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I do have my reservations because of Hawke and the general question surrounding which film the Academy will support more: Birdman or Boyhood?

Not exact matches

Of course, some of the nominated films are still in theaters, and winning a big haul at the Academy Awards is known to result in a bump at movie theaters, which is all the more reason for studios to pull out all the stops in their awards - season marketing efforts.

Now you can add the film American Hustle — which won a Golden Globe for Best Picture and picked up 10 Academy Award nominations this week — to the list, especially if you want to explain how really great salespeople find leads, draw customers, and make deals.

He worked with stars like John Legend and Oprah Winfrey before launching his own multi-platform media company, Macro Ventures, which was behind the production of Denzel Washington's Academy Award - nominated feature film «Fences» in 2016, and more recently, the acclaimed indie film «Mudbound,» which Variety predicts may be the first Netflix feature to compete for an Oscar.

Unlike the Academy Awards, which are voted on by a huge coalition of film industry pros, the Golden Globes are determined by a tiny cabal of people who aren't really connected to the film industry and possibly not to reality either because, hoo boy, this year's nominations are in and we've got some questions.

Loach stated: «Thank you to the academy for endorsing the truths of what the film says, which hundreds and thousands of people in this country know, the most vulnerable and poorest are treated by the Government with a callous brutality that is disgraceful, a brutality that extends to keeping out refugee children we promised to help and that's a disgrace too.»

Apart from the cinematic qualities that won it four Academy Awards, this film pulls off the difficult feat of presenting abstract mathematics on - screen — the idea called the Nash equilibrium, which had won the film's protagonist, John Nash (played by Russell Crowe), a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994.

Hemingway teamed up with Academy Award - winning producer and director Barbara Kopple and the Oprah Winfrey Network to produce the film Running from Crazy, in which Mariel confronts her family's history of mental illness as she explores the path she has taken toward well being.

We are filming live from the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine in Las Vegas, which is the preeminent event for anti-aging physicians really in the world.

Her inclusion means that there was no room for Rene Russo (Nightcrawler), Tilda Swinton (admittedly a bit of an underdog for Snowpiercer, which doesn't seem like an Academy - friendly film), and Jessica Chastain (A Most Violent Year) to crack the final five.

As with the documentary category, the Academy previously released a foreign film shortlist in December, and at that time the omissions of films such as the widely praised Two Days, One Night, Winter Sleep (which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes last year), and Mommy were considered major snubs.

Mr. Abraham has appeared in more than 80 films, including AMADEUS, for which he received the Academy Award for Best Actor, as well as Golden Globe and LA Film Critics Awards.

Note that most other awards organizations treated Damien Chazelle's Whiplash script as an original screenplay, but the Academy considered it to be an adapted screenplay for reasons known only to the Academy (Chazelle has previously released a single Whiplash scene as a short film to raise funds to complete the full movie, which is apparently the source of the problem).

Her performance in the Academy Award ® nominated film LAGAAN for which she was nominated for a Zee Cine Award (Indian Oscar) for Best Supporting Actress, brought her to the attention of American audiences.

A great deal of the impact in The Piano Teacher comes from Isabelle Huppert's performance, which comes as her finest career moment, as well as one of the year's early choices for 2002's Best Actress (personal list, of course: I highly doubt that the conservative Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be able to make it through the film).

Top Gun 1985 established Cruise as an action star, but again he refused to be pigeonholed, and followed it up with a solid characterization of a fledgling pool shark in the Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money in 1986, for which co-star Paul Newman earned an Academy Award.

Malkovich met with near - universal critical praise and garnered an Academy Award nomination for the neophyte feature director — as well as supporting actress Catherine Keener and writer Charlie Kaufman — though Stipe and the film itself were passed over for a Best Picture nod.Despite Single Cell's increasing prominence in the industry, Stipe continued to support C - Hundred for smaller - budgeted niche features such as writer - director Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward and McKay's coming - of - age drama Our Song, both of which were featured at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

Her films include Gandhi, Starting Over (For which she was nominated for an Academy Award in 1979), Soldier Blue, The Group, Rich and Famous and Miss Congeniality!

