Don [Cheadle, her co-star in Hotel Rwanda] just couldn't believe it when I told him, and you imagine that sort of thing happens all the time in America.' Hotel Rwanda is a low-budget miracle (Cheadle is nominated for Best Actor and it's up for Best Original Screenplay).
Though it seems like the same big-budget pictures always get nominated for all the awards, this morning we were ecstatic to hear that Beasts is is up for four Oscars: Best Picture, Best Actress (Quvenzhané Wallis), Best Director (Benh Zeitlin), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin).
Budgeted at $13 million, the show was nominated for four Tony awards, including best musical, but was swept away in the "Book of Mormon" onslaught on Tony night.
His career was revived by the low-budget Leaving Las Vegas in 1996, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, and won the Best Actor prize for Cage.
The low budget Asian comedy East is East, best film at the Evening Standard awards, was nominated for British film of the year.
And Melissa Leo was nominated for best actress for "Frozen River," which was made for a budget that wouldn't renovate the carriage house of a studio boss.
Budgeted at a mere $10 million, the movie earned more than $84 million worldwide and was nominated for three Academy Awards in 1989.
This year, Journey was nominated for almost every recognizable game-of-the-year award, eclipsing games with many times its budget.
Both were nominated for Academy Awards.
(Both men were nominated for Oscars).
