Sentences with phrase «picture nod over»

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.

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

Not exact matches

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

But the film couldn't get over a larger hump — it failed to land a best picture nomination and didn't score a director nod for Haynes.

Because the list of «Best Picture» contenders has been expanded over the years, the film could land a «Best Picture» nod if it receives universal acclaim and manages to garner in some worthy box office success.

Over the years Spielberg's films have secured a not - to - be-balked-at nine Best Picture nominations, and his sterling stewardship has been rewarded with seven Best Director nods.

She was the first black woman to win Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival (Middle of Nowhere, 2012), the first black woman to direct a film receiving an Oscar nod for Best Picture (Selma, 2014), and in 2018, the first black woman to direct a studio film budgeted over a hundred million with A Wrinkle in Time, an adaptation of Madeline L'Engle's 1963 Newbery Medal winning sci - fi fantasy novel.

Entertainment Weekly writer Nicole Sperling noted that «the epic true story of Louis Zamperini has Oscar bait written all over it» and that «Angelina Jolie... will surely give the boys a run for their money» for a Best Director nod, while Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times predicted that «Unbroken» will get a Best Picture nomination but that Jolie will be skipped over when the Best Director contenders are named.

And although Frost / Nixon picked up a raft of nods, including best picture, best director (Ron Howard) and best actor (for Frank Langella), the passing over of Michael Sheen (as David Frost) was a surprise.

Land of Nod also sponsored the Big League sheet sets, which are a very soft jersey cotton with pictures of sport themed objects all over it.