Not exact matches
It is true that popular opinion has shifted repeatedly with regard to this year's
most award - worthy
films.
In honor of the comedic genius and
award - winning actor's birthday, we look back at 10 of his
most poignant statements in life and
film.
I bounced back and forth between Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Shape of Water — the two
films that have been dividing up
most of the predicative
awards so far.
And that's not even including the movie trilogy — one of
films won the
most Oscar
awards of all time (2003's The Return of the King).
Last night at the Academy
Awards, audiences witnessed the
most awkward moment in Oscar history: Somehow, the wrong
film was announced for Best Picture.
But in a year that's seen a slew of big budget releases and star - powered projects from some of Hollywood's
most notable filmmakers (Martin Scorsese, Kenneth Lonergan, Mel Gibson) it was a $ 5 million
film with no major superstar names that brought home the night's biggest
award.
Recent and upcoming releases include the romance - horror hybrid Spring; the hotly - anticipated The Look Of Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes
award winning The Tribe,
filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the
most dangerous
film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animals.
His modern approach to fashion
films — a genre on the up in the digital world - has made him one of the
most exciting talents in the industry, winning him accolades from the Clio Image
Awards, the Berlin Fashion Film Festival and The Society of Publication Designers.
If you're interested in the
most talked about talent from the worlds of fashion,
film and music we predict you'll be following all the ELLE Style
Awards action as it happens via elleuk.com/elle-style-
awards.
Stars will be invited to carry red fans at Spains
most prestigious cinema
awards ceremony in Madrid on Saturday evening as part of the MasMujeres (More Women) campaign highlighting the inequality in the Spanish
film.
It isn't the
most original
film in the world, and the performances are not
award - worthy in either sense.
Note that
most other
awards organizations treated Damien Chazelle's Whiplash script as an original screenplay, but the Academy considered it to be an adapted screenplay for reasons known only to the Academy (Chazelle has previously released a single Whiplash scene as a short
film to raise funds to complete the full movie, which is apparently the source of the problem).
They've taken one of the
most glamorous actresses of the modern era — a woman whose looks have been abstracted into hubba - hubba caricature in
most films, and on
awards shows — and ironically restored her earthliness by having her play a creature not of this earth.
The subsequent
film, Like Water for Chocolate (1993), ended up as one of the
most profitable foreign movies ever exhibited in America and won a number of international
awards as well as multiple Silver Ariels, Mexico's equivalent of the Oscar.
Most recently Kari was nominated for both a DGC
award and a Gemini for her work on The 11th Hour for CTV and for her
film Chicks With Sticks and won the DGC Best Director for her work on the mini-series Terminal City.
The
awards made some questionable decisions when it came to recognizing this
film, and among the
most questionable, in my opinion, was a lack of recognition for the score by the great Alfred Newman, who hit some conventions and contrivances, but did what he did best by breaking down a lot of barriers for epic scoring sensibilities at the time to come up with refreshing and stellar compositions whose symphonic beauty is remarkable by its own right, and important in the selling of the sweep of this
film.
How did this
film manage to go from one of the few must - see releases of the holiday season to the single
film I
most expected yet least wanted to be recognized at
award ceremonies?
This controversial Golden Lion winner at the Venice
Film Festival (after The Master was stripped of the
award due to a technicality) is Korean auteur Kim Ki - duk's
most accessible
film since 2007's Time 73, but it can still be an incredibly difficult watch.
Most recently in 2013, Friend co-stared as Oliver Baumer in STARRED UP, directed by David Mackenzie; the
film was nominated for eight British Independent
Film Awards.
Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master might have lost the Golden Lion in Venice (while still winning Best Director and Best Actor (s)
awards), but it emerged as the
most critically acclaimed
film of the fall festival season.
Below is our current running tally of the
most honored 2017
films and individuals, which will be updated daily throughout
awards season (December - February) as new nominations and
awards are announced.
Conveyed via two interviews done with Mike Nichols and theater director Jack O'Brien in the summer of 2014 at the Golden Theatre, where «An Evening with Nichols and May» premiered in 1960 — one in front of a paying audience, and one not — McGrath's
film attempts to capture how a seven - year - old immigrant from Nazi Germany became one of the
most influential and
award - winning directors of all time.
The tasteless bombardment that is Les Misérables would, under
most circumstances, send audiences screaming from the theater, but the
film is going to be a monster hit and
award winner, and not entirely unjustly.
Though it lost Best Picture to The Godfather (fair enough), Bob Fosse's movie musical holds the record for
most Academy
Awards won by a
film that did not also win the big prize.
The Hollywood Film
Awards honors the
most acclaimed
films and actors while previewing highly anticipated
films and talent for the upcoming year, also acknowledges artists in the categories of Cinematography, Visual Effects, Film Composing, Costume Design, Editing, Production Design, Sound and Makeup & Hairstyling.
