- Best Action Game: Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus - Best Art Direction: Cuphead, well deserved - Soulcalibur VI announced -
Best Debut Indie: Cuphead - THQ Nordic's Fade to Silence is announced.
Arcade attendees can also learn more about nominees of The Game Awards» first fan - choice award for independent game developers, «
Best Debut Indie Game — Presented by Schick Hydro» while at the arcade.
Studio MDHR's Cuphead was released to quite a bit of fanfare earlier this Fall, and the side - scrolling shooter delivered at the Game Awards with wins for «Best Art Direction» (thanks to its beautiful 1930s - inspired animation) «Best Independent Game,» and the fan - voted «
Best Debut Indie Game.»
Best Debut Indie Game (Presented by Schick Hydro) Recognizing a new independent studio that released its first game in 2017.
Best Debut Indie Game presented by Schick Hydro Cuphead (Studio MDHR Entertainment) Golf Story (Sidebar Games) Hollow Knight (Team Cherry) Mr. Shifty (Team Shifty) Slime Rancher (Monomi Park)
Not exact matches
Last year brought us a trove of high - profile American
indie directors: Whit Stillman, Todd Solondz, Ira Sachs and Kenneth Lonergan, the latter who
debuted his Manchester by the Sea (which topped our list of the
best movies of 2016).
Today's
Indie news: BitSummit Volume 6, War of Genesis 2 announced for the Nintendo Switch, Mercenaries Saga Chronicles also announced for the Nintendo Switch, Atooi bringing 3 games to the Nintendo Switch in 2018,
good debut for Enter the Gungeon on Nintendo Switch, and New Year picture from the developers of The Unlikely Legend of Rusty Pup!
Two
well - known modern musicians — one an
indie - rocker, the other a now - seminal hip - hop artist — are plying their trades to some new films making their
debut in Utah later this January.
Ana Lily Amirpour made a huge impression on the
indie world a couple years ago with her directorial
debut of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, even landing on our list of the
Best Foreign Films of 2014.
The Dallas - based filmmaker has been one of the
best - kept secrets of the
indie world thanks to his microbudgeted feature
debut «St. Nick» in 2009, and short follow - up «Pioneer» in 2011 (starring Will Oldham), and he developed «Saints» through the Sundance Labs, before WME helped bring it to the attention of Mara and Affleck, whose presence helped him to raise the $ 6 million budget.
Her Oscar win for
Best Actress feels slightly like an acknowledgment of over fifteen impressive years in the business, from her childhood
debut in The Professional to respectable
indie and studio turns to being the rare performer to sustain a career following Star Wars.
«I only wish to live up to my father's example...» An official US trailer has
debuted for an
indie coming - of - age comedy titled The Tiger Hunter, starring young actor Danny Pudi
best known from «Community».
The
indie comedy topped the specialty box office opening weekend earning over $ 61k in two theaters, making it the year's fourth
best Specialty
debut.
Since that auspicious
debut, he has continued to collaborate with Anderson on «The Darjeeling Limited» (which the pair wrote with Roman Coppola); the short film «Hotel Chevalier»; his animated feature, «Fantastic Mr. Fox» (for which he contributed his vocal talents); «Moonrise Kingdom» (part of Anderson's stellar ensemble cast of Murray, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton and Frances McDormand), which set a new record at the specialty box office over Memorial Day weekend for
best limited
indie debut of all time, and, the Academy Award nominated film, «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» whose eclectic cast brought back thespians Murray, Norton and Swinton, along with Willem Dafoe, Soirsae Ronin, Ralph Finnes, Jude Law, Jeff Goldblum, Owen Wilson and Adrian Brody.
Freestyle Digital Media has released an official trailer for an
indie psychological thriller titled A
Good Dream, the feature directorial
debut of filmmaker Mahum Jamal, which premiered at a few smaller film festivals last year.
