Notes On The Season: ‘Three Billboard’s Martin McDonagh On Directing “Snub”; Senior Moments; Oscar Vets Return To Battle
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Martin McDonagh finds himself in rarefied territory this season after the Academy’s directors branch rather shockingly “snubbed” him and failed to nominate him in their category for his much-acclaimed Golden Globe winner and Oscar Best Picture contender, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Despite the omission, the film has seven nominations, including writing and producing noms for McDonagh.
It remains a hot prospect to win the top prize, though the odds are daunting, statistically at least. Only three films in the 89-year history of the Oscars have managed to go on to win the Best Picture Academy Award without having at least a Best Director nomination. Early on Grand Hotel did it in 1931-32 — even though its helmer, Edmund Goulding, was not among the three directors nominated then. In 1989, Driving Miss Daisy triumphed without a corresponding directing nom for Bruce Beresford,...
Martin McDonagh finds himself in rarefied territory this season after the Academy’s directors branch rather shockingly “snubbed” him and failed to nominate him in their category for his much-acclaimed Golden Globe winner and Oscar Best Picture contender, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Despite the omission, the film has seven nominations, including writing and producing noms for McDonagh.
It remains a hot prospect to win the top prize, though the odds are daunting, statistically at least. Only three films in the 89-year history of the Oscars have managed to go on to win the Best Picture Academy Award without having at least a Best Director nomination. Early on Grand Hotel did it in 1931-32 — even though its helmer, Edmund Goulding, was not among the three directors nominated then. In 1989, Driving Miss Daisy triumphed without a corresponding directing nom for Bruce Beresford,...
- 2/10/2018
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
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