Sentences with phrase «slate of contenders»

It's still been a lot of fun riding out the season with you this year — here's to a better slate of contenders (and a lot less grousing from me) in 12 months» time.

I just caught wind that Focus Features» animated endeavor «9» from writer / director Shane Acker (and based on his Academy Award - nominated short film) has been slated for 2009, removing it from the already thin slate of contenders in the animated feature category.

This year's slate of contenders has been rock - solid, with only a couple of turkeys.

Not exact matches

Using S&P + win probabilities (which you can find in the Football Study Hall stat profiles), let's walk through which of our national title contenders are most likely to still be in good shape three weeks from now and who's got the toughest remaining slate.

The Conservatives are scheduled to hold their convention this Friday in Manhattan, setting their statewide slate in advance of the Republicans — largely in hopes of assisting Long's preferred gubernatorial contender, Rick Lazio.

The other head - to - heads slated for Sept. 14 are on the GOP side, which isn't going to help any of the Dem AG contenders.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn was slated to join Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney and 2013 mayoral contender Bill Thompson at a City Hall rally Monday, protesting Romney's fund - raising weekend and reports of his investments in off - shore tax havens.

To qualify for the primary ballot, Democratic presidential contenders need a minimum of 5,000 signatures, as well as 500 signatures from each of the state's 27 congressional districts to field delegate slates.

Now let's look at our slate of Best Actress contenders, starting with the frontrunners.

Amazon put on a lunch to show off their year ahead, a huge slate of films with an eye on auteurs and award contenders.

The 2016 Napa Film Festival, kicking off November 9th, has set up quite an impressive slate of big awards contenders including Lion, 20th Century Women, Elle, and Miss Sloane, which closes the festival on the 13th.

It seems to me the most film - heavy slate of films will be over on Lankershim Boulevard as Universal Pictures has at least seven contenders that could make a play.

Since the Academy expanded their Best Picture slate to as many as 10 nominees, the BFCA has matched almost all of the Best Picture contenders, missing only one each year.

Fresh off of Deadline's Emmy Contenders event, this week's slate of video series and podcast featured a roster of guests that have delivered some impressive performances on television in the past year.

While the past two months have featured several potential award contenders, there's a surprising lack of prestige films on the November release slate.

BEST ACTRESS For me, one of the season's biggest mysteries is how the Best Actress category managed to extract such a dreary slate of nominees from a field of contenders that looked, at the start of the season, to be the most richly, creatively stacked in many a year.

The latest wave of series contenders are slated to come out later this year as part of the e-retailer's third pilot season.

The last two weeks have seen the usual weak roster of films that studios tend to release in late August, before the autumn slate of Oscar contenders come out.

There's also a new contender on the horizon in the form of Acer's Chromebook Tab 10 ($ 329, due May 2018), which is the first ever slate to run Google's Chrome OS.