates.
As for the
awards, the Writers
Guild Association paid tribute to a lot of dependable
award - deservers
like The Handmaid's Tale (which also won Best New Series), Better Call Saul, Veep, and BoJack Horseman.
The Producers
Guild Of America
Awards ceremony was held Saturday night, affording the hardworking, behind - the - scenes stiffs a chance to be front and center along with A-list presenters and performers
like Michael B. Jordan and Golden Globe winner Lady Gaga.
Lupita Nyong» o looked
like a shining star in a strapless silver Ralph And Russo gown with a plume - adorned train during Sunday's Screen Actors
Guild Awards in Los Angeles.
While endorsing products
like Proactiv's dark spot corrector, she also won a Screen Actors
Guild Award for her performance on The Office.
The unlikeliest dark - red horse in this year's Oscar race is Deadpool, the foul - mouthed superhero movie whose nomination for
awards from the Directors
Guild, the Writers
Guild, and the Producers
Guild puts it several steps ahead of previously presumed contenders
like Martin Scorsese's Silence.
For those,
like Shashi, who are Elite in both brands; JLR will then look at which brand the individual ranked the highest in and will invite that professional to compete for the
Guild Award!