Not exact matches
If Bollywood music just isn't your
thing, try GROOV3, a hip - hop inspired dance workout created by Ben Allen, a choreographer and instructor who's performed at the American Music
Awards and in the
film adaptation of Rent.
Your guide to Shanghai's best restaurants, bars,
films, shopping, fashion, events, activities,
things to do, tourist attractions, hotels, music, art Restaurants in Shanghai: Time Out lists the best restaurants in Shanghai, offering reviews, new restaurant listings, and
awards for the best restaurants in
Edgerton soon began scoring starring roles, headlining the disappointing 2011 remake of The
Thing, starring opposite Jennifer Garner in the family
film The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) and playing a predominate role in the Academy
Award - nominated Zero Dark Thirty (2012).
Additional
film credits include TALK TO ME; the 2006 Oscar ® winning Best Picture, CRASH, which Cheadle also produced; HOTEL RWANDA, for which his performance garnered Academy
Award ®, Golden Globe ®, Broadcast
Film Critics
Award and Screen Actors Guild ®
Award nominations for Best Actor; OCEAN»S ELEVEN, OCEAN»S TWELVE, and OCEAN»S THIRTEEN, directed by Steven Soderbergh; Mike Binder's REIGN OVER ME with Adam Sandler; the Academy
Award ® winning
film TRAFFIC and OUT OF SIGHT, both also directed by Soderbergh; Paul Thomas Anderson's critically acclaimed BOOGIE NIGHTS; BULWORTH, SWORDFISH, MISSION TO MARS, John Singleton's ROSEWOOD, for which Cheadle earned an NAACP Image
Award nomination; FAMILY MAN, directed by Brett Ratner and starring Nicolas Cage; COLORS, HAMBURGER HILL, and the independent features MANIC and
THINGS BEHIND THE SUN.
As The Martian continues to hang around at the box office and build some unexpected
awards season momentum, director Ridley Scott has had plenty of opportunities to tease the upcoming
film and he's said a lot of
things.
Coming off his
awards circuit triumphs Dallas Buyers Club and Wild, Thursday night's screening of Vallee's
film might make
things a little clearer for us... or it might not.
Usually a delay of six months would be a very bad sign for a
film of this scale, but Warners are choosing to release the
film in a period we've come to know as «
awards season,» and that can only be a good
thing.
The Italian
film Beautiful
Things directed by Giorgio Ferrero
awarded at the Festival CPH: DOX in Copenhagen.
This is one of the key preceding
awards before the Academy Awards are handed out early next month, and on the feature film side of things, another significant win adds even more momentum to the acclaimed thriller Get Out with Jordan Peele winning the award for original scree
awards before the Academy
Awards are handed out early next month, and on the feature film side of things, another significant win adds even more momentum to the acclaimed thriller Get Out with Jordan Peele winning the award for original scree
Awards are handed out early next month, and on the feature
film side of
things, another significant win adds even more momentum to the acclaimed thriller Get Out with Jordan Peele winning the
award for original screenplay.
One
thing you should know about the Reader's year - end
film rankings is that, from time immemorial, we've limited the candidates to movies that premiered locally between January 1 and December 31 — that's why Toni Erdmann, a big
awards favorite in 2016, wasn't eligible until this year, and a handful of highly touted
films premiering on the coasts now to qualify for the Oscars (such as Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread and Michael Haneke's Happy End) won't be considered until 2018.
Among other
things, the filmmaker spoke about where he came up with the inspiration for «Citadel,» how having a limited budget and short shooting schedule place restrictions on what he could shoot for the
film and how he reacted when he heard he won the Midnighter Audience
Award at the 2012 SXSW
Film Festival.
The Academy
Awards try to do too many
things: song performances,
film montages, speeches on issues, salutes to veterans and the departed.
A lucrative blockbuster winning over genre enthusiasts and thoughtful moviegoers alike, as well as being the rare sci - fi
film to earn an Academy
Award nomination for Best Picture, District 9 is exactly the kind of
thing that sets someone up for the sophomore jinx.
Things always go quiet in the
film industry over the holidays as everyone takes one last break before the full onslaught of
awards season campaigning.
It turns out they were a series of very mediocre jokes about
things that had happened so far, like Harris mispronouncing Chiwetel Ejiofor's name, Terrence Howard getting surprisingly emotional, and Pawel Pawlikowski getting played off by the music as he accepted the
award for best foreign
film.
And the
award for
Film that made me smile the most so far this year goes to... So, after admitting that Side Effects would be his last
film before going into retirement, one of my favorite directors Steven Soderbergh did the most logical
thing and... made another movie.
As mentioned in last week's column,
things are finally starting to get back to normal for Blu - ray fans, with several great options arriving in stores today, including an Academy
Award winner, a pair of Barbara Streisand
films, and the latest from David Chase.
Not to say that Million Dollar Baby is a total mutt, just that it's an obvious, self - important, overwritten
thing designed to appeal to specific, stodgy,
awards - season prestige audiences that love
film so much, this will be the first movie they see this year.
This is a reminder that seeing
films long before the
awards makes them difficult to remember even if you're conscientuous about such
things; I screened almost all of them in 2014... or earlier in Tom at the Farm's case)
«The greatest
thing art does is erase the lines in the sand when the world says to make them deeper,» said the Mexican director, as he accepted the
award as a proud immigrant to the
film industry.
