Surprisingly missing from the list is the box office and critical favorite from earlier last year, «Lee Daniels The Butler,» which was
shut out of every category it was eligible for.
Not exact matches
Netflix was also
shut out in the award show's film
categories, with the streaming service's original feature film Mudbound failing to win either
of its two nominations, while the Cambodian Civil War drama First They Killed My Father also fell short in the foreign film
category.
Mad Max rode a winning streak in several technical and behind - the - scenes
categories to score six Oscar statues last night, though the film ended the night
shut out of most
of the show's major
categories, such as Best Picture and Best Director.
Quick and easy, those are five
categories of bonding activities you can knock
out between the daily grind and the nighttime
shut down rituals.
And, though the studio was
shut out of the best picture nominations for the first time since 2010, it still picked up five nominations in other
categories for films such as Before Midnight (one
of critics» favorites last year) and Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine.
The major studios got
shut out from the critical ensemble
category, with «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» «The Imitation Game» and «The Theory
of Everything» claiming the remaining spots.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, a favorite before the nominations, received seven nominations, but was
shut out of the Best Director
category.
It's not as if Amistad was completely
shut out, either, picking up nominations in Supporting Actor (Hopkins), Original Dramatic Score (one
of the few years where musicals and comedies were given a separate
category), Cinematography, and Costume Design.
His solid - gold soul tune «Runnin» was
shut out of the Best Original Song
category, however, squeezed
out by a pair
of tunes from La La Land, a selection from Moana, and Justin Timberlake's inescapable pop hit from Trolls.
Superbly made big - budget epics dominated this year's nominations; «Lord
of the Rings: The Return
of the King» led with 11 nominations, and the sea epic «Master and Commander: The Far Side
of the World» had 10, but both were
shut out of the acting
categories.
The Big Sick was bizarrely
shut out of the Golden Globes, especially since they have a whole
category for comedies and it's probably the best comedy
of the year, along with Lady Bird, I Tonya, Battle
of the Sexes, Girls Trip, and the...
Oscar commentators and political pundits took umbrage at the film being
shut out of most
categories, especially Best Director, even though it was nominated for Best Picture.
Once again, Black film directors like Ryan Coogler and F. Gary Gray find themselves
shut out of nominations in the Best Director
category.
«Cable continued to dominate the awards: Commercial broadcast networks claimed just two
of six comedy slots, and were
shut out of the drama and (as usual) movie and miniseries
categories.
The Big Sick was bizarrely
shut out of the Golden Globes, especially since they have a whole
category for comedies and it's probably the best comedy
of the year, along with Lady Bird, I Tonya, Battle
of the Sexes, Girls Trip, and the Disaster Artist.
But Quentin Tarantino's «The Hateful Eight» was
shut out of pretty much all the major
categories this year, save for Original Score for Ennio Morricone and a Supporting Actress nod for Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Though Heath Ledger gets a much deserved posthumous nod for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as The Joker, Christopher Nolan's «The Dark Knight» has been
shut out of nearly every major Oscar
category.
It got nominations for Best Picture, Actor (Timothée Chalamet), and Adapted Screenplay but was
shut out of the Best Director
category.
There were some surprises in store, such as Carol being
shut out of more than a few major
categories, and some nice inclusions, like Tom Hardy getting tapped for his aces performance in The Revenant and Lenny Abrahamson for his truly superb direction in Room.
Pamela Adlon, who many feared would be damaged by the fall
of her friend, mentor and executive producer Louis C.K., got a nod in the comedy acting
category while «Transparent,» its fate still unclear after harassment allegations against star Jeffrey Tambor, was
shut out from all
categories for the first time since its premiere.
The Oscars notoriously expanded to 10 nominees in the wake
of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight getting
shut out of a Best Picture
category that only had five.
In the Fade
Shut Out of Best Foreign - Language Film Like the Best Documentary
category, the Best Foreign - Language Film typically leads to a few WTF looks on Oscar morning — but the AWOL status
of Fatih Akin's In the Fade reaches even another level
of «wait, what?!»
Its omission was one
of two big surprises that kept Sony Pictures Classics
out of the
category altogether, which is unusual for the stalwart importer, which also was
shut out of the Best Documentary Feature race.
Although 2017 has been called the year
of the woman, the Globes managed to overlook two
of the biggest female - led hits
of the year: «Beauty and the Beast,» the most successful movie
of 2017 so far, was snubbed in the musical / comedy
category, and «Wonder Woman» was
shut out for any awards.
Because her thinking man's Ilsa act in The Reader is at least conceptually riskier than her put - upon dishrag Debbie Downer in Revolutionary Road, we were that close to throwing her by the wayside in this
category, especially because there's a clearly superior crypto - leading role in the mix (Rosemarie DeWitt, whose titular character in Rachel Getting Married has been
shut out of a lot
of races thus far, but we feel anyone who actually watches enough
of the film to justify throwing their vote toward frontrunner Anne Hathaway should have no other choice but to recognize DeWitt's equally tricky, equally attention - stealing performance).
Martin Scorsese - Snub The esteemed filmmaker was
shut out of the Best Director
category, which saw nods for the likes
of Tom Ford («Nocturnal Animals») and Mel Gibson («Hacksaw Ridge»).
Indeed, it was the only film in the
category I even considered, with some
of my personal favorites like Amy (a documentary, sure, but absolutely one
of the best edited films
of the year) and It Follows
shut out of the nominations.
As an infographic from the Women's Media Center helpfully (and depressingly) illustrates, the Academy nominated more men than women in non-acting
categories by a margin
of five to one, and women were entirely
shut out of seven Oscar
categories.
Though
shut out of the Golden Globes directing
category, Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele were both recognized by the more prestigious Directors Guild
of America.
However, the only presence any
of these movies had at the Oscars was in the song
category, meaning that both Giant and Mononoke were
shut out (not having any songs).
Not the least
of which was Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner only showing up in the tech
categories but
shut out of Best Film, Outstanding British Film and Leading Actor (Timothy Spall).
Phantom Thread earned top nominations in Best Picture, Director and Screenplay but was
shut out of the acting
categories.
These are not awards that you can accuse
of being too mainstream or lowbrow, either, so the fact that Mr. Turner got
shut out of the major
categories should say a lot about its appeal.