Sentences with phrase «picture nomination just»

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.

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Paramount's highest - scoring 2014 film, Selma, was one of just two best picture nominees to come from one of the majors, and Paramount finished with 7 Oscar nominations in all (even with Selma's snubs in other categories).

Just a few years back, a whopping three Cannes titles ended up with best picture nominations, «Midnight in Paris,» «The Tree of Life» and «The Artist» — the latter winning.

Whereas Tom Hardy in Legend, Johnny Depp in Black Mass, and Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl would love to lock up an acting nomination with another strong showing of screenings, in just ten days» time we'll have a much clearer picture of the race and where we're at.

If you thought that fanboys were upset about The Dark Knight not getting a Best Picture nomination at this year's Academy Awards, just imagine how crushed they will be if Wall - E doesn't win for Best Animated Feature!

«The Imitation Game» trails, only just, with eight, and «Boyhood» walked away with six nominations including best picture, best director for Richard Linklater, and best supporting recognition for both Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette.

Just as many expected, Argo took home the top award of Best Picture at the 85th Academy Awards, despite Ben Affleck not receiving a Best Director nomination, something that has

And, it goes without saying, the two films nominated for PGA's most likely to miss out on a Best Picture nomination are «Ex Machina» and «Sicario» although this pundit is personally overjoyed they received some just recognition.

The bar here, however, is just a bit higher, considering the 1991 edition became the first animated feature to earn a Best Picture nomination (it lost to «Silence Of the Lambs» in another terrible Oscar choice).

When Jordan Peele got the news that the biggest gamble of his career had just earned four major Academy Award nominations, including best picture, best director and best original screenplay, he got on the phone with his «Get Out» star, Daniel Kaluuya — and broke down in tears.

Both missed SAG Cast noms and Golden Globe Motion Picture nominations and now seem like contenders for just Mark Rylance and Saoirse Ronan, respectively.

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.

Just yesterday it had a superb showing in yesterday's Independent Spirit nominations, where it beat the more hotly fancied likes of «The Visitor» to a Best Picture nomination, only two days after landing an unexpected nod in the -LSB-...]

Perhaps the biggest surprise of 2017 was Jordan Peele's Get Out, a movie that just might earn shlock horror peddlers Blumhouse Pictures a Best Picture nomination at the Academy Awards.

Not only did it lose Best Picture, it lost other major awards that films with 14 nominations just don't lose.

I just caught up with The Help, after it earned $ 169 million at the American box office, and scored four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.

The upcoming fan uproar for all things «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» — You won't see me in the picket line, but just sit back and watch the populist hatred grow today and this month for «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» getting ONLY five nominations (Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Original Score, Film Editing, and Visual Effects) and no nod for Best Picture.

Plummer replaced Kevin Spacey in the film just weeks ago, but Sony Pictures was able to get a cut of the movie featuring Plummer to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association ahead of the closing of its nomination window.

At the end of the day there just wasn't enough focused passion behind «The Town» to get it across the finish line with nominations for Best Picture or Best Adapted Screenplay.

It also joins «The Blind Side» and «A Serious Man» as films of the expansion era to receive just one other nomination besides Best Picture.

She now has the big actor award, her film just received 14 Academy Award nominations, and you'd have to go back to 2002 to find the last instance of an actress losing the Oscar after winning at the SAG Awards, when her film won Best Picture (that would be Renee Zellweger in Chicago).

With the film and Haynes placed so high in Best Picture and Director, having Moore represent the best chance for an acting nomination for the film just makes sense.

• The underdog winner of the year is the indie film «Winter's Bone,» made for less than $ 2 million, which won at Sundance just a year ago and now has nominations including Best Picture, actress (Jennifer Lawrence), supporting actor (John Hawkes) and adapted screenplay.

It was just the start, as the film went on to secure a number of Best Picture nominations and win the Producer's Guild of America's top prize (which has aligned with the Oscar's Best Picture on almost every recent year, since both organizations switched to a preferential ballot).

Critics praised the film as a «nuanced celebration of pride and identity» and «the best sojourn of my life,» while ET's Angelique Jackson predicted that Black Panther could be the first superhero flick to earn a Best Picture Oscar nomination, writing, «For now, just be satisfied with the best the MCU has to offer.

