Sentences with phrase «minded academy voters»

«Open - minded Academy voters — the kind willing to consider a wide variety of genres and filmmaking approaches, not to mention sit through a lot of screeners — are what make that happen.»

Not exact matches

But some brave souls are predicting a «Get Out» upset, and what if the Academy's tradition - minded voters swing for «Dunkirk»?

It's impossible to read the minds of Academy voters in any definitive way, and I wouldn't be honest if I didn't put my own prejudice out there: I'm not exactly the world's biggest fan of Guillermo del Toro's film.

When the dust settled Tuesday morning after announcement of this year's Oscar nominees, it was clear that Academy Awards voters had diversity and inclusion on their minds.

Releasing this caliber of film in January was such a big mistake, it went back to theaters to be fresh in the minds of Academy voters when Oscar nominations roll around next month.

While I wouldn't go so far to suggest that connection is top of mind for most Academy voters, I do wonder about its potential effect on a voting body that tends to respond positively to films that ruminate or comment on the movies themselves, which this film does, in a roundabout way.

Depp's turn earned him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, the summer attraction lingering in voters» minds unusually long and over more serious, conventionally Oscar - friendly cinema.

This is an unusually strong category this year, and would be stronger still if Academy voters hadn't briefly lost their minds and forgotten to nominate Amy Adams, who gave one of the year's truly indelible performances in Arrival.

It was basically the final big card left to fall before it's solely up to Academy voters to make up their minds and send in their ballots (the Directors Guild of -LSB-...]

Academy voters have proven quite open - minded about hobbits and elves, serial killers, gangsters and all manner of eccentrics when it comes to handing out Oscar gold.

THE JUDGE has high - minded goals beyond making itself Oscar ™ - bait, but issues of justice, rule of law, and the simple joys of small - town life don't stand a chance against writing that relentlessly panders to Academy ™ voters, particularly when they run smack up against a courtroom scene that is deliberately staged to look like something out of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, a film we are put in mind of when Hank mentions Atticus Finch.

When Voltage Pictures President Nicolas Chartier got a wrist - slap for openly appealing to Academy voters on behalf of his project The Hurt Locker (2010), he may have been «uninvited» to the Oscars, but he certainly proved himself to be the rare creative executive who really speaks his mind.

For instance, movies that come out very early in the year are often forgotten unless they have something about them that Academy voters might ultimately embrace (the Grand Budapest Hotel comes to mind).