The phrase
"picture winner" refers to a movie that has won or been awarded a prize or recognition for being the best or most outstanding film.
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There are certainly formulas which have proven to be successful for
Best Picture winners as well as Best Actor and Actress.
With less than $ 40 million in domestic box office gross, so far, Spotlight is one of the lowest - grossing Best
Picture winners of the past several decades.
This film doesn't succeed to the extent that comparable Best
Picture winner did, but it is similarly accessible, involving, and fast - moving.
You're looking for the film everyone loves and many like and no one hates — the Best
Picture winner by process of elimination.
Analysis: The last two best
picture winners came from adapted works, but that should change this year.
Still, I ended up leaving feeling good about the Best
Picture winner because it is so deserving, stats be damned.
In fact, nearly every Best
Picture winner in recent memory made its debut at one of the major fall film festivals.
The most recent instance of the Best
Picture winner also producing a Best Actress winner was the boxing drama Million Dollar Baby.
Of course, I knew most of the songs and was familiar with the classic moments from this Best
Picture winner for 1966 which once was the highest grossing picture ever made.
And Moonlight, which took home the Best Motion Picture (Drama) award at the Globes, was the eventual Best
Picture winner at the Oscars — though not until after a historic SNAFU.
Does a WGA victory mean «Get Out» has the reserves to shock the world as the Academy's best
picture winner on Oscar night?
Three of those four losing bids came for Titanic and none were Oscars; this is the first and only Best
Picture winner since The Sound of Music (1965) not to have also competed for a screenplay Academy Award.
Fox Searchlight has a pair of awards hopefuls coming to Venice with The Shape of Water from Guillermo del Toro and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and A24 (reigning Best
Picture winner with Moonlight) is debuting Lean on Pete from Andrew Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years).
You'll remember last year we awarded eventual Oscar Best
Picture winner Moonlight with seven prizes, and this year the wealth is slightly more shared.
In 2015, eventual Best
Picture winner Birdman was bested by The Grand Budapest Hotel for the Globes» best comedy.
Beresford is one of the few directors of a Best
Picture winner not nominated for Best Director also (although he earlier was, for 1983's Tender Mercies) and his career decidedly did not take off after that.
It only took home two Oscars, which is the first time since 1951 a Best
Picture winner only won two awards the whole evening.
Similarly, the last Best
Picture winner nominated for Best Costume Design to LOSE said award was «Braveheart,» which lost to period piece «Restoration.»
Fortunately, that process got a much needed shake - up last year when the flub that was seen around the world revealed the 2017 Best
Picture winner as Moonlight.
Past Best
Picture winners like Birdman (October 17, 2014), 12 Years a Slave (November 8, 2013), Argo (October 12, 2012) and The Artist (October 12, 2011) were all released within the last three months of the year.
Continuing with box office stats, this is the 2nd year in a row the Best
Picture winner won with less than $ 40M at the box office at the time of the ceremony and the third year in a row with sub-100M winners.
Let's take a look at the NBR's past Best
Picture winners going back to the year when Oscar expanded to ten, 2009.
Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, who are two of the people responsible for last year's Oscars fiasco where La La Land was announced as the Best
Picture winner over actual winner Moonlight, will announce Best... Read more
With $ 37.7 million in domestic ticket sales since its release in October, «Birdman» is one of the lowest grossing best
picture winners ever.
Gere has never received an Academy Award nomination, not even for his Golden Globe - winning turn in Best
Picture winner Chicago.
The «canonical» example he uses is Schindler's List, an excellent - but - extremely - serious Best
Picture winner about the Holocaust.
Directed by: David Fincher Written by: Gillian Flynn Main Cast: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Carrie Coon, Tyler Perry, Neil Patrick Harris, Kim Dickens, Patrick Fugit, and more... Past Oscar relations: Affleck is a two time Oscar winner (co-writing Good Will Hunting and co-producing his Best
Picture winner Argo), while Fincher is a two time Best Director nominee, having been cited for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Social Network
Oscar - winning films like the abuse - survival tale Precious, the 2016 Best
Picture winner Room, about a kidnapping victim, may not be straight - ahead...
You can keep track of my Build by Guild: Creating a Best
Picture Winner here and the new Oscar winner predictions charts from the Gold Rush Gang this week.
No film had all of the markers we usually use to find a Best
Picture winner under the preferential ballot: NBR top ten Globe Best Director (and / or picture) DGA PGA SAG...
An envelope goof led to La La Land mistakenly being announced as the Best
Picture winner instead of the real winner - Barry Jenkins» Moonlight.
Best Picture nominee Gran Torino would have been hard on me, but it wasn't any more ridiculous than the dreadful The Reader or, dare I say it, Best
Picture Winner Slumdog Millionaire.
The English Patient was such a cultural phenomenon when it was released that Seinfeld built it into an episode of the same name during its 8th season (joining Schindler's List as Best
Picture winner which serviced elements of the sitcom's plot).
Four Oscar best -
picture winners topped their respective years, including «The Hurt Locker,» with other Oscar darlings making it on the list, as well.
If it were possible to combine «Gladiator» and «Braveheart» into a single film and then surgically extract virtually everything that made those Best
Picture winners pure movie magic, what you'd wind up with would be a lifeless, longwinded, anti-epic very much along the lines of Ridley Scott's latest.
Director Paul W.S. Anderson and his writers borrow heavily from Best
Picture winners Titanic and Gladiator for their decidedly not - Oscar - worthy disaster epic Pompeii.
Jodie Foster and Hilary Swank both have two in lead, but both of them starred in Best
Picture winners when they won their second.
The Box Office Champion of 1969 wasn't the X-rated Best
Picture Winner Midnight Cowboy or the lavish Barbra Streisand musical Hello Dolly!