Four Oscar best -
picture winners topped their respective years, including «The Hurt Locker,» with other Oscar darlings making it on the list, as well.
Not exact matches
In case you've somehow missed it, the envelope Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway read from when announcing Best
Picture winner was the wrong one, and it took until midway through round of impassioned acceptance speeches for the producers of La La Land to realize they hadn't won the
top prize, after all; Moonlight had.
Paltrow was the Weinsteins» It Girl back in 1995, right after Se7en put her on the map and just before The Pallbearer and Emma — the latter earning her the
top - billing spot two years later in Miramax's first Best
Picture -
winner, Shakespeare in Love, beating Steven Spielberg's war epic, Saving Private Ryan, which, to this day, is still a shock.
Using our unique ratings systems culled from
top critics, we've ranked all the best
picture winners over nearly three decades.
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Widows from Oscar
winner Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) is the new
top pick for Best
Picture for April as Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman, which was just announced to debut at the Cannes Film Festival next month, falls to # 4.
Last year, only six out of their
top 10 earned Best
Picture nominations, seven with their
winner, Manchester by the Sea.
If, however, yesterday's Independent Spirit Awards Best Feature
winner, Get Out, manages to take tonight's
top prize, then it will even outdo the last few Best
Picture winners at the box office to
top nine digits.
Last Year «Äôs Big
Winners: In LA, while Oscar snubees «ÄúWALL - E «Äù and the ultra deserving Sally Hawkins took top honors for best picture and actress, eventually Oscar winners Danny Boyle, Sean Penn, Heath Ledger and Penelope Cruz all won here a
Winners: In LA, while Oscar snubees «ÄúWALL - E «Äù and the ultra deserving Sally Hawkins took
top honors for best
picture and actress, eventually Oscar
winners Danny Boyle, Sean Penn, Heath Ledger and Penelope Cruz all won here a
winners Danny Boyle, Sean Penn, Heath Ledger and Penelope Cruz all won here as well.
There's an old truism among Oscar observers that, in any given year, one can look at one of the
winners of the Screenplay awards and spot the true best
picture of the year, regardless of what the voters actually elected to the
top spot.
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.
That means that Spotlight and The Big Short, the two Oscar Best
Picture frontrunners, are statistically the only viable
winners in the
top category.
Lesher, a former agent and Oscar
winner for 2015's best
picture champion «Birdman,» is very wary of the Hollywood status quo after having worked as a
top executive at Paramount
Pictures.
Complete list of
winners and runners - up from the National Society of Film Critics, with vote break - downs for the
top three films in each category (via IndieWire) BEST
PICTURE * 1.
Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best
Picture, «The Apartment» features a wealth of Hollywood's finest talent — on both sides of the camera — at the
top of their game.
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
Picture winner under the preferential ballot: NBR
top ten Globe Best Director (and / or
picture) DGA PGA
picture) DGA PGA SAG...
You'd have to go back to 2013 to find the most recent mismatch between Gothams and Oscars, and boy was it a wild one: Inside Llewyn Davis beat out eventual Best
Picture winner 12 Years a Slave to claim the Gothams»
top prize.
The Iowa Film Critics announced their
winners today, where «La La Land» came on
top with honors in Best
Picture, Director, Song and Score...
Philadelphia Film Critics announced their
winners today where Jordan Peele's «Get Out»
topped the awards with four wins for Best
Picture, Director, Script, and...
In the past two years, the PGA and Oscars went with different
winners, however, as The Big Short won the PGA Award while Spotlight took the Best
Picture Oscar; while La La Land won the
top PGA honor and Moonlight, after a barrage of on - stage confusion, won the Oscar for Best
Picture.
The initial predictions that were released on March 6 named Martin Scorsese's upcoming crime thriller «The Irishman» as the probable Best
Picture winner, also slated in the
top spots for Director, Supporting Actor for Al Pacino, and Film Editing for Thelma Schoonmaker.
The
top four contenders aren't just all possibilities here, they're also all legitimate contenders for Best
Picture and looking at the recent trend of Best
Picture winners, it's a screenplay win that is its closest ally.
