Sentences with phrase «win on a preferential ballot»
When you add the divisiveness of the film and its «take on race» backlash (which may or may not invade voters» choices) you have a film that can not win on a preferential ballot.
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But then again, it's not a film that normally can win on a preferential ballot.
I mentioned over the weekend that Shape is the type of film that can win on a preferential ballot by virtue of garnering an overwhelming tally of first - place votes, ending the contest in the first round of counting.
With The Revenant, it didn't have the SAG ensemble stat, so I was not sure it could win on a preferential ballot.
Men still have the majority in the Academy, which could explain why films with male protagonists have consistently won on the preferential ballot since 2009.
Not exact matches
It would be near the bottom of my own preferential ballot, however, and that's why I'll ask you this: What's your gun - to - head guess on what's going to win next weekend, and how would you have filled out your own Best Picture dance card, given what's nominated?
Two films that won the New York Film Critics Circle went on to win Best Picture in the preferential ballot era: The Artist in 2011 and The Hurt Locker in 2009.
But if Get Out or Lady Bird wins there, I would suspect that is your Best Picture winner on a preferential ballot.
It was just the start, as the film went on to secure a number of Best Picture nominations and win the Producer's Guild of America's top prize (which has aligned with the Oscar's Best Picture on almost every recent year, since both organizations switched to a preferential ballot).
Interestingly enough, the Oscar curve may not be a bell curve because the preferential ballot may have an effect on what wins.
Momentum and the preferential ballot just might propel horror film to surprise win on Sunday night.
So where a movie like The Hurt Locker or No Country for Old Men or The Departed could win based on passion and a push to win them Oscars, the preferential ballot doesn't really allow for that as much.
The Big Short most significantly won the PGA on a preferential ballot — the only other preferential ballot in the race besides the Oscars.
Three Billboards «chances at winning come down to this: is the movie truly a love - it - or - hate - it affair, which would likely doom it with the preferential ballot, or are the hate - its all on Twitter and the love - its all in the Academy?