Sentences with phrase «of the awards season horse»

But Nolan was hardly alone in the Academy Awards snubs department, with a number of presumed shoo - ins not being invited to this year's ceremony — a surprise in the final leg of the awards season horse race that left some in Hollywood struggling to make sense of the omissions.

Not exact matches

It's that time of year again when Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo battle against each other under the pretence of it being anything other than a two - horse race for the end of season awards.

While most of his previous seasons have been ravaged with injury after injury, he has been as fit as a horse this season and led the team from the front, and deservedly took top personal domestic honors such as the PFA Player of the Year and the FWA Player of the Years awards.

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There's «Get Out» from Jordan Peele (which feels like a dark horse for Original Screenplay on a good day, though I'm sure many will work hard for Daniel Kaluuya and Betty Gabriel in acting categories) and «The Fate of the Furious» from F. Gary Gray («Straight Outta Compton»), but neither truly feel like they'll make a dent come awards season.

The black horse contender is Chris Pine for Hell or High Water, which is shaping up to be something of an underdog come this awards season.

And because of A24's canny distribution strategy, the film is getting a glossy December 8 rollout — after earning rapturous reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival — and being positioned as an awards - season dark horse.

«Starring Oscar nominee Jonah Hill» That's a bit of marketing play you better start getting used to because with Oscar recognition now under his belt, and having show off his range in both «Cyrus» and the awards season horse «Moneyball,» there are going to be plenty more opportunities outside of comic roles for Jonah Hill and it looks like he's striking while the iron is hot.

For my last prediction article of this arduous awards season, I had hoped to post only a screencap of Facebook's new angry - face emoji before crawling into a horse carcass until the Oscar ceremony was over, but decided that I shouldn't respond to Hollywood's laziness in kind.

Taylor Sheridan's chilling drama about a Native American woman who is sexually abused and killed by a mysterious assailant is the dark horse of this awards season.