Louie Psihoyos, the film's director, describes Racing Extinction as an eco-thriller, similar to his previous Academy Award winning doc, The Cove, which followed the mass slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Wakayama, Japan.

Some detractors have criticized the film's depiction of the tribes as simplistic; such objections did not dissuade audiences or the Hollywood establishment, however, which awarded the film seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Not insignificant is the film's seamless fabric of success between Cannes and the 2012 Academy Awards, the latter of which included Haneke's drama among its vaunted finalists in several key categories.

Ford became best known for his Westerns, of which he made dozens through the 1920s, but he didn't achieve status as a major director until the mid -»30s, when his films for RKO (The Lost Patrol [1934], The Informer [1935]-RRB-, 20th Century Fox (Young Mr. Lincoln [1939], The Grapes of Wrath [1940]-RRB-, and Walter Wanger (Stagecoach [1939]-RRB-, won over the public, the critics, and earned various Oscars and Academy nominations.

Since then, he has directed critically acclaimed, award - winning films including Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Silence.

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.

Allison Williams starred in Jordan Peele's Academy Award - nominated film, GET OUT, for which she garnered a Screen Actors Guild ensemble nomination for her performance.

The film is the director's first effort since A Single Man, Ford's directorial debut, which led to Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Academy Award nominations for Colin Firth, as well as a Golden...

For many this year, Oscar competition has focused on the family films «Hugo» and «War Horse,» which have received so much recognition from the Academy — «Hugo» leads the pack with the most nominations this year (although «The Artist» and «The Descendants» will offer stiff competition when the envelope is opened for Best Picture on Feb. 26).

There are a few better films out there which are strong and undivisive enough to cite as worthy winners without invoking the Academy's unspoken «too much, too soon» logic.

Mira Sorvino starred in multiple Weinstein films, including 1995's «Mighty Aphrodite,» for which she won an Academy Award.

What a surprise, then, that VAMPIRE ACADEMY actually looks quite good, something which I thought I'd never say of a film about teenage vamps attending a sort of Hogwarts for blood - drinkers.

Beauvois's film (the French Oscar submission, which surprised many by failing to make the Academy's shortlist) took the top prize, but it was «The Ghost Writer» that netted the most wins, with four — including two for Polanski himself (Best Director and Adapted Screenplay), plus honors for editing and Alexandre Desplat's score.

For one thing, the recent track record of these late summer dramas is decidedly mixed - while The Help indeed connected with Oscar, Lee Daniels» The Butler's summer box office went unrecognized by the Academy, and it is the latter film that Get On Up seems to resemble more, what with it being a biopic that attempts to tell the entire life story of its subject, which, as discussed in the previous installment in regards to Unbroken, is a questionable proposition with today's Academy.

The drama about the last chapter of a long marriage, which stars two veteran French actors (Jean - Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva) and premiered at May's Cannes Film Festival (where it won the Palme d'Or), was claimed by Austria because the Academy's rules dictate that a film's nationality is dependent not on the language that is primarily spoken in the film or the origins of the stars, but rather on the origins of the majority of the film's principal behind - the - scenes talent — the writer, director, and producer.

The Academy does not release the names of which films were chosen by the general committee and which were saved by the executive committee, but it is likely that «Land of Mine,» «The King's Choice,» «A Man Called Ove» and probably «My Life as a Zucchini» were general - committee picks.

Perhaps it was this idea that led to the creation of Basterds as a revisionist narrative in which the Nazis meet the fate they deserve — and perhaps it is the image of Shoshanna winning her battle in the cinema that has kept the film's pre-autumn release fresh in every critic's mind as we approach the 2010 Academy Awards.