We've heard good
things about Germany's «The Lives of Others» and Denmark's «After the Wedding,» but the utter lack of exposure for both of these
films seems to indicate that a nominee is about all they should be expecting come
awards night.
Seven of his
films, including Alice in the Cities (74) and Kings of the Road (76), screened at the inaugural Festival in 1976, and he returned to TIFF with the features Paris, Texas (84), which won the Palme D'Or and the British Film Academy
Award; Lisbon Story (94); Land of Plenty (04); Pina (11), which was nominated for an Oscar; Every
Thing Will Be Fine (15); and Les Beaux Jours d'Aranjuez (16).
Admit it: As much as you love Academy
Award - winning dramas or classic foreign
films, you've got a secret
thing for the best action movies.
Grabbing mentions in Best
Film and Director (George Miller) and Charlize Theron for Best Actress, the
film's critics
awards success has been the most exciting and refreshing
thing in this early season.
Welcome to another edition of the
Awards Circuit Power Hour, our weekly podcast diving deep into all
things film, television, and entertainment.
Founded by Joey Nolfi and Alice G. Beck, Serving Cinema is an all - encompassing, life - giving hub for all
things film,
awards season, and pop culture.
Belgian
film - makers Luc and Jean - Pierre Dardenne have been winning
awards for years, and Two Days, One Night is one of the best
things they've ever accomplished.
While the media debates whether or not the rescinded Oscar nomination is a slight agains faith based
films, or just a disciplinary warning to the Academy
Awards» voting members and contestants, there is one
thing that's clear: All this attention will be a real blessing for the publicity department of this little, independent movie.
One of the most predictable Academy
Awards in years took a
film - worthy twist as Kathryn Bigelow and The Hurt Locker beat out the closest
thing the movies have to a Goliath — a
film that just happened to be made by Bigelow's ex-husband.
In fact, La La Land won the most
awards of any of tonight's nominated
film or television shows, a good sign of
things to come as we move into 2017.
The
film also stars Keira Knightley and Matthew Goode, and seems like the kind of
thing made for
awards season.
Being obsessed with the Oscars it is often difficult to watch certain
films without that «handicap» of only judging a
film based on its chances to win
awards, and that should not at all be the only
thing going in one's mind while watching a
film.
People will make comparisons to Get Out but that
film had both of those
things plus the full weight of industry and critics» support throughout
awards season.
We've said it before, we'll say it again, but one of the best
things about looking back over a year just gone at the movies is thinking of all the names who, just twelve months ago, we were faintly aware of at best, and who now have burgeoning careers,
awards buzz, lead roles in indie
films and / or blockbuster gigs on the way.
Perhaps he won't factor into
things at all, but it just adds another
thing to the stack that the
film is up against in order to get any sort of
awards traction.
«Fruitvale Station,» the tale of the BART shooting of Oscar Grant III, was also a big winner at the confab, with the
film's Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan winning breakthrough director and breakthrough actor, respectively — and presaging good
things at the Spirit
Awards, if not the Oscars.
Things changed for the duo in 1985 when Universal released «Back to the Future,» a
film that spawned two successful sequels, earned Gale and Zemeckis their first Academy
Award nominations and made Michael J. Fox a star.
Still, it was snubbed in Feature and Director, similar to how
things turned out for the
film with the Gotham
Awards recently.
Everyone kind of assumed that this
award was a shoo - in for Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright Tony Kushner, but it seems to me its narrow vision and belabored structure is the
thing most responsible for the
film's stuffy boredom.
Things didn't improve with the Jury Grand Prize, which went to Tanović's
film, and to make it perfectly clear why they liked it so much, the jury also gave Nazif Mujić the Best Actor
Award — for essentially playing himself.
It's one
thing to read early Academy
Award predictions to see what folks like myself think will happen at the end of the year, but it's another
thing entirely to actually know which
films will be in contention.
«In 1989, 10
films got
awards [at the Cannes Film Festival] and Do the Right
Thing wasn't one of them.
While there, he's covered
film festivals, written TV, and
film reviews and speculated on all
things award shows.
While many folks are furiously updating and upgrading their Oscar predictions as festival season gets underway, the
thing is we're barely into the swing of the
awards season, and more crucially, most of the
films have yet to be seen.
It's a nice tease for the emotional force of the
film, but it also suggests a distinct problem in terms of
award: How do you pick just one of these actors to receive praise for a
film that deserves quite a bit more of that very
thing?
One of the craziest
things about the Academy
Awards — and Oscar season in general — is the importance we place on what
film ends up winning Best Picture.
While the
film may be petitioning a bit too adamantly for
award - season affection, it does have a number of
things going for it.
T.J. Miller took the stage to host the 22nd annual Critics» Choice
Awards in Santa Monica, California, on Sunday night, where honorees included the hottest
films of the year — La La Land, Arrival and Moonlight topped the list for most nominations — as well as some of the buzziest TV shows of the year in Westworld, This Is Us and Stranger
Things.
Guy, I have very deep reservations about the
film itself and Gladiator winning an ACTING
award of all
things, really surprises me.
Few would argue against The Tree of Life being one of the very best
films of the year, but it remains the biggest wild card of
awards season, a massively beloved masterpiece whose impressionistic style and ostensible inaccessibility have presumably prevented it from surging forward as a sure
thing.