Kevin Bacon pops up in the large - ensemble «Patriots Day,» which failed to gain traction in the annual
movie awards race.
It seems like there are two clear front - runners as
the movie awards race kicks off with the Gotham Independent Film Awards.
Not exact matches
At best, the Gotham
Awards try to shine a light on
movies that will probably be overlooked during the
award race, but still deserve attention.
In an amazing interview with Academy
Award winning actor, Denzel Washington, Washington reveals his experiences in Hollywood,
race in the
movie industry, and provides some amazing acting tips for aspiring actors.
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There's still time for one big
movie to pick up that mantle — with the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild
Awards on the horizon, there's certainly a way for that momentum to build — but for now, the
race really could be anyone's.
Less important is the fact that a horror
movie that addressed
race and social issues won best adapted screenplay, which is a seriously promising turn for the Academy
Awards.
In the past, one
movie or actor has often emerged as a clear frontrunner in the weeks before the Academy
Awards ceremony, but this time, many Oscar
races are leaving even industry insiders scratching their heads.
That both Hanks and «Sully» the
movie are likely to be also - rans in the
awards race this year, despite a smattering of recognition by such second - tier honors as the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the National Board of Review, is a bit of a surprise.
It's unlikely a Gerard Butler action
movie or something called «Hunter Killer» will figure into the
awards race.
With six nods in total, it cements the streaming giant's place at the
movie industry table, with Amazon — which won last year's
race to become the first streaming player to win an Academy
Award — only picking up one nomination this year: Best Original Screenplay for The Big Sick.
Earlier in the season, especially after Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig were not nominated for best - director Golden Globe
awards, it looked as if the directors»
race might be tinged with injustice, a distillation of creaky prejudices about women and people of color directing
movies.
It's January, the Oscar nominations are out there and everyone's giving their two cents about Hollywood
race / gender bias, complaining that their favorite
movie didn't get enough attention, and praying to the golden - statue gods that Leonardo DiCaprio finally nabs that elusive
award he's been chasing since he was five years old or something.
Now, if Dunkirk is nominated across the board for every guild, then sweeps the guild
awards and BAFTA, you know you have a one -
movie race.
All have a
movie out or coming soon, except Bigelow, who figured in last year's
awards race for «Zero Dark Thirty.»
The latter pair of
movies — like Carol — were likewise omitted from this year's Oscar
race, despite the fact that Straight Outta Compton had been picking up major
awards season momentum.
And this is a good
movie to see during the
movie awards season because it's a contender in so many
races.
During the wide - ranging conversation they looked back at Deadpool's opening weekend and discussed the film's unexpected place in the
awards race, where they're at in the pre-production process on Deadpool 2, how the hiring of David Leitch to direct the sequel has impacted the film, the action scenes, collaborating with Ryan Reynolds, how Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead will return in the sequel, the challenge of writing Cable, laying the foundation for an X-Force
movie, the budget, and more.
The Oscars
race so far is considered wide open, and by winnowing the field down to five
movies for its top
award on Wednesday, the Screen Actors left out many frontrunners.
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.
In addition to A Monster Calls, current and upcoming releases from Focus include The Boxtrolls, the new family event
movie from LAIKA, directed by Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable with a voice cast that includes Ben Kingsley, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Elle Fanning, and Tracy Morgan; the true - life dramatic thriller Kill the Messenger, starring Jeremy Renner; the romantic drama The Theory of Everything, directed by Academy
Award winner James Marsh and starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones as Stephen and Jane Hawking; Black Sea, the suspenseful adventure thriller starring Jude Law for director Kevin Macdonald; the romantic drama A Little Chaos, directed by Alan Rickman and starring Kate Winslet; Tarsem Singh's Selfless, starring Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kingsley; Leigh Whannell's Insidious: Chapter 3, the newest chapter in the terrifying horror series; Sinister 2, directed by Ciaran Foy; and Stephen Hopkins»
Race, starring Jeremy Irons, Jason Sudeikis, and Stephan James as the legendary athletic superstar Jesse Owens.
