Sentences with phrase «picture nod»

Well... I didn't see up getting a best picture nod as well.

Unless the film enjoys a massive surge on the whole, as in reaching Best Picture nod potential, I'd say this is too little, too late.

A Black Panther Best Picture nod could very well be possible.

Fox easily led all studios this year with 20 Academy Award nominations, including best picture nods for both Ridley Scott's The Martian and Alejandro G. Iñárritu's The Revenant.

Along with a best picture nod in comedy, it earned nominations for Ralph Fiennes as best actor, and Wes Anderson for screenplay and director.

There's no question that we would have given it the best picture nod over Philomena.

is a solid production of a superficial story; just don't let the Best Picture nod fool you into thinking it's going to be a great film.

That movie is positively bursting with creative energy, unforgettable characters, riotous comedy and genuine heart, and it was the easy favorite to win this year's best animated picture nod, if not pick up a nomination for Best Picture overall.

Whether these elements will translate to a Best Picture nod remains to be seen, but regardless, Alfredson could still figure into the Best Director race à la Bennett Miller for «Foxcatcher,» a category that has been very kind to foreign filmmakers in recent years.

Time will tell whether it makes the cut for an Oscar Best Picture nod as well.

I can't see the Academy giving «Hairspray» a Best Picture nod without a single nomination elsewhere.

«Inside Out» Pixar's hit could become the first animated movie to earn a Best Picture nod since 2011's «Toy Story 3.»

«Boyhood» has received the Best Picture prize from the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, both seen as possible previews of what movies will receive Best Picture nods at the Oscars.

«Boyhood» prevailed at the Critics» Choice Movie Awards, collecting the coveted picture nod, as well as director for Richard Linklater, supporting actress for Patricia Arquette and best young actor / actress for Ellar Coltrane.

«It makes me very happy that this movie has caused people to talk about race,» said producer Sean McKittrick of QC Entertainment, who shares the best picture nod with Peele, Blum and Edward H. Hamm Jr., also of QC.

Moving on, Miramax Films didn't manage a Best Picture nod for last year's «Doubt,» but perhaps the studio can get somewhere with the already critically approved «Chéri.»

The record for most nominations without a Best Picture nod in the relatively short window of the new Oscar system with its expanded Best Picture field is held by Carol (2015) with six nominations.

While I don't think that it deserved a best picture nod over Gone Baby Gone, Juno is worth seeing for fans of slight odd indy films.

Chocolat is a solid production of a superficial story; just don't let the Best Picture nod fool you into thinking it's going to be a great film.

It also snared Tarantino his first writing and directing Oscar nominations since Pulp - and got a Best Picture nod, too.

After last year's best - picture nod for «Moulin Rouge,» the movie's front - runner status signals a rebirth of the movie musical.

Hans Zimmer could contend for Best Original Score and when you toss in a possible Best Picture nod and the longshot possibility of a Director, Screenplay, or Supporting Actor nod, this could be a double - digit nominee next January 2013.

And over the years, the idiocy continued: No Best Picture nod for The Dark Knight or Mulholland Drive, Reservoir Dogs or Boogie Nights.

It rallied and came back from that but I fear it was too late — I also think this might mean it misses out on a Best Picture nod but I'm not going to take that chance.

Denzel Washington's adaptation of Fences came made off with a Best Picture nod and a handful of major nominations, with Washington doing double duty as Best Director and Best Actor; his costar Viola Davis takes one step closer to bringing home a Supporting Actress statuette.

Some commentators had predicted that Deadpool could even land a Best Picture nod for this year's Oscars after it picked up several nominations for the 2017 Golden Globes.

All three films earned best picture nods.

It's worth noting that the Writer's Branch disagreed, but in the battle for first place votes (it's believed approximately 300 are needed to secure a best picture nod) that hurt its chances.

Steven Spielberg's Cold War thriller (well... it's thrilling to some people) could well vacuum up several crafts nominations (cinematography, production design, editing) on its way to a best picture nod.

He has masterminded complex action sequences against virtually every backdrop, from Medieval England («Robin Hood») to»90s Somalia («Black Hawk Down») and 2035 Mars («The Martian,» for which he also earned a Best Picture nod).

The most unpredictable Oscar season in years finally came into focus Tuesday morning as the 90th Academy Awards nominations were announced, with nine films representing a wide range of genres earning best picture nods and Guillermo del Toro's fantastical fable «The Shape of Water» leading the field with 13 nominations.

Though the film debuted to not terrible reviews, there also wasn't much buzz around Clint Eastwood getting another Best Director nomination, let alone the movie earning a Best Picture nod.

Does this increase the film's Oscar chances for a Best Picture nod?

It was cool to see some of the additional films up for Best Picture this year, including District 9 and Up (yes, Pixar finally got their Best Picture nod).

No Best Picture nod?

The most unpredictable Oscars season in years finally came into focus Tuesday as the 90th Academy Awards nominations were announced, with nine films representing a wide range of genres earning best picture nods, from a sweeping World War II epic to a...

War Horse should garner some Oscar nominations, including a probable Best Picture nod, but will it win?

Yeah, it got a Best Picture nod, but in so many ways, Selma still got shafted.

Why it could succeed: Ever since the Emmy triumphs of his John Adams miniseries, director Tom Hooper has become an awards magnet, winning Best Picture with The King's Speech and steering 2012's Les Miserables to 3 Oscar wins and another Best Picture nod.

Yes, yes, and three times yes: Time Out's favourite film of 2015 richly deserved a Best Picture nod, and Todd Haynes ought to have been tipped for Best Director.

Ava DuVernay's modern classic made it five out of six years that the studio has landed a Best Picture nod.

Carol's actors both reaped nods, but the film and its director were shut out of the top categories, despite that Carol was considered all but a lock for a Best Picture nod.

This was a year that Scott Feinberg and Thelma Adams at Gold Derby did not have Gone Girl in for a Best Picture nod but did have CitizenFour, a documentary.

A24 also released 2017's «Lady Bird,» an acclaimed coming - of - age story from Greta Gerwig, picking up a best picture nod.

Sometimes it's the extra work that goes into landing Oscar nominations for categories such as Costumes, Original Score, Make Up and Production Design that helps propel a film to a Best Picture nod.

Certainly, it's the only reason we find ourselves reluctant to put our faith in a supposedly hipper Academy, even given later voting deadlines, throwing Phantom Thread a The Tree of Life - style best picture nod, even though we think they're going to open their hearts to the humanism of Sean Baker's The Florida Project.

For example: did you know that while Thelma & Louise was nominated for best director, actress (times two), screenplay, cinematography, and editing — in other words, every best - picture bellwether category — it still didn't manage to get a best - picture nod in 1992?

Southpaw borrows plenty from other, better films, especially Rocky and Raging Bull, so it's not likely to be considered in the upper echelon of a subgenre that has produced movies worthy of Best Picture nods, as with Million Dollar Baby and The Fighter in more recent years.