12 Years a Slave,
with award worthy performances all around, is the best film of the year!
Not exact matches
It is true that popular opinion has shifted repeatedly
with regard to this year's most
award -
worthy films.
It's easy to believe that someone who's won a lot of
awards, built a huge social following, and bylined a load of articles is someone
with influence
worthy of your trust, time, and budget.
It had been a year
worthy of its own time capsule: Martinez had won the All - Star MVP
award, smothered the Yankees
with the one - hitter, beaten Cleveland
with his head and his heart, whipped New York in the League Championship Series and won the Cy Young.
This year features no shortage of
worthy youngsters who could be the next European megastar, and the Premier League has been well - represented
with 13 players placed on the shortlist for the
award.
For almost his entire career Hernandez has been an alltime great talent trying to drag 24 players not
worthy of him to the postseason — but he's most famous for being the guy who won the Cy Young
Award (in 2010)
with a 13 — 12 record.
This
award in particular requires that I list six things that make me happy along
with six other
worthy bloggers that I'll bestow this trinket to.
With The Academy
Awards a mere few weeks away, Target has every beauty essential you need to achieve an Oscar -
worthy look this year.
Olivia Wilde successfully merged glamorous high - fashion
with bump -
worthy pregnancy style at Sunday, January 12th's
awards.
Funded by a generous benefactor and local businessman, along
with his wife, Jerry and Joanna Higgins, this scholarship is
awarded to
worthy students who will be attending college or training beyond high school.
Urged to deliver a victory speech, Hughes said that he had not prepared one, but started off
with a joke
worthy of a member of an
award - winning kid - rock band, Dog on Fleas: «This fulfills my dream, which is to further my cause to turn Rosendale into a magical fairyland.»
Summary: A gloriously rich cinematic experience, this tense thriller combines an intelligent script
with awards -
worthy performances and innovative direction.
As
with GTA, turning the series into 3D has worked phenomenally.An utter brilliant game and
worthy of the many
awards it received.Though not without the oddglitch or annoyance, Fallout 3 is one of the best games ever made and will steal a hundred hours of your time without trying.The DLC packs are mainly excellent
with Broken Steel and Point Lookout being the better of them.Buy it and wait impatiently for Fallout 4.
He also takes a look at the
award -
worthy The Disaster Artist before having a nice conversation
with special guest Alonso Duralde, author of the perennial favorite Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas.
As
with GTA, turning the series into 3D has worked phenomenally.An utter brilliant game and
worthy of the many
awards it received.Though not without the oddglitch or annoyance, Fallout 3 is one of the best games ever made and will steal a hundred hours of your time without trying.The DLC packs are mainly excellent
with Broken Steel and Point Lookout being the better of them.Buy it and wait
Something
with an
awards -
worthy performance, or perhaps something that heralds the arrival of an exciting new voice in the world of independent film.
As Backstage waits
with baited breath for the Dec. 13 announcement, we're breaking down some of the most exciting, groundbreaking, and
award -
worthy 2017 contenders.
Goodman's performance in 10 Cloverfield Lane was Acadamy
Award worthy and we're excited to see him go to war
with extraterrestrials in this new thriller.
As an avid life - long Academy
Award watcher, I've always enjoyed attempting to see all Oscar -
worthy films, along
with selecting my personal winners.
If you can accept the language and not be too disgusted by the simulated sex scenes, I think you will agree
with me that this is
worthy of some
awards for acting and directing.
Star Fox would be great if, and only if, they take out the corny comedic elements and make it a more serious «save the galaxy» type game...
with a narrative
worthy of an
award winning script, Zelda-esque world gameplay and a stellar soundtrack... GC Star Fox was on the right track, but it could be improved dramatically
Bookended by beloved movie stars delivering
awards -
worthy performances, the festival opens
with Alejandro G. Iñárritu's vividly imagined Birdman on Thursday, October 16th and closes
with Jean - Marc Vallée's heart - wrenching Wild.
In both cases, they are
award worthy,
with Norton showing a deep inner pain and inability to express his true feelings, though we know always know what he's going through, while Watts, removed from the sheltered, superficial life she once lead, finds out there is more to her world than balls and flirtations, as well as more to the essence of love.
While the nominated films are championed by various
award bodies and critics alike, box office success rarely correlates
with movies deemed as being «best picture»
worthy.
Enter 2049 and whilst nearly all had concerns that it was just going to sully the original, I went in
with no such concerns and came out feeling that it had taken the themes of the original and improved on them in almost every single way — and anyone who can get such a superb performance out of Harrison Ford after his utterly cringe -
worthy «trad - dad» turn in the awful The Force Awakens needs to win every directing
award going!
Based on the true story of French law enforcement's battle
with the heroin - dependent drug traffic among France, New York and the rest of the world, this
award -
worthy film focuses more on the characterization of key players in the battle rather than rely on hyperviolence.
