«Straight Outta Compton» won the group's best
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«Straight Outta Compton» won the group's best
picture award last year during an awards season that was criticized for its lack of recognition for African American actors and projects, particularly by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Not exact matches
In fact, all of the previous 10 best
picture winners, prior to
last night's win by The Artist, have grossed the far majority of their box office money before the Academy
Awards.
Last year's best
picture honoree, «Spotlight,» took in $ 5.9 million at U.S. and Canadian theaters after the
award, comScore said.
Alejandro González Iñárritu's dramedy Birdman took home the Oscar for Best
Picture at
last night's 87th Academy
Awards, beating out Boyhood in a nail - biter.
Last night at the Academy
Awards, audiences witnessed the most awkward moment in Oscar history: Somehow, the wrong film was announced for Best
Picture.
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I gave him an
award last time and that
picture comes back to haunt me all the time.
The Glitz Style
Award winner
last month tied the knot with
pictures still circulating in the media space.
Since then, he has directed critically acclaimed,
award - winning films including Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Sil
award - winning films including Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The
Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, for which he won an Academy
Award for Best Director and Best Picture, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Sil
Award for Best Director and Best
Picture, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Silence.
The
last four Best Feature winners in a row at the Spirit
Awards have gone on to win the Best
Picture Oscar.
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.
For his
last film «Carol,» Haynes could hardly have asked for better reviews or
awards buzz, and yet, it was snubbed in Best
Picture.
Silver Linings Playbook was also up for quite a few gold men at
last year's Oscars, including Best
Picture, but winning Best Feature at the Independent Spirit
Awards is a more fitting accolade for this black sheep film about, well, black sheep.
In the
last four years, Moonlight, Spotlight, Birdman and 12 Years a Slave have won both the Spirit
Award and Oscar best
picture trophy.
Regular
awards - watchers will know that the NSFC is generally the most highbrow of the critics» groups, as well as the most independent - minded —
last year, they went wholly against the Oscar grain, giving Best
Picture to «Waltz With Bashir» and four major
awards to «Happy - Go - Lucky.»
In the standoff between «Boy...» and ``... man,» the «Birdman» came out on top
last night at the 87th annual Academy
Awards, winning four awards including best picture, best director for Alejandro González Iñárritu, best original screenplay, and best cinematography for Emmanuel Lu
Awards, winning four
awards including best picture, best director for Alejandro González Iñárritu, best original screenplay, and best cinematography for Emmanuel Lu
awards including best
picture, best director for Alejandro González Iñárritu, best original screenplay, and best cinematography for Emmanuel Lubezki.
If, however, yesterday's Independent Spirit
Awards Best Feature winner, Get Out, manages to take tonight's top prize, then it will even outdo the
last few Best
Picture winners at the box office to top nine digits.
Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios Motion
Pictures became the latest new distributor to join Deadline's annual The Contenders event when it brought Hostiles to our seventh edition of the
awards - season kickoff
last month.
But in these results there is a notable echo of
last season, where the only roadblock for «La La Land» came at the WGA
Awards when «Moonlight» — categorized as an original screenplay by the guild, yet adapted by the Academy's writers branch — upset the perceived best -
picture frontrunner.
We started with one of this year's Razzie firsts, THE EMOJI MOVIE being the first animated film to vie for the worst
picture award before moving on to the industry's love - hate relationship with Rotten Tomatoes; Adam Sandler's opinion of his fans; how Wilson has dealt with a steady diet of bad films for the
last 38 years; the odd timing of FIFTY SHADES FREED's release; and who the Razzies consider to be fair game.
Unfortunately this is nothing new, especially when we look back at the
last time a silent film won the best
picture award and a best actor was denied the
award he had rightfully won.
Last Year «Äôs Big Winners: «ÄúSlumdog Millionaire «Äù took its first major best
picture award of the season here, as well as honors for adapted screenplay and breakthrough actor Dev Patel.
Pirates of the Caribbean is the first film ever released under the Walt Disney
Pictures brand to receive higher than a PG rating (the film is rated PG - 13), and the team assembled to make the film is a virtual Who's who of hot properties: Director Gore Verbinski had a huge hit
last year with the spook fest The Ring, Writers Terry Rossio & Ted Elliott were the writing team behind Shrek, Actor Johnny Depp is so extremely selective in his roles no one would ever imagine he'd do a Disney film, Orlando Bloom is fresh off the Lord of The Rings Trilogy, Geoffrey Rush has at least one Academy
Award under his belt, and Keira Knightley has become a hot property after her performance in the run away indie hit Bend It Like Beckham.
The OFCS has nominated the eventual Oscar winner for Best
Picture in eight of the
last ten years; matching Oscar winners 12 Years a Slave (2013), The Hurt Locker (2009), No Country for Old Men (2007) and Argo (2012), becoming the first major critics group to recognize Ben Affleck's future Academy
Award recipient.
