The US Dramatic
Directing Award went to «Fishing Without Nets» helmer, Cutter Hodierne, and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award was presented to «The Skelton Twins» scribes, Mark Heyman and Craig Johnson.
Enter 2049 and whilst nearly all had concerns that it was just going to sully the original, I went in with no such concerns and came out feeling that it had taken the themes of the original and improved on them in almost every single way — and anyone who can get such a superb performance out of Harrison Ford after his utterly cringe - worthy «trad - dad» turn in the awful The Force Awakens needs to win
every directing award going!
Not exact matches
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goes with this photo: Oscar winners (from left) Christian Bale (Best Actor In A Supporting Role, «The Fighter»), Natalie Portman (Actress In A Leading Role, «Black Swan»), Melissa Leo (Actress In A Supporting Role, «The Fighter»), Colin Firth (Actor In A Leading Role, «The King's Speech») and Kurt Busch (Best
Directing, Cinematography, Costume Design and Short - Subject Documentary, «A Positive Step For Me»), celebrate backstage following the Academy
Awards, which honor achievement in filmmaking.
I recently heard about the Bakken Invitation Program, in which 10 honorees who have been given another chance at life after overcoming a medical challenge and have
gone on to give back to their community are
awarded a $ 20,000 grant to
direct to a charity of their choice.
Several conclusions now can be drawn: (1) research grants are used to pay for indirect expenses by all science faculty researching in a laboratory, (2) many scholarly investigations by faculty not needing to work in a research laboratory have their indirect expenses paid by some internal budget at the same institutions, (3) research grant
awards for indirect expenses at some institutions exceed the amount given for
direct expenses, and, (4)
direct experience with paying for indirect expenses leads many Principal Investigators to have questions and suspicions that some type of hidden purpose or scam might be
going on with the current system for using research grant funds to pay for indirect expenses.
The slicked - back hair
directs attention to the whole golden goddess makeup vibe she had
going at the 2015 MTV Video Music
Awards.
This project was
directed by Cayman Grant and
went on to win several Festival
awards.
Academy
Award - winning director will officially take over
directing duties for the remainder of the film's shooting schedule — there's nearly a month of principal photography to
go in addition to five weeks of pre-scheduled reshoots.
BlackBerry People's Choice Midnight Madness
Award: Seven Psychopaths
directed by Martin McDonagh [TIFF] A screenwriter (Colin Farrell) struggling to write a serial - killer script gets more real - life inspiration than he can handle when a dognapping scheme
gone awry brings a galaxy of crazies to his doorstep.
The Fortnight's Europa Cinema Labels
Award went to «A Ciambra,» a migrant drama
directed by the U.S. - born, Italy - based filmmaker Jonas Carpignano and produced by Martin Scorsese, underscoring the strong contingent of festival films addressing themes of immigration and the refugee crisis.
Overlap between the DGA and the
directing branch of the Academy is particularly strong; last year's top feature film prize
went to eventual Academy
Award winner Damien Chazelle for «La La Land.»
The filmmaking duo, who
go by the moniker Daniels, won the
Directing Award at the 2016 Sundance...
The Audience
Award: Documentary was presented to Blood Brother,
directed by Steve Hoover — Rocky
went to India as a disillusioned tourist.
Fairest of them all were Redford and Warren Beatty, each of whom
went on to produce,
direct and (sometimes) write their own movies — and get Academy
Awards for doing it: Beatty for Reds in 1981 and Redford for Ordinary People (80).
BEST PICTURE: «Birdman» ROBERT ALTMAN
AWARD FOR BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN
DIRECTING: Richard Linklater — «Boyhood» BEST ACTOR: Michael Keaton — «Birdman» BEST ACTRESS: Rosamund Pike — «
Gone Girl» BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Edward Norton — «Birdman» BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Patricia Arquette — «Boyhood» ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicholas Glocobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo — «Birdman» ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Gillian Robespierre — «Obvious Child» BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: «The Lego Movie» BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: «CitizenFour» BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: «Ida» (Poland) VINCE KOEHLER
AWARD FOR BEST SCI - FI, FANTASY or HORROR FILM: «The Babadook»
Coogler then
went on to attend the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, where he
directed short films that received critical acclaim, including the Jack Nicholson
Award for Achievement in
Directing.
