Thelma Adams: From rage to rapture, Melissa Leo runs the gamut
in another Awards Season contender, lifting up Maggie Betts» Novitiate for a major hallelujah.
Not exact matches
Tottenham Hotspur have punched way above their weight this
season, with Pochettino already one of the stronger
contenders for the end of the year manager of the
season award — for the impressive work he's done
in a fairly short time at the North London club.
The PFA announced the shortlist of
contenders for the 2015/16 Players» Player of the Year
award today with six games remaining
in the Premier League
season.
This story of the strange relationship between eccentric millionaire John du Pont (Steve Carell) and Olympic wrestling champions Mark (Channing Tatum) and Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo) will be a major
contender during
awards seasons, with all three actors
in the running for nominations.
When said rare movie opens
in theaters one week before Christmas with a fair amount of pre-release buzz, it is expected to not only be good, but a wisely - timed serious
contender for Hollywood's
award season.
Sometimes those few mostly come
in the form of foreign language film
contenders, but sometimes Cannes blows away even Toronto when it comes to giving
awards season its main
contenders.
Starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence as the two leads, the film is expected to be one of the major
contenders in the upcoming
Award season.
The
season's two most talked - about Academy
Award contenders, «Cold Mountain» and «Master and Commander,» are both set
in the 1800s.
During last month's 7th Annual Deadline's The
Contenders awards season event at the DGA Theatre he joined me on stage with his director Joe Wright to discuss the film and the towering performance
in front of a packed house of AMPAS and key guild members.
Sam Elliott gets the role of his long acting career
in The Hero, and as he told a packed audience at Deadline's 7th annual The
Contenders awards -
season event last month, the biggest surprise of all for him was that he actually got to play an actor for the first time.
Denzel Washington directs and stars
in the new
awards season contender based on August Wilson's
award - winning play, featuring an astonishing performance from Viola Davis.
Seeing the three of them and other respected actors like Molina, Dean Norris, and Michael Kelly assembled here
in a movie unspooling just before Thanksgiving gives Secret the illusion of being an
awards season contender.
More than ever before, Hollywood's A-list actors aren't
in just 1, but 2 major
Awards Season contenders.
The third annual The
Contenders Emmys, Deadline's television
awards -
season event, was held yesterday at the DGA Theater
in Hollywood, where a total of 24 networks and studios showed off 43 of their Emmy -
contender programs to kick off Emmy
season.
So, seizing the opportunity of a sympathetic audience, and amidst a
season where many of the 84 movies put forward by their home countries as Academy
Award contenders are floating around at festivals — big and small, rural and urban, American and elsewhere — I thought I'd weigh
in on the titles I've caught.
The star of the
awards season contender «Molly's Game» grew emotional
in recalling her first trip to the festival five years earlier, telling a story of spying on Oldman while he was eating lunch.
Speaking of Paramount, the studio that wishes «Slumdog Millionaire» had gone straight to DVD as planned has a trio of live action
contenders in the fray, none of them, I'm told, specifically aimed at the
awards season.
Timothée Chalamet, who appears
in three critically acclaimed
awards contenders this
season in «Lady Bird,» «Hostiles» and «Call Me by Your Name,» has certainly been on enough red carpets to have answered dozens of questions about representation, Hollywood inequities, sexual misconduct and more.
Renowned
in recent years as a key launchpad for heavyweight Oscar
contenders, the 74th Venice film festival has unveiled a lineup heavy on potential
award -
season frontrunners, as films start to jockey for position
in earnest.
In Season 3, BoJack becomes a top
contender at the Oscars, but struggles to deal with the
awards circuit as his downward spiral continues.
Another outsider with a shot at a nomination is deaf actress Millicent Simmonds, who received praise for her performance
in «Wonderstruck» when it premiered at Cannes, but has gotten less attention
in the onslaught of the
season's
awards contenders opening at theaters.
And this is a good movie to see during the movie
awards season because it's a
contender in so many races.
Despite being more aesthetically pleasing than Michael Bay's garishly executed Pearl Harbour, Nolan's big film
in service of a small story has more
in common with that much - maligned war pic than more serious minded
award season contenders of past years like Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Peter Weir's Gallipoli or Terence Malick's The Thin Red Line.
With no film establishing an early lead
in the Oscar race, most distributors are expanding slowly and being careful not to overextend their
contenders — particularly since two other
awards hopefuls this
season, Warner Bros.» «The Walk» and Universal's «Steve Jobs,» sputtered when they expanded quickly into wide release.
He was joined
in conversation with Hedges, who once again seems poised to turn a burdened teen («Manchester by the Sea») into an
awards season contender.
With
awards season contenders on the rise, here are 18 films to close out a strong year
in films including «Selma,» «American Sniper,» «Wild,» «Top Five,» and others.
The economic and social ramifications of the Great Recession were very much on display
in 99 Homes at our all - day The
Contenders awards -
season event November 7 at the DGA.