If you subscribe to the idea that most movies yielding best - actress nominations just aren't quite good enough to be nominated for best picture, your best supporting evidence is to look at the films made by top directors — and then emphatically throw shade at how few of them star women in the first place.

The film raked up a slew of nominations and may just be the most universally liked Best Picture nominee of the bunch.

But just for kicks, and because Pixar has a habit of making us think about stuff like this, let's examine what it might take for «Inside Out» to actually get that elusive Best Picture nomination.

But the film is guaranteed to do good business on DVD and Blu - ray, where it arrives today just one week after receiving Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.

Critics have hailed Tree of Life as beautiful and moving, making it one of just a few films before the usual year - end Oscar season to elicit any talk of a Best Picture nomination.

Despite Best Picture wins for movies like Hitchcock's psychologically spooky Rebecca and Jonathan Demme's suspenseful classic The Silence of the Lambs, as well as the Best Director nomination awarded to The Sixth Sense's M. Night Shyamalan, it's safe to say that genre movies just can't catch a break with this awards body.

Get Out, however, did just receive a Producers Guild Award nomination for Best Picture on Friday.

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.

Indeed, just last year we speculated about the Best Picture prospects for «Wonder Woman», which had a similar pedigree to «Black Panther» and ended up completely shut out on nomination morning.

Even though almost none of the critics who saw Lion at this year's festivals thought it was more than just OK, the movie is almost universally expected to earn a Best Picture nomination.

Steven Spielberg's The Post collected just two nominations: one for best picture and one for Meryl Streep's performance, naturally.

This earns a strong recommendation and it's one of just a handful of 2010 movies thus far worthy of a Best Picture nomination.

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.

Reinforcing those broader trends, «Lady Bird» writer - director Greta Gerwig became only the fifth woman ever to score a nomination for directing, while Peele became the fifth black filmmaker to score a nomination in that category and just the third person to receive best picture, directing and writing nominations for a debut feature.

Likewise, the much - lauded Paddington 2 delighted audiences in North America as much as it has overseas, and Steven Spielberg's The Post entered wide release just in time to land Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Actress contender Meryl Streep.

Guillermo del Toro's cold war - era fantasy was nominated for best picture, best director and best actress for Sally Hawkins, who plays the mute cleaner, as well as in 10 other categories, part of a bumper haul on Tuesday just one nomination shy of the record for the most in Academy Awards history.

What The Imitation Game, distributed by The Weinstein Company, won't get is a best director nomination, which might just lose it the best picture game.

Just based on the talent and history alone, The Wolf of Wall Street could easily pick up six Oscar nominations (Picture, Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing) and that would only be the beginning.

There always seemed to be at least somewhat of a chance that it would make it into the Best Picture category as one of those token nominations, which was aided by the under - performance of Unbroken, but it was also just as likely to get bumped by more mainstream fare like Gone Girl or Interstellar or a similarly positioned low profile picture like NightcPicture category as one of those token nominations, which was aided by the under - performance of Unbroken, but it was also just as likely to get bumped by more mainstream fare like Gone Girl or Interstellar or a similarly positioned low profile picture like Nightcpicture like Nightcrawler.

In just a few days we'll have the Producers Guild nominations to help (or hamper) the eventual Oscar Best Picture hopefuls but for right now there doesn't seem to be anything other than Spotlight moving its way closer to...

And to give you just one example of how much money means to the corrupt Oscar race: By Tuesday morning, the bulk of the dozen or so films with a legitimate shot at a Best Picture nomination will have made in excess of $ 75 million each.

It's true the film hasn't performed well on the guild circuit but neither did «Room,» which ended up netting not just a best picture nomination but a surprise best director bid as well.

With just hours before the Oscar nominations are announced, we heard from the Motion Picture Sound Editors with their nominees for the best of the year.

But early in his career, he did just that (his disgust with the resulting picture produced his change of heart), and despite being critically panned, the movie, based on one of his short stories, earned two Oscar nominations (for Best Actress and Best Song).

If you've been following the Cybils nominations, or if you just happen to like good picture books, you may have already encountered his work in Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale (Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend) by Deborah Hopkinson (Schwartz & Wade Books, September 2008), which has made it into the list of finalists for the Fiction Picture Books category thipicture books, you may have already encountered his work in Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale (Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend) by Deborah Hopkinson (Schwartz & Wade Books, September 2008), which has made it into the list of finalists for the Fiction Picture Books category thiPicture Books category this year.