«Zero Dark Thirty» was one of nine films given the best
picture nomination nod.
Not exact matches
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 o
picture nod, if not pick up a
nomination for Best
Picture o
Picture overall.
That's because it received a Best
Picture nomination but Ben Affleck failed to get a
nod as Best Director.
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.
It also snared Tarantino his first writing and directing Oscar
nominations since Pulp - and got a Best
Picture nod, too.
Ellison is also one of only four honorees ever to receive two Best
Picture nominations in the same year, with HER and AMERICAN HUSTLE, both earning
nods in 2014.
So, though it was inexplicably denied best
picture and director
nominations, Todd Haynes» «Carol» ended up with six
nods, including actress
nominations for co-equal stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, a result that validated the Weinstein Co.'s controversial decision to put Mara in the supporting category.
The 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards
nominations have been announced and Jordan Peele's completely different but also masterful social thriller Get Out, scored five
nods in total including Best Director and Screenplay for Peele, as well as Best
Picture, Actor, and Editing.
Anonymous Content films, «The Revenant» and «Spotlight» earned a total of 18 Oscar
nominations between the two, including a
nod for each in the Best
Picture and Best Director category.
Also getting a best
picture nomination (as well as
nods for star Brie Larson, adapted screenplay by Emma Donoghue from her novel and director Lenny Abrahamson) was the singular «Room,» an emotional roller coaster whose success led to perhaps the biggest surprise of the morning.
Inception received eight
nominations, including Best
Picture, but Nolan failed to receive a directing
nod this morning.
The 12
nominations for «The King's Speech» — including crucial
nods in key categories such as Best
Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay — means Tom Hooper's historical drama (and not David Fincher's Facebook film) is -LSB-...]
Guillermo del Toro's horror / fantasy / romance received the most
nominations, including
nods for Best
Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Original screenplay.
Women in Love (which received key marquee
nods and critical support) and Ryan's Daughter (4
nominations and public enthusiasm) surely would have also been nominated for a 7 wide Best
Picture race.
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.
«Carol» probably sealed a Best
Picture Oscar
nomination with six Spirits
nods including Best Feature and two Lead Actress
nominations for both Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.
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.
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.
«Big Short» not only snuck into the Best
Picture category but it earned McKay a Best Director
nod, an Adapted Screenplay
nomination (shared with Charles Randolph) and the film took an Editing slot as well.
Best Supporting Actor: Three - Way Tie Between Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders and Trevante Rhodes, Moonlight The Academy has shown love to Barry Jenkins» extraordinary sophomore movie with eight well - deserved
nominations, including Best
Picture and supporting
nods to Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris.
But Jordan Peele got a directing
nod, Daniel Kaluuya is in the lead actor pack, and it got a Best
Picture nomination, too.
Guillermo del Toro's sci - fi romance «The Shape of Water» led Tuesday's Oscar
nominations with 13
nods, including for best
picture and best director.
No doubt: The World War II movie that hit big at the summer box office garnered eight
nominations, including the first directing
nod for Thomas» husband, Christopher Nolan, and a best
picture nomination for both of them.
Emma Stone's «La La Land» led Monday's Golden Globe
nominations, picking up seven
nods including Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion
Picture — Musical or Comedy for the 28 - year - old.
The online market's studio half has something of a sure thing on its hands with Manchester, with critical acclaim all but guaranteeing a Best Actor
nod for Casey Affleck, a Best Supporting Actress spot for Michelle Williams and
nominations for both Best
Picture and Best Original Screenplay for Kenneth Lonergan.
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.
Whether all three can earn a Best Editing
nod let alone a Best
Picture nomination remains to be seen.
The film has already received dozens of honors this award season, and during this morning's announcement of the Oscar
nominations, it racked up eight more, including
nods for best director and best
picture.
#OscarsSoWhite again: Despite a Producers Guild Award
nomination for Best
Picture, Straight Outta Compton didn't make the Oscar Best
Picture cut, while Creed, directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan, only scored one
nod, for supporting player Stallone.
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-...]
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.
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.
«Selma» missed out on the recent SAG Award
nominations altogether, so the fact that it earned a Best Motion
Picture — Drama
nod may mean it's again a likely contender for an Oscar Best
Picture nomination.
