Sentences with phrase «of academy voters»

She is also likely to be a peer of more of the Academy voters this year.

Mentally challenged characters often interest actors as they give perhaps the most extreme chance to flex one's acting muscles, and catch the eye of Academy voters as well.

Box Office Potential: Theatrical grosses will be negligible, as «Mudbound» (November 17) marks Netflix's next Hollywood frontier — disrupting the movie business, as the streaming service tries to hack some Oscar nominations without playing its day - and - date movies in theaters for more than a week (New York and L.A., home to the lion's share of Academy voters, may get two).

But according to a new report, a number of Academy voters are dismissing the film without having actually seen it.

When I remarked in a post yesterday that the upcoming awards season looks a little short on the high - profile biopic contenders so beloved of Academy voters, I had a feeling I was forgetting something obvious.

Studios, PR firms, independent producers and their mothers will go to great lengths to gain the attention of Academy voters.

Granted, forgetting to thank «Creed» director Ryan Coogler was a big mistake, but overall he gave a funny and humble acceptance speech that likely warmed the heart of a lot of Academy voters (assuming he's even nominated on Thursday which is still a big if).

Harvey Weinstein has never been one to put much faith in the length of Academy voters» memories, so as usual, he's favoring a late - year release plan for his presumed awards contenders — the prospects of which I was discussing only the other day.

Though I guess if there's a bloc of Academy voters who love snow - flecked frozen beards (and considering nearly everyone in

His work in «Call Me By Your Name» put him front and center in the attention of Academy voters, as well as the public.

But even with its impressive wide release, my guess is it's still too far off of Academy voters» radar to clinch a nomination.

It's that Oscar time of year again when compelling movies get released late so they can remain in the heads of the Academy voters easier.

The upshot is that a movie that is highly ranked by a large number of Academy voters can wind up beating one that gets more first - place votes.

I again give a collegial tip of the hat to The Hollywood Reporter's Scott Feinberg, whose annual «Brutally Honest Oscar Voter Ballot» sets the template for this deep dive into the thinking of Academy voters.

The 90 - odd members of the Globes - bestowing HFPA have always tended to vary from the choices of the considerably larger pool of Academy voters, whose ranks have swelled to nearly 7,500 this year with the addition of 1,457 new members, many of them women and people of colour.

Clearly, women are leaning into mother - daughter dramedy «Lady Bird,» but they make up only 28 percent of Academy voters.

It takes more than that, and some impossible - to - measure percentage of Academy voters ultimately supported Moonlight precisely because they knew it would irritate Trump.

Does that mean the make - up of Academy voters has pivoted so much that future Best Picture winners won't look like previous ones either?

Given its timing on the awards calendar, Santa Barbara has an impact on the Oscar race, due to its local contingent of Academy voters and high - profile media coverage.

The voting rights and women's right factor could play right into the hands of Academy voters as both issues are front and center in 2015/2016 politics right now.

Whether it translates to multiplex success in the weeks to come isn't assured (the $ 11.6 million for «The Crucible» is the lowest total gross for a film that started at these heights), but it's already a blockbuster in the home of 90 % of Academy voters.

I love Martin Scorsese, but I can easily see if the 4 hour cut felt like it had to be the final cut, then it should've stayed that way and not be under the scrutiny of Academy voters.

Releasing this caliber of film in January was such a big mistake, it went back to theaters to be fresh in the minds of Academy voters when Oscar nominations roll around next month.

If the controversy around Franco had hit earlier, I think a good number of Academy voters would have swung in favor of the safer vote (Hanks).

But with only one win between the two filmmakers (Scorsese's The Departed) in that stretch, their nominations likely speak more to the compulsory voting habits and pre-digested tastes of Academy voters than to the merits of either Nebraska or The Wolf of Wall Street.

This year, these two slots could be taken up by Unbroken and American Sniper because inside the insular world of Academy voters, with only five slots for nominating, and not the freedom of ten, they tend to «vote with their heart.»

Did Waltz's sorta - surprise win foreshadow an evening of academy voters taking pointed stands against pinched - face controversy?

At first, a committee of Academy voters narrow the nominees down to a shortlist.

A block of Academy voters seem to love stories setin the UK of the past, even if the past is recent.

Because while one is accustomed to the mercurial whims of the Academy voters, the total exclusion of JC Chandor's period thriller seems nonsensical in the extreme.

One of the hardest parts of Oscar watching is the inevitable truths that come out every year about the behavior of Academy voters, who are more like your average movie - goer than they are like film critics.

Women make up about 28 percent of Academy voters.

Oscar campaigning is in full swing and Hugh Jackman is on the cover of Variety, a favourite read of Academy voters.

A block of Academy voters seem to love stories set in the UK of the past, even if the past is recent.

Why it might win: Well, since most of the Academy voters are old and white, and like to appear sophisticated, a great many things about this movie probably appeal to them.

It's impossible to read the minds of Academy voters in any definitive way, and I wouldn't be honest if I didn't put my own prejudice out there: I'm not exactly the world's biggest fan of Guillermo del Toro's film.

That usually pulls at the heartstrings of Academy voters.

The movie is a love letter to the forgotten musical (remember, most of the Academy voters are on the older side), the creativity of the story by writer - director Damien Chazelle is incredible, and the performances by Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are some of the best of the year.

In recent years, the statuette has gone home with lesser - seen movies, often from off the mainstream radar — offbeat or «prestige» titles that captured the imagination of Academy voters if not the American public — to the near - total exclusion of big budget Hollywood blockbusters.

That, of course, means that it will be included in next year's Oscar race, testing the very limits of Academy voter's memories and securing its spot on various bloggers «Top 10 Oscar - Worthy Films That Didn't Come Out in The Same Two Months Every Other Oscar - Worthy Film Does» lists.

Not exact matches

Because of James Cameron's involvement and its huge box - office gross, «Avatar» probably had these nominations in the bag before any Academy voter even saw the movie.

I've been talking to a lot of the new members asked to join the Academy during its two - year diversity push, and a lot of these ostensibly hipper, younger voters — many of whom are people of color and white women — are happy to tell you they like Three Billboards.

The performances are that undeniable, and I think they will resonate strongly with the actors» branch, the biggest group of voters in the Academy.

It's the type of anti-hero that Academy Award voters love to hate.

In the first major act of rebellion at the autumn conference voters clearly rejected schools minister Sarah Teather's attempt to water down a motion stating that «conference is concerned by the establishment of academies and free schools under coalition government policy».

The New York Academy of Sciences Environmental Sciences Section and Green Science and Sustainability Program, the Sallan Foundation and the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund will host an address by a senior member of Governor Spitzer's team about his strategic approach to the environmental, energy and climate challenges facing New York.

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If 80 % of eligible voters have Internet access and 10 % of them are undecided, the search engine effect could convince an additional 25 % of those undecided to vote for a target candidate, the team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The theme of a reluctant gentile trying to save Jews from Hitler's minions should be appealing to Academy voters, who named Schindler's List the Best Picture of 1993, but may induce Holocaust fatigue in some viewers.

Of course, what stands out the most when looking at past years is that Academy voters and film critics appear to be two very distinct groups, and there is no predicting when their tastes will overlap.