Sentences with phrase «cinema directing award»

Not exact matches

Gaspar Noé's Climax (detailed below) was the big winner at the Directors» Fortnight, taking home the Art Cinema Award, and Lucia's Grace, directed by Gianni Zanasi and starring Alba Rohrwacher as a single working mother struggling to find balance in her life, won the Europa Cinemas Label Award for the section's best European film.

The five actors nominated for the prestigious award, which honours the future stars of cinema, include Brits Jack O'Connell, who began his career in the E4 drama Skins in 2007 and this year took the lead role in the Angelina Jolie - directed feature Unbroken, and Gugu Mbatha - Raw, already an established name on stage and television, who was named best actress at this year's British Independent Film Awards for her portrayal of Dido Elizabeth Belle in the period drama Belle.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

True Detective's Cary Fukunaga directs British star in the first competition film to screen at this year's Venice film festival — and the first awards contender from Netflix's new cinema division

In the world cinema field, interesting to see Brit actor Paddy Considine scoring a directing award for his debut feature «Tyrannosaur,» a relationship study that also scored an acting prize for stars Peter Mullan and Olivia Colman (best known to Anglophiles for her wonderful work in the sitcom «Peep Show»).

WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC Grand Jury Prize: Slow West, John Maclean Directing Award: The Summer of Sangaile, Alanté Kavaïté Special Jury Award — Cinematography: Partisan, Germain McMicking Special Jury Award — Acting: Glassland, Jack Reynor Special Jury Award — Acting: The Second Mother, Regina Casé, Camila Márdila

The announcement includes details of the enterprise relaunching Universal's iconic characters into modern cinema, as well as confirmations of superstar cast and that Academy Award ® winner Bill Condon will direct Bride of Frankenstein.

Love Eternal, directed by Brendan Muldowney (Savage), has won the Dublin Film Critics Circle Best Irish Feature Award at the recent Jameson Dublin International Film, and will be released in Irish cinemas by Wildcard Distribution this summer.

Love Eternal, directed by Brendan Muldowney (Savage), recently won the Dublin Film Critics Circle Best Irish Feature Award at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, and will be released in Irish cinemas by Wildcard Distribution on July 4th.

The Directing Award: U.S. Documentary was presented to: Peter Nicks for his film The Force — This cinema verité look at the long - troubled Oakland Police Department goes deep inside their struggles to confront federal demands for reform, a popular uprising following events in Ferguson and an explosive scandal.

Wildcard Distribution have announced that Irish film Run & Jump, directed by Academy Award nominated Steph Green, will open in Irish cinemas on 2nd May.