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Just when you thought there weren't any more film nominations... AwardsWatch's International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) nominations are in there will be equal parts joy, confusion and seething rage at some of the choices.

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Interestingly, fellow nominee Mad Max: Fury Road «s search volume dropped more than 85 % around its nomination, though that might have something to do with the fact that the film was released last May and had been out of theaters for months when nominations were announced.

Chris Palmer has produced more than 300 hours of wildlife programmes, winning two Emmy awards and an Oscar nomination for the film Dolphins.

Even though he has more than a dozen films to his credit, including work on the 2003 film version of The Hulk that garnered him nominations for two awards from the Visual Effects Society, Benza says it was a challenge to create highly athletic performances from bulky, animated characters that appeared to be the size of small buildings and weigh several tons.

This year included nominations of six non-white-themed films and more than 10 black actors and filmmakers after two years of severe lacking.

Davis» was opposed to the casting, insisting that Buono was «grotesque,» but after filming finished the actress went up to Buono and apologized for her earlier attitude; even more gratifying to Buono was his Oscar nomination for Baby Jane.

I also think it's possible — and probably likely — that the film didn't gain more than the one nomination simply because it's not a great movie.

Some of his more notable work came from his collaboration with director Spike Lee; over the course of the 1990s, Washington starred in three of his films, playing a jazz trumpeter in Mo» Better Blues (1990), the title role in Lee's epic 1992 biopic Malcolm X (for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination), and the convict father of a high - school basketball star in He Got Game (1998).

Despite some genuinely hilarious sequences that, regrettably, are spaced too far apart, this meditation on the things that matter in life is too slow and at times too forced to deserve the high praise it has been getting (including an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film that should have gone to a number of other more worthwhile pictures).

A decade after the uninvolving «Elizabeth,» director Shekhar Kapur («The Four Feathers» / «Bandit Queen») and the film's talented star, the 38 - year - old Cate Blanchett (received an Oscar nomination in this star - making role), reunite for some more vivid peeks into the Virgin Queen's life.

Inspired by the director's interaction with street actors who portray religious figures by night and pursue more commercial endeavors by day, the film once again received a Best Foreign Film nomination at the Oscars and swept the Genies — this time in 12 categories.

Even after «The King's Speech» surprised at the Producers» Guild Awards and took a dozen Oscar nominations, I held on to the notion that critical favorite «The Social Network,» a film more in line with the Academy's recent choices, would emerge victorious on Oscar night.

Few would have bet that «Inglourious Basterds» would turn into the festival's Oscar MVP (they might have been more inclined to say Jane Campion's «Bright Star,» but that film went on to only earn one nomination), or that festival opener «Up» was a sure thing for a Best Picture nomination.

One of the most prolific film artists in Hollywood history, the German - born art director Hans Dreier worked on more than five hundred films from 1919 to 1951, amassing twenty - three Academy Award nominations and three Oscars.

The film may be smarting from its widely (if not, ahem, entirely) unexpected omission from the Oscar foreign - language shortlist earlier this week, but Xavier Beauvois's sombre religious drama «Of Gods and Men» found more love in its home country, where it scooped a leading 11 nominations for the César Awards.

The Academy is fond of Quentin Tarantino, but his films have received a lot more nominations than wins.

«Life's a treat with Shaun the Sheep,» goes the film's Rizzle Kicks closing song, and never more so than on Oscar nomination morning.

In 2011, 45 of the films shown at Sundance were picked up by distributors: even more impressively, nine films shown there in 2010 earned 15 Oscar nominations.

Participant's more than 80 films, including Spotlight, Contagion, Lincoln, The Help, He Named Me Malala, The Look of Silence, CITIZENFOUR, Food, Inc. and An Inconvenient Truth, have collectively earned 56 Academy Award ® nominations and 12 wins, including Best Picture for Spotlight and Best Foreign Language Film for A Fantastic Woman.

Jordan Peele, who scored two personal nominations for best director and original screenplay, as well as two more nominations for «Get Out,» seemed almost stunned, reacting with a gif of Kaluuya in one of the film's iconic scenes and asking «What's the opposite of the sunken place?»

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) has announced their film and TV nominations for 2017, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri emerged as the top contender with Read More

Jordan Peele, who scored two personal nominations for best director and original screenplay, as well as two more nominations for «Get Out,» seemed almost stunned, reacting with a gif of Kaluuya in one of the film's iconic scenes and asking...

It does little more than set still frames to the film's score, tacking on a list of its seven Academy Award nominations at the end.

Below you will find lists broken up by category for each film, actor, director, writer and more who has received a nomination at an award show before the Oscars.

She got a Globe nomination, but missed a SAG in favor of the inexplicable nomination for Naomi Watts which, again, likely has more to do with many voters not seeing the film yet.

The nominations covered 31 separate categories of feature film, short - form and television work, as well as individual achievements in character animation, design, effects, music, storyboarding, writing, voice acting and more.

