Sentences with phrase «not awards voters»

Position away, O ye spinners: The good news for all who are not awards voters is that this newer, shorter World — shorter, anyway, in the category of languid movies over two hours — is that it communicates Malick's luminous artistic vision of innocence and loss, wildness and order, risks taken and chances lost, with more clarity than his first cut.

Not exact matches

A press release from Cambridge celebrating its Ogilvy Award win featured a statement from then - senior vice president Emily Cornell: «Our team was able to identify a key group of undecided women voters in the final months leading up to the Election Day,» she said, «which ultimately led to «Can't Run Her House» — one of the most successful ads of the cycle.»

However, let's not forget that this is a subjective award and there's always a chance that voters punish Trout if his team once again fails to post a winning record.

The Spaniard played a key role in helping us win five of our six matches in all competitions, scoring two goals in the process, and his performances did not go unnoticed by the PFA's voters, earning the award with 37 % of all votes received.

«It will be highly ironic if that happens, but I don't think it's going to get him an award from the Sierra Club or the League of Conservation Voters,» said Myron Ebell, a vocal skeptic of mainstream climate science.

The HFPA voters — a relatively small group as far as major awards bodies go — typically make some oddball selections, and while not all of their film choices were favorites among the film critic community, the voters seemed to avoid any laughably bad selections this year.

If SAG voters are paying attention, which they probably aren't, they would award Sally Field after all of these years.

On the other hand, if voters don't feel like exporting the award, «The Fighter» «s well - liked, well - known assembly of stars and character actors would make for popular winners in the category.

Critics awards can sometimes have the opposite effect: voters don't like the movie if the critics like it too much.

Though director Wes Anderson's offbeat movies such as «Royal Tenenbaums» and «Moonrise Kingdom» have never gotten awards love from the guild, this year SAG voters reversed the trend, bestowing «The Grand Budapest Hotel» with a best ensemble nod — perhaps not surprising given the movie's deep roster of talent, including Ralph Fiennes, Jeff Goldblum, Adrien Brody, Jude Law, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Tilda Swinton and Owen Wilson.

If the Globe's voters decide to take a risk, which they didn't with The Hurt Locker, and award this to Bigelow, then Zero Dark Thirty is most likely a lock for Best Picture.

Whether it's adherence to Ms. Barber's facts (whose faithfully - told story can be read here) or an overreliance on period nostalgia (which surprisingly keeps pop culture out of sight), something about this didn't resonate for me quite as it did for many viewers and award voters.

Whoever wins this, it'll show (I think) that that was the runner - up film for Best Picture... unless it's a shock win for Michael Haneke or Benh Zeitlin in which case the voters felt that Spielberg (Lincoln) & Lee (Pi) had been awarded enough in previous years and they weren't quite ready to hand the once «difficult» Russell (Playbook) the top prize.

It, in part, explains why Patricia Arquette is widely considered to be the frontrunner for her award, but her hirsute Boyhood counterpart Ethan Hawke is at best running a fairly distant second or third for turning in equally nuanced work as an only part - time functional father figure — and why Oscar voters gave Robert Duvall's far more flamboyantly flawed, piss - n» - vinegar patriarch a free pass to just be happy for the nomination once again.

As voters from the major organizations begin to cast their votes — the New York Film Critics Circle, whose awards will be announced Thursday, SAG, and so on — they should not forget the joy, verve, and comedic skill that Haddish brought to Girls Trip and help build momentum for an Oscar campaign.

Thus, voters are never going to be too strict if it means not being able to award someone like Vikander if given the chance.

I have no doubt that there were several # 1 votes by Academy voters during the nomination process, but so many other movies were more beloved that year that, as a seasoned awards watcher, to complain about The Passion not being nominated is pretty ridiculous.

We hope awards voters don't overlook the performance the same way audiences overlooked this gem of a movie.

If not: «The Light That Never Fails» from Meru Lowdown: Going out on a limb here that the Academy music branch can't say no to the great track from The Weeknd just like they couldn't as Grammy award voters.

The Golden Globes Awards ceremony on January 7th will set up a situation where we still probably do not know what our ultimate Oscar winners will be, but at least we'll know what some the voters out there think is the frontrunner.

For 1967, Oscar voters ultimately awarded best picture to «In the Heat of the Night,» not because it was better than the other nominees, but because it offered hope.

What a shame it didn't catch fire with arthouse audiences and award voters.

Prediction: If La La Land takes this award home, it'll be proof that Oscar voters don't always know what they're voting for; Sound Editing is chiefly about the creation of original sonic elements, and honking car horns don't exactly stretch the talents of Hollywood's hardest - working foley artists.

