Sentences with phrase «best director awards»

Traveling the main festival circuit from the Berlinale to Sundance, they have garnered several Best Director awards, the 2005 ZKM International Media Award, a Spirit Award and the 2009 Black Pearl Award at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.

It premiered at Sundance and Berlin, and traveled the international film festival circuit, winning several Best Director awards, the Black Pearl Award in Abu Dhabi, and the New Media Grand Prize in LA.

(Del Toro has been picking up Best Director awards and is up for the Best Director Oscar as well.)

So far, he's only received two Best Director Awards and the other was fittingly received when he tackled the battlefields of that very same war in «Saving Private Ryan ``.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this is the most deserving of both the Best Picture and Best Director awards.

He may have snapped up this year's Best Picture and Best Director awards for Birdman, but Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu still has to prove to a lot of people that he's not a worthy windbag who loves the sound of his own voice.

«Elephant» (Fine Line Features / HBO) The only Cannes entry to win both Palme d'Or and best director awards, Gus Van Sant's «Elephant» follows a day in the life of 10 normal American high school students, which eventually leads to inexplicable tragedy.

Days of Heaven, which brought Malick the best director award at Cannes in 1979 and is arguably his finest film, is being reissued in a new print that does justice to Néstor Almendros's magnificent cinematography drawing on the paintings of Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, Edward Hopper and (in one scene of a religious ceremony in wheat fields) Jean - François Millet.

Quentin Tarantino is my choice for the best director award winner at this year's Oscars.

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.

He makes good movies and he makes popular movies, and sometimes he makes both at the same time, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has never awarded its best director award to the most successful director in history.

The racism - tackling satire, starring Londoner Daniel Kaluuya, also earned Jordan Peele the best director award at the ceremony held in a tent on the Santa Monica beach on Saturday, a day ahead of the Academy Awards.

Of lesser quality but still to be recommended are Personal Shopper, which won Olivier Assayas the Best Director Award at Cannes, and Death in Sarajevo by Danis Tanović.

Rumored to be more commercial than «Elephant,» the drama that won Van Sant the Palme d'Or and Best Director award at Cannes in 2003, «The Sea of Trees» — which boasts a Black List script by «Buried» scribe Chris Sparling — centers on a suicidal American (McConaughey), who travels to the «suicide forest» at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan with the intention to kill himself.

«The greatest thing that art does, and that our industry does, is erase the lines in the sand,» said del Toro, accepting the best director award.

Thanks to the vagaries of film distribution and the increasing difficulties of small films and foreign language productions to get theatrical releases, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Turkish drama, which won the Best Director award at Cannes 2008, this one - week Seattle engagement at the Varsity Theatre is the film's American theatrical debut.

Well, the Golden Globes have come and gone again - leaving Ben Affleck with the best director award for his film Argo, which also won best drama.

MIFF closed with Danish director Nicholas Winding Refn's Drive (2011), which received the Best Director award at Cannes.

Neshat won the Best Director Award at the Venice Film Festival and it's easy to see why.

It's no wonder that the filmmaker won Berlinale's best director award, with his ninth feature a feat of all - round artistry in each elaborate, detailed, textured frame.

Nanette Burstein is an acclaimed filmmaker whose work has won her several awards, including an Academy Award nomination for her documentary «On The Ropes,» two Emmy awards for «NY77,» and a Sundance Best Director award for «American Teen.»

Yesterday in Hall H at the San Diego Comic Con, the new company FilmDistrict presented a panel featuring two films: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and Drive, the latter being the sort - of action movie that won Nicolas Winding Refn the Best Director award at Cannes this year.

Can a third Best Director award be in the cards for this great American filmmaker?

Both films won multiple Oscars, including «Best Picture, Coppola picked up a Best Director award for Part II.

The Los Angeles film critics also gave Guadagnino the Best Director award for Call Me By Your Name in a tie, with the other winner being Guillermo Del Toro for The Shape Of Water.

