In fact, the film was so well received that it even won its first time
director an award at the festival.
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this is the most deserving of both the Best Picture and
Best Director awards.
I honestly didn't anticipate the Best
Director award for well - regarded Iranian photographer - turned - filmmaker Shirin Neshat (for her debut feature «Women Without Men»), not least because it was one of the Competition titles I missed and I didn't hear much talk about it on the Lido.
Director Jean - Marc Vallee accepts the Hollywood
breakthrough director award for «Wild» from actress Reese Witherspoon onstage during the 18th Hollywood Film Awards.
SASF's Board
of Directors awards funds to the Seattle Animal Shelter through a grant proposal and review process.
Moderator Scott Feinberg, directors Jordan Peele, Christopher Nolan, Greta Gerwig, Paul Thomas Anderson, Guillermo del Toro and SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling pose onstage at the
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The critically acclaimed result earned him Oscar nominations for his work both behind and in front of the camera, a best
director award from Bafta and a slew of other honours...
A woman director - Sofia Coppola became only the second woman ever to win the Best
Director award in Cannes» 70 - year history for «The Beguiled».
2017 Outstanding
New Director Award - Heidi Hill, Director of Special Education, Clark County Schools
If he couldn't get nominated for Breaking the Waves even though he had
won director awards from the National Film Critics and the New York Film Critics, there's no way he can get it for this one.
Brooklyn - based filmmaker Sophia Takal won a Chicken & Egg Emergent Narrative Woman
Director Award on Tuesday night here at South by Southwest, and, for the most part, her debut feature Green bears out that honor.
The Best
Director award went to Mia Hansen - Love «s French pic Things to Come (L'Avenir), a drama starring Isabelle Huppert as a woman in her 50s reassessing her life, while the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize went to Danis Tanovic's Bosnian drama Death in Sarajevo (Smrt u Sarajevu), an ensemble piece a la Robert Altman set entirely in a Sarajevo hotel.
Variety reports that Jordan Peele won the first - time
feature director award at Saturday night's ceremony for his socially conscious thriller «Get Out.»
PERTH agency 303 has received a bronze award at the Australian Writers and
Art Directors Awards in Sydney last week.
He is the title character of The Man Who Wasn't There is the Joel and Ethan Coen's homage to film noir, and garnered them a shared best
director award with David Lynch (for Mulholland Falls) at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
Nicolas Winding Refn finally broke out onto the international stage with Drive, his ultra-slick stripped - back thriller that won him the best
director award here at Cannes in 2011.
Last year, she won the Emerging
Canadian Director Award for her feature debut, a micro-budget fiction called Never Eat Alone (2016).
Carlos de Abreu, founder and executive producer of the 17th Annual Hollywood Film Awards, announced today that Fox Searchlight's «12 Years a Slave» director, Steve McQueen will be honored with the «Hollywood
Breakout Director Award,» and actress Lupita Nyong» o will receive the «New Hollywood Award» for her great performance.
It was a perfect blend of dry comedy and full character that, along with the Best
Director award given to Puiu, made «Sieranevada» shoot to the top of my must - see list.
Nominees for the first -
time director award are: GARTH DAVIS Lion (The Weinstein Company) Mr. Davis» Directorial Team: — First Assistant Director: Chris Webb — First Assistant Director: Ananya Rane (India Unit)-- Second Assistant Directors: Mark Ingram (Australia Unit), Sunny Tiku (India Unit), KP Singh (India Unit), Shaunak Kapur (India Unit) This is one of two DGA Award nominations this year for Mr. Davis.
Bingham Ray Breakthrough
Director Award Robert Eggers for «The Witch» Anna Rose Holmer for «The Fits» Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert for «Swiss Army Man» Trey Edward Shults for «Krisha» (WINNER) Richard Tanne for «Southside with You»
Specializing in bringing Asian films to American moviegoers, Well Go typically ranks near the bottom of our annual list, though it had its biggest critical hit to date in 2015 with Hsiao - hsien Hou's gorgeously shot martial arts drama The Assassin, which earned the
veteran director an award at Cannes.
Bingham Ray Breakthrough
Director Award Ana Lily Amirpour for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Kino Lorber)
Unlike the American Academy, BAFTA likes to split their Best Film and
Director awards more often than not — in the past decade, only three films (most recently «Brokeback Mountain») have taken both awards.
Peele was also nominated for the DGA's first - time
film director award, a category in just its third year.
Bingham Ray Breakthrough
Director Award Ryan Coogler for Fruitvale Station (The Weinstein Company) Adam Leon for Gim me the Loot (Sundance Selects) Alexandre Moors for Blue Caprice (Sundance Selects) Stacie Passon for Concussion (RADiUS - TWC) Amy Seimetz for Sun Don't Shine (Factory 25)
The fact that Kubrick's iconic films so often top best film and director polls across the media show that this his exclusion from the ranks of Best
Director award holders is one of the Academy's biggest mistakes, especially when considering the films it lost out to such as My Fair Lady and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which are well respected but not really on a par in terms of Kubrick's directorial skills, and neither George Cukor or Milos Forman have made a directorial impact elsewhere.
Mike Leigh) Cast: Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Roger Ashton - Griffiths With a Palme d'Or and a Best
Director award already under his belt (for «Secrets and Lies» and «Naked» respectively) any new Mike Leigh movie has got to be a major contender for a Cannes competition slot (he's been there four times so far, «All or Nothing» and «Another Year» being the other two competition players).
Another notable moment arrived when Natalie Portman co-presented the best
director award alongside Ron Howard, calling out the category's major oversight by declaring, «here all the all - male nominees.»