Sentences with phrase «picture nomination»

But off late, they have really lost credibility (save for chance miracles like the Best picture nomination for The Lives Of others).

Get Out receiving a Best Picture nomination at all would be a monumental moment.

I'll list a few of my reactions to this year's crop of Best Picture nominations with incredibly in - depth, one - line reviews.

This year is no exception, as some films rallied to make it to the Best Picture nominations list and some actors received nods despite earlier doubts.

Notably, though, it didn't take one of the eight best picture nomination spaces.

A Best Picture nomination generally comes with Best Director.

I'm predicting all of these actresses to earn Best Picture nomination certificates.

A Best Picture nomination also seems rather probable with ten films in play.

Could Black Panther also break through for a Best Picture nomination too?

Though likely not a top - five contender, the movie's Best Picture nomination chances look fairly solid at the moment, boosted by a very impressive box - office performance.

Breaking Away was one of the fortunate few to get a Best Picture nomination without any tried - and - true ingredients.

If they didn't, they wouldn't be regarded as successes and they wouldn't be worthy for Best Picture nominations.

TWC Co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein commented: «LION is the company's 26th Best Picture Nomination in 28 years, and it is just as exciting as the first.

Bennett Miller, who has gone two - for - two with Best Pictures nominations for «Capote» and «Moneyball,» returns with «Foxcatcher» and goddamn if he doesn't look like he's back in top form.

The Big Sick was critically popular, but was passed over for a Best Motion Picture nomination at The Golden Globes this year.

As for «Inside Out,» it earned an Animated Theatrical Motion Picture nomination from the PGA, but didn't make the top field as «Toy Story 3» most recently did.

Unfortunately, other than his role as Jordan Belfort, I think this film will miss out on the Best Picture nomination as well as Best Director for one reason, nudity.

«Netflix has been unable to get a Best Picture nomination so far,» Belloni says.

Ava DuVernay's 13th becomes the 5th documentary to receive and Outstanding Picture nomination.

Netflix strived for a Best Picture nomination when they purchased Beasts of No Nation at 2015's Toronto Film Festival and gave it a two - week theatrical run alongside a simultaneous online release so that it was eligible for awards.

The site notes that with a March 3 release date, «it would be one of those rare titles that managed a Best Picture nomination opening so early in the year.

(Only one film in the last five years, «The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,» failed to get a best - picture nomination after getting a DGA one.)

The Dark Knight became the first superhero movie to win an Oscar for acting (Health Ledger for Best Supporting Actor), and many were surprised that the film didn't receive a Best Picture nomination despite its massive success and widespread acclaim.

The director - picture nominations correspond with one exception: Atonement's Joe Wright was inexplicably snubbed in favor of Julian Schnabel, whose The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a great story but not a great film.

«Wild's» Best Picture nomination prospects will depend on Fox Searchlight's ability to channel a passionate fan base for the film.

Darkest Hour was no slouch though, it got a Best Picture nomination today as well, which should solidify Oldman's chances.

But for the Gotham Awards, it can get a Best Picture nomination right alongside likely Oscar nominee 12 Years a Slave.

The Best Picture nomination placed it among such hallowed fare as The Godfather Part II, Chinatown, and The Conversation.

Both Gone Girl and Nightcrawler made it to the Producers Guild but were killed when Oscar voters had to limit their scope to five slots for Best Picture nominations instead of ten, like the Producers Guild had.

Which brings us to Harvey Weinstein, who crashed the 2008 Oscar party with his first Best Picture nomination since venturing out on his own with brother Bob.

He was nominated twice for «Babe,» which even picked up a best picture nomination back in the days of only five nominees.

Don't tell me about all the advances the Academy has made, the fact that its director branch put crazy ass anti-semitic sexist abusive Mel Gibson back on the director's short list last year and gave his clunky bloody obvious war movie a best picture nomination just proves how many assholes are still lurking among the voters ready to backlash against women and people of color.

Many of them recently have gone on toward Best Picture nominations like 12 Years a Slave, Moneyball, The Tree of Life, Inglourious Basterds to name a few.

«Zero Dark Thirty» was one of nine films given the best picture nomination nod.

What they unveiled today may transform Ethan Tobman into an Academy Award nominee and make «Room» a lock for a Best Picture nomination if it isn't already.

Some have forecasted a heated battle against Anomalisa for animated film of the year (and that even excludes When Marnie Was There, a fantastic film that's also in this feature), but it seems like a relative shoo - in for Inside Out, especially with the film garnering Best Picture nomination predictions for the Oscars — the new model nod for cultural transcendence in animated film.

That might be because The Weinstein Co did not get a Best Picture nomination last year.

The expanded Oscar ballot makes it even harder than ever to win for cinematography without a Best Picture nomination because voters tend to like to spread the wealth among the Best Pic nominees.

Today's Woody Allen comes close (and his Midnight in Paris is the surest Best Picture nomination bet thus far) but only on account of predominantly working outside the US and after having spent decades in the public eye.

A rare disconnect when Best Director and Best Picture nominations only matched for 3 films (Alan J. Pakula, Sidney Lumet — and winner John G. Avildsen), Ingmar Bergman and Lina Wertmuller were the directors whose movies didn't make the cut.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale made the Best Actor cut over Robert Redford and Tom Hanks, Her, Dallas Buyers Club, and Philomena all got Best Picture nominations over Saving Mr. Banks, and Sally Hawkins landed a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her work in Blue Jasmine, seemingly taking Oprah Winfrey «s spot from Lee Daniels» The Butler.

While the average film released in the US from 2000 - 2009 made roughly $ 19M domestically, the average film with at least one Oscar nomination made $ 73M, the average film with a Best Picture nomination made $ 109M, and the average Best Picture winner made $ 143M.

And it was the outcry over «Dark Knight» being snubbed in 2009 that, many industry observers believe, led the Academy to expanding the best picture nomination field to a maximum of 10 titles.

Where, for example, is the worst picture nomination for The Book of Henry, a film so savagely bad that it might have cost director Colin Trevorrow a Star Wars film?

So a Best Picture nomination seems to give a nominee a slight edge both in terms of winning a first or a second Oscar.

And with a cast that's littered with some of the best character actors in the business, «Argo» is pretty much a shoo - in for Best Director and Best Picture nominations come awards season.

It's worth noting that whenever a film has won both Picture and Director it earns an Oscar Best Picture nomination at the very least.