Directed by Oscar ® winner Bill Condon based on the 1991 animated film, «Beauty and the Beast» is produced by Mandeville Films» David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman with eight - time Oscar - winning composer Alan Menken, who won two Academy Awards ® (Best Original Score and Best Song) for the 1991 animated film, providing the score, which will include new recordings of the original songs written by Menken and Howard Ashman, as well as several new songs written by Menken and three - time Oscar winner Tim Rice.

Her first film appearance was in 1944's Gaslight for which she received an Academy Award nomination.

The filmmakers have assembled a stellar cast, including Felicity Jones, nominated for an Academy Award for her leading role in The Theory of Everything; Diego Luna, who was featured in 2008's Oscar - winning Milk and 2013's Elysium; Ben Mendelsohn, recently nominated for an Emmy for his leading role in Bloodline and co-starring in the upcoming Mississippi Grind; Donnie Yen, Hong Kong action star and martial artist who starred in Ip Man and Blade II; Jiang Wen, who co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in the award - winning Let the Bullets Fly and Devils on the Doorstep; Forest Whitaker, recently featured in the critically - acclaimed Lee Daniels» The Butler and winner of an Academy Award for his leading role in 2006's The Last King of Scotland; Mads Mikkelsen, who starred in The Hunt and was the memorable villain from 2006's Casino Royale; Alan Tudyk, who plays a performance - capture character in Rogue One, stars in the soon - to - be-released Con Man series and Trumbo, which releases this November; and Riz Ahmed, who was recently featured in Nightcrawler and starred in the BAFTA - winning film Four Lions.

Last year's Palme d'Or winner was Ruben Ostlund's The Square, which went on to be nominated for best foreign language film at the Academy Awards.

The movie, which has options for English or German audio tracks, was selected as Austria's foreign film entry in the forthcoming Academy Awards.

SKE will finance and produce the film with Plan B Entertainment, which has Academy Award - celebrated films «The Big Short,» «Selma,» «12 Years A Slave» and «The Departed» to its credit.

Six Catalyst films made waves at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival: Beach Rats (U.S. Dramatic Directing Award), Chasing Coral (U.S. Documentary Audience Award), The Force (U.S. Documentary Directing Award), Patti Cake $, Unrest (Special Jury Award for Editing) and Strong Island (Special Jury Award for Storytelling), which is also nominated for an Academy Award.

However, his prior filmmaking efforts were male dominated: In 2006, he won an Academy Award for his short film «Six Shooter,» which stars Brendan Gleeson; for McDonagh's 2008 feature - length debut «In Bruges,» he paired the actor with Colin Farrell in a devious tale about bumbling hitmen.

Academy Award - winning makeup artist Christopher Nelson has also joined the project, which we noticed on the film's IMDb page a few days ago and has apparently been confirmed now by BD.

The 24 - year - old actress received the first of her three Academy Award nominations 11 years ago: for director Joe Wright's film of Ian McEwan's novel Atonement, in which she played 13 - year - old Briony Tallis, who tells a lie about a rape which destroys two people's lives.

It's no secret that the Academy very rarely bestows awards or even recognition on the horror genre, which is a shame considering how many great performances have come out of horror films over the years.

Yes, it's a period film, which the Academy has wearied of somewhat since the glory days of Merchant / Ivory.

After failing to win the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (he lost to Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips, which is a very good performance in a fine film, but come on), James Stewart was rewarded by the Academy the very next year for The Philadelphia Story, in which he plays third lead to Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in George Cukor's monumental screwball.

In an industry where awards - season hopefuls make their debuts during the Sundance Film Festival — more than 12 months before the Academy Awards at which they'll hopefully compete — and where certain films (like Get Out) can sustain a prestige narrative for an entire year, it's really never too early to start predicting which films will make a splash at next year's Oscars.

The film, which stars Academy Award nominee Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air, Bates Motel), Patrick Wilson (Insidious), Ron Livingston (Office Space, Adaptation) and Lili Taylor (Hemlock Grove), will screen in two theaters at the Regal Cinema at L.A. LIVE on June 21, first at 10:00 pm in Regal House 11 and 10:30 pm in Regal House 10 with both screenings followed by a Q&A with Wan.