This year's slate also contains a sole Best Picture nominee, one whose spare but surprisingly inventive sound (inspired by Robert Bresson, not that I imagine most voters would give a shit) also just won the award from the Cinema Audio Society.

Now they're being served up to voters by publicity teams whose function is not to evaluate quality but only to secure awards wins by any means.

If Ratatouille still retains a viable contender as a spoiler, it's not because audiences continue to drink whatever Pixar puts in the Kool - Aid that gets, as Laurie Anderson would say, «ah - dults» hailing each of their new movies as the studio's everlasting masterpiece of classic filmmaking (making it simply a matter of time before one of them actually wins an award outside the best animated feature playpen), but rather because its presence in this category might remind voters that one or two of the striking writers aren't just trying to feed their own mouths.

Not the thirteen moms for Birdman, necessarily, but the eleven for Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel which was released way back in March (ancient history for most awards voters).

Oscar voters are also notoriously easy marks for war films as well so don't be shocked if this starts getting year - end award consideration buzz

It doesn't matter what the public thinks because the awards are mostly decided behind closed doors, with industry voters picking their favorites almost at the exact same time, give or take a week or two.

Although the film has not screened for critics or awards voters yet, she is already receiving Oscar buzz for her supporting role as Fantine — a part her mother understudied in the long - running stage show's first national tour.

In regards to costume design, I'm actually thinking of predicting «Coco Before Chanel» for the Oscar because year in year out I hope that the voters stop just giving the award to the British period movie (the «Marie Antoinette» win notwithstanding) and because for those who haven't seen all the nominees — i'm sure there are more than a few — «Coco» has the advantage of have Coco Chanel in the title.

The last time the critics» awards converged on one film to such an extent was in 1997, when they rallied behind «LA Confidential» as the discerning voter's alternative to «Titanic» — it didn't work that time, of course, but let it never be said that critics aren't as collectively calculating as the savviest Hollywood publicists.

I'd like to see «Wild» in that group, but if it can't make it with the Spirit Awards voters, it doesn't have much of a shot here.

is not necessarily the stuff for awards, with more than a few Academy voters likely recoiling from the extremity of Aronofsky's work.

I am convinced that the only reason this film isn't gaining more attention during awards season is because the voters aren't taking the time to watch it.

While the Globes do not share any of the same voters as the Oscars, they are often seen as precursors due to the awards being televised, giving stars a good chance to practice their potential Oscar speech.

Another voter highlighted the conscious effort to recognize those voices that haven't been heard before (like first - time directors Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig) and maybe pump the brakes on awarding someone who's been there before (like Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg).

The arguments have merit, but they haven't seemed to persuade awards season voters.

There have been many feelgood movies that never won Best Picture leading up to 2008 — in fact, you could comb through Oscar history and find that voters used to think that happily - ever - after wasn't a substantial enough ingredient to award a film Best Picture.

The next year, David Fincher's «The Social Network» had an even more impressive, and nearly unanimous, run through the critics» awards — and while that may have helped establish it as the alternative to «The King's Speech,» it wasn't enough to persuade Academy and guild voters to forsake that crowd - pleaser for something chillier, more artful and more appealing to critics.

Some say the group is out of touch, others say voters aren't educated enough in the arenas they choose to award.

Parker, of course, has been widely excluded from awards - season consideration and barely visible since the movie's release was dogged by his involvement in an alleged sexual assault in 2001, but DGA voters evidently didn't consider that a deal breaker.

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Though critics are almost unanimous in praising Germany's «Toni Erdmann,» I wonder if it is too daunting for the membership, and if the voters will choose to make a statement about Donald Trump's travel ban by giving the award to «The Salesman» from Iran's Asghar Farhadi, who's decided not to attend because of the president's action.

Most voters will pay attention to the technical accomplishments but will turn their focus to other fare that isn't destined to sweep the MTV Movie Awards.

Well, the Boyhood momentum was big everywhere except within the American industry — perhaps, more precisely, the American movie awards industry — where there was a push - back to «stop Boyhood at all costs,» or for voters to say «it wasn't THAT good,» or «I wanted something to happen but it never did.»

So my advice to the precursor awards — those that shouldn't be disbanded altogether, at any rate — is similar to that I gave Academy voters in last week's column: think for yourselves.

Neither of these actors are getting much awards buzz for their performances, presumably because voters don't want anyone to know they're the nerds who saw the chess movie.

While many are predicting Sylvester Stallone will take home the award for Best Supporting Actor, there's at least one Oscar voter who does not support that.

«However, in the case of the voter packets, authors and rights holders are increasingly feeling that if their work is not included in the packet it will be at a disadvantage in the awards.