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With a script slightly less prone to theatrics, this might have even turned into an awards contender down the road.
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The musical is nominated in 16 categories heading into the 70th Tony Awards, which air on CBS on Sunday, making the show a strong contender to top the Tony's record of 12 wins, set by Mel Brooks» The Producers in 2001.
Distributor Sony Pictures Classics has pulled off a number of wins in this category, and, in Andrei Zvyagintsev's «Leviathan,» which took the screenplay award at Cannes, the studio has another strong contender, a movie that weaves naturalism, allegory and dark humor into a multi-layered masterpiece.
The constant presence of Manchester, in the background, in theory, as critical darling, as awards contender, turned my anticipation into fear so gradually that I didn't notice until the opportunity to see the damn thing finally presented itself.
Where awards contenders pile back into theaters.
The Foreign Press loves international stars, so, although Queen of the South comes across as a little too mainstream to be an awards contender, Alice Braga could easily sneak into the drama actress race.
A handful of limited - release Best Picture nominees are going into tonight's awards with some box - office wind in their sails, placing most of tonight's contenders on par with most recent recipients of the top prize.
Some of these launched at prestige fall film festivals («Downsizing,» «Molly's Game,» «Hostiles,» «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool»); others are bonafide awards contenders (Steven Spielberg's «The Post» and Paul Thomas Anderson's «Phantom Thread»); and some, like Hugh Jackman vanity musical «The Greatest Showman,» will soon skid into either bad reviews or audience reaction, or both.
This year Fox Searchlight enters into the awards season race with a strong back of pedigree contenders with Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan and Mark Romanek's Never Let Me Go.
Did you know that Meryl Streep landed her record 19th Academy Award nomination for Into the Woods when the contenders were announced?
After narrowly missing out on a spot in the top ten back in 2012 with Moonrise Kingdom, acclaimed filmmaker Wes Anderson makes our end of year list for the first time with his star - studded awards contender The Grand Budapest Hotel, which topped two of our writers» individual lists and just managed to sneak into sixth place ahead of The Winter Soldier by a solitary point in the voting.
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.
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.
«12 Years a Slave,» a real - life story about a free black man sold into slavery, has been a top contender for awards since winning at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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.
But thanks to some non-traditional contenders sneaking their way into major awards conversations, and services like Netflix snagging the rights to big - name features, plenty of 2017's best and most lauded films are already available to stream and rent.
I've been covering this year's Oscar race pretty extensively over the past few months, running down the ebbs and flows of the various categories as 2014's awards contenders came into focus.
Delving into resonant issues surrounding racial prejudice and injustice, the film is a serious dark horse contender, having already won the top prize at the Gotham Awards and Cinema Eye Honors.
It remains to be seen if Netflix can successfully turn its would - be Oscar contenders into must - sees for Academy voters by hiring top Oscar campaigners, sending out screeners to members who already are subscribers, mounting events and Q&A s, and playing the awards game.
In revealing the shortlists that go into this category — the winners to be announced at the awards gala on May 14 --» the Nibbies» organizers recognize eight geographic regions, providing the roster of contenders.
This, coupled with the fact that I amalgamated a special needs program into a regular curriculum, made me a contender for the National Teacher's Award, presented by the Ministry of Education.