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Oscar Predictions: Best Director. One of the big questions about the 2. Oscars is whether or not there will be a split between the winners of Best Picture and Best Director, as we’ve seen in four of the last five years.
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Before the academy reintroduced the preferential ballot for Best Picture in 2. Now, they are the rule rather than the exception at the Academy Awards. Voters rank their choices from first to last, and if one nominee garners more than 5. If, however, no nominee can meet that threshold, the film with the fewest first place votes gets eliminated, with its ballot getting reapportioned to the second place choice. This process continues until one nominee reaches 5. The goal, says the academy, is to award the top Oscar to a consensus choice.
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So while Ang Lee (“Life of Pi”), Alfonso Cuaron (“Gravity”), Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (“The Revenant”) and Damien Chazelle (“La La Land”) all won the Best Director Oscar, their films lost to “Argo” (2. Years a Slave” (2. Spotlight” (2. 01.
Moonlight” (2. 01. Given the two different voting systems, it’s easy to understand how this can happen. Indeed, this was a fairly common phenomenon between 1.
Best Picture was first determined by a preferential ballot. Deeds Goes to Town” (Frank Capra), “The Awful Truth” (Leo Mc. Carey) and “The Grapes of Wrath” (Ford) respectively. Inarritu also won Best Director for a film that took the top Academy Award: “Birdman” (2. Whole La La Land (2016) Movie Online.
As with “The Revenant,” this too was a bravura directorial achievement and had strong support throughout the creative categories. Indeed, all five of the most recent films that won Oscars for helming also took home the lensing prize. When it comes to Best Director, bigger is better. So, who is making that kind of movie this year? UPDATED: Sept. 1, 2. Alexander Payne. 3. Matt Damon plays a man who decides his life would be better if he allows himself to be shrunk.
Although an unusual concept for an Oscar contender, it is no more off- beat than “Birdman” which parlayed that coveted first slot at Venice into a Best Picture win three years ago. While Payne has lost his three bids for Best Director, he has won two Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay (2. Sideways” and 2. 01. The Descendants”). Download Cinderella (2015) Online more. Guillermo Del Toro. Sally Hawkins. Fox Searchlight describers the film as an “otherworldly fairy tale.” While that doesn’t sound like usual Academy Awards fare, remember that another such film by Del Toro, “Pan’s Labyrinth” (2. Oscar bids. He reaped his only Oscar nomination to date for that film’s original screenplay.
Christopher Nolan has never been nominated by the directors branch but that should change with “Dunkirk,” which details the British retreat from France during the darkest days of World War II. These translated into an impressive 9. Rotten Tomatoes, which classifies reviews on a pass/fail system and 9. Meta. Critic, which uses a sliding scale. It has made $1. 66 million in the US and Canada and another $2. Aug. 2. 3). Patty Jenkins. Her first film, “Monster,” won Charlize Theron the 2.
Best Actress prize. Now, with this acclaimed comic book come to life, Jenkins could reap her first Oscar bid. It opened on June 2 to an impressive score of 9. Rotten Tomatoes (and 7.
Meta. Critic). Steven Spielberg claimed the first of his two Oscars for directing a true- life story (“Schindler’s List,” 1. WWII (as was his other winner, 1. Saving Private Ryan”). This year he has teamed with two multiple Oscar- winning actors — Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks — to tell the story behind the Washington Post’s publication of the “Pentagon Papers,” a series of documents prepared for the Department of Defense about the US involvement in Vietnam after WWII.
Please note: Only those films with confirmed release dates are listed below. Check back often as new contenders are scheduled while other are dropped due to delays or critical reaction.
UPDATED: Sept. 1, 2. Leading Contenders. Paul Thomas Anderson, “Phantom Thread” (Annapurna Pictures/Focus Features)Darren Aronofsky, “mother!” (Paramount Pictures)Kathryn Bigelow, “Detroit” (Annapurna Pictures)George Clooney, “Suburbicon” (Paramount Pictures)Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, “Battle of the Sexes” (Fox Searchlight)Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Water” (Fox Searchlight Picture)Stephen Frears, “Victoria and Abdul” (Focus Features)Luca Guadagnino, “Call Me By Your Name” (Sony Pictures Classics)Patty Jenkins, “Wonder Woman” (Warner Bros.)Richard Linklater, “Last Flag Flying” (Amazon Studios)Christopher Nolan, “Dunkirk” (Warner Bros.)Alexander Payne, “Downsizing”(Paramount Pictures/Annapurna Pictures)Jordan Peele, “Get Out” (Universal)Dee Rees, “Mudbound” (Netflix)Ridley Scott, “All the Money in the World” (Tristar)Steven Spielberg, “The Post” (2. Century Fox)Denis Villeneuve, “Blade Runner 2. Warner Bros./Columbia Pictures/Alcon Entertainment)Joe Wright, “Darkest Hour” (Universal Studios/Focus Features)Strong Contenders. Hany Abu- Assad, “The Mountain Between Us” (2.
Century Fox/Chernin Entertainment)Sean Baker, “The Florida Project” (A2. Kenneth Branagh, “Murder on the Orient Express” (2. Century Fox)Bill Condon, “Beauty and the Beast” (Walt Disney Pictures)Sofia Coppola, “The Beguiled” (Focus Features/Gramercy Pictures)Simon Curtis, “Goodbye Christopher Robin” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)Dan Gilroy, “Roman Israel, Esq.” (Columbia)Alfonso Gomez- Rejon, “The Current War” (The Weinstein Company)Michael Gracey, “The Greatest Showman” (2. Century Fox)Michael Haneke, “Happy End” (Sony Pictures Classics)Michel Hanzanavicius, “Redoubtable” (Studio Canal)Todd Haynes, “Wonderstruck” (Amazon Studios)Reginald Hudlin, “Marshall” (Open Road Films)Peter Landesman, “Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House” (Sony Pictures Classics)Doug Liman, “American Made” (Universal)Martin Mc. Donagh, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouriv (Fox Searchlight Pictures)Andy Serkis, “Breathe” (Bleecker Street/Participant Media)Steven Soderbergh, “Logan Lucky” (Bleecker Street/Film.
Nation Entertainment)Aaron Sorkin, “Molly’s Game” (STX Entertainment)Possible Contenders. Tomas Alfredson, “The Snowman” (Universal Studio/Working Title Films)Woody Allen, “Wonder Wheel” (Amazon Studios)Margaret Betts, “Novitiate” (Sony Pictures Classics)Stephen Chbosky, “Wonder” (Lionsgate)Destin Daniel Cretton, “The Glass Castle” (Lionsgate)David Gordon Green, “Stronger” (Lionsgate)Andrew Haigh, “Lean on Pete” (A2. Jason Hall, “Thank You for Your Service” (Dreamworks)Azazel Jacobs, “The Lovers” (A2. Angelina Jolie, “First They Killed My Father” (Netflix)Joseph Kosinski, “Only the Brave” (Lionsgate/Di Bonaventura Pictures)Yorgos Lanthimos, “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” (A2.
James Mangold, “Logan” (2. Century Fox)Roger Michell, “My Cousin Rachel” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)David Robert Mitchell, “Under the Silver Lake” (A2.
Matt Reeves, “War for the Planet of the Apes” (2. Century Fox)Taylor Sheridan, “Wind River” (The Weinstein Company)Wim Wenders, “Submergence” (Lionsgate)Edgar Wright, “Baby Driver” (Tri. Star Pictures)We will be predicting all 2. Oscars. Click on the linked categories below to read our previews of each of these races.