Although The Boxtrolls lead the nomination tally
going into the
awards, How to Train Your Dragon 2 won six awards at the 42nd ANNIE Awards this weekend, including Directing, Editing, Music, Storyboarding, Character Animation in an Animated Feature as well as the big one itself, Best Animated Fe
awards, How to Train Your Dragon 2 won six
awards at the 42nd ANNIE Awards this weekend, including Directing, Editing, Music, Storyboarding, Character Animation in an Animated Feature as well as the big one itself, Best Animated Fe
awards at the 42nd ANNIE
Awards this weekend, including Directing, Editing, Music, Storyboarding, Character Animation in an Animated Feature as well as the big one itself, Best Animated Fe
Awards this weekend, including
Directing, Editing, Music, Storyboarding, Character Animation in an Animated Feature as well as the big one itself, Best Animated Feature.
Best Feature Winner: «Moonrise Kingdom» «Bernie» «The Loneliest Planet» «The Master» «Middle Of Nowhere» Best Documentary Winner: «How To Survive A Plague» «Detropia» «Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present» «Room 237» «The Waiting Room» Best Ensemble Performance Winner: «Your Sister's Sister» «Bernie» «Moonrise Kingdom» «Safety Not Guaranteed» «Silver Linings Playbook» Breakthrough Actor Winner: Emayatzy Corinealdi («Middle Of Nowhere») Mike Birbiglia («Sleepwalk With Me») Thure Lindhardt («Keep The Lights On») Melanie Lynskey («Hello, I Must Be
Going») Quvenzhané Wallis («Beasts Of The Southern Wild») Breakthrough Director Winner: Benh Zeitlin («Beasts Of The Southern Wild») Zal Batmanglij («Sound Of My Voice») Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky («Francine») Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin («Now, Forager») Antonio Méndez Esparza («Aquí y Allá») Calvin Klein Female Filmmaker
Award Stacie Passon («Concussion») Bingham Ray
Award Benh Zeitlin («Beasts Of The Southern Wild») Best Film Not Playing At A Theater Near You «An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty» (written and
directed by Terence Nance) Gotham Independent Film Audience
Award «Artifact»
Generally, it's not very easy to tell what the overall theme of an Emmy
Awards ceremony is
going to be until after Game Of Thrones or Modern Family start pulling in every
award, but a specific theme started to take shape early on that then turned into a rallying cry when Transparent's Jill Soloway won a
directing Emmy...
A suspenseful adventure thriller
directed by Academy
Award winner Kevin Macdonald, centering on a rogue submarine captain (two - time Academy
Award nominee Jude Law) who pulls together a misfit crew to
go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea.
Reason: With his film Smashed opening last fall with a commendable performance from Winstead, it is certainly curious to see where the acting /
directing duo will
go next, especially with the presence of Woodley, who hasn't been seen on the silver screen since her
award winning turn in The Descendants.
Acting
awards go to Gary Oldman, Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney; Guillermo del Toro wins
directing prize
The Best Achievement
award goes to Anna Biller who wrote,
directed, produced, set designed and made every single costume and created every single prop herself, over 7 years.
She
went on to win the Academy
Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for her adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility,
directed by Ang Lee.
[5 stars] Get Out (03.07 / 02.24 / 03.17) Downsizing (10.13 / 12.22 / 01.19.18) The Florida Project (10.12 / 10.06 / 11.10) Colossal (04.18 / 04.07 / 05.19) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (10.15 / 11.10 / 01.12.18) The Girl with All the Gifts (07.26.16 / 02.24 / 09.23.16) A Ghost Story (08.08 / 07.07 / 08.11) Brigsby Bear (09.22 / 07.28 / 12.08) It Comes at Night (07.07 / 06.09 / 07.07) City of Ghosts (07.17 / 07.07 / 07.21) Paddington 2 (10.29 / 01.12.18 / 11.10) Human Flow (11.27 / 10.13 / 12.08) Kedi (01.03.18 / 02.10 / 06.30) The Shape of Water (10.10 / 12.08 / 02.16.18) First They Killed My Father (09.23 / 09.15 / 09.15) The Lego Batman Movie (02.04 / 02.10 / 02.10) Logan (02.17 / 03.03 / 03.01) War for the Planet of the Apes (06.21 / 07.14 / 07.11) Their Finest (10.13.16 / 04.07 / 04.21) Lady Macbeth (10.13.16 / 07.14 / 04.28) Dunkirk (07.17 / 07.21 / 07.21) Lost in Paris (Paris pieds nus)(06.16 / 06.16 / 11.24) Ingrid
Goes West (08.28 / 08.11 / 11.17) The Death of Stalin (10.02 / 03.09.18 / 10.20) Call Me by Your Name (10.09 / 11.24 / 10.27) A United Kingdom (10.05.16 / 02.10 / 11.25.16) The Red Turtle (09.22.16 / 01.20 / TBA) Prevenge (10.12.16 / 03.24 / 02.10) La Soledad (08.16 /
direct to VOD / 08.18) Last Flag Flying (10.07 / 11.03 / TBA) All This Panic (09.28.16 / 03.31 / 03.24) Letters from Baghdad (04.20 / 06.02 / 04.21) Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts (89th Academy
Awards)(02.06 / 02.08 /
direct to VOD)
Co - writers / co-directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (who wrote The Hangover and its sequels, and wrote /
directed 21 and Over) are not
going to win any
awards for their filmmaking aesthetic — derivative of every other flashy action, comedy, or action - comedy out there these days — but they know a good thing when they see it, and that good thing is their cast (and, let's be fair, much of their script).
