Netflix was hoping that Dee Ree's critically acclaimed drama, set in the 1950s Mississippi Delta, would be the streaming service's first best
picture nominee at the Oscars.
Pro: While action films typically take the two sound awards, a musical (a best
picture nominee at that) can upset in this category.
This breakfast staple features in five out of the nine Best
Picture nominees at the 90th Academy Awards.
The mid -»60s were a grim time for Hollywood both artistically and economically, as reflected by a truly lacklustre brace of Best
Picture nominees at the 1966 awards: alongside Robert Wise's excruciatingly cheerful nuns «n» Nazis romp were ranged the likes of «Doctor Zhivago», «Darling» and something called «A Thousand Clowns».
Film adaptations of Brooklyn, The Martian, The Revenant and Room are among the best
picture nominees at this year's Academy Awards as Hollywood shows its bookish side
So, it's worth remembering maybe three Best
Picture nominees at the most come from Telluride.
Not exact matches
Over a month after the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences announced this year's Oscar
nominees, and the entire movie industry can still only guess
at who will leave Los Angeles» Dolby Theatre with a golden statue on Sunday night.
Linda Rasnake (
pictured on the right) is one of eight
nominees honored for supporting military families
at a Blue Star Neighbor Awards recognition event hosted
at Starbucks.
Though the Home Alone 2 co-star hasn't specifically listed
nominees or award categories, Bovada has six candidates for what could be compared to the «Best
Picture» award
at the Oscars.
Gillibrand (left,
pictured with Attorney General
Nominee Loretta Lynch) told the Daily News she pressed Obama on the issue last week when he met with Senate Democrats
at their annual retreat.
Amour won the Palme d'Or
at Cannes last year, and it's a rare double
nominee at the Oscars for both Best
Picture and Best Foreign Language Film, but this isn't a film that rests easily among other films.
And, as you can see below in our quick look back
at the last two decades of best
picture nominees, having the best reviews among just the nominated films isn't even enough to guarantee a win.
«Birdman» leads film
nominees at this year's Golden Globe Awards with seven bids, including best
picture (musical or comedy), best actor for star Michael Keaton, and supporting actor nods for Emma Stone and Edward Norton.
2009 This was a pretty standout year for Cannes» ability to churn out Oscar hopefuls, with two Best
Picture nominees debuting
at the festival for only the second time in history.
12 times in the past 20 years, so just a little over half of the time, a Best Actress winner was
at least in a Best
Picture nominee, and of those only once has a winner won for her second Oscar — Hilary Swank for Million Dollar Baby, winning just five years after her first Oscar.
Looking back
at Oscar history, when the only Best Actress candidate in a Best
Picture nominee doesn't win she loses to a vet usually who has never been honored.
Now, courtesy of Reddit user herky140, we get a look
at each of this year's Best
Picture nominees and their fake Criterion Collection covers.
Sandra Bullock - The 86th Oscars
Nominees Luncheon held
at The Beverly Hilton - Arrivals
at Beverly Hilton Hotel, Oscars - Los Angeles, California, United States - Monday 10th February 2014 (1
Picture)
That last one is the only Oscar
nominee still in the Top 10, although if you scroll a little bit further down the charts you'll see a solid block of Oscar
nominees, from Best
Picture winner The Shape Of Water
at No. 12 to Best Supporting Actress winner I, Tonya
at No. 19, filling out the Top 20.
For our final edition, we take a look
at all nine of the Best
Picture nominees — a group that includes some of the finest films nominated in this category in some time, and some of the most forgettable.
Believe everything you've heard — the film is a surefire best -
picture nominee, a tense, smart, and surprisingly funny drama that played to a packed house
at the Roy Thomson Hall.
Actress Adrienne C. Moore attends Variety's celebratory brunch event for awards
nominees benefitting Motion
Picture Television Fund
at Cecconi's on January 28, 2017 in West Hollywood, California.
It's Oscar season this week, and on Alcohollywood we've got Ry from our friends
at CinemaJaw to help us talk about Best
Picture nominee Gravity!
Part of the challenge: one of Vidor's most obvious awards - friendly films — silent masterpiece «The Big Parade» (1925)-- pre-dated the Oscars, while his other prime candidate, «The Crowd,» was a double
nominee of Best Director and
Picture at the first Academy Awards in 1929.
Actor Aldis Hodge attends Variety's celebratory brunch event for awards
nominees benefitting Motion
Picture Television Fund
at Cecconi's on January 28, 2017 in West Hollywood, California.
Bill Nighy - A host of stars were photographed as they arrived for the Meet the 2015 Tony
Nominees reception which was held
at the Paramount Hotel in New York City, New York, United States - Wednesday 29th April 2015 (8
Pictures)
Justin Timberlake attends Variety's celebratory brunch event for awards
nominees benefitting Motion
Picture Television Fund
at Cecconi's on January 28, 2017 in West Hollywood, California.