The Golden Globes, which were handed out
last weekend, are the only major
awards to make a distinction between drama and «musical or comedy», and Martin McDonagh's new film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, duly walked away with four of the coveted
awards, including Best Motion
Picture.
But perhaps the best moment for a female nominee went unnoticed when during
last night's biggest
award - Best
Picture - Vanessa Taylor won alongside Best Director winner Guillermo del Toro for co-writing the fantasy thriller
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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.
Winner of five Academy
Awards ® including Best
Picture, the exhilarating epic Braveheart is one of the most beloved movies of the
last 20 years.
For those who were unaware, the
last time the PGA
Award missed out on predicting Best
Picture was 2007 when «Little Miss Sunshine» took the honor («Gravity» tied with «12 Years A Slave» two years ago, but again «12 Years» still won).
But perhaps the best moment for a female nominee went unnoticed when during
last night's biggest
award - Best
Picture - Vanessa Taylor won alongside Best Director winner Guillermo del Toro for co-writing the fantasy thriller The Shape of Water.
In the five years since her
last album, «Electric Lady,» Monae has toured, landed star - making acting appearances in «Hidden Figures» and Oscar Best
Picture «Moonlight,» launched her Wondaland label (home to Jidenna, St. Beauty and others) and gave a rousing #TimesUp - themed speech at the Grammy
Awards in January.
The honor makes the «Get Out» filmmaker just the fifth black director nominated for the
award, a distinguished group that includes John Singleton for 1991's «Boyz n the Hood,» Lee Daniels for 2009's «Precious,» Steve McQueen for 2013's «12 Years a Slave» and Barry Jenkins for
last year's best -
picture winner, «Moonlight.»
Chicago, the
last musical to win Oscar's Best
Picture, took home three
awards in 2003: Ensemble, Actress in a Leading Role (Renee Zellweger) and Actress in a Supporting Role (Catherine Zeta - Jones).
But by that point the Board had already given Spielberg two Best
Picture awards, for 1985's «The Color Purple» (the Academy chose «Out of Africa») and 1987's «Empire of the Sun» (the Academy went with «The
Last Emperor»), both of which have aged quite well and were not properly appreciated by critics upon first release.
Bejo's certainly the more likely candidate — the three - hour, sexually explicit «Blue» seems less
awards friendly — but despite Sony
Pictures Classics «success with Riva
last year, our guess is that Bejo will be more like Marion Cotillard and miss out on the cut.
The winners of the 46th NAACP Image
Awards were announced
last night and Selma dominated the motion
picture categories winning Outstanding Motion Picture and three acting trophies for its cast (David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo and C
picture categories winning Outstanding Motion
Picture and three acting trophies for its cast (David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo and C
Picture and three acting trophies for its cast (David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo and Common).
Last year's Best
Picture winner, «Birdman,» was nominated for an Eddie but didn't make the cut in the equivalent Academy
Awards category.
Similarly, the
last Best
Picture winner nominated for Best Costume Design to LOSE said
award was «Braveheart,» which lost to period piece «Restoration.»
Another note: The
last Best
Picture winner nominated for Best Art Direction to LOSE said
award was «Gladiator» (which lost to fellow Best
Picture nominee «Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon»).
Last year, when the Social Network swept the
awards, it became the first time one film won as many NBR
awards but didn't go on to win the Best
Picture Oscar.
It didn't win the PGA
Award and the
last time the PGA winner didn't take Best
Picture was in 2007 when «Little Miss Sunshine» lost to «The Departed.»
The other two big Best
Picture hopefuls, «Spotlight» and «The Big Short,» took home the same screenplay honors they won at the WGA
Awards last night (Original and Adapted, respectfully).
The
Last Airbender «wins» the Worst
Picture and M. Night Shyamalan took home Worst Director and Worst Screenplay
awards.
For the winner, it is a moment of euphoria and exhaustion, which
last year Warren Beatty did his best to make as chaotic as possible, with Faye Dunaway, by accidentally
awarding best
picture to La La Land, when it should have gone to Moonlight.
Perhaps the
last awards - season film that relied on music to this extent was The Artist, which walked away with both best original score and best
picture; though The Shape of Water faces stiff competition, especially from first - time Oscar nominee Jonny Greenwood (for Phantom Thread) and perpetual nominee Hans Zimmer (for his experimental Dunkirk score), expect it to pull off the same trick (and underwater, at that).
The Revenant won its
awards first and
last, opening the season with a win over Spotlight at the Golden Globes, and closing the pre-Oscar glut with back to back wins at the DGAs and BAFTAs, seeming to signal that not only would Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu cruise to a second straight Best Director
award, but his film would give him a second straight Best
Picture statue as well.
The three
pictures nominated are: «Incendies», directed by Denis Villeneuve, winner of
last year's Canadian Feature
award for «Polytechnique»; «Splice», directed by Vincenzo Natali, and «Trigger», directed by Bruce McDonald.