Sentences with phrase «in the supporting categories»

I would have preferred the academy pick some new blood rather than go back to Streep and Duvall again in the supporting categories.

Though they're both going to be in the supporting categories, they kind of feel like leads in this film.

There remains the question as to whether Viola Davis will be campaigning in the supporting category.

Some have continued to say she might also be put in the supporting category, and perhaps she might be.

The former grabbed 6 nods, including a surefire Best Actress bid for the sadly Oscar - snubbed Kristin Scott Thomas, while I'm pleased to see her wonderful co-star, Elsa Zylberstein, finally getting some awards love in the supporting category.

Though they're both going to be in the supporting categories, they kind of feel like leads in...

So, though it was inexplicably denied best picture and director nominations, Todd Haynes» «Carol» ended up with six nods, including actress nominations for co-equal stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, a result that validated the Weinstein Co.'s controversial decision to put Mara in the supporting category.

Now that Viola Davis, as reported by Greg Ellwood, is campaigning in the supporting category for Fences, that opens up a major slot in the Best Actress category.

Ben Foster coulda be a great contender also Samantha Morton & Woody Harrelson in the supporting categories.

If a performer is nominated for a regular acting category they are ineligible here (see Lupita Nyongo and Keith Stanfield in supporting categories).

In the supporting categories, Viola Davis won for Fences (she now has the Critics» Choice, Golden Globe, SAG and BAFTA) and a bit of a surprise in supporting actor with Dev Patel (Lion) besting SAG - winner Mahershala Ali and Golden Globe winner Aaron Taylor - Johnson.

I could be so wrong here, but the BAFTAs can often go their own way in the supporting categories.

In the supporting categories, actor nominations went to Robert Duvall in «The Judge,» Ethan Hawke in «Boyhood,» Edward Norton in «Birdman,» Mark Ruffalo in «Foxcatcher» and J.K. Simmons in «Whiplash.»

In the supporting categories, on the other hand, such limitations seem less important, which is why it doesn't bother me in the slightest that Erich von Stroheim's performance in Sunset Boulevard scarcely shifts an iota from the initial impression he creates as Norma Desmond's butler / ex-husband, Max.

The actress has four nominations already, but all in the supporting category, and without winning, so she's one of the most overdue actresses at work right now.

Supporting categories, of late, have been a great way to cheat the system in that if the leading categories are too crowded, an co-lead actor can be placed in the supporting category instead.

Patricia Arquette («Boyhood «-RRB- and J.K. Simmons («Whiplash «-RRB-, front - runners in the supporting categories, would both be first - time nominees; Felicity Jones («The Theory Of Everything «-RRB- and Rosamund Pike («Gone Girl «-RRB- look likely to pick up Actress nods; and it feels very likely that this year's Best Actor category will be made up entirely of actors who've never been nominated before now (Bradley Cooper's the only really serious contender with a nod already under his belt).

It matters greatly because if people just vote for a performance that is clearly a lead one in the supporting category it flat - out robs someone who is an ACTUAL supporting performance but perhaps has more trouble in securing a nomination.

In the supporting categories, Patricia Arquette's award for «Boyhood» is practically a foregone conclusion, and deservedly.

I obviously speak of Jacki Weaver who has more problems to worry about in regards to getting a nomination and now has to content with a 20 - year - old in a big box office hit who's been shoved in the supporting category because they see easier dividends that way and they know they can get away with it because the critics follow them like sheep.

Two actresses are competing against one another in the supporting category, and Octavia Spencer is the front - runner.

Will anyone be pushed as a lead, or is everyone running in supporting categories?

However, from 2009 to 2016 the exact same number of nominees in both supporting categories were tied to Best Picture.

This year is marked by an odd phenomenon of masterful leading performances that will have to be put in the supporting categories because there isn't enough room for them in the leading categories.

In the Supporting categories, Actor went 5/5 with the Screen Actors Guild but Actress deviated, earning Laura Dern her second Oscar nomination of her career, for Wild.

Prediction: While Denzel Washington is locked in a dead heat for Best Actor, his Fences costar Viola Davis might be the surest thing of the night — in part because she's great, in part because the character is great, and in part because it's a leading performance in a supporting category.

The original referred to «David Oyewolo» and stated that Julianne Moore was nominated in a supporting category.

