Tag: Get Out
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Why Get Out should win the 2018 best picture Oscar
In the first of a series ahead of the 2018 Oscars, Peter Bradshaw champions Jordan Peele’s brilliantly scary satireThe nomination of Jordan Peele’s Get Out for best picture, a category that sadly often only rewards middlebrow-prestigious classiness, shouldn’t blind us to the fact that it is a brilliant scary movie: a horror suspense-thriller with hilarious…
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BAFTA Award Winners, as They Arrive
As ever, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations for the Ee British Academy Film Awards favor homegrown fare. Thus many nomination slots that might have included such Hollywood films as “The Post” or “Wonder Woman” went to the likes of “Dunkirk,””Darkest Hour,” and “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool.”Leading the BAFTA field…
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Watch: Vicky Krieps & Lesley Manville Talk Extensively About Working on ‘Phantom Thread’
2017 deserves credit for spurring one of the rarest of all events in modern filmmaking: an Oscars ceremony where there is more than one deserving entry for Best Picture. The Academy Awards have a long, aggravating history of giving top honors and nominations to thorough mediocrities, good movies, and outright travesties mostly, with one or…
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2018 BAFTA Awards: Who is hosting and presenting, which nominees will be there?
The February 18 BAFTA Awards will be hosted by Joanna Lumley (“Absolutely Fabulous”) and air on a tape-delayed basis on both BBC One in England and BBC America in the United States. Sixteen of this year’s 20 nominees in the acting categories are schedule to attend Sunday’s ceremony at London’s Royal Albert Hall.All five Best…
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Daily Podcast: Bill & Ted, Call of Duty, Netflix, Get Out, Blue Sky, Den of Thieves 2, Han Solo
On the February 14, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about the latest news, including the original script for Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, a Call of Duty movie, Netflix acquires more talent, Get Out goes free, Blue Sky…
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Greta Gerwig Reveals the ‘Dunkirk’ Scene That Made Her Cry and More of Her Favorite Moments From Oscar Nominees
Greta Gerwig knows a thing or two about crafting a perfect scene. After all, what is “Lady Bird” but the agglomeration of dozens of perfect scenes? Gerwig recently attended the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (via Collider) to talk all things “Lady Bird,” but Gerwig made sure to spend some time talking about the scenes…
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‘Uncle Drew’ Trailer: Kyrie Irving’s Film Debut Is ‘Space Jam’ Meets ‘The Nutty Professor’ — Watch
Boston Celtics point guard Kyrie Irving is about to star in his first film, “Uncle Drew,” an ensemble comedy that drafted current and former basketball greats to play geriatrics. Irving — a 25-year-old onetime Rookie of the Year and NBA Champion — debuted the Uncle Drew character in a 2012 commercial for Pepsi Max. The…
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Greta Gerwig Weighs In On ‘Dunkirk,’ ‘Get Out,’ ‘Phantom Thread’ & ‘The Shape Of Water’
The awards season features countless chatter and campaign interviews about the nominated films, but the opinions and thoughts that resonate most are the ones that come from a pure place. Paul Thomas Anderson, Christopher Nolan, and Jordan Peele have all weighed in on the nominated pictures, and now it’s Greta Gerwig‘s turn.The filmmaker hit the…
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Greta Gerwig on ‘Lady Bird’, Balancing Acting and Directing, and Why ‘Shape of Water’ Made Her Cry
The 33rd Santa Barbara International Film Festival celebrated the five Academy Award-nominated directors – Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk), Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird), Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water), Jordan Peele (Get Out), and Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread) – and honored them with the Outstanding Directors of the Year Award for 2018, at the Arlington…
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Why Oscar Voters Prefer Period Movies in Key Artisan Categories
When the Motion Picture Academy announced the Oscar noms on Jan. 23, there was the usual assortment of period and futuristic fare, but three contemporary films also made the final cut as best picture contenders: “Get Out,” “Lady Bird” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”But that trend didn’t hold up in the below-the-line categories of…