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Leading the pack of film nominees was Fox Searchlight Pictures» «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» earning, in addition to the coveted Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture honor, individual recognition for leading actress Frances McDormand and supporting actors Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson.

Check out the list of film nominees below.

Awards season kicks into high gear today with the announcement of the film nominees for the 2017 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards.

Not exact matches

Interestingly, fellow nominee Mad Max: Fury Road «s search volume dropped more than 85 % around its nomination, though that might have something to do with the fact that the film was released last May and had been out of theaters for months when nominations were announced.

The company tracked the number of Internet searches across various platforms for each of the Best Picture nominees during the week before the nominations were announced last month and the week after, and then compared those numbers to the weeks around each film's initial release.

It was fun to see a modern - day interpretation of a silent film, but it didn't bring much more to the table than that gimmick, and it doesn't hold a special place as a memorable and impactful movie the way its fellow nominees «The Tree of Life,» «Midnight in Paris,» and «Moneyball» do.

I am happy, for example, to recommend MUD, the film most scandalously left off this year «s list of Oscar - nominees for Best Picture, to any movie - lover.

I am happy, for example, to recommend MUD, the film most scandalously left off this year «s list of Oscar - nominees for Best Picture,....

Both of those films were — as widely expected — among eight nominees for best picture this year, as were longtime Oscar favorite Boyhood and awards - friendly biopics like The Imitation Game, Selma, and The Theory of Everything.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for their 87th Academy Awards early Thursday morning, recognizing the best films, filmmakers, and on - and off - screen talent of 2014.

It's no Annie Hall, sure, but Midnight in Paris is Woody Allen's best reviewed film in over a decade and his highest grossing release of all time; it's also being mentioned as a likely best picture nominee.

Agnieszka Holland's In Darkness is a familiar but stirring Oscar - season specimen (it's a foreign - language - film nominee) centering on a spontaneously righteous Gentile, Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz), who becomes a guardian angel for a small group of Polish Jews after the Nazis and their Ukrainian henchman have «liquidated» their ghetto.

As it happens, the Ireland - based studio was also responsible for producing world - class Oscar nominees «The Secret of Kells» and «Song of the Sea,» and though Nora Twomey worked on both films, «The Breadwinner» marks her solo directing debut, employing a similarly bold graphic style in its telling («hand - drawn» via a program called TVPaint), augmented by colorful story - within - the - story interludes designed to look like stop - motion.

Denmark takes the stage back in a most dramatic fashion with A Royal Affair, recently named one of the five Oscar nominees for best foreign language film.

Paramount's highest - scoring 2014 film, Selma, was one of just two best picture nominees to come from one of the majors, and Paramount finished with 7 Oscar nominations in all (even with Selma's snubs in other categories).

Set against a backdrop of London torn apart by violence, the film follows one of the champions of Earth's survival: Theo (Academy Award nominee Clive Owen), a disillusioned ex-activist turned bureaucrat, who faces his own demons and must protect the planet's last remaining hope for a future generation.

And, as you can see below in our quick look back at the last two decades of best picture nominees, having the best reviews among just the nominated films isn't even enough to guarantee a win.

Best animated film nominee The Croods, Fox's highest - grossing film last year (though with just $ 587 million worldwide, good for 11th place overall), was one of just two Oscar nominations for the studio (the other came for John Williams» Book Thief score).

For Denmark, the film, an Oscar nominee in the foreign - language category, might seem quietly radical, but Mr. Lindholm errs too far on the side of quiet.

Universal's specialty films division, Focus Features had a wildly disappointing 2014 from a quality standpoint (especially compared to its successful 2013), despite the presence of an Oscar best picture nominee (The Theory of Everything).

Below, we recap the reactions from critics to the major films screening at this year's Telluride, Venice, and Toronto International Film Festivals, considered the most prestigious events of the season and the locales where many future Oscar nominees first debut.

A nominee for the Platform prize at the 2017 Festival, the debut film by Michael Pearce is a riveting, slow - burning thriller about the limits of love and the darkness inside us.

Adapted from Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago's masterwork, the film is directed by Academy Awardr - nominee Fernando Meirelles (City of God) from a screenplay by Tony Award - winner Don McKellar (The Drowsy Chaperone).

What makes this nominee for the best - foreign - film Oscar singular among Holocaust movies is the way it characterizes the banality of life underground.

It's a must - read: Pity the film scholar who tries to discern something about our times from surveying this list of best picture nominees 10, or 30, or 50 years from now.

Three - time Oscar nominee Johnny Depp («Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,» «Finding Neverland,» the «Pirates of the Caribbean» films) stars as notorious mobster James «Whitey» Bulger in the drama «Black Mass,» directed by Scott Cooper («Crazy Heart»).

We'll link to a full list of nominees as and when we have one and follow that up with news stories, a gallery and the thoughts of our lead film critic, Peter Bradshaw.