The U.S. competition documentaries — Marc Silver's 3 1/2 Minutes, Daniel Junge's Being Evel, Morgan Neville & Robert Gordon's Best of Enemies, Bobcat Goldthwait's Call Me Lucky, Matthew Heineman's Cartel Land, Laura Gabbert's City of Gold, Bryan Carberry & Clay Tweel's Finders Keepers, Jill Bauer & Ronna Gradus's Hot Girls Wanted, Alexandra Shiva's How to Dance in Ohio, Jean Carlomusto's Larry Kramer in Love & Anger, Jimmy Chin & E. Chai Vasarhelyi's Meru (winner of this year's audience
award), Louie Psihoyos's
Racing Extinction, Lyric R. Cabral & David Felix Sutcliffe's (T) error, Michael Beach Nichols & Christopher K. Walker's Welcome to Leith, Bill Ross & Turner Ross's Western and Crystal Moselle's The Wolfpack — offered a wide array of styles and subjects and wider audiences will surely have a chance to discover many of these
movies for themselves later this year.
And if you think that a
movie can't win Best Picture with only one other Oscar supporting it, look to but two years ago, when Spotlight won Best Picture and then just one other
award — a heavily competitive Original Screenplay
race.
Small
movies are on the rise in the
awards race while television ratings are on the downswing.
The LEGO
Movie, which was famously snubbed in the
race for Oscar, won for outstanding animated film, while Interstellar beats Apes for the Visual Effects
award.
We'll be back next week, and every week after, with more discussions of what's happening in Hollywood, which
movies are worth your time, and plenty of deep dives into the Emmy
race — where the statuettes may not be gold men, but the
awards - campaign process is just as fascinating.
Moonlight Leads with 7 Nominations, La La Land Earns Six Portman, Huppert, Bening Among Actress
Award Hopefuls Sing Street, Captain Fantastic in Unsung Film
Race Absolutely Fabulous: The
Movie, Nocturnal Animals on Campy Flick Short List Insecure, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Westworld Among Series Picks Beyonce, Samantha Bee, Bill Maher, Thrice - nominated Kate McKinnon in Mix Too John Waters Named «Timeless Star»...
Though nothing is certain so early in
awards season, the
movie is the closest thing to a frontrunner in the current
race for Best Picture.
The
race for best feature, the Spirit
Awards» top honor, includes two Oscar nominees for best picture: the historical drama «12 Years a Slave» and the father - son road
movie «Nebraska.»
The wins for The Revenant mark the
movie's first big wins in this year's
awards race, which until...
The wins for The Revenant mark the
movie's first big wins in this year's
awards race, which until now has looked like an also - ran to supposedly stronger contenders like Spotlight and The Big Short.
Though this was an
awards race in which the terrific The LEGO
Movie was not snubbed (still lookin» at you, Oscars), Phil Lord and Chris Miller's film lost out on the big prize of the night to director Dean DeBlois» wonderfully compassionate How to Train Your Dragon 2.
James Rocchi At this point in the discussion of 2014's
movies,
Awards prognosticators may be lamenting an Oscar
race with no clear front - runner, but translate that phrase from «pundit» to «moviegoer,» and it's actually good news — it means that there's a lot of great films that hit theaters this year.