The jury awarded the best director award to Mathieu Amalric for «Tournee» («On Tour»), the story of a failed TV producer touring France with a troupe of American burlesque performers not in the first bloom of youth.

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.

In 1991, they won the prestigious Palme d'Or for «Barton Fink» whilst five years later, they collected the Best Director award for «Fargo».

In 2007, the Coens received the TFCA's Best Director award for their film «No Country for Old Men», which also won Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay.

His follow up, «Stone of Destiny,» was equally acclaimed, earning Mr. Smith the Best Director award at the Palm Beach International Film Festival as well as a BAFTA Scotland Award nomination.

Nicolas Winding Refn) Cast: Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott - Thomas, Tom Burke, Sahajak Boonthanakit Nicolas Winding Refn made his debut at Cannes two years ago with «Drive» and came away with a Best Director Award trophy for his trouble.

Only the lauded sci - fi juggernaut «Gravity» dented its momentum, snatching the coveted Best Director award for Alfonso Cuaron, as well as two sought - after technical wins for Best Cinematography and Best Editing.

Tomorrow's Indie Spirits could be a telling precursor, but without a doubt, it will be Linklater who takes home the Best Director award.

Director Ridley Scott, winner of the Best Director award for «The Martian,» speaks onstage at AARP's 15th Annual Movies For Grownups Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on February 8, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California.

Winner of the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Hou Hsiao - hsien's («Flight of the Red Balloon») first film in eight years, The Assassin (Nie yin niang), may initially seem out of character for a director whose previous work has been in realistic social dramas set in a contemporary historical context.

The new film from writer / director Paweł Pawlikowski, winner of the Best Director award at Cannes 2018

In 1997, Happy Together premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where it garnered a Best Director Award for Wong.

at the Golden Globes, and closing the pre-Oscar glut with back to back wins at the DGAs and BAFTAs, seeming to signal that not only would Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu cruise to a second straight Best Director award, but his film would give him a second straight Best Picture statue as well.

Mike Leigh is a true Cannes veteran, having been a part of the main competition five times already, and winning twice (the Best Director Award in 1993 for Naked, and the Palme d'Or in 1996 for Secrets & Lies).

The Revenant won its awards first and last, opening the season with a win over Spotlight at the Golden Globes, and closing the pre-Oscar glut with back to back wins at the DGAs and BAFTAs, seeming to signal that not only would Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu cruise to a second straight Best Director award, but his film would give him a second straight Best Picture statue as well.

Bursting onto the scene at the Cannes Film Festival where it was greeted with a 15 - minute standing ovation (and the Best Director Award for Refn), the film — which co-stars Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman and Albert Brooks — has since went on to rack up the accolades and just manages to pip Attack the Block as our favourite film of the year by the narrowest of margins.

Victory: Pawel Pawlikowski couldn't hide his delight after scooping the best Director award for his film Cold War

He won the best director award in 2003 for his film The Pianist.

Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas picked up the coveted best director award for Post Tenebras Lux, an experimental drama about a couple on a high - end sex holiday, whose children experience strange dreams.

So it was a pleasure to see Ang Lee taking home the Best Director award at the 2006 ceremony for «Brokeback Mountain» — a wonderful film that proved to be a breakthrough in other areas as well, but that's another story.

The nominees were announced by Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, actor Chris Pine and directors Alfonso Cuaron (who took the best director award last year for Gravity) and JJ Abrams, whose Star Wars film is among the most anticipated movies of the year.

Composer Alexandre Desplat (R), winner of the Best Original Score award for «The Shape of Water,» motions in the press room to a video feed of director Guillermo del Toro accepting the Best Director award

Kathryn Bigelow today became the first woman in history to win the best director award at the Oscars.

Our Sunhi: Korean auteur Hong San - soo «s latest — earning him the best director award at the Locarno Film Festival — offers a quaint comedy of manners.

Guillermo Del Toro won the Best Director Award as well.