Sentences with phrase «picture race»

2006 was the most open Best Picture race in years, actually.

Things look even more dire for women as the subject of films in the Best Picture race when you just look at nominees over that same period.

There is nothing more thrilling than having a dark film like Gone Girl in the Best Picture race from my perspective.

The indie revolution of the»90s turned the Best Picture race into an annual war of big guys and little guys.

But what's interesting this year is how open this Best Picture race remains.

Because the motion picture races are divided into two categories — drama and musical or comedy — it makes the competition, well, quite wide.

Though the nominations threw everybody off, myself included, this is one of the more unpredictable Best Picture races I've ever seen.

The adapted screenplay generally, though certainly not always, controls the Oscar Best Picture race as well, meaning that the strongest candidates for Best Picture usually show up in either of the screenplay categories.

Bringing an end to one of the most wide open best picture races in years, «The Shape of Water» — a fantastical fable about a mute woman who falls in love with an aquatic creature — claimed the top prize Sunday night at the 90th Academy Awards, beating out...

Those really are the biggest predictors and determiners, of the Best Picture race at least.

This has long looked like a two - picture race between Spotlight and The Revenant, with The Big Short lurking as a prominent dark horse.

It appears that Las Vegas oddsmakers are not in total agreement with movie experts, as the online gambling site Bovada actually has Three Billboards (20/23) as the odds - on bet to win the Best Picture race over the likes of The Shape of Water (7/5), Get Out (11/2), and Lady Bird (14/1).

Not since the 1999 face - off between Shakespeare in Love and Saving Private Ryan has the Best Picture race felt this close.

The movie's inclusion in the Best Picture race gives the star (and co-writer of the movie) some extra heft, but I suspect voters won't give him enough credit for the performance, since he's playing a version of himself.

What if the story of this year's Best Picture race changed from old (The King's Speech) vs. new (The Social Network) to crowd - pleasing royals (The King's Speech) vs. crowd - pleasing commoners (The Fighter)?

The Best Picture race did not expand nor contract as many speculated but equaled its 2015 number of just eight nominees.

The 10 - strong best picture race also includes «The Fighter,» «The Town,» «Toy Story 3» and «Winter's Bone.»

This year's Oscar best picture race continues to be defined as a clash between fall festival favorites «12 Years a Slave» and «Gravity.»

«The Big Short's» Adam McKay or «Spotlight's» Tom McCarthy giving their films a leg up in the Best Picture race with a win?

Essentially, in my opinion the Best Picture race currently comes down to a battle of the biggest blocks in the Academy: the Actors branch and the combined below - the - line branches (Costumes, Cinematography, Production Design, etc.).

Breznican: I wouldn't have thought «Dallas Buyers Club» would break into the best picture race amid all those behemoths, but enthusiasm among voters has skyrocketed in recent weeks.

[Daily Telegraph] • The Best Picture race begins to take shape for Sasha Stone.

As already hinted at in the latest Oscar Predictions, the A24 film could prove to be the spoiler in the Best Picture race by the end of the season.

As an executive at a major studio competing with A24 in the best - picture race said before Sunday's surprise win: «Look how many theaters our movie is in.

It's a horror film, for starters, and a very funny one at that, which is two strikes against it: Neither horror nor comedy shows up in the Best Picture race very frequently.

Joining The Master in the Best Picture race Ben Affleck's Argo, Leos Carax's Holy Motors, Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom and Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty.

No matter which way the Best Picture race goes, it's a almost forgone conclusion that Lee will get a well - deserved but late Oscar.

Next month he starts shooting his next collaboration with David O. Russell, the untitled Abscam movie (which could be in the Best Picture race next year), and by the end of May he'll have two more movies in theaters: Derek Cianfrance «s searing «The Place Beyond The Pines» and trilogy capper «The Hangover Part III.»

Over at Forbes, Mark Hughes's handicapping of the best picture race suggests that four films are locks for nominations («Call Me by Your Name,» «Dunkirk,» «The Post» and «The Shape of Water»), and two more titles are «highly likely» to join them («Lady Bird» and «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri»).

The Producers Guild Awards made history Sunday night, with the Best Picture race ending in a tie for...

However, a preferential ballot offers a cavalcade of complications that need to be considered and in hindsight, it's clear that The Revenant was terribly vulnerable and what lessons there are for this forthcoming and, indeed, every Best Picture race as long as this voting system is retained.

In 2016, Amazon Studios released Manchester By the Sea to theaters, bringing the company that started out as a bookseller in 1996 into the best picture race at this year's Oscars.

The Oscar pundits over at Gold Derby (of which I am one) certainly believe it's possible that the ensemble comedy — led by «SNL» standouts Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph — could get into the Best Picture race when nominations are revealed early next year.

This is a two - picture race between Inside Out, a brilliant and inventive family - friendly feature from Pixar (Toy Story, Wall - E), and Anomalisa, a brilliant and inventive family - unfriendly feature from Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind).

In the last few years, names like Christopher Nolan, Sean Penn, Julian Schnabel and Bill Condon have popped up on the list, almost as if the guild was concerned with predicting the Best Picture race as it had done, five - for - five, for four straight years prior.

And the best - picture race is one of the most wide open in recent years.

That's all to the good; I don't think it's an accident that the first wide - open Best Picture race in decades coincides with the fact that a quarter of voting members have joined since 2014, and that a far lower percentage of them are straight, white male American elders than is the case with the other 75 percent of voters.

Predicted Winner: The writing categories mirror the competitiveness of the Best Picture race — swing a dead cat and you'll hit a worthy winner!

In the Best Picture race, the biggest hits were the World War II flick «Dunkirk,» which last year grossed around $ 188 million in U.S.ticket sales, good for 14th place on the box office charts, and Jordan Peele's horror film «Get Out,» which tucked in just below «Dunkirk» with $ 176 million in domestic sales.

Winds will also be light so a picture race day in the desert.

In high school I used to put on Rocky IV and lay on the carpet in my room with my uniform and track spikes on and picture the race, lap by lap.

With the February 22nd date of this year's Academy Awards ceremony fast approaching, it's time to take a quick look at this year's best picture race — as well as those from the past two decades — to see where critics and Oscar voters diverge.

The most notable snub among the best picture races is probably Arrival, though that film did earn two nominations elsewhere.

Analysis: The best way into this year's splintered best picture race is to guess the Oscar nominees for director and move outward from there.

Fox Searchlight has been dominated the Best Picture race this decade with three wins, including this year with The Shape of Water.

Given the front - runner status of Mr. Boyle «Äôs «ÄúSlumdog Millionaire «Äù in the best picture race, it was hard not to see a little bit of good - natured concession in the moment.

All in all, it's fairly exciting to have so many films driven by strong women headed straight for the Best Picture race.

The Best Picture race has seemingly been cemented — with one potential exception.

I think the only thing we can all agree on without any disagreement is that Pixar is not getting into the Best Picture race.