Nichols» directorial follow - up to
Indie Spirit - winning Mud, the Cannes - winning Take Shelter and Shotgun Stories, Midnight Special is also one of the year's
best Specialty
debuts, grossing $ 185K in five theaters, averaging $ 37K.
Since his 2007
debut with Shotgun Stories, starring Michael Shannon, Jeff Nichols from Little Rock, Arkansas, still only 38, has made a whole series of stunningly
good indie films set in the American South.
An American
indie darling who made his
debut with the wonderful Kicking and Screaming in 1995 and finally struck gold again with The Squid and the Whale in 2005, he's been
best - known recently for his collaborations with the actress and writer Greta Gerwig, who starred in and co-wrote Frances Ha (2012) and Mistress America (2015).
Highly anticipated, regionally at least, the
debut feature from Matt McCormick, Some Days Are
Better Than Others, is sure to get a warm welcome, aided by credible acting performances from notorious musicians in the
indie sector.
Hunting Lands is directed by American
indie filmmaker Zack Wilcox, making his feature directorial
debut after extensive experience as a gaffer, grip,
best boy, and lighting technician on films over many years.
Spike Jonze
Indie Work: Jonze was one of the
best - loved music video directors of the 1990s who, after a brief flirtation with a big - budget debut for Sony in the shape of an adaptation of «Harold And The Purple Crayon,» arrived in features with the staggeringly imaginative «Being John Malkovich» in 1999, which earned him a Best Director Oscar nominat
best - loved music video directors of the 1990s who, after a brief flirtation with a big - budget
debut for Sony in the shape of an adaptation of «Harold And The Purple Crayon,» arrived in features with the staggeringly imaginative «Being John Malkovich» in 1999, which earned him a
Best Director Oscar nominat
Best Director Oscar nomination.
Brie Larson, who this year won
Best Actress for her role in «Room», will make her directorial
debut on the
indie comedy «Unicorn Store».
This wouldn't be surprising for a
debut indie or foreign language import, but the film is written and directed by
well - known...
Hidden Shadows is a Winner in the Fiction category of the 2016 NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement award; Winner 2016 Global Ebook Awards, Popular Literature Fiction; Short - Listed for the Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize; finalist for the Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award; Honorable Mention, General Fiction, Eric Hoffer Award; Finalist, da Vinci Eye Award; Finalist,
Debut category: WFWA (Women's Fiction Writers Association) Star Award Contest; Finalist, Literary Fiction, NIEA (National
Indie Excellence Awards); Finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion Award in the Western Romance category; Finalist in the NERFA contest (National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards), sponsored by First Coast Romance Writers, for «Novel with Romantic Elements;» Finalist in the Long Contemporary category for the Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Contest (Heart of Denver Romance Writers) and Top Ten finisher,
Best Other Novel, Predators & Editors Readers» Poll 2015 as
well as other awards and accolades.
You can also go cruise on Google for other «
best of 2015» fiction lists, such as those from or by Small Presses, Independent Publishers, more
Indie / Self - Pubbed authors,
Debuts, Flash Fiction, and on and on.
Even formerly traditionally published authors like US President Ronald Reagan's daughter Patti Davis have told
Good e-Reader that doors closed to them once their self - published titles came along, specifically in review and interview opportunities; Davis even recounted how she appeared on NPR to promote one title, but when she reached out to that same program about her
debut indie title, she was told there was a policy in place against self - published works.
Selena's award - winning Powerplay series was called «a superb mix of sexual and political tension» by Publisher's Weekly, and her
debut indie romance, Hidden, won the Reader's Crown award for
best contemporary romance.
Dietland By Sarai Walker Mariner • $ 14.95 • ISBN 9780544704831 Walker's daring
debut novel, an
Indie Next pick which came in at # 26 on our
Best Books of 2015 ranking, features a 300 - pound heroine who takes a revolutionary approach to beauty and weight loss.
