Sentence examples for picture equivalent from inspiring English sources

"You, too, might end up starring in the motion picture equivalent of Cheez Whiz" (Stephen Holden).

Directed by Allan Arkush, "Rock 'N' Roll High School" is a fast, fun, sloppy picture, the motion picture equivalent of a garage band.

Thus "The Virginian" took the microphone outdoors and made the human voice take its place with the sounds of nature in building up a sound picture equivalent to the visual images which compose a film.

Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto took home the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor prizes respectively for their roles of HIV/AIDS sufferers in Dallas Buyers Club, while the cast of David O Russell's black comedy, American Hustle, won the Guild's Best Picture equivalent  of Cast in a Motion Picture.

Meanwhile, Luca Guadagnino's "Call Me by Your Name," which won the Gotham Award and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association prize, got left out of Outstanding Cast (the Best Picture equivalent) at the SAGs, and Best Director and Best Screenplay at the Globes.

Videogame sequels, unlike their motion picture equivalents, usually enhance the reputation of a franchise.

But "Argo" has absolutely torn up the precursor awards, winning Best Picture equivalents at the Golden Globes, the PGA's and the SAG's, to name just a few.

(In that same "London" issue the novelist China Miéville provided a word-picture equivalent: "The spine of the Shard soars over South London accumulating glass as if it's in solution, growing crystals").

I'll admit that I experienced "Cloud Atlas" mainly as the motion-picture equivalent of being cornered at a noisy party by three filmmakers expounding at length — with animated gestures and gusty yet sincere vehemence — on their philosophy of life, and I would argue that it's worthwhile to figure out what that philosophy is.

The Academy's snubbing of "Argo" director Ben Affleck has apparently made the movie irresistible to guild voters, who this weekend propelled the film like a sprinter through the awards race, crowning it with best picture-equivalent prizes at the Producers Guild and Screen Actors Guild ceremonies.

They could treat screenplays as mathematical propositions, using Mr. Pink and Mr. Brown's categories and scores as the motion-picture equivalents of melody, harmony, beat, tempo, rhythm, octave, pitch, chord progression, cadence, sonic brilliance, and frequency.