It's December and
most movie fans are looking back at the last 12 months, picking out
award winners, writing top ten lists, and chances are we haven't even heard of the Sundance
films.
«Cold Fish,» inspired by one of Japan's
most notorious serial killers, and «Bedevilled,» the Korean revenge
film and audience
award winning favorite of the fest.
And yes, this is
most certainly a
film to look out for this Oscar season, although Hancock's Saving Mr. Banks was perhaps held in too high a regard sight - unseen before it was passed over for
most of the major
awards on nominations day, so a wee bit of caution is apt.
For those who don't know,
most studios use the fall
film festivals as a kind of launching pad for their big
awards contenders.
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.
Film4 has developed and co-financed many of the
most successful UK
films of recent years, Academy
Award ® - winners such as Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Lenny Abrahamson's Room, Alex Garland's Ex Machina, Asif Kapadia's box office record breaking documentary Amy and Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, in addition to critically - acclaimed award - winners such as Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner, Chris Morris's Four Lions, Shane Meadows» This is England, Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant, Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin and David Mackenzie's Starre
Award ® - winners such as Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Lenny Abrahamson's Room, Alex Garland's Ex Machina, Asif Kapadia's box office record breaking documentary Amy and Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, in addition to critically - acclaimed
award - winners such as Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner, Chris Morris's Four Lions, Shane Meadows» This is England, Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant, Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin and David Mackenzie's Starre
award - winners such as Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner, Chris Morris's Four Lions, Shane Meadows» This is England, Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant, Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin and David Mackenzie's Starred Up.
Film4 has developed and co-financed many of the
most successful UK
films of recent years, Academy
Award ® - winners such as Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Lenny Abrahamson's Room, Alex Garland's Ex Machina, Asif Kapadia's box office record breaking documentary Amy and Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady.
A big drop from last weekend as James Franco's
film looks like it has taken in
most of its still impressive total prior to its potential
awards attention.
12 Years a Slave is benefiting from the
most Best Picture buzz as we approach Oscar night, although this is shaping up as one of those rare years when the
award for Best Director will probably go to a different
film, Gravity.
I think the
most promising
film to receive the
award is The Birth of a Nation.
The 2017 lineup, which kicks off with Sorkin's directorial debut Molly's Game, will screen a total of 131
films, including 33 narrative
films, 16 documentary
films and 82 shorts,
most of which are already beginning to build momentum for
award season.
On Feb. 27, the
most worthy of
films from 2010 will be selected to win Academy
Awards for their accomplishments.
Present by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Media & Entertainment Commissioner Cynthia López, the Made in NY
Awards celebrated the city's
most influential
film, TV, and theater.
One of the
most predictable Academy
Awards in years took a
film - worthy twist as Kathryn Bigelow and...
The youth and comparative inexperience of the «Social Network» ensemble would make it an atypical winner in the category — but at the same time, counting out Jesse Eisenberg's long - shot Best Actor bid, this is the only place where voters can acknowledge the
most acclaimed and
awarded film in the race.
It was by far the
most commercially successful
film among Spirit
Awards nominees with more than $ 250 million in worldwide box office for Universal.
But I guess it's more about getting people to watch than
awarding the
most deserving
film.
From British / Irish director Martin McDonagh, who'd already had massive transatlantic success with plays like «The Beauty Queen of Leenane» and «The Cripple of Inishmaan» and had already won an Academy
Award for his short
film «Six Shooter,» the hitman black comedy was not just the arrival of an exciting new director, but also marked a refreshing change of pace for Farrell, whose split personality of rugged charm, soulfulness and hair - trigger volatility found its
most perfect vehicle to date.
Since then, «Drive» has been slowly building buzz ahead of its theatrical release,
most prominently at the Cannes
Film Festival where it walked away with the
award for Best Director, a nomination for the prestigious Palm D'Or, and the admiration of
most film critics.
But I guess itâ $ ™ s more about getting people to watch than
awarding the
most deserving
film.»
Over the past 28 years the Independent Spirit
Awards have recognized and
awarded independent
films that often get overshadowed during the popularity contest that surrounds
most award shows.
Apart from the occasional studio interference,
most film editors are good at what they do, hence the Academy
Award in that category.
The French animated
film «Ernest & Celestine» was named the year's best animation over Hayao Miyazaki's «The Wind Rises,» which had taken
most of the previous critics
awards.
And I suppose Fish & Cat's Orizzonti Special
Award for Innovative Content was deserved, if only because Shahram Mokri's unclassifiable exercise in time - and perspective - shifting plan - sequence, which focused on anthropophagy and kite - flying, was the
most outrageous, willfully weird
film in sight.
Gloria Swanson gave possibly the greatest performance by an actress never to win the
award with her seething work in «Sunset Boulevard,» easily among the
most iconic portrayals in
film history.