Sentences with phrase «picture contender»

Well, look for Best Picture contenders and work your way back from there.

Remember: you need critics to see a movie to know if it's going to be a Best Picture contender at the very least.

Both are anchored to lead performances, both are in Best Picture contenders and both are beautiful young actresses whose stars are on the rise.

Lady Bird is no longer an Oscar hopeful, but a confirmed Best Picture contender for next year's Academy Awards, with Ronan and Metcalf practically guaranteed slots for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress and increasingly optimistic buzz for Gerwig for Best Original Screenplay and Best Director, all of which has her cast downright giddy.

This makes for a stellar lineup of headliners of Best Picture contenders in Chalamet and Kaluuya, indie darlings with Pugh and O'Connor, and the big budget superhero badassery of Thompson.

Another strong Best Picture contender includes the heartbreaking drama Manchester by the Sea (+800).

It's a formidable Best Picture contender with a strong shot at nominations across - the - board with Kristin Scott Thomas more of a threat than people think for a Supporting Actress nomination (despite a now more robust competition than evident before Lady Bird and I Tonya crushed ideas about that particular race).

The Best Film Editing Oscar has a high correlation with the Best Picture winner, so it's no surprise that the favorites are Best Picture contenders Avatar, The Hurt Locker, and Inglourious Basterds.

Pharrell Williams Technically, Pharrell did land a nomination this year, but only in his capacity as a producer of Best Picture contender Hidden Figures.

I've bolded the Best Picture contenders via the pundit consensus thus far.

Hollywood Elsewhere: «Sad & ghastly as the story is, ’12 Years A Slave» is a humanist masterpiece & a slamdunk Best Picture contender right out of the gate.»

Movies as diverse as this year's best - picture contenders Get Out and Call Me by Your Name, 2016's Manchester by the Sea, 2014's Boyhood, and 2009's Precious all began their year - long trek to the Oscar stage when they debuted at the snowy confab.

Something about the preferential ballot and the expanded number of Best Picture contenders shifted things so that Best Supporting Actress overlapped more with Best Picture.

In one of the most competitive races for a Best Actress nomination in years, two stars of Best Picture contenders didn't make it — five - time nominee Amy Adams («Arrival») and Taraji P. Henson («Hidden Figures»)-- along with veteran Annette Bening («20th Century Women»), who will have to wait for her fifth nomination.

That bad word of mouth for Selma and the lack of a marketing push (it's now the only major Best Picture contender without even so much as a trailer) is making people nervous and cautious.

Damon won screenplay for Good Will Hunting and DiCaprio was nominated for producing Best Picture contender Wolf of Wall Street

It was David and Goliath, ex-husband vs. ex-wife, mentor vs. protege, biggest blockbuster of all time vs. one of the lowest grossing Best Picture contenders ever.

If you listen to the experts, this is a two - horse race between legit Oscar best - picture contenders Lady Bird and Get Out.

Is The Wrestler emerging as stealth Best Picture contender on the strength of Micky Rourke's performance and solid backing from critics in its corner?

The other nominees are Call Me by Your Name, a Best Picture contender written by Hollywood luminary James Ivory; Dee Rees and Virgil Williams's literary, astute Mudbound, which marks the first time a black woman has ever been nominated in this category; Aaron Sorkin's 10 - quips - per - minute poker drama Molly's Game; and Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber's The Disaster Artist.

«This was going to be a best - picture contender anyway,» says Anne Thompson, editor at large for film news site IndieWire, noting the film's equally deft storytelling around men's confusion and frustration about sexual violence.

This year's nominees are nowhere near as satisfyingly autonomous, with no less than three Best Picture contenders extending their influence here, but as we've said before, this is one of those years the Best Picture ripple effect isn't necessarily a bad thing.

And being a Best Picture contender never hurts.

Alas, both tragically terrible films were snubbed, edged out in favor of these worst picture contenders: The Emoji Movie, Transformers: The Last Knight, Fifty Shades Darker, The Mummy, and Baywatch.

Star movie critic Peter Howell handicaps the odds on the nine Best Picture contenders for the Feb. 26 Academy Awards.

In turn, 12 Years a Slave, a Golden Globe winner that remains very much a best picture contender at Oscar and the Baftas, expanded by 470 sites into 1,231 and grossed $ 2m for $ 43.5 m.

It's also a likely Best Picture contender in the upcoming Oscar season.

But we can leave it out for now and just say that almost all of these films and these nominees were at one point being talked about as serious Best Picture contenders, whether they ultimately got there or not.

Find a complete guide to TV and movie titles heading to Blu - ray and DVD throughout the month of March, including Star Wars: The Last Jedi plus best picture contenders The Shape of Water, Lady Bird, and Call Me by Your Name and last year's highest - scoring film.

Atonement and Michael Clayton's nominations suggest there are still some voters who prefer their Best Picture contenders to suck them off until the money shot, preferably if it kills off either a woman or a woman's career aspirations.

Rooney Mara, Una — Although Una is going to have a slightly tougher road, partly because of the subject matter but also because it won't be a Best Picture contender, Mara's performance is off - the - charts great.

Brian Grazer, nominated as producer of a best - picture contender «ÄúFrost / Nixon, «Äù came off the stage, made a beeline to Danny Boyle «Äôs table, and wrapped him in hugs.

Can it be a Best Picture contender (I don't think so).

But if you are tied to a strong Best Picture contender your job is always going to be easier to slide into those categories than it would be otherwise, unless the performance on its own is exceptional, like Charlize Theron in Monster, Halle Berry in Monster's Ball, etc..

There's been talk that Argo is a Best Picture contender and Affleck is viewed by some as a favorite for the Best Director Oscar.

But del Toro's «The Shape of Water» is just as good, comes with a large dollop of emotion and, importantly, is a best picture contender.

Not all Pixar films can be a masterpiece or Best Picture contender.

,» the advantage may go to the Best Picture contender.

Al Gore's movie got more Oscars than Best Picture contenders «Babel» or «The Queen» and «Letters from Iwo Jima» and tied with «Little Miss Sunshine.»

They are either anchored to a Best Picture contender or a film that was close to being a Best Picture contender.

It should come as no surprise, then, that the film is also predicted to be one of the 10 Best Picture contenders.

American Sniper: Clint Eastwood's latest box office smash is a stealth Best Picture contender, but will likely have to settle for simply making a ton of money.

Talking to academy members the past couple of weeks, I heard an earful about all the problems they had with various best picture contenders — «Why'd she have to... that fish?»

Since the Academy expanded their Best Picture slate to as many as 10 nominees, the BFCA has matched almost all of the Best Picture contenders, missing only one each year.

Meanwhile, Fox Searchlight will debut its best - picture contender «12 Years a Slave» in 18 theaters this weekend.

If the Oscars were really about pure craft, rather than wins being attached to a popular Best Picture contender, Baby Driver would have this one in the bag.

Catching up with Academy Award nominees is a difficult proposition for movie fans, tickets cost nearly $ 10 a pop and stretching your dollar to watch nine Best Picture contenders is more than a little difficult.

(One Academy voter recently admitted, anonymously, to having rejected Get Out, Jordan Peele's deeply innovative and urgently important Best Picture contender, out of hand — precisely because, the voter groused, «as far as I'm concerned, they played the race card.»)