Actress Jolene Purdy attends Variety's celebratory brunch event for awards
nominees benefitting Motion
Picture Television Fund
at Cecconi's on January 28, 2017 in West Hollywood, California.
Director Denis Villeneuve attends Variety's celebratory brunch event for awards
nominees benefitting Motion
Picture Television Fund
at Cecconi's on January 28, 2017 in West Hollywood, California.
Actor Matt Walsh attends Variety's celebratory brunch event for awards
nominees benefitting Motion
Picture Television Fund
at Cecconi's on January 28, 2017 in West Hollywood, California.
The India - born, British - raised Radford became a double
nominee for Director and Adapted Screenplay on the 1990s Italian film Il Postino (The Postman), the rare foreign language production to earn a Best
Picture nomination
at the Oscars.
«Good Time,» then, juxtaposes Connie's treatment of his brother and of a stranger, but most of all is a high - tension
picture with bold use of music and songs, including Iggy Pop's «The Pure and the Damned,» and assorted electronica — which could make the
picture a Best Music
nominee at awards time.
Christopher Nolan is an Oscar
nominee for Best Director for the first time thanks to «Dunkirk,» which is also nominated for Best
Picture and a handful of crafts prizes, and he made it clear
at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (via Collider) that he has brushed up on the competition.
At this point only «The Big Short» is viewed as a legitimate Best
Picture and or Best Editing
nominee among this group.
Justin Timberlake arrives
at Variety's Celebratory Brunch Event For Awards
Nominees Benefiting Motion
Picture Television Fund
at Cecconi's on January 28, 2017 in West Hollywood, California.
Yael Stone arrives
at Variety's Celebratory Brunch Event For Awards
Nominees Benefiting Motion
Picture Television Fund
at Cecconi's on January 28, 2017 in West Hollywood, California.
Perhaps the last awards - season film that relied on music to this extent was The Artist, which walked away with both best original score and best
picture; though The Shape of Water faces stiff competition, especially from first - time Oscar
nominee Jonny Greenwood (for Phantom Thread) and perpetual
nominee Hans Zimmer (for his experimental Dunkirk score), expect it to pull off the same trick (and underwater,
at that).
A slate of best
picture nominees is like a Rorschach inkblot — we look
at it and can see the era.
Some of the attempts
at topicality felt forced — see: Salma Hayek trying to get the audience to yell «Time's Up» in unison and presenter Geena Davis joking that all the Best Actor in a Motion
Picture nominees should give half their salaries to the women in their films — but it was satisfying to imagine the men in the audience feeling uncomfortable for a night.
Subtract Dunkirk and Get Out — two pre-season hits that elbowed their way into the awards line - up — and the year's remaining seven Best
Picture nominees have been stuck
at an average of about 4.5 million domestic box - office viewers each.
Best
Picture — Among the
nominees for «Best
Picture»
at this year's Academy Awards it is the Revenant that unsurprisingly claims top spot followed by Mad Max: Fury Road.
Reitman was
at the 87th Annual Academy Awards back in February representing Whiplash, a Best
Picture nominee he produced.
With no best
picture nominees in the mix this time and no more chances to give Caesar his due, the Academy has no reason not to go for Apes
at last.
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pictures and digital announced 5 — Academy Award nominations voting opens
at 8AM PST 7 — Golden Globe Awards 8 — Final ballots go out to BFCA members 8 — Final ballots go out to BTJA members 9 — Deadline for BFCA returning final ballots 9 — Deadline for BTJA returning final ballots 9 — National Board of Review gala 9 — BAFTA nominations announced 10 — Cinema Audio Society
nominees announced 10 — DGA TV, Commercial and Documentary
nominees announced 11 — Critics» Choice Awards 11 — DGA feature film and first - time feature nominations announced 12 — Academy Award nominations voting closes
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He released Best
Picture winner «Crash» during his time
at Lionsgate, and he was involved with Best
Picture winner «The Last Emperor» and five - time
nominee «Hope and Glory» while
at Columbia
Pictures.
Graeme Robertson on why Network should have won Best
Picture at the 49th Academy Awards... The Oscars celebrating the best of 1976 were a rarity, in that, almost all of the
nominees for Best
Picture are truly excellent and have gone on to become celebrated classics.
Interestingly, though, all eight Best
Picture nominees this year ended up winning
at least one Oscar, for elements ranging from sound editing to screenplay, acting, and more.
Moving on to Best Supporting Actor, let's look
at how they're tied in with Best
Picture nominees and winners in the era of the expanded ballot:
In an interesting bit of trivia, for the first time since expanding the category, all 8 Best
Picture nominees took home
at least one award.
Like AIDS related Best
Picture nominee Dallas Buyers Club twhich some gay critics don't like
at all and on principal but which factors into both of the gay - specific awards recently announced.