Thus Sequeira — whose resume includes everything from Shape director del Toro's TV series The Strain to CBC's own Being Erica — would be the first Canadian to ever
win in this category if they fend off the favourite, Mark Bridges for his work on Phantom Thread.
Not exact matches
If «Dunkirk» does pull off the
win, it could be a hint to how the night goes, as «The Shape of Water» and «Dunkirk» are up against each other
in numerous
categories, including best picture.
And Netflix could also sweep two of the biggest TV
categories if the Aziz Ansari comedy Master of None
wins against competitors such as Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
in the «musical or comedy» TV series
category.
In recent months, as the political atmosphere has grown increasingly polarized, the stock market also seems to have split into two
categories: Stocks expected to
win if President Donald Trump achieves his policy goals, and ones that aren't.
If there is a competitive drug market, with limited advantage offered by the new drug
in terms of increased effectiveness or reduced side effects, the drug will probably not
win substantial market share
in its product
category.
The second
category he calls «circumstantial evidence ``, which,
if he was shown any of these, might cause him to rethink his position even
if he doesn't convert: a genuinely flawless and consistent holy book; a religion without internal disputes or factions; a religion who's followers have never committed or taken part
in atrocities; a religion that had a consistent record of
winning its jihads and holy wars.
It gives us long term stability
if required and not chelski situation but saying that they keep
winning AW HAS LET HIS SELF DOWN by not changing I was once a AW
in but unfortunately you can't teach an old dog new tricks
if he doesn't want to learn and AW falls
in to that
category Neville made a good point when he said we could forgive the losing as we still played beautiful football.
Marko Arnautovic is seemingly alone
in the Hammer of the Year stakes whilst Declan Rise will have to
win something even
if they make a special
category for him.
The Amope pedi perfect
won the 2016 Product of the Year Award
in the Beauty Tools
category and
if you give it a try, you'll see why.
If the party had managed to
win such slightly higher support levels
in the last general election
in the 13 constituencies that fall into this
category, then Labour would have ended up
winning 50 seats at the election, and the overall seat tallies by party would have looked as follows: Fine Gael 73, Labour 50, Fianna Fail 17, Sinn Fein 11, United Left Alliance 3, Others 12.
If you believe my commitment to ethical fashion is award
winning, click this link and leave my name, link and a few words
in the Young Green Leaders
category.
The easiest
category to pick among all the nominations is Lead Actor - Benedict Cumberbatch does so far and away the best
in his role, it will be an injustice
if anyone else
wins.
There were big moments Sunday at the 24th annual celebration of actors, like Harvey Weinstein accusers Marisa Tomei and Rosanna Arquette naming some of the key silence breakers who lit the fuse to the movement, and big questions about what would happen
if the recently accused James Franco and Aziz Ansari
won in their
categories (they didn't).
But
if Warner Brothers is going to be out there actively campaigning for him, they're going to want to put him
in a
category he can
win in.
Speaking of Call Me By Your Name,
if James Ivory
wins he will become, at 89, the oldest Oscar winner
in any
category, ever.
If Rachel Morrison
wins Best Cinematography for Mudbound she will logically follow up her existing Oscar history as the only female nominee
in this
category (ever!)
Winner: Alicia Vikander, «The Danish Girl» Should
win: Jennifer Jason Leigh, «The Hateful Eight» Upset player: Kate Winslet, «Steve Jobs» Nightmare
win: Rachel McAdams, «Spotlight» (love her but she's not even the fourth best performance
in the movie) Lowdown: The pundits have been fishing for a
category that might provide an upset and
if the Best Picture race wasn't so tight there would be more think pieces about this race than you can shake a stick at.
Throw
in Jordan Peele becoming the first African - American screenwriter to
win an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, an open endorsement of the Time's Up movement and Frances McDormand speaking very loudly, and you have an eventful evening of progressive winners, even
if they didn't
win in every
category.
If Forest Whitaker isn't careful, he could
win Oscars
in two
categories for two movies: lead actor for «Lee Daniels» The Butler» and as producer of the conceivable best picture, «Fruitvale Station.»
He
won Best Actor
in Cannes way back
in May 2012 and
if the film
wins its Oscar
category in March 2014 The Hunt may well serve as the new poster boy reminder of how deeply strange global cinematic culture is
in terms of distribution models.
If you don't think Colin Firth is taking this one with, if anything, even more ease than Jeff Bridges coasted to his win last year, then you may as well put your money down on Hailee Steinfeld winning this category in a shock upse
If you don't think Colin Firth is taking this one with,
if anything, even more ease than Jeff Bridges coasted to his win last year, then you may as well put your money down on Hailee Steinfeld winning this category in a shock upse
if anything, even more ease than Jeff Bridges coasted to his
win last year, then you may as well put your money down on Hailee Steinfeld
winning this
category in a shock upset.
If she were to
win in the best supporting actress
category for her role
in «Nebraska,» she would make Academy Award history by becoming the oldest winner
in any of the acting
categories...
Which leaves the door open for Lady Bird to
win as a group
if its players lose
in their respective
categories.
If Ratatouille still retains a viable contender as a spoiler, it's not because audiences continue to drink whatever Pixar puts
in the Kool - Aid that gets, as Laurie Anderson would say, «ah - dults» hailing each of their new movies as the studio's everlasting masterpiece of classic filmmaking (making it simply a matter of time before one of them actually
wins an award outside the best animated feature playpen), but rather because its presence
in this
category might remind voters that one or two of the striking writers aren't just trying to feed their own mouths.