Oscar has always loved films based on true stories — 100 out of 485 Best Picture nominees since 1927 would qualify — but never more than this year.

Third - billed Domhnall Gleeson is good enough in his sporadic role, which virtually guarantees him two Best Picture Oscar nominees this year (along with Brooklyn) and a presence in four of the year's most acclaimed films (with Ex Machina and Star Wars: The Force Awakens) without being terribly noteworthy or conspicuous in any of them.

«We felt the film would appeal to a broad range of the upscale moviegoing audience, who had spent the last month watching many of the Academy Award nominees,» noted CBS Films» EVP of distribution, Steven Friedlander.

Ejiofor is at the center of an embarrassment of acting talent throughout this film with even smaller roles occupied by the likes of Brad Pitt, Michael K Williams, Paul Giamatti, Paul Dano, and last year's Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild).

Both films feature in the Best Picture lineup, as does «Public Enemy Number One,» a sprawling biopic of gangster Jacques Mesrine that has been a local box - office smash and leads all nominees with 10 bids.

Reprising their roles, Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga («Up In the Air,» TV's «Bates Motel») and Patrick Wilson (the «Insidious» films), star as Lorraine and Ed Warren, who, in one of their most terrifying paranormal investigations, travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

The film also navigates the very tricky path of a budding relationship between Will and new Army widow Olivia (two - time Oscar nominee Samantha Morton), with all its false starts and resonant awkwardness.

He also managed to avoid the topic of sexual abuse while speaking with Best Supporting Actor nominee Christopher Plummer about the trials of filming «All the Money in the World» — a movie in which he replaced Kevin Spacey in reshoots after actor Anthony Rapp accused Spacey of trying to «seduce» him when Rapp was 14 years old.

The Shape of Water is definitely a unique film in the field of Oscars nominees this year.

That film, as well as all four other nominees for best film (Bridge of Spies, Carol, The Revenant and Spotlight), hails from the US.

Planned as part of a trilogy, the film also stars Katherine Waterston («Inherent Vice») as Tina; Alison Sudol («Dig,» «Transparent») as Tina's sister Queenie; Tony Award winner Dan Fogler («The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee») as Jacob; Ezra Miller («Trainwreck») as Credence; two - time Oscar nominee Samantha Morton («In America,» «Sweet and Lowdown») as Mary Lou; Jenn Murray («Brooklyn») as Chastity; newcomer Faith Wood - Blagrove as Modesty; and Colin Farrell («True Detective») as Graves.

Villenueve, an Academy Award and BAFTA nominee for his 2011 film «Incendies,» delivers one of the greatest Hollywood debuts I can remember in recent history.

To date he has starred in three Best Foreign Language Film nominees (Amores Perros, The Crime of Father Amaro, and No) and three other Oscar nominated films (Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Motorcycle Diaries, and Babel).

«As we celebrate 30 years of great independent film,» said Josh Welsh, President of Film Independent, «this year's nominees are an astonishingly strong group of films and filmmakers which demonstrate the uniqueness of vision we honor at this show.»

The 2015 Japan Film Festival of San Francisco is adding 16 acclaimed films to its programming — including Best Animated Feature Oscar - nominee The Tale of Princess Kaguya and Studio Ghibli's latest film, When Marnie Was There (Pictured).

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The film features an A-list supporting cast that includes Oscar - winners Kate Winslet and Octavia Spencer and nominee Naomi Watts, along with effective performances on the part of Theo James, Ansel Elgort, Zoe Kravitz and Miles Teller.

This year shouldn't have any leftover winners from last year looking for nominations but there is a chance that nominee Isabelle Huppert (Elle) could crash Best Actress as her film screened just outside of last season's deadline.

(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French film and, for that matter, any non-English-language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.

The New York and Los Angeles film critics have already picked their best movies of the year, and now their Broadcast Film Critics Association and Broadcast Television Journalists Association are preparing to follow suit by announcing the nominees for the Critics» Choice Awards, with winners of which will be announced...

I didn't see any of this year's nominees (thank goodness), so my own personal Razzie for the year's worst film has to go to 1911, a Chinese historical epic starring Jackie Chan that is painfully, hilariously bad.

The DVD has a short feature on the making of the film, which was created with off - the - shelf software as a sort of low - rent counterpart to the computer animation applied in fellow nominees «Shrek» and «Monsters, Inc.» The disc also has two music videos, a dozen promotional TV spots, seven games playable on computer DVD - ROM drives and full - screen and widescreen versions of the film.

Other nominees include Australian actor Margot Robbie, who began her career playing Donna Freedman in the long - running soap Neighbours and made her name in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street opposite Leonard DiCaprio, and Shailene Woodley, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in the 2011 film The Descendants, starring George Clooney, and took the lead role in the 2014 film adaptation of The Fault In Our Stars.