After one of the wildest and most unpredictable Oscar seasons in recent memory with regards to the
top category, Best
Picture, the Gold Rush Gang and myself have finally settled on our final Oscar
winner predictions.
Moonlight was the big
winner with Los Angeles critics today, taking the
top two awards — Best
Picture and Best Director, as well as Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali a Cinematography win for lenser James Laxton.
Ahead of the Academy Awards tonight, the
winners of the 33rd Film Independent Spirit Awards were announced in Hollywood last night, with Jordan Peele's Best
Picture - nominated Get Out taking home the
top honour, Best Feature, as well as Best Director.
The success of Mad Max: Fury Road has put the film into
top 5 status and if there was going to be a split season between Best
Picture and Best Director (assuming Spotlight is the BP
winner) Miller would seem the most likely to benefit.
After Guillermo del Toro turned a creature feature into a best
picture Oscar
winner, films with B - movie plots, from Rampage to A Quiet Place, are also edging their way to the
top
Philadelphia Film Critics announced their
winners today where Jordan Peele's «Get Out»
topped the awards with four wins for Best
Picture, Director, Script, and Directorial Debut.
Pulling an actual Best
Picture win on
top of that would put Peele's film in the company of just one other horror
winner.
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.
Winner of five Academy Awards ®, including Best
Picture and Best Director, and one of AFI's
Top 100 Films of All Time, The Deer Hunter follows a group of Pennsylvania steelworkers from their blue - collar lives, hunting in the woods of the Alleghenies, to the hells of Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.
In 2016, for instance, The Revenant won the Globe for the
top drama prize, beating out eventual Best
Picture winner Spotlight.
The victory for «The Shape of Water» is rather surprising because, for the first time in over 20 years, a Best
Picture winner has won the
top prize without having a nomination for Best Cast from SAG, along with another big surprise of not winning its respective Screenplay category on the way to the
top.
On
top of that, the film failed to win a single Golden Globe, SAG, or BAFTA Award, something that has never happened to a Best
Picture winner from the start of the SAG Awards in 1995.
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To put it in numbers, of the four most - likely Best
Picture winners, only one — Get Out, at No. 15 — cracked the
top 49 movies in 2017 domestic box office.
On Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Kimmel Center, there will be a Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival screening of Samuel Maoz's Foxtrot,
winner of
top Israeli film awards including best
picture and the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
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.
Looking at the Cannes lineup and
winners this year it's unlikely anyone outside of Spike Lee, who was already a
top contender, will factor in the upper tiers of Best Director predictions but I am adding Jury Prize
winner Nadine Labaki, whose Capernaum was picked up by Sony
Pictures Classics and Screenplay
winner Alice Rohrwacher, whose Happy as Lazzaro was picked up by Netflix.
No one has ever accused Anderson of being a populist filmmaker; his personal
top - grosser, 2007 Best
Picture nominee and Actor
winner Blood, looks like a fluke.
Should it do well this awards season it could fight for the crown as A24's
top grossing film, currently held by this year's Best
Picture winner Moonlight.
Quartet is
top shelf, feel - good British filmmaking that will delight fans of Downton Abbey, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and
winner of the 2011 Best
Picture Oscar, The King's Speech.
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».
Winner of the Academy Awards for Best
Picture, Best Director, and Best Cinematography as well as Golden Globes for Best Screenplay and Best Actor in 2014, Birdman will sit solidly on our list making it strongly probable that it will remain in the
Top 50 for the rest of the decade.
The
top winner was Spotlight with five nominations and winning in four categories of Best
Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Ensemble, and Best Screenplay.
In fact, «The Artist» wouldn't have even made my
Top 10 list that year, while «Argo» would have slotted slightly ahead of «The King's Speech» (that year's Best
Picture winner, by the way), which means it would have ranked as the sixth best movie that year.
Best Television Limited Series or Motion
Picture Made for Television
WINNER: Big Little Lies Fargo Feud: Bette and Joan The Sinner
Top of the Lake: China Girl
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Top of the List
winner — Youth
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winner — Youth
Picture Book.
The 2009 Caldecott Medal
winner and the 2008 Booklist
Top of the List
winner for
picture books.