Remarkably for someone who hasn't directed a film for more than a decade, it's very good indeed, fully deserving of the six Oscar
nominations it received last week — including a slightly unexpected but no doubt very welcome Best Director nod for Gibson himself — and standing up to comparison with Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima and even Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter.
Not exact matches
The streamer
received a company record 91 Emmy
nominations when they were announced
last week.
Believe it or not, there are some great movies from the
last year that didn't
receive any
nominations for the Academy Awards, which will air later this February.
All exhibitors who will be at Natural Products Expo East 2017 in Baltimore were eligible to nominate their products for the NEXTY Awards over the
last month, and more than 400
nominations across 21 categories were
received.
Julianne Moore, who has
received five Academy Award
nominations and eight Golden Globe
nominations, won her first Oscar
last season for Still Alice.
Mr. SCHUMER: Madam President, of the
last 26
nominations of Justices confirmed to the Supreme Court, going back to 1954, how many were confirmed without a rollcall vote or
received more than 60 votes in support of their
nomination either on cloture or on confirmation?
Last week she
received 199
nominations in the second ballot of Tory MPs for the Conservative leadership race, and secured the top job after her rival Andrea Leadsom dropped out of the contest.
If he
receives the Democratic
nomination to move forward in the race for county executive, Latimer would face a tough challenge in Astorino, who has been elected twice, after first running unsuccessfully in 2005, and has held the line on property taxes, keeping them flat for the
last six years.
At Ada East, Sarah Dugbakie Pobee was declared third time lucky when her
nomination received the endorsement of the assembly members after voting ended on
last Friday, November 3, amidst violence by some NPP hooligans.
Rockland County Legislator Ed Day
received the Republican Party's
nomination for the Rockland County Executive race at a party meeting
last Thursday.
Incumbent Trustee Dave Bergen, who was not backed by Republicans for re-election
last year but was appointed to the vacant seat as an interim trustee in February, is expected to
receive the GOP
nomination at the county convention in Coram Wednesday night.
Things get more interesting as there are grumblings and rumblings that the town's Democratic chairman and county legislator, John Parete, may also be facing an in - party challenge for the legislature despite having
received a
nomination at the party's county caucus
last week.
Patti LuPone returns to PENNY DREADFUL this season as Dr. Seward, after
receiving critical acclaim and a Critics» Choice Award
nomination for her performance
last season as The Cut Wife.
The documentary follows sound editor and designer Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce, both of whom
received an Oscar
nomination for sound editing for The
Last Jedi, as they go about their work at Skywalker Sound.
Eddie Redmayne, who was the toast of the awards season
last year for his role in The Theory of Everything, also
received a SAG
nomination this morning for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, and responded with his own reaction to the news:
In France, the title opened
last fall with over 1 million admissions, eventually
receiving 11 César
nominations including four wins, but for the U.S., the company stayed clear of awards season.
The
last month of the year was amazing because Get Out
received a bunch of awards
nominations including the Independent Spirit Awards, Critics» Choice Awards, Satellite Awards, Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Awards which included a
nomination for Allison as part of the Best Ensemble.
The recognition for his work in The Phantom Thread comes months after announcing his retirement, making it the
last major acting award
nomination he's expected to
receive.
Barring a reboot down the road, its seven
nominations this year are the
last the show will
receive.
Given the early raves director Rian Johnson's «Star Wars: The
Last Jedi»
received at its premiere Saturday in Los Angeles, some fans may have been looking to see if the film would
receive any love in the Golden Globes
nominations.
Their
last three Best Directors (and 6 of the
last 10)
received an Oscar
nomination.
And for his portrayal of transgender pioneer Lili Elbe in
last year's The Danish Girl (for which he
received his second Best Actor Oscar
nomination) he met with transgender women from different generations to get a sense of the scope of trans life throughout history.
Let's start with Todd Haynes» «Carol,» one of the most generally acclaimed films of
last year, and one that
received six Academy Award
nominations.
You'd be well advised not to read too much into this award as far as general BAFTA voting goes:
last year, Emily Blunt was named British Artist of the Year by BAFTA / LA for her performance in «The Young Victoria,» and
received not so much as a BAFTA
nomination for her pains.
Bertolucci had already
received a Globe
nomination as Best Director for
Last Tango in Paris in 1974, and would later be nominated again, for The Sheltering Sky in 1991.
He
received an Academy Award
nomination last year for his performance in Kenneth Lonergan's «Manchester By The Sea.»
Last week, he
received his third Golden Globe
nomination for his performance in the new movie musical «The Greatest Showman».
She now has the big actor award, her film just
received 14 Academy Award
nominations, and you'd have to go back to 2002 to find the
last instance of an actress losing the Oscar after winning at the SAG Awards, when her film won Best Picture (that would be Renee Zellweger in Chicago).
The
last horror genre film to
receive a
nomination was 1999's «The Sixth Sense» the
last one to win was 1992's «The Silence of the Lambs.»