This time, when comparing only the earnings of «New» authors who
debuted after 2010, we see that below a tiny handful of mega-selling Big - 5
debuts (like Veronica Roth), far more «New»
indie authors are making a
good living from their Kindle e-books than their «New» Big - 5 peers.
Indie Speculative Fiction of the Month is a round - up of speculative fiction by indie authors newly published this month, though for the debut edition some December books snuck in as
Indie Speculative Fiction of the Month is a round - up of speculative fiction by
indie authors newly published this month, though for the debut edition some December books snuck in as
indie authors newly published this month, though for the
debut edition some December books snuck in as
well.
Darnielle, who is probably
best known in pop culture as the prime mover behind the celebrated lo - fi
indie band The Mountain Goats, was also nominated for the National Book Award with his NY Times bestselling
debut novel, Wolf in White Van.
It's been a
good summer for
debuts, as we've noted before, and it continues with the final
Indie Hardcover Fiction
Best Seller list of the season.
Her
debut novel, «Blue Hydrangeas,» an Alzheimer's love story, is a Kindle bestseller, IndieReader Approved, a Reader's Favorite, and winner of IndieReCon's
Best Indie Novel Award.
I don't have a lot of experience in this arena being a
debut author, but I do know some local bookstores are open to
indie authors holding signings at their locations, and usually the author does a reading from the book as
well.
Debuting on the
Indie Fiction
Best Seller list at # 10 is The Expats by Chris Pavone (it is also lands at # 47 on the USA Today list; you can expect it to appear on the upcoming NYT list).
DAMAGED is a # 1 Amazon, B&N, and Kobo bestseller, as
well as the # 1 bestselling
Indie book in paperback for the year it
debuted.
But if you hit a brick wall or don't sell
well enough in your
debut, even though people unrelated to you are quick to say your stuff is
good,
indie publishing is the other way to start finding your readers.
BookBrowse's 12
Best Books for Book Clubs in 2017 Amazon UK Rising Star of 2016 Booklist Top Ten
Debut Novels in 2016 (audiobook)
Indie Next Pick
I work with both
indie and traditionally published authors, both NYT and USA Today
best sellers as
well as
debut authors, and provide a full editing team while providing the convenience of a single point of contact.
Many new films have their Central American
debut at this event, and you will come across blockbuster hits as
well as
indie documentaries made by Belize residents.
The games hold up
well from a gameplay perspective decades after their original release, especially since so many
indie games feature the same 8 - bit style graphics that the Mega Man games
debuted with.
Winner in
Best Game Design at the Brazilian Independent Games Festival and named
Best Indie in Google Play's
Best of 2017, the game
debuted on Hatch Beta in December and has been lighting up the content flow ever since.
Today's
Indie news: BitSummit Volume 6, War of Genesis 2 announced for the Nintendo Switch, Mercenaries Saga Chronicles also announced for the Nintendo Switch, Atooi bringing 3 games to the Nintendo Switch in 2018,
good debut for Enter the Gungeon on Nintendo Switch, and New Year picture from the developers of The Unlikely Legend of Rusty Pup!
After expanding to a team of nine, Sand Sailor Studio
debuted Black The Fall at Gamescom 2016, where it racked up nominations for
Best Narrative,
Best Art, and
Best Indie Game.
We'll hear a lot of
indie talk as
well, especially with big title games like Elite: Dangerous making its console
debut on the Xbox.
«The
Best Debut Award went to
indie firm Stoic Studio, founded by former BioWare developers, which developed the notable The Banner Saga, an epic Viking - themed tactical role - playing game.»
Yacht Club Games»
debut title Shovel Knight was simply one of the
best indie games of 2014 — in retrospect, it might be one of my favorite
indie - developed games to date.
And what a
debut it has had, winning awards from Sundance and South by Southwest and making «
best of» lists such as Rotten Tomatoes,
Indie Wire, Crave Online, and Slash Film.
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