Sentences with phrase «director prize»

Someone please give this woman a best director prize already!

Hou Hsiao - hsien's beautiful wuxia, set in ninth century China, won the Taiwanese filmmaker the Best Director prize at Cannes.

Forman won Best Director prizes for «One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest» and «Amadeus.»

Orson Welles's jury recognised «L'Argent» as the real deal, and allowed Bresson to split the Best Director prize with an undeserving upstart by the name of Andrei Tarkovsky.

After a festival - circuit tour that included a world premiere at Sundance and a Best Director prize in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes, Matt Ross» «Captain Fantastic» is set to hit theaters next month.

Guillermo Del Toro won his first ever Golden Globe award when he picked up the Best Director prize on Sunday night (07.01.18), and he refused to let his acceptance speech be ruined by the orchestra starting to play.

Gerwig in particular has been in contention for Best Director prizes from critics» groups throughout the end of the year, including winning that honor (along with Best Screenplay and Best Picture) the day before the Globes by the National Society of Film Critics.

Among the juried awards, the Grand Jury Prize went to the Nordic co-production Sami Blood, Amanda Kernell's drama of an indigenous girl attending a state school in the 1930s; the Ibero - American Competition winner is The Winter from Argentina; the New Directors prize was awarded to Quebecois filmmaker Chloé Robichaud for Boundaries (Pays); New American Cinema Competition award went to SJ Chiro's Lane 1974; and the Documentary Competition winner is Becoming Who I Was from South Korea.

He has won the Best Director prize twice at Locarno (Elle veut le chaos and Curling), while his latest film, Vic + Flo Saw a Bear, won the Alfred Bauer Award at Berlin.

Tom McCarthy won the Best Director prize despite his film «The Visitor» not showing up in the Best Feature category, while Charlie Kaufman took home the Best First Feature prize for the exceptional «Synecdoche, New York,» which also won the pre-announced Robert Altman Award.

In addition to tying for worst film of the year, «Fantastic Four» was also lambasted as worst remake, rip - off or sequel and earned the worst director prize for Josh Trank.

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This latest iteration won its director, Sofia Coppola, the best director prize earlier this year at Cannes and furthers this filmmaker's interest in collectives of dreamy, self - contained women that featured in her breakout movie The Virgin Suicides nearly 20 years ago.

Winner of narrative feature and best new narrative director prizes at 2017's Tribeca Film Festival.

Coppola made history as the second female filmmaker to take the Best Director prize since 1961 when Yuliya Solntseva won for The Story of the Flaming Years.

Of all the great, deserving, American filmmakers that haven't won the Best Director prize yet, Richard Linklater is up there with the most deserving.

The Austin Film Critics Association have chosen Barry Jenkins's Moonlight as the Best Film of 2016 and rewarded him with their Best Director prize as well.

On the night that you won the Breakthrough Director prize at the 2014 Gotham Awards, you told me, «You have to show your freaky freak flag and then you'll find people who want to see that flag sail.»

They also awarded the film their Best Director prize over their sole female nominee, Greta Gerwig).

The film also picked up the Best Director prize for Damien Chazelle.

Orson Welles's jury recognized L'Argent as the real deal, and allowed Bresson to split the Best Director prize with an undeserving upstart by the name of Andrei Tarkovsky.

Or how about Martin frickin» Scorsese finally getting his Best Director prize in 2007, for The Departed?

But the Christopher Nolan film worked for audiences and critics, and now is firmly in the awards - season firmament (in fact, Nolan so far has received more Best Director prizes from critics groups than any other filmmaker this... Read

Royal drama picks up four Oscars, including best picture, best actor for Colin Firth, and surprise best director prize for Tom Hooper, while other fancied contenders falter

After being pushed from its December release last year — and after an excellent reception at the Cannes Film Festival in May, where Bennett Miller won the Best Director prize — Foxcatcher will finally open in theaters on November 14th.

What does it say when a picture like Rodrigo Garcia's lovingly detailed Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, which won the first - time writer - director a prize at Cannes last year, doesn't make it to theaters in this country?

The 2013 British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA Awards) were handed out this evening, and director Ben Affleck's thriller continued its domination of awards season by landing the Best Film and Best Director prizes.

In the end, American artist / director Julian Schnabel did win the best - director prize for «The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,» a film entirely in French.

He's coming off Emmy and Oscar nominations for his documentary Cartel Land, after winning Best Director prize at 2015 Sundance.

Refn debuted his last two features, «Only God Forgives» and «Drive,» in competition, winning the director prize for the latter.

Mario Monicelli has also won the Berlin Festival Best Director prizes for 1957's Fathers and Sons, 1976's Caro Michele, and 1982's Il Marchise del Grillo.

Sofia Coppola won the best director prize for her Southern Gothic adaptation «The Beguiled,» becoming the second woman to win that award in the festival's 70 - year history, and the first since Yuliya Solntseva won in 1961.

Three days after «Transparent» put Amazon on the Emmy map with five wins, including a Best Director prize for creator Jill Soloway and a Best Actor award for Jeffrey Tambor, the streaming site (and everything store) has announced its next six pilots.

Paweł Pawlikowski was awarded the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018 for his work on Cold War.

Guillermo del Toro won the director prize for his fantastical love story «The Shape of Water,» which went into the evening with 12 nominations but took home just three awards.

Alfonso Cuarón won the Best Director prize for his groundbreaking work on the space survival thriller «Gravity»; Spike Jonze's «Her» won the Best Screenplay prize for its near - future tale of a romance between a man and a computer operating system.

The latter film — «which no one wanted to finance,» adds Milos — also won a Best Picture Oscar and another Best Director prize for Milos.

Director Bennett Miller («Capote» and «Moneyball») won the Best Director prize for «Foxcatcher» at the Cannes Film Fest.

McQueen gave a shout - out to John Cassavetes as a formative influence when he accepted the director prize, and during his feature acceptance speech offered praise to the film's two nominated actors who didn't come away victorious.

The film's Steve McQueen won the director prize, Lupita Nyong» o won for supporting female and Sean Bobbitt landed cinematography honors.

Things go from tense to deadly in this spare and thoughtful drama, for which Bennett Miller took home the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Fest.

After taking home the best director prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and featuring in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Martha Marcy Marlene comes complete with the plethora of expectations such success inevitably brings.

Martha Marcy May Marlene After taking home the best director prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and featuring in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Martha Marcy Marlene

It is fantastically depressing that Gerwig did not get a director nomination for her tremendous coming - of - age comedy and that the best director prize has that all - male line - up, just like the Globes.

Petrova's Godless proved a surprise winner of the festival's top prize, the Pardo d'oro / Golden Leopard, because it is her debut feature that found her in competition with more experienced and established art cinema directors like Romanian Radu Jude (winner of the Special Jury Prize for Inimi cicatrizate / Scarred Hearts) and Portuguese Joao Pedro Rodrigues (winner of the best director prize for O Ornitólogo / The Ornithologist).

While The Witch deservedly nabbed the festival's Best Director prize, the case could be made that it still got shortchanged.

But Get Out, which won Best Original Screenplay, was a constant threat to Best Picture, while Dunkirk and Lady Bird could not be ruled out for either that or the Best Director prize.