Lady Gaga secured
the only acting nomination for Ryan Murphy's FX anthology series, «American Horror Story: Hotel.»
Harrelson received the film's
only acting nomination for his work as Larry, but I think he provides the weakest performance of the leads.
Not exact matches
Alone with «American Hustle,» it was the
only one of the 10 movies up for a Golden Globe best picture that also collected a SAG
nomination for ensemble, the
acting union's equivalent of the best picture category.
But Hamm's Emmy is the series»
only acting win in 37
nominations.
On the Oscars front the film continues to rank high on the Gold Rush Gang and Forum Oscar Poll Results, consistently placing in the top 3 and this first trailer will
only bolster its chances of being a major player this season for the film, Lee and possible
acting nominations for Steve Martin, Kristen Stewart as well as newcomer Alwyn.
But, in order to do that Dunkirk would have to take the Oscars all the way back to 1932's Grand Hotel, which won Best Picture as its
only nomination (so obviously no
acting or writing noms).
(The Wrestler, about a more low - brow form of entertainment,
only pulled a couple
acting nominations.)
You can always tell when the actors have their say because the film will have a Best Picture
nomination and
only one
acting nomination.
Not
only did «Moonlight's» Mahershala Ali and «Fences»» Viola Davis earn Oscars for their supporting roles — the first time two African American actors won in both supporting categories in the same year — Ruth Negga was nominated for her lead role in «Loving» and Denzel Washington earned his seventh
acting nomination plus a shot at best picture as one of the producers of «Fences.»
That helped him become
only the sixth male teenager to ever draw an Oscar
acting nomination.
Ejiofer and McConaughey would both be first time nominees, while Redford has rather shockingly
only received one Oscar
nomination for
acting (in 1973 for «The Sting,» which he lost to Jack Lemmon), though he did win a directing Oscar seven years later for «Ordinary People.»
Some other interesting notes: Martin Scorsese's Silence is nowhere to be found (Finding Dory is missing as well), and Fences
only got a few
acting nominations.
And Lemmon and co-star Sissy Spacek each scored
acting nominations in addition to the film being nominated for Best Picture, but it
only won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
While all the aforementioned movies are represented in the Best Picture, Best Director and Best Ensemble categories, the
nominations are spread across categories with
only The Shape of Water finding representation in almost every category it was eligible for, save for
acting, where it is
only represented by lead actress Sally Hawkins.
We'll stick with There Will Be Blood by a straw's length, if
only because eight
nominations has to translate to something more than one predestined
acting award, right?
In contrast to Lean's two prior epics (which had each earned lead and supporting
acting nominations), Zhivago's
only recognized cast member was supporting player Tom Courtenay, who wound up losing to A Thousand Clowns» Martin Balsam.
Instead, «Home»
only earned three
nominations in Animated Effects, Character Animation and Production Design (no Rihanna was nominated for her voice
acting work).
Sure, Johnny Depp as J.M. Barrie got the Academy Award
nomination, but
only because he was
acting across someone who could pluck at all our heartstrings effortlessly.
In Contention talks to Oscar nominated sound designer Paul N.J. Ottoson on Zero Dark Thirty Film.com Joe Reid does the research we wanted done on most winningest
acting lineups of all time — but, yes, Supporting Actor 2012 is the
only ALL winners
acting lineup at
nomination time.
Lots of
nominations for Masters of Sex and Orange is the New Black; Things That Are Stupid: Mad Men shut out; Things That Are Interesting: Joe Morton who plays Kerry Washington's father and Bellamy Young, who plays the perpetually defeated unloved First Lady are the
only members of Scandal to get
acting nominations.
For the first time EVER their
acting award
nominations are
ONLY women and people of color.
Only 11 films have won Best Picture without a single
acting nomination, a group «Dunkirk» will try to join this year.
As Capitol Connection previously reported, King was initially set to serve
only as
acting secretary during the final year of Obama's presidency, but the president is now moving forward with an official
nomination, in part due to the support of Senate education committee chair Lamar Alexander (R - TN).
For the past two years, no person of color has been nominated for an Academy Award in the four
acting categories, and after this year's nominees were announced last month, criticism poured in, not
only against the Academy, for the
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