Left out: Greta Gerwig, director of Lady Bird, was notably absent from the shortlist — despite the film
receiving nominations for Original Screenplay, Leading Actress and Supporting Actress and winning two Golden Globes
last week
«Fruitvale Station» was a hot property coming out of
last year's Sundance Film Festiva; and was considered an Oscar contender, but it ultimately
received zero
nominations, likely due to the seismic impact «12 Years a Slave» had on the Oscar race.
On monday were announced the
nominations for the Golden Globes Awards and i was really surprised to see Michelle, Ridley Scott and Christopher Plummer being nominated, i am really happy for them,
last week Ridley Scott showed the movie to members of the HFPA who vote for the Golden Globes, it paid off, this is Michelle's 5th
Nomination, i don't know if she will receive a nomination for the Oscars but i'm glad for the movie, don't forget the movie will be released on De
Nomination, i don't know if she will
receive a
nomination for the Oscars but i'm glad for the movie, don't forget the movie will be released on De
nomination for the Oscars but i'm glad for the movie, don't forget the movie will be released on December 25.
Alexander Payne is on some kind of hot streak, with all four of his major features
receiving Oscar
nominations and his
last two (Sideways and The Descendants) both earning Best Picture
nominations and taking home statues for Best Adapted Screenplay.
For the
last twenty years, Affleck has consistently turned heads with sometimes subtle, sometimes vociferous performances in films that include: «To Die For,» «Good Will Hunting,» «Gerry,» «Gone Baby Gone,» «The Killer Inside Me,» «Out of the Furnance,» and his career - best, «The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford» — for which he
received an Academy Award
nomination for Supporting Actor (2007).
Some of the movies we though might be big deals this year like Chile's Oscar nominee A Fantastic Woman opted for Oscar qualifying release only and Germany's Oscar finalist In the Fade starring Diane Kruger (pictured left) opted to sneak out at the
last second to qualify for all Oscars though it did not
receive nominations, buried in that post Christmas glut of tiny releases.
Altman
received five Academy Award
nominations for best director, his
last for one of the auteurist highlights of the early 21st century, «Gosford Park.»
Last year, I think that South Africa's White Wedding ought to have
received a
nomination, but it got shortlisted.
In her
last film, Morton
received an Academy Award
nomination without uttering a word.
Sheridan's writing credits include
last year's «Sicario,» for which he
received a WGA
nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Last year's winners of the DGA TV awards — Leslie Linka Glatter for Showtime's «Homeland» in drama series and Jill Solloway for Amazon's «Transparent» in comedy series —
received nominations again.
Justin Timberlake
received an Oscar
nomination last year for his original song, «Can't Stop the Feeling» from the animated feature «Trolls.»
The legendary African American actress, who earned a Tony
last year for «A Trip to Bountiful» and is best known for her Emmy Award - winning turn in the landmark 1974 TV movie «The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,»
received a lead actress
nomination for «Sounder» as the resilient Rebecca Morgan, the wife of a sharecropper in Louisiana, circa early 1930s, who tries to keep her family together despite tremendous odds.
After all, «A Very Long Engagement» won him the ASC honor in 2004 and he
received his third Oscar
nomination of the decade for
last year's «Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince.»
The winner of
last year's AMD Next Wave competition, BULLHEAD, was acquired by Drafthouse Films and went on to
receive an Academy Award
nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
The
last three had not been regarded as sure things but the Martin Luther King, Jr. biopic «Selma,» the war film «American Sniper,» and the movie about a sadistic music instructor, «Whiplash,» all
received nominations.
After
receiving nods from the BFCA, HFPA, BAFTA, and the DGA, it seemed like a certain
nomination, but unfortunate he was replaced at the
last minute with Paul Thomas Anderson for «Phantom Thread,» a film that made an impressive (and quite unexpected) showing this morning.
Jointly leading the
nominations with five each, are Naughty Dog's action - adventure survival horror title The
Last of Us —
receiving nods for Game of the Year, Best Design, Best Visual Art, Best Narrative and Best Technology — and Media Molecule's PlayStation Vita title Tearaway, which
received acclaim throughout 2013 for its art style and its creative use of the PS Vita inputs and sensors, and which was nominated for awards including Innovation and Best Handheld / Mobile Game.
Saoirse Ronan, who
last week
received an Oscar
nomination for best actress for Brooklyn, is set to star in Lady Bird, the writing and directorial debut of actress Greta Gerwig, reports Deadline.com.
«Hugo» and «The Artist» each
received an impressive 11
nominations for the 17th annual Critics» Choice Movie Awards, one short of the record 12
nominations for «Black Swan»
last year.
Canadian nominees include Christopher Plummer for best supporting actor, who filled in at the
last minute when Kevin Spacey was ousted from Ridley Scott's All the Money in the World following sexual misconduct allegations; Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049
received nominations in many technical categories, including cinematography, effects and sound; and the animated film The Breadwinner, a Canadian co-production based on the novel by Deborah Ellis, is up for best animated feature.