Sentences with phrase «obvious frontrunner»
"obvious frontrunner" means a person or thing that is highly likely to win or succeed, as they are clearly in the lead and have a significant advantage over others. Full definition
While that latter film was already considered a dead - cert for awards - season glory, even before it premiered at the festival, this year's event boasts no such obvious frontrunner.
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Looking at the Labour intake, the report says Keir Starmer is «the obvious frontrunner» but it is also well worth watching the careers of Rowenna Davis, Jessica Asato, Ruth Smeeth, Helen Hayes, Stephen Kinnock and Rebecca Long Bailey.
The CNN / ORC International poll released Sunday also indicates the race for the GOP nomination remains a wide open contest with no obvious frontrunner among the potential Republican White House hopefuls.
Teachout's star power made her the obvious frontrunner from the get - go.
There doesn't seem to be a movie there that's the obvious frontrunner, so we have a situation where the festival jury (led -LSB-...]
DayZ, H1Z1 and State of Decay are the obvious frontrunners, but you could also cite Minecraft, Rust, Ark: Survival Evolved and even No Man's Sky along with oodles of open access titles.
And awards - watchers are skipping right past the question of whether it will win the Best Animated Feature Oscar, where it's an obvious frontrunner, to ask if it can grab a Best Picture nomination.
La La Land, which won seven Golden Globes earlier this month, remains the obvious frontrunner for Best Picture after its 14 nominations.
«Slumdog Millionaire» may be the obvious frontrunner, but I can't shake a nagging suspicion that it's not really an HFPA sort of film, that as with «Atonement» last year, the more stately, romantic «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» may be more to their taste.
The Globes may not be deemed quite as influential these days as they used to be, but a surprise winner (particularly in a category with no obvious frontrunner) can still throw a real spanner in the Academy's works --- as we saw a few years back, when a seemingly random win for Rachel Weisz rapidly built into Oscar - lock status.
«Button» has the most lavish work on display and would appear to be an obvious frontrunner.
I'm afraid 12 Years a Slave is, again, just too restrained to take this one home, which brings us to the obvious frontrunner The Great Gatsby.
That said, The Voorman Problem — the only short in the English language — is quite fun and it has star - power going for it with Martin Freeman and Tom Hollander in the leads, so it feels like the obvious frontrunner.