Sentences with phrase «nominees in the category do»

Carol was one of my favourite films last year — personally I'd have had it down for 4 or 5 Oscars at least... I think it was streets ahead of most of the nominees in the categories it did get nominated for and streets ahead in those which, bizarrely, it didn't get nominated for.

don't call attention to themselves the way the other nominees in the category do, but the care with which the film transformed Alicia Vikander into an android is the sort of work that so often goes unrecognized by the Academy.

Not exact matches

If I don't, it's just a huge honor to be in the same category with the other nominees.

Three films considered surefire Oscar nominees — «The Lego Movie,» «Life Itself» and «Force Majeure» — didn't find favor with the academy in, respectively, the animation, documentary and foreign - language categories.

Kate Winslet was always going to be a surefire nominee for her brilliant turn in «Steve Jobs,» but even with her surprise Globe win, this category is far from a done deal.

From true leads to category fraud supporting performances, from the youngest nominee ever to the oldest nominee ever, from brilliant performances to those that simply don't belong, there's an incredible variety in this category that makes it one of the most interesting.

She's been a part of the conversation since January, and I don't see her possibly not being listed among the nominees in this category for her excellent performance as a sex surrogate.

But best picture nominees typically don't lose in this category to movies that weren't likewise nominated.

If the Globes didn't have separate drama and musical / comedy acting categories, Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie are probably the only nominees who'd be contending for a spot in a single category.

Among the nominees are Pakistani American Kumail Nanjiani for «The Big Sick» (who wrote the original screenplay nominee with wife Emily V. Gordon, inspired by their courtship), «Mudbound» actress Mary J. Blige (in the supporting actress and original song categories, the latter of which she shares with Raphael Saadiq) and three directors — Jordan Peele («Get Out»), Greta Gerwig («Lady Bird») and Guillermo del Toro («The Shape of Water»)-- who don't fit their category's historically white male template.

It's a good thing the Best Director category didn't go the way of Best Picture to accommodate more nominees, because this year's campaign has only ever been a three - man race even in its most competitive stages.

Unless: Though «House of Cards» didn't punch through the ensemble category, five - time nominee Spacey has been rewarded in the past (winning for «American Beauty») and could win again for his celebrated, showy turn in «Cards.»

Other nominees in the category put out statements that they stood in solidarity with the Iranians (as did the Academy) but also had to know the publicity would play to the advantage of The Salesman regardless of the actual merits of the film.

It's not a done deal yet but it's easy to imagine this as Israel's Oscar submission and if submitted, an actual nominee in the Foreign Language Film category.

That leaves one wild spot, and though we're tempted to give it to Dev Patel for Slumdog Millionaire, to do so would acknowledge that the Screen Actors Guild nailed this lineup when the group announced its nominees several weeks ago, but SAG has accurately forecasted the five nominees in this category exactly once.

Why a person is nominated for a supporting actor or actress Oscar often has a lot to do with riding coattails, which probably explains why it takes so long for awards prognosticators to pin down the nominees in these two categories: It's all about waiting to see which films catch fire at the box office — or on the blogosphere, where most Oscar campaigns seem to be launched nowadays.

How, for instance, do you have 6 nominees for most categories but only 4 for Best Actress in an Action picture and only nominate supporting actresses for that prize and leave out two leading women who really carried their films with aplomb: Mary Elizabeth Winstead in 10 Cloverfield Lane and Blake Lively in The Shallows.

Oscar winners and nominees highlight this category with Spike Lee (nominated in Original Screenplay for Do the Right Thing; Honorary Oscar winner in 2016) for Black Klansman and last season's winner in this category — Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) for If Beale Street Could Talk.

A bit disappointing to see this category go all - male in this of all years, but that doesn't subtract from the achievements of each nominee.

It would be a classic «nominated but didn't win» nominee in this category.

Paul Dano won best actor for Love & Mercy, but he, along with his fellow nominees in his category — Michael Shannon (99 Homes), Kevin Corrigan (Results), Peter Sarsgaard (Experimenter) and Christopher Abbott (James White)-- didn't steamroll their way through awards season last year.

Those double - digit pace - setters aside, there is bound to be cheering from the Silver Linings Playbook camp, which did considerably better than expected with eight citations, including one in all four acting categories, and disappointment from the Zero Dark Thirty team: Kathryn Bigelow's follow - on from The Hurt Locker got five mentions, including best actress for 2012 nominee Jessica Chastain (The Help), but Bigelow herself was left off the list — a notable snub to the person who had previously made Oscar history as the first woman ever to win an Oscar for directing.

How do you go about predicting the likeliest winner in a category that so frequently includes among its nominees (and occasionally even hands the trophy over to) some of worst films nominated in any Oscar category?

Being a Best Picture nominee is always a plus in the writing categories, and it can frequently be a great place to reward a film that doesn't really compute for voters in other fields.

(Strangely enough, for years they did it in reverse: the entire membership would help chose the nominees in every category, and then the experts in each BAFTA chapter would choose the winners.)

As for the fellow nominees in the category, Daniel Kaluuya doesn't have quite the same momentum as Jordan Peele and «Get Out» do, and while I'm glad Denzel Washington is nominated for «Roman J. Israel, Esq.», a win for him would be one of the most stunning Oscars upsets in a long time.

But the film does not rise up to his abilities or his work, and he is the only nominee in this category not to star in a Best Picture nominated film.

For 2016 films, four out of the five SAG nominees showed up again with Oscar, and for 2015 only two SAG nominations made their way to their parallel category (but did share a winner in «Spotlight»).

This wisdom grenade, building on my treatise «How to plan a do - nothing vacation,» was nominated for a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism award in 2013 in the «Service - Oriented Consumer Article» category (along with a staggering 72 other nominees).

10Best set out to find the best resorts, restaurants, beaches, attractions, golf courses and dive sites in the region, and to do so, we asked a panel of Caribbean travel experts to select 20 nominees in each category.

I was particularly impressed with the nominees in the Young Women of Achievement category because of the work that these young women have done and continue to do.