Sentences with phrase «top awards contenders»

In THR's annual actor roundtable, this season's six top awards contenders — including Ethan Hawke, Michael Keaton, Eddie Redmayne and Timothy Spall — open up about why a Hollywood film is preferable to a classical theater role («Stick Polonius straight up your arse»), flunking out of college and how a meeting with Stephen Hawking turned into the equivalent of a «Saturday Night Live» skit

The festival begins on Sept. 8 and runs through Sept. 18 in the Canadian city, and it is expected to showcase many of the year's top awards contenders.

The film is expected to be one of 2017's top awards contenders, being named film of the year by the National Board of Review and ranking on the American Film Institute's best movies of the year list.

A number of recent movies — including some of this year's top awards contenders — revive a decades - old debate about the type of director who shapes the most memorable films.

British audiences proved this past weekend that they have an appetite for serious films, putting three of the year's top awards contenders in the first three spots on the box office chart.

Not exact matches

The musical is nominated in 16 categories heading into the 70th Tony Awards, which air on CBS on Sunday, making the show a strong contender to top the Tony's record of 12 wins, set by Mel Brooks» The Producers in 2001.

The so - called «Nobel Prize in Economics» (more accurately known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) will be awarded Monday morning and two Canadian economists are considered to be top contenders.

Part of that likely has to do with the absence of many truly great movies this year, and the fact key contenders — like «The Shape of Water» (the pick by the directors and producers guilds) and «Get Out» (the WGA's original screenplay winner)-- come from genres that seldom receive top awards recognition.

One of the most inspiring parts of the day was during judging of the student awards, when the jury called in the top contenders — students from Brigham Young University in Utah and Filmakademie Baden - Wurttemberg in Germany.

«After an exciting face - off between our top four contenders, we're thrilled to award Clinton the title of «Kraft Hockeyville ™ USA 2018,»» said Michelle St. Jacques, head of brand marketing and R&D.

Just one goal behind James Rodriguez in the race for the top scorer award and having done more than anyone to drag Germany to the quarter finals, Muller deserves as much respect as other contenders with more exotic names and trendy haircuts.

Showtime Boxing: Top - rated contender and Chicago native Adrian Granados opens up in an extensive interview with Sports Emmy Award - Winning Writer Mark Kriegel in advance of his welterweight showdown with former four - division world champion, Adrien Broner.

Showtime Boxing: Top - rated contender and Dallas native Errol Spence Jr. opens up in an extensive interview with Sports Emmy Award - Winning Writer Mark Kriegel in advance of his welterweight title fight with IBF Champion Kell Brook.

The Film Stage has been sharing the screenplays for this award season's top contender movies, and the official one for Lady Bird, written by Greta Gerwig, is now available!

And while you can roll your eyes at the usual quota of awards - season launches — 18 credible contenders this year — most of them were of a higher - than - usual standard and some of them were top - notch.

Unfortunately for Get On Up, Universal may see Unbroken as that top contender, as they have demonstrated by giving that film a Christmas Day release, traditionally considered the premier launching pad for an awards run.

What surges this movie to the top of upcoming awards contenders is its familial thematic roots.

The creature (Doug Jones) watches as Emily (Sally Hawkins) shows him a card she purchased for him in «The Shape of Water,» one of the top contenders for the best picture Academy Award.

Here's what a few of the top contenders in Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony are up to:

A handful of limited - release Best Picture nominees are going into tonight's awards with some box - office wind in their sails, placing most of tonight's contenders on par with most recent recipients of the top prize.

While it is a light year for Best Actor contenders and it's possible to mount something late (Fox Searchlight bought both Oscar - contenders «The Wrestler» and «Jackie» in Toronto), it's a tall order for a fledgling studio like Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios, even with top - flight awards wranglers on board.

Trumbo may be framing itself as the typical contender for those top awards, and it very well may be in contention, but tonally, it is a bit off and it lacks the height of performances that we expect.

Yes, «La La Land» — the top contender with 14 nominations — had to wait a nerve - wracking two - and - a-half-hours before claiming its first award for cinematography.

In Season 3, BoJack becomes a top contender at the Oscars, but struggles to deal with the awards circuit as his downward spiral continues.

After narrowly missing out on a spot in the top ten back in 2012 with Moonrise Kingdom, acclaimed filmmaker Wes Anderson makes our end of year list for the first time with his star - studded awards contender The Grand Budapest Hotel, which topped two of our writers» individual lists and just managed to sneak into sixth place ahead of The Winter Soldier by a solitary point in the voting.

