Sentence examples for award potential from inspiring English sources
Such competition makes landing a movie with award potential all the more complicated.
After, she was getting the kind of roles that Meryl Streep regularly landed: tormented characters with foreign accents and Academy Award potential.
Djimon Hounsou, a Benin-born actor whose two Oscar-nominated roles include a performance alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in the film Blood Diamond, in 2007, responded with weary resignation when accosted by a journalist hunting for upbeat quotes about the film's award potential.
The film was of a sophisticated type that needed the cachet of a Soderbergh, the star power of a Pitt and perhaps Academy Award potential to overcome its somewhat cerebral quality and the difficulty of attracting foreign viewers for a movie about America's pastime.
Its awards potential wasn't immediately obvious: despite glowing reviews, Wes Anderson's romp was perceived as too lightweight for recognition beyond the screenplay and design categories.
The project also boasts the producers of The King's Speech and will be distributed in the US by the Weinstein Company, giving it prime awards potential.
This year, films with awards potential include Lion, a fact-based drama starring Dev Patel as a man searching for his family, and A United Kingdom, starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike as an interracial couple who caused an international outcry in the 1940s.
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That film, which stars Mr. Downey alongside Jamie Foxx, had promised to complicate the studio's life at a time when it saw awards potential for the currently very hot Mr. Downey in three pictures at once.
The kind of attention these bad-dream films have received makes it easy to begin an Oscar assault -- and awards potential is also the reason these children-in-peril movies are so often awash in the heavy, monotonous grandeur that telegraphs propriety.
More than any other major festival, Toronto makes clear the divide between those movies that matter aesthetically and intellectually — think the work of Hou Hsiao-hsien, the Dardenne brothers and Gus Van Sant — and those movies that matter largely because of their awards potential and the presumed interest to what remains of the discriminating, adult audience.