Of course, nobody would expect a Rob Zombie film to get any sort of attention at the Academy Awards, but I truly believe that if Moseley's terrifying performance as Otis Driftwood were nestled inside a more Oscar - friendly movie, he would've had no problem nabbing a nomination.

A smattering of more modern movie brutality aside, this is an old - fashioned war film, a conservative, overstuffed Oscar hopeful (which, judging by its inability to pick up any Golden Globe nominations, may have played it too safe).

These 4 films couldn't be more different — but they include one stealth contender that may be gunning for a surprising nomination.

He has six Academy Award nominations and more than 150 composing credits in film and TV, but Alexandre Desplat is still keen for a new challenge.

In this week's analysis, we look at two films which some pundits are considering as longshots for an Foreign Language Film Oscar nomination while others have a bit more faith in, given how straightforward their narrative is, and given how they appeal to different voter sensibilities.

Oyelowo missed a SAG nomination, but that probably has more to do with very few SAG voters getting a chance to see the film than it does his actual performance.

Could one of these films have the power to draw youngsters back to the Oscars — and even more important, could one of them win a nomination?

Speaking about The Florida Project, Baker lamented that it took a big name like Willem Dafoe for the film to become a more mainstream success and get award nominations.

But one thing is abundantly clear — the more Best Picture heat the film has, the better the chance of an acting nomination.

The film has already received dozens of honors this award season, and during this morning's announcement of the Oscar nominations, it racked up eight more, including nods for best director and best picture.

And even if it is a make - up nomination for Wall - E, its gonna go to a mighty fine film and I daresay it will deserve its nomination more than half of the other nominees.

I'm sure there are more that I'm missing, but even if these nominations were pretty predictable if you've been paying attention this awards season, it's nice to see the tide turning in terms of who is being recognized for some of film's greatest achievements.

For more information, visit http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/hollywoodonstate2016 and read below for de St Aubin's thoughts on this year's Oscar nominations and organization of the film critics panel.

Shot by Academy Award - winning cinematographer Robert Elswit, who has worked with Anderson ever since Hard Eight, scored by singer - songwriter Michael Penn, edited by the great Dylan Tichenor, who started as an apprentice on Robert Altman's movies and went on to do great films such as Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, Brokeback Mountain and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Paul Thomas Anderson's epic drama went on to garner three Academy Award nominations, did reasonably well at the box office by tripling its initial investment and, more importantly, showcased the surprising talent and determination of one of the few brilliant filmmakers of American contemporary cinema.

Amanda Berry, CEO of BAFTA, told Variety that the nominations were marked by the openness of the contest, with six films with more than five nominations.

«Imitation» actor Benedict Cumberbatch has long been considered a likely contender for a Oscar Best Actor nomination, but some critics were less won over by the film itself, with Monitor film critic Peter Rainer, for one, giving the film a B and writing of Cumberbatch, «His performance... is a great deal more interesting than the movie.»

This is the first year since 2009 that there is not a film with 10 nominations or more.

You'd think that The Shape of Water remains too undeniably weird to have any shot at awards, and I think that the stuffy Academy that decided to go with The King's Speech over The Social Network or Black Swan (yep, still bitter) might not have given much more than token nominations for an inter-species romance monster movie, but the Academy has gotten younger and more diverse in the years since then, allowing for some more left of center films to get a boost.

Argo, Ben Affleck's third feature film, is looking more and more like a lock for the Best Picture prize at Sunday's Oscars, and even if the man himself didn't get a Best Director nomination, it's still a remarkable culmination of one of the most fascinating second acts in Hollywood.

Only films with 4 or more SAG nominations that were shut out: 2007: Into the Wild 2005: Brokeback Mountain 2002: The Hours 1996: The English Patient

Aside from ’07 and» 08, they haven't had more than two films per year to receive Oscar nominations in the top eight categories: 2004 (Vera Drake), 2005 (Good Night, and Good Luck, Brokeback Mountain), 2006 (The Queen, Children of Men), 2007 (Assassination of Jesse James, Michael Clayton, In the Valley of Elah, I'm Not There, Atonement), 2008 (The Hurt Locker, Rachel Getting Married, The Wrestler), 2009 (A Single Man), 2010 (Black Swan), 2011 (The Ides of March, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), 2012 (The Master), 2013 (Gravity, Philomena).

2016 was a terrific year for film, and overall there were few big surprises, as most of the more acclaimed films got multiple nominations, led by a record - tying 14 awards (matching «Titanic» and «All About Eve») for the musical «La La Land,» starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.

This year, 40 % of the nominees are filmmakers of color, and more than 400 films were considered for nominations.

The lack of any nominations for his films which are absolute classics and an integral part of cinemas genre history is much more shocking when other filmmakers have simply missed out at the final ballot stage whereas Leone didn't even get to hear the starting pistol fire.