For many
of these awards hopefuls, the ordeal becomes a slog; as an Oscar nominee once put it to us, it's like riding a roller coaster, which sounds great until you have to spend months doing it.
This year we have a handful
of awards hopefuls that have been in and out of predictions including Disobedience starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool starring Annette Bening and Jamie Bell and Woman Walks Ahead starring Jessica Chastain.
Fox Searchlight has a pair
of awards hopefuls coming to Venice with The Shape of Water from Guillermo del Toro and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and A24 (reigning Best Picture winner with Moonlight) is debuting Lean on Pete from Andrew Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years).
Moving along at Toronto, it seems Mitch Glazer's «Passion Play,» which was as much for the director since he spent 20 years trying to get it made, was hung right out to dry and that Mickey Rourke can be knocked off of anyone's list
of awards hopefuls.
For a refresher course on
all of the award hopefuls, catch up on The Ringer's coverage of this year's nominees.
Not exact matches
So Paramount, in the wake
of a disappointing 2017 that saw big budget films like Transformers: The Last Knight and Ghost in the Shell underperform while the studio's would - be Oscar
hopefuls Suburbicon and Downsizing were DOA at
awards season, is looking to make some changes in 2018 and selling God Particle off to Netflix may be a cushy deal.
Started in 1986, the James Beard Foundation is a New York based national professional organization named in honor
of James Beard that serves to promote the culinary arts by honoring chefs, wine professionals, journalists, and cookbook authors at annual
award ceremonies and providing scholarships and educational initiatives to cooking
hopefuls.
SEE MORE Ajax and Milan
hopeful of signing young wonderkid from the Netherlands Liverpool flop wins MLS player
of the month
award Manchester United striker Chicharito closing in on Lazio move
France Football, the organizers
of the Ballon d'Or
award, are
hopeful that Barcelona midfielder, Andres Iniesta will win the prize this year.
The
award presentation will provide some
of the conference's most
hopeful news for marine mammals in peril from threats ranging from climate change to chemical contaminants.
The Nominees for these prestigious
awards have been announced and some
of the
hopefuls, include; Sarah Burton, Stella McCartney, Victoria Beckham, Erdem and Mary Katrantzou.
Julie's the recent winner
of the 2017 iDate
Awards for Best Dating Coach and is the author
of the bestseller The Perils
of Cyber-Dating: Confessions
of a
Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online and ranks as the most influential person in social media in «dating» and «online dating.»
After debuting at the Cannes Film Festival last month, the delayed, once -
hopeful awards contender Grace
of Monaco will likely hit theaters sometime later this year.
Campaigning for moviemaking's biggest prize has already begun, as evidenced by the starry turnout
of Oscar
hopefuls at the private, untelevised Governors
Awards.
Much like Universal's other prominent
awards hopeful Unbroken (which was covered in our previous installment), a trailer for Get On Up has been released, which provides us some insight on the tone
of the film and how it will portray Brown.
Focus Features is moving up the release
of Matthew McConaughey - led AIDS drama and
awards hopeful «The Dallas Buyers Club» from December 6th to November 1st.
The crew is, however, reunited this month as Colleen, Dale (Letterboxd) and I (Letterboxd) look ahead at November which is a mishmash
of everything from action adventure (Thor: Ragnarok) and family fare (Coco) to
awards hopefuls (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri).
It's a situation that manifests nearly every year, where some
awards hopeful is deemed problematic, like «Saving Mr. Banks» for glossing over Walt Disney's unsavory views, or «Zero Dark Thirty» for its perceived endorsement
of torture.
2017 Academy
Awards, 2017, 2017 Oscars, 2017 Oscar Predictions, 89th Academy
Awards, 89th Oscars,
Awards Talk,
Award Prediction,
Awards,
Awards bait,
Awards Tracker,
Awards seasons,
Awards Predictions, Academy
Award winner, Academy
Award nominations, Academy
Award nominees, Academy
Awards, Academy
Award nominee, Academy
Award, Oscar winners, Oscar bait, Oscar, Oscar contenders, Oscar Predictions, Oscar snubs, Oscar race, Oscar talks, Oscar surprises, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Oscar
hopefuls, Oscar nominee, List, Checklist, Oscar Checklist, Best Motion Picture
of the Year, Best Picture, The race for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Animated Feature, Best Animated Short Film, Best Documentary Feature, Best Documentary Short Subject, Best Live Action Short Film, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hair - Styling, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Original Song, Best Original Score, Don Shanahan, Donald Shanahan, Every Movie Has a Lesson
Time will tell, but in this writer's opinion, this film is one
of the biggest
awards hopefuls of 2018.
Over the next decade, Anonymous continued to establish its identity, and for every
awards hopeful that stumbled like «Rendition» or «The Fifth Estate,» there was a pleasant surprise such as «Winter's Bone,» which also made a star out
of a young, largely unknown actress named Jennifer Lawrence.
Fox Searchlight's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is among the latest
of this year's fall
awards hopefuls.
Awards season is just beginning and soon will come the Fall onslaught
of hopefuls, but for now there's a bit
of a lull as a relative few Specialty newcomers make their ways into theaters over the Labor Day weekend.
Columbia Pictures
awards hopeful Roman J. Israel, Esq. leads a slate
of limited release newcomers more crowded than last weekend's.
