Below you will find example sentences with "best picture". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Best Picture in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: best
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 32
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 29.1 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 3 start, 14 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "best picture" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 29.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as awards for best picture best director, nominated for best picture, film, director and screenplay stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with best director, best pittsburgh, best friend, best director, best original and best actor, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with best picture
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
The film received three Oscars: best cinematography, best art direction, best costume design, and was nominated for best picture. (19 words)
For its success, “The Departed” won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay Writing. (21 words)
Scorsese has received 14 Oscar nominations, including ten Best Director nominations, two Best Adapted Screenplay nominations and two Best Picture nominations. (21 words)
The most notable thing about might be the fact that it was the first Best Picture winner to have the Titanic factor into the plot at one point (albeit very briefly), doing so 60+ years before Best Picture winner did. (40 words)
The film was considered one of the greatest films about the Holocaust, and it swept the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, and Best Art Direction. (38 words)
It became the biggest film at the box office in 1981, and the recipient of numerous Oscar nominations including Best Director (Spielberg's second nomination) and Best Picture (the second Spielberg film to be nominated for Best Picture). (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
The film was considered one of the greatest films about the Holocaust, and it swept the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, and Best Art Direction.
The film won Best Picture, Best Lead Actress, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor.
This film was originally supposed to arrive here in January and now comes with several major nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Sound, and Best International Feature (it’s a German-language British film).
The film was nominated for five Academy Awards : Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing in a Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
It became the biggest film at the box office in 1981, and the recipient of numerous Oscar nominations including Best Director (Spielberg's second nomination) and Best Picture (the second Spielberg film to be nominated for Best Picture).
For its success, “The Departed” won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay Writing.
It's the favorite to win best picture, best director, best actress for Michelle Yeoh and best supporting actor for Ke Huy Quan.
It’s up for six Oscars in total on Sunday, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay for Gerwig as well as Best Actress () and Supporting Actress (), but Gerwig was notably shut out of the Best Director race.
The film, which won top prize at the Cannes Film Festival last year, earned six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best International Feature, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
The writer/director of won four Oscars that night, including Best Oiriginal Screenplay, Best International Feature Film, Best Director and Best Picture.
Visionary director Bong Joon-ho, took home four Oscar wins including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film.
Writer-director Bong Joon Ho four Oscars for the film -- Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film.
Yet a glimmer of hope emerged from the ceremony when Bong Joon Ho's masterful won four Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Foreign Feature Film.
The film received three Oscars: best cinematography, best art direction, best costume design, and was nominated for best picture.
The film was nominated for several awards, including Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Picture (Drama) and the Oscars for Best Film Editing and Best Art-Direction.
The guild’s Darryl F. Zanuck award - the equivalent of best picture - has foreshadowed 23 of 33 “best picture” Oscar winners since the awards began.
History shows that the best picture contender that really hits the hot button issue of the moment, and perhaps even stirs filmgoers into activism and engagement with the issues presented, isn’t always the best picture winner.
That category is SAG’s version of Best Picture and, as often as not, has produced some interesting upsets that sent movies such as and others on to Best Picture Oscar glory.
The most notable thing about might be the fact that it was the first Best Picture winner to have the Titanic factor into the plot at one point (albeit very briefly), doing so 60+ years before Best Picture winner did.
Scorsese has received 14 Oscar nominations, including ten Best Director nominations, two Best Adapted Screenplay nominations and two Best Picture nominations.