Complete List of NAACP Image
Award Winners Film Categories Best Picture - «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Director - Gina Prince - Bythewood, «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Actor - Will Smith, «Seven Pounds» Best Actress - Rosario Dawson, «Seven Pounds Supporting Actor - Columbus Short, «Cadillac Records» Supporting Actress - Taraji P. Henson, «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Independent Film - «Slumdog Millionaire» Documentary - «The Black List» Foreign Film - «The Class» Best Screenplay - Jenny Lumet, «Rachel Getting Married» Television Categories Best Comedy Series - «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actor in a Comedy Series - LaVan Davis, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Tracee Ellis Ross, «Girlfriends» Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - Lance Gross, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Keshia Knight Pulliam, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Dramatic Series - «Grey's Anatomy» Best Actor in a Dramatic Series - Hill Harper, «CSI: NY» Best Actress in a Dramatic Series - Chandra Wilson, «Grey's Anatomy» Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Series - Taye Diggs, «Private Practice» Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series - Angela Bassett, «ER» Made - for - TV
Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - «A Raisin in The Sun» Best Actor in a Made - for - TV
Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Sean Combs, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actress in a Made - for - TV
Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Phylicia Rashad, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actor in a Sopa Opera - Bryton McClure, «The Young and the Restless» Best Actress in a Sopa Opera - Debbi Morgan, «All My Children» Best Director in a Dramatic Series - Ernest Dickerson, «Lincoln Heights - The Day Before Tomorrow» Best Director in a Comedy Series - Kevin Sullivan, «30 Rock - MILF Island» Best Screenplay for a Dramatic Series - Shonda Rhimes, «Grey's Anatomy: Freedom Part 1 & 2» Best Screenplay for a Comedy Series - Erica D. Montolfo, «The Game: White Coats and White Lies» News / Information Series or Special - «In Conversation: Michelle Obama Interview» Talk Series - «The View» Reality Series - «American Idol 7» Variety Series or Special - «An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Smokey Robinson» Children's Program - «Dora The Explorer» Best Performance in a Children's Series or Special - Keke Palmer, «True Jackson» Music Categories Best Male Artist - Jamie Foxx Best Female Artist - Beyonce» Best New Artist - Jennifer Hudson Best Duo, Group or Collaboration - Jennifer Hudson, featuring Fantasia - «I'm His Only Woman» Best Jazz Artist - Natalie Cole - «Still Unforgettable» Best Gospel Artist - Mary Mary Best World Music Album - Cheryl Keyes - «Let Me Take You There» Best Music Video - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Song - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Album - Jennifer Hudson - «Jennifer Hudson» Literary Categories Fiction - «In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel,» Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes Nonfiction - «Letter to My Daughter,» Maya Angelou Debut Author - «Barack,
Race, and the Media: Drawing My Own Conclusion,» David Glenn Brown Biography / Autobiography - «The Legs are the Last to Go,» Diahann Carroll Instructional - «32 Ways to Be a Champion in Business,» Earvin «Magic» Johnson Poetry - «Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of «Poetry With a Beat»» Nikki Giovanni Children - «Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope,» Nikki Grimes (illustrator - Bryan Collier) Youth / Teens - «Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny,» Hill Harper
The unlikeliest dark - red horse in this year's Oscar
race is Deadpool, the foul - mouthed superhero
movie whose nomination for
awards from the Directors Guild, the Writers Guild, and the Producers Guild puts it several steps ahead of previously presumed contenders like Martin Scorsese's Silence.
The
award - winning
movie - maker - who has helmed hits such as «Jaws», «Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark» and «E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial» - has won the
race to the landmark figure.
Other animal - loving luminaries who have raised awareness of the renowned animal welfare organization's mission to Save Them All include Allison Janney of the hit CBS series Mom, Shameless star Emmy Rossum,
movie star Amanda Seyfried, Academy
Award winner Christopher Walken,
race car driver Josef Newgarden, Designated Survivor cast member Maggie Q, Dancing with the Stars judge Carrie Ann Inaba, Better Call Saul «s Bob Odenkirk and Robertson's former Under the Dome co-star Rachelle Lefevre, among others.
Between them the trio have worked on
award - winning titles such as The
Movies (Lionhead Studios), Populous, Theme Hospital, Syndicate Wars (Bullfrog), Rolling with Katamari (Namco Bandai), SPY mouse and Real
Racing 2 and 3 (Firemint / Firemonkeys).