Sentences with phrase «picture award instead»

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Invictus will be a shoo - in for a Best Picture nomination at the Academy Awards ®, especially as the new system nominates ten films, instead of five.

It was the gaffe heard around the world, but when the dust finally cleared on last year's fateful Oscars and this graceful indie was crowned Best Picture (with well - deserved awards for Mahershala Ali as Supporting Actor and Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney for Best Adapted Screenplay), instead of the front - runner La La Land, liberal Hollywood breathed a collective sigh of relief.

Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, who initially, incorrectly announced La La Land instead of Moonlight the winner last year, surprisingly returned to present the best picture award — this time without a hitch.

They had awarded «The Godfather» Best Picture two years earlier, but much of the precursor circuit (and all of the critics groups) largely ignored the sequel, opting instead for films such as «Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore» and «Chinatown,» among others.

Over at Oscar Watch: Universal Pictures has already set up its awards site, and a little clicking around uncovers something very interesting: The studio apparently has decided to campaign for both Frank Langella and Michael Sheen as Best Actor for Frost / Nixon, instead of placing one of them in the Best Supporting Actor race so they -LSB-...]

Meeker had just turned down reprising his role in Columbia Pictures» major adaptation of that award - winning play, reportedly opposed to signing a long - term contract (earning William Holden the job instead).

There are some who are predicting that a split will occur between Picture and Original Screenplay (where all the major contenders are), but this would appear to be because «Three Billboards» was not eligible for the Original Screenplay WGA Award due to their asinine rules, which led to it being given to «Get Out» instead.

Just looking at the contenders to emerge so far this year, would Boyhood be the awards player, and arguably the Best Picture frontrunner, it is today if it had made only $ 2.3 million instead of the $ 23 million (and...

Just looking at the contenders to emerge so far this year, would Boyhood be the awards player, and arguably the Best Picture frontrunner, it is today if it had made only $ 2.3 million instead of the $ 23 million (and still counting!)

The strength of Charles Frazier's National Book Award - winning source material lies in its socio - political details of America's Civil War period, but Minghella has focused his picture unerringly on the overrated novel's weaknesses instead: its dialogue, its clumsy Homeric riff (for better country - fried Odyssey, stick to O Brother Where Art Thou?)

Ugh, yes, I actually didn't mean to write «not nominated for Best Picture» but instead a movie not nominated for a whole swag of other awards, but as I was looking at the list of winners I forgot that Dark Knight wasn't nominated for BP.

This year the Academy broke with the illogic of recent award ceremonies by giving Oscar to the people who directed the Best Picture instead of splitting the honor.

But as we guessed (and hoped), the move was not a case of the studio dumping the picture, but instead, making sure that what they see as a possible awards season contender has the best debut possible.

Instead, the evening will belong to Slumdog Millionaire which I predict will win Best Picture and Best director, netting an impressive 7 Academy Awards overall, despite the fact that it isn't up for anything in the acting categories.