Sentences with phrase «how academy voters»

That's because the studios wait until the Holiday Season to release their best films in theaters, given how Academy voters tend to forget pictures and performances from earlier in the year.

Not exact matches

We all know how well La La Land went over with Academy voters.

The Lobster I'm also going to scratch off as being too hardcore for Academy voters, despite how much critics like it.

Don't tell me about all the advances the Academy has made, the fact that its director branch put crazy ass anti-semitic sexist abusive Mel Gibson back on the director's short list last year and gave his clunky bloody obvious war movie a best picture nomination just proves how many assholes are still lurking among the voters ready to backlash against women and people of color.

We don't know how the Academy ranking is going to go but there is the possibility that a large number of voters will block vote for women to help women, to show the world that they care about women in the industry, to make up for Hillary's loss; for all of those reasons it's possible we could see wins, like we saw at the DGA in the television categories.

Still, things can't simply be laid at the Academy's door, no matter how many anonymous interviews leak out with voters making incensed tirades about films like Selma.

They are formulated using a combination of personal impressions (from advance screenings), publicly available information (release dates, genres, talent rosters and teasers / trailers often offer valuable clues), historical considerations (how other films with similar pedigrees have resonated), precursor awards (some groups have historically correlated with the Academy more than others) and consultations with industry insiders (including fellow members of the press, awards strategists, filmmakers and voters).

«Given the environment right now socially, you'd think [academy voters] would be more conscious,» said Gil Robertson IV of Los Angeles» African American Film Critics Assn. «There seems to be little thought or consideration on how «Selma» in particular really does provide an opportunity for people to have some real dialogue about race relations.

To show how this works, I asked SurveyMonkey Audience to run a survey of moviegoers — people who have seen at least one movie in the past six months — to rank the best picture nominees the same way the Academy voters do.

Academy voters have only five to select, so if you put PGA, DGA, and even SAG together you're going to be in the ballpark with how the nominations might go.

Blumhouse founder Jason Blum, who produced the film, joined The Bill Simmons Podcast this week to explain how the makers kept spoilers out of the trailer and how the company is marketing the film to Academy voters.

He's just that good, and the fact that neither he nor Cronenberg were given any Stateside recognition for their efforts with «Dead Ringers» shows just how tin - eared (and - eyed) the Academy voters really are.