Best Picture, The race for Best Picture, Oscar Predictions, Oscar nominations, Oscar contenders, Oscar
hopefuls, Oscar bait, 88th Academy
Awards, 88th Oscars, Oscars, 2016, 2015, Best Director, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Actor, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay, Big 8, Oscar snubs, Oscar surprises, Spotlight, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant, The Big Short, Carol, Room, Brooklyn, The Martian, Bridge
of Spies, Creed, Inside Out, Son
of Saul, Straight Outta Compton, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, George Miller, Tom McCarthy, Todd Haynes, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Ridley Scott, Adam McKay, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Ryan Coogler, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs, Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl, Matt Damon, Bryan Cranston, Trumbo, Johnny Depp, Black Mass, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Keaton, Brie Larson, Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years, Jennifer Lawrence, Joy, Charlize Theron, Sarah Silverman, I Smile Back, Helen Mirren, Emily Blunt, Sicario, Sylvester Stallone, Mark Rylance, Michael Shannon, 99 Homes, Paul Dano, Love and Mercy, Jacob Tremblay, Benecio del Toro, Mark Ruffalo, Steve Carell, Christian Bale, Idris Elba, Beasts
of No Nation, Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina, Alex Garland, Rooney Mara, Kate Winslet, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kristen Stewart, Clouds
of Sils Maria, Rachel McAdams, Josh Singer, Pete Docter, Meg LaFauvre, Josh Cooley, Oren Movermann, Michael Alan Lerner, Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
In keeping with the youthful slant
of many
of this year's
awards hopefuls, this year's group
of Gray Lady picks skews rather younger, ranging from 13 year - old Kodi Smit - Phee to 24 year - old Anna Kendrick.
Beyond the inside - the - mediasphere headaches
of scheduling and other logistics, the transition only served to underscore how the festival continues to be torn between premieres
of Hollywood films hitting theaters within weeks, the carefully calibrated launch
of award - season
hopefuls, the rediscovery
of films from earlier in the festival year, and the emergence
of new international and independent titles.
An
awards hopeful of this type would usually snatch up that Christmas day slot, right?
Once seen as a waning force in the film industry calendar, the world's oldest film festival has regained its status as a kingmaker for
award - season
hopefuls, with a record
of launching films that have gone on to enjoy success at the Academy
Awards, including two recent best picture winners in Spotlight and Birdman, and the film that took home the highest number
of Oscars this year, La La Land.
So while Hollywood chooses this time
of year to start shelling their
award hopefuls, many
of them emotionally draining dramas, the search for a palette cleanser seems more
of a necessity than a choice and this year, DreamWorks Animation is delivering the goods.
Instead, the lineup features a clutch
of films regarded as possible
awards hopefuls.
The film is being cited with an honor for its entire ensemble cast, which is a compliment not just to Tarantino, but to a number
of Academy
Award hopefuls as well.
His critical hit The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was a box - office failure; his scrappy indie (and
awards hopeful) The Birth
of a Nation ended up being a P.R. disaster.
Big Eyes seems to be one
of the centerpieces
of his efforts this year, as evidenced by the fact that he has given it a coveted Christmas Day release date, which remains the most high - profile launching date for an
awards hopeful, despite the fact that it has been more than a decade since a December release has won Best Picture.
Ahead
of the 2016 Academy
Awards, vlogger Clarisse Loughrey runs the numbers on Best Picture
hopeful The Big Short, which stars Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, Brad Pitt and Christian Bale... and their wigs.
For some movie fans, Fall is a welcome respite from the oft - numbing assault
of Summer blockbusters; for other fans it will be time spent having to endure a lot more «artsy» films and
Award season
hopefuls until the holiday movie season arrives with its own slew
of blockbuster fare.
Victoria and Abdul has cumed $ 21.9 M, still the best
of the fall's
awards hopefuls, though that may well be ultimately challenged by the likes
of Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird and Darkest Hour.
Right now we're in a bit
of a dead zone for theatrical release, s with most movies released this month being neither good enough for a summer blockbuster release or
hopeful enough for a debut during
awards season.
Birdman is possibly the strangest
of the big studio
award hopefuls.
As I've mentioned recently, this film was one
of the last
of the unseen Academy
Award hopefuls, so now the Oscar race has ever -LSB-...]
It's the time
of year when
awards hopefuls start jostling for position, and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Birdman has long - been tipped for big things.
While the film community scrutinizes every decimal point on the box office returns for summer's superhero blockbusters and Academy
Awards hopefuls, the horror genre has quietly been churning out some
of the most profitable films in the industry recently.
Nothing new at the P - I this week from me, but I tried to put some order to my ruminations on Revolutionary Road and The Reader, two
of the most prominent Oscar
hopefuls rolled out in what is traditionally the
awards season run - up, yet have found little critical traction this season.
A handful
of Oscar
hopefuls added a guild nomination to their lists today, the Casting Society
of America's Artios
Award.
Despite the presence
of Oscar
hopefuls throughout many
of the categories, the Spirit
Awards also strive to recognize emerging talents, with categories for first feature and first screenplay, as well as the John Cassavetes
Award for a feature made for under $ 500,000.
After an
awards night with so many
hopeful moments, when women seemed to be taking back the narrative on the red carpet, in their acceptance speeches and in the number
of awards going to women - centered projects, it was a stinging dose
of reality.
Some in the audience cringed as the camera immediately cut to Elizabeth Olsen, star
of the TWC
awards hopeful, «Wind River.»
It was funny to hear Schrader allude to «
awards season» at the screening, when explaining why the film will be held back to next spring because Hawke would've given this year's crop
of best actor
hopefuls a run for their money.
Amid the din
of the hot movie releases
of late December —
Awards hopefuls!
Though audiences will sadly have to wait a little longer to see Martin Scorsese's «The Wolf
of Wall Street» after the director failed to meet the original date, there are still plenty
of great movies on tap, including a few
award hopefuls, a pair
of blockbuster sequels and more.