Not exact matches
«Moonlight,» a drama about a gay black youth
coming to terms with his sexuality in an impoverished Miami neighbourhood, received the Oscar for best
picture on Sunday, February 26 after a stunning, unprecedented flub in which presenters erroneously announced the musical «La La Land» as the
winner.
Though the influence of Hong Kong director Wong Kar - wai on Barry Jenkins» Moonlight has been well documented, the Best
Picture winner's most direct allusion to the master of exquisitely stylised melancholy
comes via its brief use of Caetano Veloso's rendition of «Cucurrucucú paloma» by Mexican composer Tomás Méndez, a lovesick piece also features in the soundtrack of Wong's own mood - drenched classic of gay cinema, 1997's Happy Together.
As for the second... Towleroad a first for ESPN, actor Matthew Wilkas (Gayby, You're Killing Me) labelled «Gus Kenworthy's Boyfriend» during the X Games
Coming Soon Tony
winner Annaleigh Ashford (we ♥ her) has joined the cast of The Rocky Horror
Picture Show the next TV musical (though this one won't be «live») Salon «Where are all the women in American Film?»
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).
Cannes Palme d'Or
winner The Square is
coming off of its extensive festival run for a theatrical launch today via Magnolia
Pictures.
Culver City, CA (2/13/12)-- From Academy Award ®
winner Angelina Jolie (Best Supporting Actress, Girl, Interrupted, 1999)
comes the acclaimed war drama IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY, available March 27th on Blu - ray ™ + DVD Combo Pack from Sony
Pictures Home Entertainment.
It didn't get much further than that, though, and eventually five releases overtook it: Twins, Big,
Coming to America, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and» 88's Best
Picture winner and box office champ, Rain Man.
Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson
came back after 13 years for «Evening Star,» the followup to 1983's Best
Picture Oscar
winner «Terms of Endearment.»
The Iowa Film Critics announced their
winners today, where «La La Land»
came on top with honors in Best
Picture, Director, Song and Score...
The problem with choosing a
winner in this category is that it's likely going to
come down to Best
Picture heat.
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Just a day after the New York Film Critics Circle named «Boyhood» the best film of the year and the Gotham Awards crowned «Birdman»
comes another list of
winners and another best
picture: «A Most Violent Year» has been selected by the National Board of Review as the year's...
Still, the current list of films that look like Best
Picture candidates consists of biopics (Darkest Hour, The Current War), stories helmed by previous Best
Picture / Director
winners (Kathryn Bigelow's Untitled Detroit Riots project), World War II (Dunkirk), a gay
coming of age story (Call Me By Your Name) and sci - fi (Blade Runner 2049).
The Academy
winner for Best
Picture of 2016 is
coming to Netflix this month.
What You Need To Know:
Coming off a streak that has seen them produce a Best
Picture winner («No Country For Old Men «-RRB- and the biggest box office hit of their careers («True Grit «-RRB-, the Coen Brothers have probably been afforded the opportunity to make whatever they want.
Inspired by the «European Hollywood» of Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder (and with a title seemingly inspired by the 1932 Best
Picture winner «Grand Hotel «-RRB-, the film is toplined by Anderson first - timers Ralph Fiennes (stepping in for Johnny Depp as Mr. Gustave) and Saoirse Ronan, with Jude Law, F. Murray Abraham and Mathieu Amalric making their Wes World debuts, while Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Tilda Swinton and Jeff Goldblum all
come back for second, third or (in Wilson and Murray's case) sixth helpings.
Below are the top - shelf domestic narrative nominations: Best
Picture The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost / Nixon Milk The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Best Director Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire Stephen Daldry, The Reader David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Ron Howard, Frost / Nixon Gus Van Sant, Milk Best Actor Richard Jenkins, The Visitor Frank Langella, Frost / Nixon Sean Penn, Milk Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler Best Actress Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married Angelina Jolie, Changeling Melissa Leo, Frozen River Meryl Streep, Doubt Kate Winslet, The Reader Best Supporting Actor Josh Brolin, Milk Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road Best Supporting Actress Amy Adams, Doubt Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona Viola Davis, Doubt Taraji P Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler Best Original Screenplay Frozen River In Bruges Happy - Go - Lucky Milk Wall ▪ E Best Adapted Screenplay The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Doubt Frost / Nixon The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Best Animated Feature Bolt Kung Fu Panda Wall ▪ E More thoughts later, and in the
coming weeks, certainly, but the Best Supporting Actress nominations clearly offer mostly confirmatory love on the part of AMPAS voters — Cruz and Adams are recent nominees, and Tomei a past Oscar
winner.
