Sentences with phrase «picture category»

The days of one movie running away with everything are dead, it seems, perhaps tied to the move to open up the Best Picture category in 2009.

The film was one of 12 films nominated for the award's Best Motion Picture category.

Can you have a Best Picture category with two «wonder» titles?

It was to cure the problem of so many genre movies with so few Best Picture categories.

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.

In my first two years as a member of the Online Film Critics Society, the five - deep Best Picture category in our annual awards has held a surprise for me.

Based on Nanjiani's unconventional real - life love story with wife Emily V. Gordon, The Big Sick has a decent chance of sneaking into the bloated Best Picture category at the Oscars, and Holly Hunter could find herself with a Best Supporting Actress nomination, too.

The Best Picture category includes an eclectic mix of genre - spanning features from animated features to sci - fi dramas to action - packed blockbusters.

Nominee: Actress Ellen Page and Actor Michael Cera are shown in a scene from the film «Juno,» which was nominated in the best picture category of the Academy Awards.

The Silence of the Lambs opened up the Best Picture categories genre requirements, Miramax established itself as a major player on the indie scene with Best Picture squarely in its sights, and Steven Spielberg went from being official Oscar bridesmaid to one of its all - time favorites.

In one sense, the Golden Globes, voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, muddy the water by dividing the best actress, actor and picture categories into drama and musical or comedy, thereby doubling the number of nominees.

The lack of a Best Director nod for Spielberg makes utterly clear that had the Academy not expanded the Best Picture category beyond five nominees, War Horse would not have competed for that top prize.

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).

The preferential ballot looms over the Best Picture category more than ever.

In 2010, the Academy expanded its best picture category from five to a maximum of 10 movies.

Since the film academy expanded the category in 2009, the only time the best picture category did not include a film by a DGA - nominated director was in 2011, when voters passed over David Fincher's «The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.»

Delivering a stronger average is German comedy Toni Erdmann, which is nominated in the Oscars» foreign language picture category.

Irish nominees from Cartoon Saloon lost out in the Best Animated Picture category for The Breadwinner to Coco.

The Best Picture category consisted of almost exactly what you'd expect, but with Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close just sneaking in there.

At this point the best picture category looks like a horse race between «Brokeback Mountain» and «Crash,» with «Crash» gaining in the turn.

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.

The same scenario played out along slightly different lines in 1999 when Saving Private Ryan — whose battle sequences transposed some of Platoon's brutal modernism to the context of World War II — earned Steven Spielberg a second Best Director Oscar but the film was upset in the Best Picture category by Shakespeare in Love, a film whose virtues were perceived to be more literary than visual.

But I attribute this exception more as praise for the Academy for including such films like Her and Nebraska in the Best Picture category because in most years these could have been edged out by more mainstream picks like Saving Mr. Banks or August: Osage County.

Last year, my former colleague Joe Reid noted that the Best Actress and Best Picture categories rarely coincide.

The comedy Picture category is also not entirely clear - cut, but I think «Vicky Cristina Barcelona» might offer the best balance of audience accessibility and critical cred.

Log this one into the cool picture category... This photo from the Flickr account of Jason Kurylo shows UBC's ASRS (Automated Storage and Retrieval System), which allows millions of extra books to be stored in half the space of a traditional shelving.

The album won for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album while «The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)» received a Grammy ® in the Best Song for Motion Picture category.

There always seemed to be at least somewhat of a chance that it would make it into the Best Picture category as one of those token nominations, which was aided by the under - performance of

The actor remained mum about his divorce and custody battle with Jolie but he surprised the crowd with his speech when «Moonlight» won the Best Picture category at the Golden Globes.

When Sundance 2014 wrapped, most of the buzz surrounded two films that eventually found themselves in the Best Picture category for next week's Oscars, Damien Chazelle's Whiplash and Richard Linklater's Boyhood.

Up and Toy Story 3 even received Oscar nominations in the Best Picture category in back - to - back years.

It was also a more expansive year, with the Best Picture category expanding to a varied group of 10 competitors — the better to draw more and younger eyeballs.

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It lost out in the Best Picture category to Dances with Wolves.

But we also think this will be strongly considered in the Best Picture category, as well as directing and writing,

The SAG Awards have no best picture category, but rather ensemble awards that recognize a film or TV show's entire cast.

This week we field queries concerning «Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,» documentary features aimed at the Best Picture category, «Black Swan»» s Oscar potential and Lesley Manville's lead actress campaign for «Another Year.»

Thirty directors have earned nominations since the academy expanded the picture category six years ago.

Though we've kicked Entertainment Weekly's Dave Karger's teeth in when it comes to the overall number of correct predictions for the last few years, our track record has unfortunately not extended to the Best Picture category.

In total, the IPA nominated 12 films in its Motion Picture category that also included Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea, Lion, Jackie, Hacksaw Ridge, Loving, Hell or High Water, Nocturnal Animals, Captain Fantastic, Hidden Figures, and Fences.

The Best Picture category, which according to current rules can be anywhere between five and ten nominees depending on the voting split, stretched to eight this year.

But on Tuesday, many Oscar prognosticators felt that «Inception» itself had gotten hijacked — with Nolan passed over for a widely expected best director nomination even as the movie found itself in the best picture category.

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI has been nominated by the Academy Awards in the Best Picture category.

Considering Lee's pedigree, he has to be in with a shot at Best Director again, although keep an eye on this one in the screenplay and Best Picture categories.

There was room for it in the best - picture category — only nine of the 10 slots were filled.

Director David O. Russell's comedy drama and Alfonso Cuarón space epic both received nominations in the Best Picture category, along with nominations for their leading male and female performances.