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.
Not exact matches
Though five of those ten went onto collect
nominations in the Academy Awards» newly - expanded Best
Picture field, The Hangover did not, to nobody's huge surprise.
Steven Spielberg's «Lincoln,» starring Daniel Day - Lewis as the 16th President of the United States, leads this year's Academy Award nominees with 12 total
nominations including best
picture, best director (for Spielberg), best actor (for Day - Lewis), best supporting actor (for Tommy Lee Jones), and best supporting actress (for Sally
Field).
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.
This year, two documentaries crack my Best
Picture field, likely because I didn't see five documentaries worthy of an Oscar
nomination, not that they don't exist... I just didn't see them.
Film editing is considered a top prize and is closely associated with best
picture — indeed, all four of the other nominees in the
field landed a best
picture nomination.
At the Academy Award
nominations last week, the film paced the
field with 13
nominations, including Best
Picture and Director.
The only other multiple winner of the ceremony was fellow Best
Picture Oscar nominee «Winter's Bone,» which took a well - deserved brace of supporting trophies for John Hawkes and Dale Dickey — the film's only reward for a
field - leading haul of seven
nominations.
Sure, Best
Picture nominee Inception led the
field with
nominations, but Let...
From a selection of films across 21 categories, the groundbreaking Mad Max: Fury Road leads the
field, securing 11
nominations including Best
Picture, Best Director (George Miller), Best Ensemble Cast, as well as Cinematography, Costume Design, Film Editing, Makeup & Hairstyling, Production Design, Original Score, Sound Design, and Visual Effects.
Other films earning multiple
nominations, but absent from the Best
Picture field, include Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, with six
nominations, Steve Jobs, which landed acting and ensemble recognition, Creed, Ryan Coogler's rebranding of the Rocky franchise (3
nominations), and the pop culture movie of the year, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which rallied for four technical
nominations.
The teen coming of age comedy / drama The Edge of Seventeen scored a Best
Picture nomination as well as a
nomination for its writer / director Kelly Fremon Craig but strangely snubbed the film's lead, Golden Globe nominee Hailee Steinfeld (in a
field of six,...
«Lincoln» scored
nominations in the lead actor category for Daniel Day - Lewis, supporting actress for Sally
Field, supporting actor for Tommy Lee Jones and best ensemble in a motion
picture.
Vaughn; Spielberg's «Lincoln,» starring Daniel Day - Lewis, Sally
Field and Tommy Lee Jones, which grossed over $ 270 million at the worldwide box office and was nominated for 12 Academy Awards ® with Daniel Day - Lewis winning for Best Actor; «Real Steel,» starring Hugh Jackman and directed by Shawn Levy; Spielberg's «War Horse,» based on Michael Morpurgo's award - winning book and nominated for six Academy Awards including Best
Picture; and «The Help,» which resonated with audiences around the country and earned over $ 200 million at the box office and received four Academy Award
nominations with Octavia Spencer winning for Best Supporting Actress.
We won't ever know whether the move to a variable
field narrowly deprived Flight of a Best
Picture nomination, unless the Academy one day makes their old voting numbers public.
Likewise, if you miss those two recent years (or those eight distant years) of a big fixed
field of ten, it seems reasonable to determine what film just missed out on a Best
Picture nod based on the other major
nominations it received.
The drama was the only film in that
field to earn a Best
Picture nomination, indicating it has the most support from the voters.
Musical or Comedy designation landed Phoenix a Best Actor nod at the Golden Globes (his second straight one in that category perhaps qualifies him for the «funnyman» label), but the film could not get a Best
Picture nomination despite a
field with only two legitimate Oscar contenders.
Crouching Tiger managed
nominations in all three
fields, as did Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) for that matter, and while Memoirs is not a Foreign Language film, its ties to Asia might add a more clear
picture to the type of film voters look for in each category.
The film earned
nominations for Best
Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for star Daniel Day - Lewis, Best Supporting Actor for Tommy Lee Jones, Best Supporting Actress for Sally
Field, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Music (Original Score), Best Production Design and Best Sound Mixing.
LOS ANGELES, CA — The Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that the
field of Documentary Short Subject contenders for the 89th Academy Awards ® has been narrowed to 10 films, of which 5 will earn Oscar ®
nominations.
The
nominations for the 49th NAACP Image Awards have been announced and in the Motion
Picture section Get Out, Girls Trip and Marshall lead the
field with five apiece.
Guillermo del Toro's fantasy The Shape of Water romanced the Hollywood Foreign Press today, earning a
field - best seven Golden Globe
nominations from the group, including Best Motion
Picture — Drama, Best Director and Best Actress — Drama for Sally Hawkins.
The film earned a
field - best five
nominations (including Spielberg, Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks) but strangely missed out on Best
Picture.
The Revenant led the Oscar
field this year with a total of 12
nominations, including Best
Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio, and Best Supporting Actor for Tom Hardy.