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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 Common).

Not exact matches

Still, Hollywood trade outlets Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, along with Entertainment Weekly, all predict a Best Picture win for The Shape of Water (and for that movie's director, Guillermo del Toro) out of the category's nine - movie field.

If «Dunkirk» does pull off the win, it could be a hint to how the night goes, as «The Shape of Water» and «Dunkirk» are up against each other in numerous categories, including best picture.

Mad Max rode a winning streak in several technical and behind - the - scenes categories to score six Oscar statues last night, though the film ended the night shut out of most of the show's major categories, such as Best Picture and Best Director.

Here are just a few: Jordan Peele became the first African American to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out, and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won for Best Picture — a film featuring a female actor in the lead role hasn't won the category since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.

A full report on each winning person, brand and business will appear on thedrinksbusiness.com tomorrow, complete with pictures and judges comments, while today we bring you a list of the winners in each category, beginning with our awards for the leaders in drinks design.

The second film's success was perhaps even more staggering than the first: The Godfather, Pt. 2 garnered six more Oscars, including a win for Coppola in the Best Director category; Robert DeNiro won his first Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor field; and the movie itself became the first and only sequel ever to win Best Picture honors.Next, Coppola began adapting the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness, transferring its story to the heart of the Cambodian jungle at the height of the conflict in Vietnam.

Distributor Sony Pictures Classics has pulled off a number of wins in this category, and, in Andrei Zvyagintsev's «Leviathan,» which took the screenplay award at Cannes, the studio has another strong contender, a movie that weaves naturalism, allegory and dark humor into a multi-layered masterpiece.

For the hell of it, I «Äôll suggest this for the major categories: «ÄúPrecious «Äù takes best picture and supporting actress for Mo «ÄôNique; «ÄúInvictus «Äù takes best director and actor for Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman; Meryl Streep wins best actress for both «ÄúJulie & Julia «Äù and «ÄúIt «Äôs Complicated, «Äù while Stanley Tucci takes a joint best supporting actor honor for «ÄúJulie & Julia «Äù and «ÄúThe Lovely Bones.

The same would hold true of a Lead Actor bid for Boseman — though James Brown is an enormously compelling real - life figure whose life is replete with the material that wins actors awards, the Best Actor race more than any other acting category is closely tied to the Best Picture race, and Boseman will likely struggle against competitors in stronger films overall.

2014 marks the ten - year anniversary of the release of Ray, Universal Pictures» Ray Charles biopic that proved to be a smash hit with Oscar, scoring nominations for several top categories including Best Picture and Director, as well as a win for Jamie Foxx's portrayal of the titular music legend.

If «Shape» were to take this category and then go on to win Best Picture, it would be the first time since 2003 that the winner of the big prize took Production Design as well («The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King»).

La La Land made history at the 74th Golden Globe Awards, winning in all categories it was nominated in - a record seven trophies, including Best Picture - Comedy / Musical, cementing it's frontrunner status for Best Picture as Academy voters...

Along the way, he has won three Oscars with one coming in the Best Picture category for Schindler's List and two in the Best Director category for Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan.

The big success of the night was Boyhood, which won three categories in Best Motion Picture — Drama, Best Director (Richard Linklater) and Best Supporting Actress (Patricia Arquette), while Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel scooped Best Motion Picture — Comedy or Musical.

But Barbra Streisand said it simply, echoing the night's rally cry, telling the room that she was dismayed that she was still the only woman to win the directing category, saying, «Folks, time's up,» before naming the winner of Best Motion Picture — Drama.

The year before, Mark Rylance of «Bridge of Spies» won at both NYFCC and the Oscars, but the org's 2015 selection for best picture and director were «Carol,» snubbed in both categories by the Academy.

In the two shorts categories, Boogaloo and Graham won best short film and The Bigger Picture won best short animation.

Didn't win: The Australian actor narrowly missed out to James Franco on the gong for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy category

Afflicted owned the horror category, winning Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.

Winner: Alicia Vikander, «The Danish Girl» Should win: Jennifer Jason Leigh, «The Hateful Eight» Upset player: Kate Winslet, «Steve Jobs» Nightmare win: Rachel McAdams, «Spotlight» (love her but she's not even the fourth best performance in the movie) Lowdown: The pundits have been fishing for a category that might provide an upset and if the Best Picture race wasn't so tight there would be more think pieces about this race than you can shake a stick at.

So far, no black director has ever won in the directing category — 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight both won Best Picture without winning director.

What to keep an eye out for with these awards is really what wins the «Comedy» category, not because of what might win editing at the Oscars, necessarily, but what has consensus heat to win Best Picture.

Greta Gerwig's teen comedy, Lady Bird, won Best Motion Picture and Best Actress for a comedy or musical, while Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri secured awards for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor in the Drama category.

