Not exact matches
Meanwhile, Netflix (nflx) is
second to only Time Warner's HBO (twx) in terms of TV
category nods (nine to HBO's 12), while the streaming giant also picked up three big nominations in the
film categories, including two for its original feature
film Mudbound.
The
second film's success was perhaps even more staggering than the first: The Godfather, Pt. 2 garnered six more Oscars, including a win for Coppola in the Best Director
category; Robert DeNiro won his first Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor field; and the movie itself became the first and only sequel ever to win Best Picture honors.Next, Coppola began adapting the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness, transferring its story to the heart of the Cambodian jungle at the height of the conflict in Vietnam.
This is a nothing performance and borderline
category fraud as Watts basically doesn't appear in the
second half of the
film.
Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer —
Second time both actresses have been nominated in same year but first time in same
category for different
films.
He earned his
second Oscar nod last year for the 2013
film «American Hustle,» that time in the
category of Best Supporting Actor.
While most people are predicting Moonlight to win (as I am) the
film is the
second lowest box office grosser of the bunch and this is a
category that favors two things: the Best Picture frontrunner or a populist hit.
Beasts of No Nation, which had been largely written off this awards season, came roaring back with not only a Supporting nomination for Idris Elba (his
second of the day, he was also nomination in the television
category) but he and the
film were nominated in the top
category.
And yet, for all that Burton has accomplished, Oscar recognition has been restricted to two nominations in the Animated
film category: The first for 2006's The Corpse Bride and the
second for 2012's Frankenweenie.
Ryan Gosling will be a strong presence in the Best Actor
category between this and the upcoming «The Place Beyond the Pines» (we'll be covering that
film in a later Profile, so stay tuned there), but he could again split his vote or see more votes go to his
second collaboration with his «Blue Valentine» director as opposed to here with his «Drive» director.
Mudbound writer - director Dee Rees is the
second black woman screenwriter to be nominated for screenwriting, and the
film's cinematographer, Rachel Morrison, is the first woman to be nominated in the Best Cinematography
category.
The 26
film critics and voting members of the Chicago Independent
Film Critics Circle completed their final ballots in 21
categories for their
second annual CIFCC Awards.
The same scenario played out along slightly different lines in 1999 when Saving Private Ryan — whose battle sequences transposed some of Platoon's brutal modernism to the context of World War II — earned Steven Spielberg a
second Best Director Oscar but the
film was upset in the Best Picture
category by Shakespeare in Love, a
film whose virtues were perceived to be more literary than visual.
The is the
second year to feature a
film about Samuel Fuller in the Best Documentary
category, after 2013's A Fuller Life.
A potential win in this
category with precedent is Cate Blanchett's «Bob Dylan» from Todd Haynes's I'm Not There, but that precedent is Cate Blanchett's Katharine Hepburn from Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, and though pundits are right to wonder if the Academy will want to give this fussy actress a
second Oscar so soon after her last one, Blanchett may lose for representing a
film that comes on intellectually strong and is possibly more obnoxious than American Gangster.
Musical or Comedy designation landed Phoenix a Best Actor nod at the Golden Globes (his
second straight one in that
category perhaps qualifies him for the «funnyman» label), but the
film could not get a Best Picture nomination despite a field with only two legitimate Oscar contenders.
His sci - fi thriller Inception broke through the barrier of earnestness to the best picture
category in 2011 and it scored him a
second screenplay nod (the first was for Memento) but it looks like he might finally get the ultimate recognition for his next
film Dunkirk.
The generally unpredictable foreign language
film category snubbed two top contenders — Israel's «Foxtrot,» which collected the
second place prize at the Venice
Film Festival, and Germany's Golden Globe - winning «In the Fade.»
Kore - eda topped the best screenplay
category with 25 % of the vote, while «Burning» only received 10 % of the vote in the
category, tying for
second place with Lebanese director Nadine Labaki's Jury Prize - winner «Capernaum» and Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's three hour - plus drama «The Wild Pear Tree,» the last
film to screen in competition this year.
This is where the shortlisted entrants in each
category come together at the BFI, watch their
films on the big screen, and find out who is taking home the first,
second and third - place prizes.