Sentences with phrase «serious awards»

This is different from that, but it still might be enough to push Birth out of any kind of serious awards competition.

It opens in October, the month when serious awards contenders start rolling out on a regular basis.

Director Steve McQueen is poised to have a very busy next few months with his latest film, the excellent 12 Years a Slave, garnering serious awards season buzz.

Either we get with the times and accept that streaming is here and can be a compelling option for many smaller, character - driven films — providing them with a home they likely wouldn't find otherwise — or we prepare ourselves for a future where Pirates of the Caribbean XII is up for serious awards contention.

You can't turn away wondering what Epps is going to do next from attacking Solomon to lusting after his top cotton picking slave, Patesy (Lupita Nyong» o, who is also generating serious award buzz for thanks to an incredible feature film debut).

Under the direction of Richard Linklater, the film is garnering serious awards season buzz.

I'd be surprised if Brühl doesn't get serious awards consideration, especially considering how seemingly sparse this year appears to be so far for this category, and that he's in a movie that may get nominated for Best Picture.

That Marion Cotillard is generating serious awards buzz for her performance in the small - scale Belgian drama Two Days, One Night is a testament to the film's quiet emotional power.

As I revealed the newest set of predictions this time around and took a look at the next five months, I haven't dived into serious awards analysis in a while.

Sam Rockwell has been on the brink of serious awards attention for a while now.

Both deserve serious awards season consideration.

Considering how terrible some mainstream releases can be this time of year, «Ride Along 2» certainly is entertaining enough to enjoy as we are quickly becoming bombarded with more serious award films in theaters.

There were some rumblings last fall about the possibility that Vega could crack the best actress race, marking the second time in recent years (following a campaign for «Tangerine» breakout Mya Taylor) that a trans woman faced serious awards prospects.

On paper, The Sea of Trees was foreseen as a potentially serious awards contender.

I am not joking when I say that James Franco should receive serious awards consideration for his performance in The Disaster Artist, a film in which Franco plays Tommy Wiseau, the writer / director / star of 2003's The Room, widely regarded as one of the worst films ever made.

Hopefully, it's the former, as this could be a great profile on how America raises people up just to see them fall and could garner serious awards talk later in the year.

Her raucous performance has also inspired serious awards - season chatter, the kind that's typically reserved for dramatic actresses in prestige pictures.

In many cases, talk drifted away from serious awards potential and toward the less unusual occurrence of actors who simply had more than one film out this year: lord knows we all love Marisa Tomei, but nobody's pretending she has more than a 0 - for - 2 shot at a nomination this time round.

Presented every year by the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the Gothams traditionally bestow early recognition on titles that will go on to become serious awards contenders.

Nominations for Film Independent's 31st Annual Spirit Awards have been announced, and this year's serious awards season contenders begin to take further shape.

One of the sleeper hits of the fall - festival season has been Noah Baumbach's «Frances Ha,» which in a climate of serious award - season dramas has stood out as a lighter but still thoughtful look at twentysomething life.

Dust off your copy of «Macbeth» and brush up on your favorite monologue before the Dec. 4 release that's sure to garner serious awards season buzz.

I can gladly agree to that, just don't support eager - to - sell product for serious awards or to be included in serious discussions about films, even family friendly films, as there are real jewels in that genre that do deserve discussion.

Handsome and moving if a bit cautious, «Battle» is full of smart complexities and sensational acting, and it deserves to be considered a serious awards contender.

Its lack of even a single Golden Globes nomination revealed that, despite the timing and its inclusion in the National Board of Review's annual top ten list, this is not a serious award contender like many of this year's other new releases.

Those that loved it think it a serious awards contender, but the question is will it have enough wide support.

As Richard Linklater's groundbreaking Boyhood looks poised to be a serious awards contender this year, the director has already started production on his next film.

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby just doesn't want to be a serious awards player, does it?

Though it lacks the «wow» factor to be a serious awards contender, «The Way, Way Back» is still a really enjoyable film thanks to its winning script and talented cast.

She even got some serious awards buzz.

Roger Deakins» cinematography is stunning with a number of strong visuals and Alexandre Desplat's score hits all the right marks of a serious award contender.

However, a refreshing effort with a satisfying number of laughs is a not a bad way to kick - off the genre in 2015, and it's a welcome alternative to all the serious Awards Season options currently in theaters.

Between Steven Spielberg's reverential directing and Daniel Day Lewis» amazing performance, the film felt like a loving tribute to Abraham Lincoln, the most exciting history lesson ever and a serious award contender in every year - end category.

What You Need to Know: Another wide release in January, «Lone Survivor» continues to be touted as a serious awards contender.

Newly - minted Emmy winner Alexander Skarsgard will most likely add a Globe to his already impressive awards stash, but Stranger Things» David Harbour is due for some serious awards love.

But if, say, Amy Adams was in a movie that fell apart in development, would she get to step in to direct and thus save it, and would her finished film then be given a serious award season push?

Prior to the media implosion in mid-August, Nate Parker's Nat Turner - drama was tracking as a serious awards contender.

In all these ways, this series - launching installment is one of last year's best films and while no serious awards will recognize it as such, the box office returns on this (and inevitably its first sequel, at least) reflect that the high quality isn't lost on the public.

Chubbuck's suicide is said to have inspired Paddy Chayefsky to write Network, and if Hall's performance is any good at all, this could have serious award season legs.

It's the calm before the fall movie storm: Next week, the Telluride Film Festival will kick off serious awards season prognostication, and it will only intensify with the Toronto International Film Festival the following week.

Even so, expect some serious awards contention for, among others, director Tom McCarthy's «Spotlight,» an engrossing and superbly acted «All the President's Men» - style procedural opening commercially Nov. 6.

«Logan» has bolstered hopes of comic book fans everywhere that the film can muster some serious awards consideration.