Sentences with phrase «voting body»

They are the largest voting body of critics - around 300.

Perhaps voting bodies still waiting to award the best in 2010 film performances will make a drastic change to the status quo so far, though.

We saw it throughout the end of the year, as critics groups and early voting bodies spread the love around, with no consistent, clear choice among them.

So you can form your own voting body and nominate contenders from 2014's more family friendly movies.

We keep looking to a new voting body to decide what the best picture of 2013 will be.

Is it that their membership is by far the largest voting body in the awards race?

In another year, his film might have had a shot in Best Picture, filling one of the period slots that are often left open, but Lincoln and Les Misérables most definitely have those bases covered, gobbling up citations from a whole host of voting bodies.

And the Coen brothers» «True Grit» will be the last film to screen for voting bodies and critics this season (late - November, so not quite as late as «Avatar» last year).

You know you're in trouble when the Hollywood Foreign Press threatens to upstage all of the other voting bodies with its diverse choices, when 90 outsiders have their fingers on the pulse of changing American culture better than thousands of insiders who work in the industry.

It is no new gripe that voting bodies like the Academy have a blind spot for certain varieties of performance — comedy routinely heading the list.

The same can be said of Steven Spielberg's The Post, which was largely anticipated as a shoo - in before its release, but has failed to gain much interest from voting bodies.

Presented by Don Cheadle, Laura Dern, and Anna Kendrick, the picks of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association spanned film and television categories, one of the only major awards voting bodies to do so.

But the H.F.P.A.'s decision to shut them out speaks to the ways in which voting bodies still have to reckon with their history of exclusivity.

Yes, you might lose the vote of the religious right if you take this route... but latinos and the younger generation are unquestionably the critical future voting bodies that must be targeted, and you can't do that by doing what you've been doing.

The panel recommended «a legislative change that provides for decision by a simple majority of the total voting body.»

The BAFTAs have always been an important bellwether for predicting Oscar, but they may be even more in tune with the Academy this year as a rule change allowed the entire BAFTA voting body to vote on every award (like the Oscars), instead of writers only voting for screenplay, actors only voting for acting, etc..

Of course, Oscar voters must only select five, not ten, Best Picture titles on their nominations ballots, but both Tonya and Molly movies appeal to the largely male voting bodies, given the nature of the films — sports oriented - ish with women who are easy on the eyes.

Another Southern - fried spaghetti western, The Hateful Eight sounds a lot like Django Unchained without all that awkward, controversial slavery business — which could see it embraced by a grateful voting body.

This past weekend, Gravity claimed the Live Action Film award for sound mixing from the Cinema Audio Society, one more precursor voting body whose results could prove prescient when it comes to Oscar's March 2nd endgame.

It feels like an obvious Critics» Choice contender / frontrunner for lead actor and series in the comedy races, especially since this is the same voting body who has repeatedly awarded a showrunner / star like Louis CK and even championed Glover's first show Community.

One of the things that have been thrown around for months now is the notion that awards season voting bodies won't respond to it because it's too «difficult» to sit through.

We have a more inclusive AMPAS voting body, but one that is still predominately male and white.

Other critically acclaimed films like Creed, Spike Lee's Chi - Raq, and Sean Baker's Tangerine might have faced similar struggles, which makes it all the more important for Isaacs to try and recruit a younger, broader - minded voting body for the future.

All of this just because two early voting bodies went against the roiling consensus.

We pride ourselves on being one of the most progressive and adventuresome voting bodies in the nation, and I'm sure this year will be no exception with such wide open races across the board.

Since the Globes aren't a surefire Oscar predictor — and because the HFPA is a very different voting body from the Academy, which began voting on Oscar nominations two days before the Globes took place — The Post's losses at the Globes don't mean much regarding its chances at the Oscars in March.

We're hyper - aware now in many ways of the gender dynamics in our culture, but for many people — especially the kind of white, generally progressive - leaning people who make up critics groups and industry voting bodies — race is still a blind spot, in ways that fellow Best Picture nominee Get Out expertly (and uncomfortably) skewers.

I spent the better part of six weeks smarmily proclaiming the power of the guilds and explaining the might of the complete voting body.

They helped establish Sundance as an institution, and the films they later unveiled on the world stage gained crucial external validation from audiences and key voting bodies.

If the Academy really were a more diverse bunch, La La Land might be in more trouble, but if its main complaint is that it is «too white,» then that won't be enough to harm it among a mostly white voting body.

But if the Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe voting bodies are largely made up of people who are just thrilled to be in the same room with stars like Murphy, the Oscars are mostly voted on by people who actually have to work with him... on scale with no residuals.

Though the New York Film Critics Circle is an insular voting body that doesn't overlap with those who pick contenders for ceremonies like the Golden Globes and the Oscars, it seems likely that her buzz, newly bolstered by this best - supporting actress award, could reinvigorate voters in other groups to throw their weight behind Haddish.

The largest voting body within the Academy is actors, sure, but the tech branches together are a significant enough bloc that it's pretty tough to win without impressing them even a little.

This category rocks because it recognizes two excellent films that should've gotten much more love: Ex Machina, Alex Garland's sci - fi puzzle box starring Domhall Gleason, Oscar Isaac, and Alicia Vikander as an artificial - intelligence femme fatale; and Straight Outta Compton, the gangsta - rap origin story that had the power to pop a cap in the #OscarsSoWhite narrative, had the A.M.P.A.S. voting body only answered its pager call.

As a Polish nonprofit association, Open Cages is required to have a board and a decision - making voting body composed of active Open Cages members.140 They are taking steps to include nonvoting members and external advisors in their decision - making process.141

Newbies do win — and the DGA, like every other voting body, leans towards Oscar — wants to be like Oscar — wants to influence Oscar.

But Haddish's snub stands out, considering her meteoric rise, her awards - season buzz, and the healthy box - office take of Girls Trip — an achievement that voting bodies like the H.F.P.A. typically take into consideration.

Films like Call Me By Your Name, Get Out, and Lady Bird have been mainstays on the awards circuit so far, but one of the movies we haven't seen make much of a splash for voting bodies is Logan, 2017's superhero swan song for Wolverine.

And to be sure, The Post will probably have advantages even with a younger, more diverse voting body (for reasons we'll get into in a moment).

A great deal of this happens through the distribution of screener discs for major films, which are sent to people who belong to major voting bodies (guilds and critics» circles, plus Academy voters) to aid them in being able to watch everything and fill out their ballots.

The DGA, a very large voting body of 14,500 voted for them.

Commercial viewers will get a much better perspective on the effort than awards voting bodies, one of a thousand reasons the film is likely headed for disappointment this Oscar season.

But the voting body that is the World Health Assembly, effectively the legislative body of WHO, is the ministers of health.

Votes were cast by 2,000 members of the fashion industry across disciplines that include media, retail, communications and photography, with the voting body covering 38 countries.

In fact, the film's demographic (youngish cinephiles, mostly male) is essentially the antithesis of the Academy's voting body.

Because of the size of the voting body (111,228 eligible members and counting!)

It's the most obvious choice for a voting body that's always behind the curve with its television awards.

The more experimental documentaries have historically fared poorly in the Oscar race, and while making it onto the nine - film shortlist was a victory of its own, Johnson's film couldn't win over the voting body.