Sentences with phrase «picture prize»

I got the feeling that A Beautiful Mind took home the Best Picture prize for 2001 due to that factor.

Selma stars Oprah Winfrey and David Oyelowo have shrugged off their disappointment after the film lost out on the prestigious Best Picture prize at...

Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri took home the prestigious Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture prize at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Sunday which means it could well land the Best Picture Oscar as the SAG ensemble award is often a strong indicator.

Chicago's association was first established in 1988 with a Best Picture prize for Mississippi Burning of all things.

The Academy loves its biopics, having nominated more than a dozen for the coveted Best Picture prize in the last ten years.

RICHLAND, Wash. — A WSU Tri-Cities team recently took home the Wells Fargo «CleanTech» Big Picture prize at the University of Washington Business Plan Competition.

But the best - picture prize usually goes to the most serious film, and «12 Years a Slave» has a huge edge there for its uncompromising portrayal of slavery.

But still the film to beat for the coveted Best Picture prize remains Boston journalism drama «Spotlight», which won six nominations.

The master storyteller was beaten to both the 1983 Best Director and Best Picture prize by Richard Attenborough's Gandhi, but it was a very strong year of double - header noms - Sydney Pollack for Tootsie (one of my all - time favourite films) and Sidney Lumet (The Verdict) were also in the running - while Wolfgang Petersen (for Das Boot) and Costa Gavras's Missing (Best Picture) were in the mix too.

So maybe the Los Angeles critics will feel the need to get behind a few ponies, as they do annually (Vera Farmiga in «Down to the Bone,» handing «There Will Be Blood» their Best Picture prize last year when Oscar buzz -LSB-...]

«Boyhood» has received the Best Picture prize from the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, both seen as possible previews of what movies will receive Best Picture nods at the Oscars.

Other winners on the night included best actress - winner Jennifer Lawrence, who in recent days has managed to charm just about everybody, best actor Daniel Day Lewis, who's gravitas - laden performances are like catnip for Academy voters, and Argo, which beat Lincoln to the best picture prize despite Ben Affleck having been overlooked in the best director nominations.

While «Les Miserables» snagged the Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy award, its chances are probably waning in the Best Picture category, and the fact that the Globes award two motion picture prizes means that one inevitably is not the winner for Best Picture.

Mel Gibson, star of Miller's first three Mad Max movies, was on hand to present the Palme D'Or — the Best Picture prize of the competition lineup — to venerated British director Ken Loach for his latest naturalistic ode to the struggles of the working class.

And it did that with best - director wins from L.A. and New York online, with a shared best - picture prize in L.A. and with three cinematography awards for Emmanuel Lubezki.

«Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» took home the prestigious Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture prize at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG)...

Argo, Ben Affleck's third feature film, is looking more and more like a lock for the Best Picture prize at Sunday's Oscars, and even if the man himself didn't get a Best Director nomination, it's still a remarkable culmination of one of the most fascinating second acts in Hollywood.

2003 The Hours and Chicago take the Best Picture prizes at the 60th annual Golden Globes, a rare year where female led pictures were tops in both categories.

The Academy are notably resistant to nominating giant blockbuster, crowd - galvanizing epics for its Best Picture prize.

With the exception of the best picture prize, which is a tight Oscar race, most of Sunday night's winners are expected to take home statuettes again at the Academy Awards on March 4.

They did it in 1985 with «Brazil,» an unreleased film from Terry Gilliam that somehow won their Best Picture prize and forced Universal to finally put it in theaters.

«Having actually won the best picture prize, it enhances everything.»

His films have won an incredible 3 Best Picture prizes and he's also won four personal prizes from the normally spread - your - wealth folks at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association over the past 20 years.

If Moonlight's thrilling upset victory over La La Land two minutes after the best picture prize was incorrectly called for the latter left everyone's heads spinning, we still don't know how sweeping the Academy's membership truly is or how far - reaching its effects will be.

There are three new entries: The Front Runner, which just got a pickup from Sony Pictures Classics; A Star Is Born, because the word of mouth is through the roof; and The Favourite, because it's Fox Searchlight, which just won yet another Best Picture prize and had a spare just in case.

After the huge success his film has had with the critics awards (winning a half dozen Best Picture prizes) and how Miller himself has performed with them, the Australian born Oscar winner (for Happy Feet, no less) has bulleted past Ridley Scott (The Martian), who was set to claim the «veteran director without a Directing Oscar» label.

After recent rule changes, the Academy can now nominate between five and 10 movies for the Best Picture prize and this year it went with eight, one less than the two previous years.

Blame Harvey Weinstein's notoriously aggressive, bullying Oscar campaign that secured the best picture prize for the insipid Shakespeare in Love.

Because of how the Best Picture prize is chosen, it's most likely that the winner will end up being a consensus choice — possibly very few people's absolute favorite movie but a lot of people's third - favorite movie.

Taking the Best Picture prize was The Lobster with La La Land coming in as the runner - up.

Among its many awards season kudos is a win of the Screen Actors Guild's Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture prize, a.k.a. the Best Ensemble award.

The Academy likes to toss their Best Picture prizes to movies that present positive, socially - acceptable messages, and no film exemplifies that trend more than 1947's victor, the dull and pedantic Gentleman's Agreement.

,» this one has been reduced to a race between No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood, by most accounts the only two films that have (at least should have) a stake on the Best Picture prize, and if I discount The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, in spite of its interest in the ALSKDJFHGZMZNCBVQPOWIUEYRT's of our language, it's because Julian Schnabel's own use of the Caps Lock function behind the camera is the star of that fashion show.

But for all the unmarried women and Norma Raes, no film with a female lead won the best picture prize in that decade.

The Utah Film Critics Association gave La La Land their Best Picture prize but the bigger news was that they also awarded its star, Emma Stone, her first Best Actress prize of the critics» season.

The National Society of Film Critics closed down the pundits» phase of awards season this past weekend by giving its best picture prize to Jean - Luc Godard's «Goodbye to Language,» catching many — including some of the...

Gee, The Social Network wins another Best Picture prize?

Fox Searchlight Pictures» «The Shape of Water,» which boasted the largest number of nominations with 14, took home the Best Picture prize, and

Nathan Lane then presented Carol producers Christine Vachon, Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley with the best picture prize.

He wrote the winning adapted screenplays for «Sideways» and «The Descendants,» and has been nominated for additional writing, directing, and Best Picture prizes.

As the 2018 Oscars nomination balloting concludes Friday, it bears noting that no true superhero film - including 2008's acclaimed «The Dark Knight» - has ever been nominated for the best picture prize.

Fox Searchlight Pictures» «The Shape of Water,» which boasted the largest number of nominations with 14, took home the Best Picture prize, and Guillermo Del Toro earned a repeat Best Director win after his Globes victory.

All five of those films earned nominations for their overall casts, the equivalent of a best - picture prize for the guild, which represents Hollywood actors.

The Girls Trip star accepted her best - supporting - actress prize from the New York Film Critics Circle around the halfway point of the N.Y.F.C.C. gala, after a tribute from Sony Pictures Classics co-president Michael Barker to the recently deceased Lincoln Plaza Cinemas owner Dan Talbot, and before Jane Pauley handed the best - picture prize to Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird.

Mercifully, they gave their Best Picture prize to the rightful winner that year, The Social Network.