It's the thick of the fall festival season, which means that we're also officially knee
deep in awards season now.
In each of these, the trade gathers a set of people involved in various films likely to be
highlighted in the awards season, and just allows them to talk about making movies.
This is a year when women directors are making it to the finish
line in awards season, and STILL they can't break through.
And financing one $ 1.6 million movie, however beautifully made and
adorned in awards season gold, does not automatically make one a top player.
«This isn't a criticism, but when you're making movies and being creative, you're not making movies to
fit in awards season,» he said.
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.
EXCLUSIVE: Whether she wanted it or not, Cate Blanchett found herself in a quandary
early in the awards season when Oscar watchers were predicting she would be going up against herself in the Best Actress race with nominations for her elegant yet powerful work in The Weinstein Company's Carol and her searing portrayal of Mary Mapes in Sony Pictures Classics Truth.
This week, Awards Daily's Jalal Haddad joins the Cooler Gang to discuss the
latest in awards season fashion - the Critics Choice and Golden Globes.
Granted, many of these performances are eligible for Oscar recognition but just don't have the backing to go
for in an awards season.
Still, anything can happen, especially
in an awards season as chaotic as this one, where there are almost no clear frontrunners in any category.
This film may not be great enough to wonder why it didn't
feature in the award season discussion (and its Visual Effects nomination over the more effects - driven Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Tron: Legacy is a real head - scratcher), but it still easily lands at the better end of modern cinema.
Boyhood is getting an early lead
in the awards season by topping the 2014 New York Film Critics Circle Awards with three awards!
The film, which fills in the gaps of an unimaginable breach of judgement that killed Kennedy's White House chances, is also being
launched in awards season.
In an awards season where nearly everything seems up in the air, only one thing feels certain: Willem Dafoe will win an Oscar for his sweet, sympathetic portrayal of a rundown motel manager in The Florida Project.
The IPA, which was founded in 1996 and is a group of domestic and foreign journalists who defected from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (who put on the Golden Globes) and captained by Mirjana Van Blaricom, as controversial a
figure in the awards season race as their is.
'' had the most nominations with three in the best picture, best director, and best cinematography categories, further solidifying its shaky but continuously recognized
position in the awards season race.
The nomination for Bryant has caused controversy in some quarters
in an awards season when sexual abuse has been a major topic of conversation.
In years past, the Venice Film Festival has unveiled several titles that went on to figure
significantly in the awards season ahead — «Brokeback Mountain,» The Queen,» «Far From Heaven» and «Vera Drake» all began their journeys with major wins on the Venetian Lido.
In years past, the Venice Film Festival has unveiled several titles that went on to figure significantly
in the awards season ahead — «Brokeback Mountain,» The Queen,» «Far From Heaven» and -LSB-...]
I must admit that I was still
not in the awards season mood, but taking a look at the newly announced nominees for the 2013 Independent Spirit Awards h...
Spotlight, an investigative journalism biopic, had trailed Leonardo DiCaprio's survival drama The Revenant and the Gold Derby odds - on favorite The Big
Short in awards season handicapping for the last three months.
Chronicling the making of The Room, which earned a so - bad - it's - good status to become a midnight movie cult classic, The Disaster Artist was
largely in the awards season conversation until sexual misconduct allegations against Franco broke.
This is the 22nd year the ceremony has taken place and it is often seen as one of the best indicators for how films will
fare in awards season.
While the NBR is not made up of Oscar voters and does not reflect their taste, the win could push some voters to watch the film at a crucial
time in awards season, and could increase the visibility of Isaac and Chastain as contenders.
Ever since «Shakespeare in Love» beat out «Saving Private Ryan» for Best Picture in 1999, Harvey Weinstein has become an omnipresent
fixture in awards season.
It's shaping up to be a promising year for the
Irish in awards season this year, largely thanks to the Lenny Abrahamson - directed Room, a co-production from Element Pictures and based on the book by Emma Donoghue, and adapted by the author.
The first is Neil Blomkamp and Terri Tetchell's «District 9,» which made a big impact at the box office this summer and left many wondering if it could play a
hand in awards season.
Unlike some
movies in the award season conversation like The Shape of Water, Call Me by Your Name, and The Post, Dafoe's film, The Florida Project, has actually been released, nationally, in theaters and to general acclaim.
The pure and glittering romance of «Call Me By Your Name» has taken on an almost escapist
quality in an awards season consumed with sexual harassment revelations throughout Hollywood.
It's just a shame that «The Perks of Being a Wallflower» got
lost in the awards season shuffle, because it's one of 2012's very best.