Our Take: In our Drive Review we describe the film as a brilliant work of bloody, thrilling, high - art crime drama
with some
award -
worthy performances.
Though no one in the cast is particularly
awards worthy, the main quartet are very solid (to different degrees) and show themselves to be very comfortable
with the filmmaker's distinctive dialogue.
Despite a rather tepid reception at last year's TIFF, Stuart Blumberg's follow - up screenplay to «The Kids Are All Right» features two
awards -
worthy thespians and looks to take on a topic mired in skepticism
with a firm grip on reality.
The cast is supremely talented
with Cranston giving an
award worthy performance alongside his supporting cast featuring Diane Kruger, John Leguizamo, Benjamin Bratt, and many more who lend their talents to create a truly exciting, tension - filled thriller that's as unforgiving as it is beautiful.
He first stepped into the spotlight courtesy of «Kick - Ass,» then starred in the A-list heavy crime thriller «Savages,» got a taste of something more on the
awards -
worthy side
with «Anna Karenina» and now could be taking on his very first summer blockbuster, «Godzilla.»
But it also inevitably overshadows the many, many
worthy films that arrive here
with no media profile or
awards prospects of which to speak, and which have little hope of finding a commercial audience anywhere near as sizable or enthusiastic as the up - for - anything crowds packing Toronto screening venues this week.
In addition, this film is also the 10th to be released on Blu - ray Disc (the 2nd from Warner Bros)
with a Dolby Atmos - encoded soundtrack, and having won an Academy
Award for best Sound Editing, this is of particular interest for home theater viewing, but is it a
worthy addition to your Blu - ray Disc collection?
«The Shape of Water» (Dec. 8): Director Guillermo del Toro gets back to the more surreally fantastic side
with this big - hearted monster movie in which a janitor played by Sally Hawkins — in what critics are saying is an
awards -
worthy performance — falls in love
with the strange fish - like man she discovers in the Cold War - era lab she cleans at night.
As such, where he allowed his actors to do almost all of the heavy lifting in The Conjuring, notably an
award -
worthy turn by Lili Taylor that was never given the recognition it deserved, here he gets obsessed
with painting a lot of nonsensical visuals utilizing some rather shaky CGI effects.
In a year filled
with award -
worthy animated films, I will predict that Kubo is the only film that might be able to compete
with Moana for the Oscar.
Available today is new filmmaker Ryan Coogler's impressive debut Fruitvale Station, telling the tragic story of Oscar Grant
with the help of an
award -
worthy lead turn from Michael B.... read more →
American Hustle looks similarly
award -
worthy,
with Russell recruiting a clutch of his favourite collaborators, including Silver Linings stars Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro, along
with the likes of Christian Bale and Amy Adams, for a film that he has been building up to all of his filmmaking life.
(For a deeper role, catch Mr. Chalamet in the film «Call Me by Your Name,» in the
awards -
worthy role of an awkward gay lad who is feeling out his identity through a relationship
with an older student in Italy.)
Paired
with Cartier jewellery, Ronan is the epitome of elegance in this
award -
worthy look.
As the movie's acclaim
with critics grew, it also transported its young rising star, Ryan Gosling, into the
awards -
worthy universe
with his first Oscar nomination.
Every bit the listless piece of Oscar bait that everyone expected it to be, «The Iron Lady» is essentially a made - for - TV movie
with an
award -
worthy performance at the center.
Machliss» and Amos» more active roles ensured that the film fit perfectly
with the music, a difficult and
award -
worthy feat.
Available today is new filmmaker Ryan Coogler's impressive debut Fruitvale Station, telling the tragic story of Oscar Grant
with the help of an
award -
worthy lead turn from Michael B. Jordan.
Here's hoping Paul continues to pepper his resume
with an interesting selection of film roles and more
award -
worthy performances.
It kind of just feels like it's time to honor him
with an Oscar, especially in a year that saw peripheral
award -
worthy work in «The Ghost Writer.»
With an
award -
worthy performance by Patrick Stewart as an aging Professor X struggling to control his mental powers as his body deteriorates around him and a breakout turn by young Dafne Keen as a mysterious child whose connection to the title mutant hero is as violent and as uncompromising as one might expect it to be.
By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Everything we are hearing regarding Michelle Williams» performance as iconic blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe in Simon Curtis's «My Week
with Marilyn» confirms that the young actress has yet another
awards -
worthy turn under her belt.
Cumberbatch continues to test his skills by taking on roles across the spectrum, from voice roles in television
with The Simpsons and Peter Jackson's blockbuster trilogy, The Hobbit, to
awards -
worthy turns in 12 Years a Slave, The Fifth Estate and August: Osage County.
«Jarhead» is easily one of the best films of the year,
with a strong adaptation by William Broyles Jr. and another
award -
worthy effort by director Sam Mendes.