Michael Moore was the last to appear at Deadline's big
awards season event, The
Contenders Presented By Deadline, on November 7th to talk about his latest documentary, Where To Invade Next,
in front of the AMPAS and key guild members attending the all - day Oscar primer at the DGA Theatre.
Actor Jason Segel and Director James Ponsoldt talked End Of The Tour, their acclaimed movie about the Rolling Stone magazine interview of author David Foster Wallace when they came to participate
in Deadline's big
awards season event, The
Contenders Presented By Deadline which took place last month
in front a packed audience of AMPAS and key guild members at the DGA.
The first trailer for new Steven Spielberg drama The Post has been released uniting an impressive cast
in what looks to be a surefire
awards contender in the forthcoming
season.
Scorsese's longest film ever, clocking
in at two hours and 59 minutes with credits, will have its wide release on December 25th, just
in time to give it a chance to be an
awards season contender.
For the first time
in the five - year history of Deadline's annual big
awards -
season event The
Contenders Presented By Deadline, I got to host an all - female panel thanks to Focus Features, which spotlighted two contenders: The Danish Girl and Su
Contenders Presented By Deadline, I got to host an all - female panel thanks to Focus Features, which spotlighted two
contenders: The Danish Girl and Su
contenders: The Danish Girl and Suffragette.
Sicario came to Deadline's big
awards season event, The
Contenders Presented By Deadline which was held at the DGA last month
in front of a packed audience of AMPAS and key guild members.
Seeing the three of them and other respected actors like Molina, Dean Norris, and Michael Kelly assembled here
in a movie unspooling
in theaters just before Thanksgiving gives Secret the illusion of being an
awards season contender.
The Irish spirit came to our big
awards -
season event The
Contenders Presented By Deadline, which took place earlier this month
in front of a packed DGA theater full of AMPAS and guild members.
2015 PICTURES: Hollywood
Contenders — Preliminary potentials
in alphabetical order At this time of the
awards season the Hollywood
Contenders list includes the following 2015 features (
in alphabetical order): Black Mass..
Certainly one of the most acclaimed, as well as harrowing movies on display at our big 5th annual
awards season event The
Contenders Presented By Deadline (which took place
in front of a packed DGA house full of AMPAS and Guild voters earlier this month) was Son Of Saul, Hungary's official entry into the Best Foreign Language Film race.
At Deadline's big
awards -
season event, The
Contenders Presented By Deadline, held
in front of a packed audience of AMPAS and key guild members last month at the DGA, Sony Pictures Classics highlighted its Sundance pickup Grandma, which since has earned Golden Globe and Critics» Choice nominations for star Lily Tomlin.
Following its positive reception at Telluride, «Argo» will have its official world premiere
in Toronto next week, where distributor Warner Bros. will likely use the buzz to position the movie as a major
awards season contender.
Oscar campaigning is officially underway as there were several events this weekend
in Hollywood, featuring many expected
award season contenders trying to build as much awareness around their projects and performances before the holiday break.
I'd love to pick Whiplash here just to make things interesting, but The Imitation Game is a relatively big, relatively conventional
awards -
season contender in a year that saw precious few of them, and the story that it tells is a tremendous one.
In THR's annual actor roundtable, this
season's six top
awards contenders — including Ethan Hawke, Michael Keaton, Eddie Redmayne and Timothy Spall — open up about why a Hollywood film is preferable to a classical theater role («Stick Polonius straight up your arse»), flunking out of college and how a meeting with Stephen Hawking turned into the equivalent of a «Saturday Night Live» skit
The
awards season kicks off every September as three film festivals draw the competitive field into focus:
In Venice, high - profile
contenders jockey for red - carpet buzz.
With a reputation for launching new films and creating
awards -
season buzz, MVFF has earned a reputation as a «filmmakers» festival» by celebrating the best
in American independent and world cinema, alongside high profile and prestigious
award contenders.
In preparation for the upcoming award season, Carlos Aguilar shares his list of 2012's Oscar contenders in the Animated Feature rac
In preparation for the upcoming
award season, Carlos Aguilar shares his list of 2012's Oscar
contenders in the Animated Feature rac
in the Animated Feature race.
The super-producer, who usually dominates
awards season, has only one serious
contender left
in the Oscars race.
Take a gander at the
awards given out by the critics over
in Nevada, which focused on a few different
contenders than have been the focus this
season:
One of the great pleasures of this
awards season has been the establishment of my new Deadline video series The Actor's Side,
in which I get to interview top acting
contenders for the Oscars (and yes, we are happy to announce the series will continue during Emmy
season, too).
When I remarked
in a post yesterday that the upcoming
awards season looks a little short on the high - profile biopic
contenders so beloved of Academy voters, I had a feeling I was forgetting something obvious.
With the acting races getting more crowded by the day, it seems new
contenders will need to make quite some impact to stay afloat
in awards season.