Looking at Haynes» past works, it looks like Wonderstruck will be one of the top contenders to get an Oscar nomination at the 90th Academy Awards.

Top awards - season contenders and perhaps your faves, Julianne Moore (Still Alice), Reese Witherspoon (Wild), Amy Adams (Big Eyes), Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), Patricia Arquette (Boyhood), Hilary Swank (The Homesman), and Laura Dern (Wild) sat down with Hollywood Reporter for an hour - long roundtable about the industry.

Looking at the Lead Actor in a Drama Series category ADTV breaks down the top contenders and questions whether or not anyone has what it takes to go up against the new awards darling, Sterling K. Brown.

Top pics from inside the bashes as fall festivals and premieres bring out awards contenders, pretenders and hopefuls for the Oscars on February 28, 2016

WHY: Tom McCarthy's «Spotlight» may be one of the most low - key awards contenders in quite some time, relying on top - notch acting and writing to recount the fascinating true story that changed the way we looked at the Catholic Church forever.

With awards season contenders on the rise, here are 18 films to close out a strong year in films including «Selma,» «American Sniper,» «Wild,» «Top Five,» and others.

As the Black Reel Awards continue to evolve, one of the elements that has become apparent is that there are so many worthy contenders for our top prizes.

Winning the top film awards were original screenplay contender Jordan Peele for Universal Pictures» «Get Out» and adapter James Ivory for Sony Pictures Classics» «Call Me by Your Name.»

Though the film is fairly low - key for a potential awards contender, «Spotlight» relies on some top - notch acting and writing to recount the fascinating true story about a group of journalists who lifted the lid on a massive child molestation scandal within the Boston archdiocese that changed the way we looked at the Catholic Church forever.

«12 Years a Slave,» a real - life story about a free black man sold into slavery, has been a top contender for awards since winning at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Of all the remaining Oscar contenders for Best Pic still in theaters, Speech is the only one that's occasionally risen within the top ten, as we've been inching toward the Academy Awards.

Contenders for the UK's top video game awards revealed; Uncharted 3, Little Big Planet 2 also hotly tipped.

The first official stop on awards season trail, the Gotham Awards have become a great way of gauging which Oscar contenders to keep an eye on, with previous top Gotham winners Moonlight, Spotlight, and Birdman leaping to the top of the Oscar baawards season trail, the Gotham Awards have become a great way of gauging which Oscar contenders to keep an eye on, with previous top Gotham winners Moonlight, Spotlight, and Birdman leaping to the top of the Oscar baAwards have become a great way of gauging which Oscar contenders to keep an eye on, with previous top Gotham winners Moonlight, Spotlight, and Birdman leaping to the top of the Oscar ballots.

One of the great pleasures of this awards season has been the establishment of my new Deadline video series The Actor's Side, in which I get to interview top acting contenders for the Oscars (and yes, we are happy to announce the series will continue during Emmy season, too).

The National Board of Review, a group of New York - based academics and film enthusiasts, may have little overlap with the Hollywood industry members who choose the Academy Awards — but they also have an established track record for sussing out top Oscar contenders, and being the first to do it.

Delving into resonant issues surrounding racial prejudice and injustice, the film is a serious dark horse contender, having already won the top prize at the Gotham Awards and Cinema Eye Honors.

It remains to be seen if Netflix can successfully turn its would - be Oscar contenders into must - sees for Academy voters by hiring top Oscar campaigners, sending out screeners to members who already are subscribers, mounting events and Q&A s, and playing the awards game.

Speaking of Bejo, she won Best Actress, for Asghar Farhadi's The Past, which is sure to be a major contender come award season, in the Foreign Language category if nothing else, though Bejo will likely be a top contender for Best Actress, too.

For those of you unfamiliar with our Pickup Truck of the Year (PTOTY) competition, here is a bit of background: PTOTY isn't about awarding the truck that excels in one category but rather championing the vehicle that is the top all - around contender.

Top Safety Pick awarded cars are still serious contenders for great and safe vehicles.

It turns out that aside from informing other PSN users what games rocked and which games sucked, you've also gone ahead and nominated the top contenders in this year's PlayStation Network Gamers» Choice Awards, a community event designed to single out the best titles that the PlayStation Network has to offer.

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