In supporting categories, the locks are Mahershala Ali of «Moonlight» and Viola Davis of «Fences.»

Not only did «Moonlight's» Mahershala Ali and «Fences»» Viola Davis earn Oscars for their supporting roles — the first time two African American actors won in both supporting categories in the same year — Ruth Negga was nominated for her lead role in «Loving» and Denzel Washington earned his seventh acting nomination plus a shot at best picture as one of the producers of «Fences.»

Though some would cry category fraud at this maneuver, arguable co-leads who have campaigned in the Supporting category have a strong track record of success, with recent winners for such roles including Christian Bale in The Fighter, Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men, and Christoph Waltz's two wins for Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained.

Davis recently won her first Oscar in the Supporting category for «Fences.»

In the acting categories, Julianne Moore (Still Alice) and Michael Keaton (Birdman) claimed Best Actress and Best Actor, while Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) and J.K. Simmons (b) were honoured in the supporting categories.

Yet just like according to everyone whose seen «Another Year» Lesley Manville steals every scene shes in as did Judy Davis in «Husbands and Wives» So I think Lesley Manville will probably be nominated in the supporting actress category the same way that Judy Davis was nominated in the supporting category for «Husbands and Wives»

... I'm on the fence on how she should be campaigned... regardless, her work undoubtedly needs to be recognized somewhere... if you want to be really precise, then narratively, yes, she should be campaigned in the supporting category because the film revolves around the married couple, Tom and Gerri...

In their supporting categories they stuck with the clear critical frontrunners Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project) and Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird) both of whom are probably locking up Oscar nominations in their categories if not the win yet.

A shame, then, that for his one Oscar - nominated performance — for best supporting actor as the wary, heartfelt son of 1960s activists still on the run from the FBI in Running On Empty — he lost to Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda, the sort of dotty vaudeville turn (see also John Gielgud in Arthur) that can sometimes be the wild card in the supporting categories.

All of the women in the supporting category — I love Laurie Metcalf and Allison Janney and Octavia Spencer.

I swore it was between Ruby Dee and Amy Ryan in the Supporting category, then Tilda Swinton is called (I heard rumors, but I figured that's all they were).

«Spotlight»» s strength is the solid ensemble (each of the actors is being put - up for awards consideration in the Supporting categories).

Indeed, blockbusters typically receive only one nod for one actor, usually in a supporting category, and usually a prior Oscar favorite.

In the supporting categories, former winner Christian Bale (The Big Short), esteemed veteran Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies) and three - time nominee Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight) are up for Best Supporting Actor alongside Hardy, Sylvester Stallone (Creed) rounding out the category, receiving his first acting nod in 39 years for playing the same role in 1976's Rocky).

I'd argue that Mara has just as much of a lead role, as does Alicia Vikander in «The Danish Girl,» although she, too, received a nomination in the supporting category.

Mia Wasikowska and Evan Bird could show up in the supporting categories.

And don't even get me started on who makes sense for what category when it comes to presumptive Best Picture front - runner Spotlight, with the studio apparently pushing everyone in the Supporting categories despite Michael Keaton winning Best Actor from the New York Film Critics Circle and Mark Ruffalo arguably having just as much a say as a lead.

Additionally, young performers like Tremblay also tend to be promoted in the supporting category, which has been friendly to Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), Tatum O'Neal (Paper Moon), Anna Paquin (The Piano), and many others.

Sometimes, performers get bumped down because of their relative fame: Casey Affleck was the protagonist of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, but was nominated in a supporting category because Brad Pitt was the film's top - billed star.

As I noted when the nominations were announced, the actress categories were jumbled by rampant category fraud, with both Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl) and Rooney Mara (Carol) lobbying successfully for nods in the supporting category instead of up here where they belonged.

But we don't live in a perfect world, and here Mara is in the Supporting category.

In a perfect world, Anthony Hopkins would be a frontrunner in a supporting category for he absolutely kills in the film.

This should come as a shock to no one, at least to close watchers of the yearly Oscar race: Steinfeld, who just received a BAFTA nomination for Leading Actress, may have shown up in the supporting category when the SAG nominations were announced last month, but that's where Keisha - Castle Hughes (The Whale Rider) and Kate Winslet (The Reader) also appeared prior to subsequently securing Best Actress Oscar nominations for the same performances.