As for the Best Director prize, «Birdman» director Alejandro González Iñárritu and Richard Linklater of «Boyhood» received
nods — no surprise — and David Fincher of «Gone Girl» (which did not earn a Best Motion
Picture — Drama
nod) and «The Grand Budapest Hotel» director David Fincher also received
nominations.
Indeed, though frontrunners Gravity and 12 Years a Slave scored heavily as had been expected, with 19
nominations between them, far more noteworthy is the major love that has been thrown in the direction of the Bale - starrer, whose ace ensemble (Bale and Bradley Cooper
pictured) resulted in an acting
nod for all four of its stars - which is very rare, indeed.
Along with a best
picture nod in comedy, it earned
nominations for Ralph Fiennes as best actor, and Wes Anderson for screenplay and director.
I'm still going to bet that the film with the Best
Picture nomination is the best bet to win (13/15 out of the past winners have had BP
nominations — and no film since they expanded Best
Picture has won the Eddie without a Best Pic
nod), although honestly Star Wars: The Force Awakens could totally take it (and then take the Oscar too).
The film earned Keaton — also the frontrunner for best actor at the Oscars — a
nomination, as well as
nods for best
picture (comedy or musical) and director.
No More Oscar
Nod for «Alone Yet Not Alone:» After discovering that songwriter Bruce Broughton sent an e-mail to Academy voters alerting them to the submission of his song «Alone Yet Not Alone» for Best Original Song, the Academy of Motion
Pictures Arts and Sciences» Board of Governors have decided to withdraw the
nomination.
Currently teetering as a will - it - or - won't - it Best
Picture hopeful, Moonrise Kingdom has performed surprisingly well in the precursors, landing a Golden Globe
nod for Best
Picture — Comedy, getting shortlisted by the AFI, and clinching a heap of Indie Spirit
nominations.
The biggest question mark will be for the acting
nods, since we all know that without a SAG
nomination, your «Best
Picture» prospects are pretty much dead in the water.
Interstellar's five
nominations weren't quite enough for it to take the honour previously held by Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight for the most
nods without a shot at best
picture.
Most of the expected contenders came away with something to show from the
nominations, including the scientific space adventure «The Martian» (including
nods for star Matt Damon and director Ridley Scott), David O. Russell's matriarch portrait «Joy» (best
picture, comedy and best actress Jennifer Lawrence).
Earlier in the evening, McDormand's «Three Billboards» co-star Sam Rockwell was named Best Supporting Actor; the film received a total of seven
nominations, including Best
Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and another Best Supporting Actor
nod for Woody Harrelson.
Todd Haynes» return to film, the 1950s romance Carol, landed an impressive 10
nominations, including Best
Picture, Best Director (Haynes), Best Adapted Screenplay, technical
nods for Cinematography, Costume Design, Makeup & Hairstyling, Production Design, Original Score, and two Lead Actress
nominations for Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.
Either way, the monumentally successful «Star Wars» has to make do with a handful of technical categories, while George Miller's critically beloved but hardly box - office shattering apocalyptic adventure has snagged Best
Picture and Director
nods among a total of ten
nominations.
That included Steven Spielberg's Pentagon Papers drama «The Post» (best
picture, best actress for Meryl Streep), the first adapted screenplay
nod for a superhero movie in the Wolverine sequel «Logan» and two animated film
nominations: «Ferdinand» and the much - mocked «The Boss Baby.»
Its main competitors for Best
Picture are now the horror - satire Get Out and the teen coming - of - age dramedy Lady Bird, each of which received
nominations for their screenplays as well as Best
Picture and Director
nods.
Joining those films across multiple categories is Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester By The Sea and Robert Eggers» The Witch, earning 7
nominations each, including Best
Picture of the Year and a
nod for Eggers in Best Director.
Fans of The Big Sick who were disappointed by its Golden Globes snubs will feel somewhat vindicated, as Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon's real - life love story turned romantic comedy picked up two acting
nods — for outstanding cast in a motion
picture, and a separate
nomination for Holly Hunter in the outstanding supporting actress category.