Sentences with phrase «in good picture»

In a good picture book, the words tell only half the story.

Suburban life is highlighted at its most dysfunctional in this best picture Oscar winner that looks at a father (Kevin Spacey) in a midlife crisis and the drama surrounding the rest of his family.

Normally, you would just change the headline, description and pop in a better picture.

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.

Featuring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and Meryl Streep, the tale of women fighting for the right to vote shows the type of liberation that voters love in their Best Picture winners.

Not only do you beat the crowds, you also have beautiful, soft lighting which results in the best pictures.

Jodie Foster and Hilary Swank both have two in lead, but both of them starred in Best Picture winners when they won their second.

12 times in the past 20 years, so just a little over half of the time, a Best Actress winner was at least in a Best Picture nominee, and of those only once has a winner won for her second Oscar — Hilary Swank for Million Dollar Baby, winning just five years after her first Oscar.

So here's the bottom line: Emma Stone has the edge to win her first Oscar for a starring role in a Best Picture frontrunner, where she is a breath of fresh air that will blow through the Oscar race.

Given the front - runner status of Mr. Boyle «Äôs «ÄúSlumdog Millionaire «Äù in the best picture race, it was hard not to see a little bit of good - natured concession in the moment.

But we also think this will be strongly considered in the Best Picture category, as well as directing and writing,

With the strength of «The Shape of Water» in Best Picture, she is likely the firm 2nd place contender however.

There's a new # 1 in Best Picture from the AwardsWatch forums and it's Martin Scorsese's Silence.

So far Silver Linings has placed Lawrence and Cooper in privileged positions for Academy Award nominations and not unlikely is the possibility of the film getting recognition in the Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and of course Best Director categories.

Both films feature in the Best Picture lineup, as does «Public Enemy Number One,» a sprawling biopic of gangster Jacques Mesrine that has been a local box - office smash and leads all nominees with 10 bids.

No new entries in Best Picture for August but a massive jump for Boyhood, which rockets up to a tie for the # 1 slot with Birdman.

Unless Lady Bird finds a way to overtake in Best Picture, this is probably going to SAG winner Frances McDormand.

The movie's inclusion in the Best Picture race gives the star (and co-writer of the movie) some extra heft, but I suspect voters won't give him enough credit for the performance, since he's playing a version of himself.

Looking back at Oscar history, when the only Best Actress candidate in a Best Picture nominee doesn't win she loses to a vet usually who has never been honored.

For his last film «Carol,» Haynes could hardly have asked for better reviews or awards buzz, and yet, it was snubbed in Best Picture.

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI has been nominated by the Academy Awards in the Best Picture category.

Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Master and Commander), who also directed Ford to success a year before in the Best Picture - nominated Witness, directs this Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Affliction) adaptation of the Paul Theroux novel, casting Ford as Allie Fox, a disgruntled American inventor who gets so pissed off at the loss of what he believes is a dying America, he decides to pack up his bags and family, taking them to the rain forests of South America to live a life away from civilization, and the threat of nuclear annihilation he believes is imminent.

Popular favorite «Get Out» received nominations in the best picture, actor, director, and original screenplay categories.

8 times in the past 20 years a Best Actress winner was not in a Best Picture nominee, and of those only once has a Best Actress winner won for her second lead Oscar, and that's Meryl Streep winning for the Iron Lady.

As what happened in our Best Picture chart, The Revenant from 20th Century Fox is also losing steam in Best Director.

Hoffman's masterful display of talent in The Master is also undeniable, and as that film's divisive reaction makes it a lesser player in the Best Picture race, many of its admirers will likely look to the acting categories to show their appreciation.

Anonymous Content films, «The Revenant» and «Spotlight» earned a total of 18 Oscar nominations between the two, including a nod for each in the Best Picture and Best Director category.

Female driven films used to drive the box office, and those films, in turn, often showed up in the Best Picture race.

Things We Lost In The Fire retails for $ 29.99 and on Amazon for $ 21.99 at that price I expect a lot more than just an excellent movie in the best picture quality possible.

Jason Reitman's Juno, they tell us, is a possible spoiler in the Best Picture race, but few seem to think its director stands a chance of winning here.

Director David O. Russell's comedy drama and Alfonso Cuarón space epic both received nominations in the Best Picture category, along with nominations for their leading male and female performances.

Their Best of 2017 List bestowed five awards each for Denis Villeneuve's visionary «Blade Runner 2049» and Martin McDonagh's confrontational «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» which tied in the Best Picture and Best Director categories.

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).

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Interesting stat from Nathaniel: «This is Meryl's first time in a Best Picture nominee since Out of Africa (1985).»

New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) Winners: La La Land Prevails in Best Picture but Moonlight, Manchester Win Big

All of those films were nominated in the Best Picture category.

Forte is just coming off a more dramatic role in the Best Picture nominee Nebraska, in which he more than holds his own opposite acting legend Bruce Dern.

Especially without DGA, the Best Director category could go any number of ways, while it's tough to firmly predict if something like Straight Out of Compton is indeed going to wind up in the Best Picture lineup.

Get Out in the Best Picture field means there is a LOT of support out there.

In the Best Picture category, it's looking like things are boiling down to a showdown between «The Post» and «Lady Bird.»

We all know how important it is to get that top nom if you want to be in the Best Picture Oscar race so a miss here would be devastating.

Stephen Frears could compete for Best Director and, all things considered, it isn't unlikely a lovely movie with a beloved lead would land in Best Picture contention.

All while being infamously snubbed in Best Picture.

Adoration of Christopher Nolan remains high, but this is hardly the year the Academy will make the effort to atone for snubbing Nolan's previous efforts The Dark Knight (in both Best Picture and Best Director) and Inception (in Best Director), assuming Nolan's generation of filmmakers will ever embrace Nolan's particular brand of moody pop art.

Along the way, he has won three Oscars with one coming in the Best Picture category for Schindler's List and two in the Best Director category for Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan.

Forrest Gump, likewise reissued in the Best Picture box set, sports significantly cleaner video, its 2.35:1, 16x9 - enhanced transfer matched by full DD 5.1 audio.

But the overall indecision in the best picture field has proved contagious.

What You Need To Know: On the slim off - chance that you've heard none of the deafening buzz surrounding Steve McQueen «s «Hunger» and «Shame» follow - up (which also stars Michael Fassbender), let's get to it: by all accounts (our own included), lead Chiwetel Ejiofor is anything from a good bet to a surefire winner for this year's Best Actor Oscar, with the film itself a likely player in the Best Picture race and any number of the other actors (Fassbender foremost among them) potentially primed for Supporting Actor nod.

But in Best Picture, expect only one of the four to win a slot.