And in this exciting 2018 race, for all five nominees — Paul Thomas Anderson (Focus Features» «Phantom Thread»), Guillermo del Toro (Fox Searchlight Pictures» «The Shape of Water»), Gerwig (A24's «Lady Bird»), Christopher Nolan (Warner Bros.» «Dunkirk»), and Peele (Universal Pictures» «Get Out»)-- a win would mean their first Oscar in any category.

It's been quite a long time since we've had a real juggernaut performance from a film that ended up winning Best Picture (you could argue the last was The Hurt Locker, which won 6 of its 9 nominated categories).

If Forest Whitaker isn't careful, he could win Oscars in two categories for two movies: lead actor for «Lee Daniels» The Butler» and as producer of the conceivable best picture, «Fruitvale Station.»

In the Musical / Comedy category, Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird won Motion Picture, Comedy, while its star, Saoirse Ronan, took home Best Actress.

There were three big hitters in the Golden Globes» comedy film categories — Get Out, Lady Bird, and I, Tonya — and Lady Bird ended up walking away with the top prize, winning Best Motion Picture: Comedy or Musical, along with Best Actress in a Motion Picture: Comedy or Musical for its star Saoirse Ronan.

But 1996 was the first year that indies dominated the Academy Awards to the point that only one major studio release, «Jerry Maguire,» was even nominated in the best picture category, which was won by «The English Patient.»

Richard Linklater's «Boyhood» — nominated in five categories — won more Golden Globes, ending the night with three: Best Motion Picture — Drama, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture by Patricia Arquette (her first) and Best Director — Motion Picture.

In a crowded Foreign Film category, the sublime and deserving Portugese entry «Mysteries of Lisbon» won, while Formula One race driver biopic «Senna» (unfortunately overlooked on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Oscar shortlist) was honored as Best Documentary, and Steven Spielberg's «The Adventures of Tintin» was named Best Animated or Mixed Media Motion Picture.

The Grand Budapest Hotel, from that tuba - bicycle - riding director Wes Anderson, also did very well, winning best picture in the comedy / musical category.

Obviously nobody at the time knew that Ben Affleck «s Argo would go on to win Best Picture, a strange thing since he wasn't even nominated in this Best Director category.

While most people are predicting Moonlight to win (as I am) the film is the second lowest box office grosser of the bunch and this is a category that favors two things: the Best Picture frontrunner or a populist hit.

On the television side, which spanned 10 awards, «Justified» was a surprise winner for Best TV Drama Series, while the deliciously ribald «It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,» now entering its seventh season, was named Best TV Comedy Series, knocking off last year's winner, «The Big C.» Kate Winslet («Mildred Pierce») and Jason Isaacs (PBS» «Case Histories») were awarded Best Actress and Best Actor prizes in the Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television categories, while Vanessa Williams («Desperate Housewives») and Ryan Hurst («Sons of Anarchy») won supporting performance trophies, which span both TV movie and serial work.

The already infamous gaffe saw Beatty and Dunaway go on to announce that La La Land had won Best Picture — when in fact Moonlight was the winner — after they were handed a second Best Actress category envelope by mistake.

All other winners went on to win Oscars in their respective categories, including Spotlight, the winner of the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture award.

«Moonlight» won best picture and the film academy rewarded more African American actors and filmmakers in more categories than it ever had in a single year.

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.»

It's likely to nab a Best Picture nomination — and is surely all but guaranteed to win in the animation category.

We may see «Star Wars» winning a Best Picture nomination — but its strongest chances of a win are definitely in the special effects and other technical categories.

Usually, though, a Best Picture winner will only win Score if a sweep is afoot, and hardly ever does the rest of the time because in years when the Academy spreads the wealth, they seem to divide the films they like along the lines of tech, craft and major categories.

Last year we saw the two - year drought of no acting nominations for people of color turn into nominations in all four categories, two winning (Mahershala Ali and Viola Davis) and Moonlight become the first black - led and LGBTQ film to win Best Picture in Oscar's 89 - year history.

«La La Land» capped an incredible 2016 - 17 Awards Season by winning eight categories, including Best Picture and Best Director (Damien Chazelle), at the annual LCJ Movie Awards on Sunday.

In the «Fantastic Features» category, Ari Folman «s The Congress won Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and Best Actress (Robin Wright).

If «Crash» wins as best picture, and I expect it will, its writer - director Paul Haggis will nevertheless be seen by voters as a newcomer, and a vote for Lee in this category will be a way to honor «Brokeback.»

Only 21 movies in the 81 years of the Oscars have gone on to win the Best Picture category without first winning a Golden Globe.

Last year, Kathryn Bigelow and her masterpiece, The Hurt Locker, won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, both sound categories, and editing.

Kidman's win set the stage for a night that ended up largely celebrating stories about women, including Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (which walked away with four prizes, including best actress and best motion picture, drama), Lady Bird (which won complementary best picture and actress awards in the comedy categories), and of course, Big Little Lies, which won several statuettes to match its horde of Emmys.