Usually, though, a Best Picture winner will only
win Score
if a sweep is afoot, and hardly ever does the rest of the time because
in years when the Academy spreads the wealth, they seem to divide the films they like along the lines of tech, craft and major
categories.
I wouldn't be shocked
if it pulled off a
win in those three
categories, and I expect The Beard will be
in heavy play for a prospective third Best Director trophy.
• OSCAR
WINNING ROLES:
If by some miracle Bryan Cranston
won he'd be the second actor to
win for playing a previous Oscar winner (the first being Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn
in The Aviator) • GENDER:
If by some miracle Eddie Redmayne
won it'd be the first leading actor
win for a female character though not the first Oscar
win for someone playing another gender — that was Linda Hunt as a male photographer
in The Year of Living Dangerously (1983) • MULTI-HYPHENATES: Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio have also been nominated outside of acting
categories.
If «Crash»
wins as best picture, and I expect it will, its writer - director Paul Haggis will nevertheless be seen by voters as a newcomer, and a vote for Lee
in this
category will be a way to honor «Brokeback.»
Whether or not that translates into an Oscar -
winning performance is yet to be seen, of course, but I would imagine it would improve Harrelson's odds
if his performance as a local sheriff caught up
in a murder case fell into the Supporting Actor
category.
In their supporting categories they stuck with the clear critical frontrunners Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project) and Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird) both of whom are probably locking up Oscar nominations in their categories if not the win ye
In their supporting
categories they stuck with the clear critical frontrunners Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project) and Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird) both of whom are probably locking up Oscar nominations
in their categories if not the win ye
in their
categories if not the
win yet.
The absence of those hysterical dramatics
in the race can lead to people who spend a superfluous amount of time thinking about the outcome of these awards to speculate who would
win if the frontrunner were not nominated
in the
category.
So, who would
in each
category win if the frontrunner didn't exist?
My apologies
in advance
if the four acting
categories end up sounding the exact same, for a rather extraordinary occurrence happened this year
in that all four frontrunners ended up
winning all four major awards leading up to the Oscars, an occurrence that I can't recall having happened before.
All signs point to a
win for him
in this
category — he took the Directors Guild of America prize — even
if the Best Picture prospects for his film remain suspenseful.
What matters about the Globes and the SAG awards is that they are the biggest televised events to come before the Oscars, meaning that
if you aren't there,
if you aren't competing,
if you aren't present
in an important
category so you can't
win in that
category, then another movie has the opportunity to overtake you.
But for Paramount, she would have a better chance at a
win if she were considered
in Supporting Actress against comparatively «weaker» competition (a dubious claim
in itself), especially with the writing on the wall that Natalie Portman would be running away with the Lead
category for her work
in
Boasting sumptuous period production design, cinematography
in the irregular 2.0:1 aspect ratio by accomplished Italian cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor, and a number of Warren Beatty films), and costumes, Café Society could get recognized
in some technical award
categories, even
if it doesn't add to the long list of original screenplay nominations (and
wins) Allen has earned with apparent apathy.
But for Paramount, she would have a better chance at a
win if she were considered
in Supporting Actress against comparatively «weaker» competition (a dubious claim
in itself), especially with the writing on the wall that Natalie Portman would be running away with the Lead
category for her work
in Black Swan.
There has been some consternation this year, possibly more so than I can personally remember for some time, about studios pushing for «
category fraud,» or the act of angling for an award that does not necessarily fit the
category in which it is being angled for, usually due to the other
category leading to a higher likelihood of
winning even
if it may not be entirely accurate or moral to do so.
A potential
win in this
category with precedent is Cate Blanchett's «Bob Dylan» from Todd Haynes's I'm Not There, but that precedent is Cate Blanchett's Katharine Hepburn from Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, and though pundits are right to wonder
if the Academy will want to give this fussy actress a second Oscar so soon after her last one, Blanchett may lose for representing a film that comes on intellectually strong and is possibly more obnoxious than American Gangster.
It would be a real shock
if People v. O.J. didn't
win in this
category.
As you'll see from my picks, I somewhat went with my heart rather than my head on some of these, leading to a whopping 7 below the belt
wins for Mad Max but
if tides turn away from me
in the tech
category (which they easily could), I'll be looking at a more decrepit scorecard than I'm used to.
This year, for Blade Runner 2049, this titan of the medium was nominated for the 14th time, and
if he loses, he will become the person most nominated
in this
category without
winning.
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.
If The Jungle Book could
win the Visual Effects Oscar nearly a year after opening and Cinderella could land a Costume Design nomination a year earlier, then it stands to reason that this opulent and no doubt commercially potent Beauty and the Beast can be remembered
in some technical
categories next award season.
The 2013 model received best -
in - class V - 8 power, towing and highway driving range and the 2014 Durango is likely to
win the same,
if not more
categories this year.
The Stinger
won the
iF product design award
in the «Transportation Design»
category [21] and the Red Dot award
in the «Best of the Best Car Design»
category in 2018.
It's important to do your research beforehand to see which
categories they have, what type of books
won the award for the
categories you are interested
in during previous years, and how many entrants there were (
if disclosed).
Most titles
in the fourth
category won't sell at all but
if you're looking for potential outsized
wins, it's the only
category that a publisher can reasonably assume has undiscovered bestsellers and approaches that haven't been tried before.
Please leave a comment to let me know which are your favorites or,
if you disagree, let me know why.Although there is only winner
in each
category, other covers that were considered for the award or which stood out
in some exemplary way, are indicated with a gold star: ★ Award winners and Gold - Starred covers also
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winning covers to their sales page on Amazon or Smashwords.Now, without any further ado, here are the winners of this month's e-Book Cover Design Awards.