The Marvel film's success
comes three years after the #OscarsSoWhite controversy raged — and follows the critical and commercial success of films like «Straight Outta Compton,» «Wonder Woman,» «Coco,» «Get Out,» and last year's Oscar Best
Picture winner «Moonlight.»
HollywoodNews.com: Experience the Heartbreak and Humor When the Academy Award ® and Golden Globe ®
Winner Comes to Blu - ray Combo Pack and DVD March 13 From director Alexander Payne creator of the Oscar ® winning Sideways comes one of the Best Pictures of the year, THE DESCENDANTS, featuring a stunning cast including Best Actor -LSB
Comes to Blu - ray Combo Pack and DVD March 13 From director Alexander Payne creator of the Oscar ® winning Sideways
comes one of the Best Pictures of the year, THE DESCENDANTS, featuring a stunning cast including Best Actor -LSB
comes one of the Best
Pictures of the year, THE DESCENDANTS, featuring a stunning cast including Best Actor -LSB-...]
Some top - tier flicks are
coming to the streaming service, including Best
Picture Oscar -
winners No Country for Old Men, American Beauty, Rain Man and Driving Miss Daisy and all - time classics like Pulp Fiction, Apocalypse Now and Rosemary's Baby.
The last two
winners of the Best
Picture Oscar
came from Fox Searchlight, the mini-major which doesn't have a stronger contender on its menu this season.
We're talking, of course, about Scoot McNairy, who broke through in Monsters and is soon to be seen in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, a terrific actor who has the midas touch when it
comes to recent Best
Picture winners.
Tarell Alvin McCraney, the Oscar
winner who shared the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for «Moonlight» this year along with director Barry Jenkins, is
coming to television with a
coming - of - age drama that sounds right in the wheelhouse of the acclaimed Best
Picture winner.
Since his first film and television appearances in the late - eighties, actor Chris Cooper's filmography has
come to include blockbusters (The Bourne Identity, the upcoming The Amazing Spider - Man 2), comedies (Me, Myself, and Irene, The Muppets), Best
Picture nominees (Seabiscuit, Capote), a Best
Picture winner (American Beauty), and his own Oscar win in 2003 for Best Supporting Actor for Adaptation.
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.
Tony Season is almost upon us) • W Magazine Lee Pace sorta
comes out... in that tortured «I won't say it, but I'm saying it» Jodie Foster kinda way in this interview about taking on the Joe Pitt role in the revival of Angels in America • Theater Mania Harry Connick Jr is now in rehearsals for the debut of a new musical based on Best
Picture winner The Sting.
As touched on previously, La La Land was the biggest
winner on the night,
coming out on top in every category it was nominated, including «best
picture, comedy or musical,» «actress, comedy or musical,» «actor, comedy or musical,» «director,» «screenplay,» «original score,» and «original song».
In 1968, the Oscarcast went on without incident after the burial of King, and ironically, two nominated films that dealt with bigotry owned the night: The Best
Picture winner In The Heat Of The Night, and the inter-racial marriage comedy Guess Who's
Coming To Dinner — both starring Sidney Poitier — won the most awards.
In a rare move, the best
picture, actor, and best actress
winner came from the same film, as The Post stars Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep — barely a week after their film first played for critics — were honored for their performances as The Washington Post's Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham, respectively.
And finally The Day the Crayons
Came Home keeps everyone smiling as the
winner of Best
Picture Books.
When America Alone (personally autographed copies of which are exclusively available, etc, etc)
came out, I used to get occasional emails from Hollywood - not from the 20 - million - per -
picture guys but from bona fide and Oscar - nominated stars (ie, not fake Nobel
winners)- saying how much they liked the book, but please, don't mention it to anybody because they have to work in this town... Well, I'll never know what it's like to depend on Hollywood producers for your next gig, but I know a little bit about the public speaking circuit, and I was surprised, when Niall Ferguson made some unexceptional observations about Keynes that fell afoul of Big Gay, how instantly and abjectly he prostrated himself:
Okay, before the Nexus 6P owners string me up — I placed the Galaxy S7 in the
winners picture because it is the clear
winner when it
comes to specifications.
The Xperia X2 Ultra (
pictured here) is the real
winner when it
comes to camera improvements, though, with two front - facing cameras — a 16 - MP lens that uses a flash to capture detailed selfies even in the dark and an 8 - MP wide - angle lens to squeeze more people into your selfies.