He made his directorial debut in 2004 with Garden State and most recently
directed a remake of the 1979 Martin Brest caper comedy
Going in Style, starring Academy
Award winners Alan Arkin, Michael Caine, and Morgan Freeman.
Finally, the Audience
Award went to I Declare War (a film I found quite charming), the well -
directed and funny Flicker won the «New Wave» Spotlight competition, The American Scream won Best Documentary, and New Kids Nitro won Best Comedy.
The feature
directed by Tony
Award - winning producer Seth Greenleaf (Groundhog Day, The Play That
Goes Wrong), follows a group of competitive gay athletes on their journey to the National Gay Flag Football Championships.
It's a testament to The Howling «s quality that the main creative team behind it
went on to even bigger accomplishments later in their careers — Joe Dante
directed the hugely - successful Gremlins for Steven Spielberg, Sayles became a highly respected independent filmmaker and Oscar - nominated screenwriter, and Bottin would be nominated for an Academy
Award six years later for his work on Legend, before being
awarded a Special Achievement Oscar in 1991 for his spectacular makeup effects on Paul Verhoeven's Total Recall.
The first
award of the night, perhaps fittingly,
went to one of Hollywood's most powerful women: Nicole Kidman, for her performance in HBO's The Big Little Lies,
directed by Canadian Jean - Marc Vallée and a series she and co-star Reese Witherspoon also produced.
The director Patricia Cardoso — who's best known for her 2002 film Real Women Have Curves (which won a Sundance Audience
Award)-- recalls how she was passed over to
direct seven different feature films, and each time, the job
went instead to a white male director.
The Russo brothers won an Emmy
Award for their work on Arrested Development «s 2003 pilot, and
went on to
direct a combined 13 more episodes of the comedy.
Pontiac, MI., July 25, 2011 — Walt Disney Pictures» fantastical adventure «Oz The Great and Powerful,»
directed by Sam Raimi,
went in front of the cameras at the brand - new Raleigh Studios in Pontiac, Michigan, on Monday, July 25, 2011, boasting a stellar cast that includes Academy
Award ® nominee James Franco («127 Hours») as the young wizard, Golden Globe ® nominee Mila Kunis («Black Swan») as the witch Theodora, Academy
Award ® winner Rachel Weisz («The Constant Gardener») as Kunis» sister Evanora and two - time Oscar ® - nominated actress Michelle Williams («Brokeback Mountain,» «Blue Valentine») as Glinda, the Good Witch.
A little further back, actress Jodie Foster, who was nominated at 14 for «Taxi Driver,» has
gone on to win two Academy
awards for Best Actress and transitioned into
directing.
In the television categories, the
award for MOV / miniseries
went to Lisa Cholodenko for HBO's two - part drama «Olive Kitteridge,» while Jill Soloway won the comedy series honors for
directing an episode of «Transparent».
He and his brother Jay also wrote and
directed the 2005 Sundance breakout hit The Puffy Chair, which
went on to win the Audience
Award at SXSW 2005 and was nominated for two Independent Spirit
Awards.
Meanwhile the Narrative Spotlight
award went to «Mr. Roosevelt,» written, directed by, and starring Noël Wells, a film that also won the fest's Lewis Black «Lone Star» A
award went to «Mr. Roosevelt,» written,
directed by, and starring Noël Wells, a film that also won the fest's Lewis Black «Lone Star»
AwardAward.
Bruce Corwin
Award for Best Animation Short Film
went to «This Way Up,»
directed by Adam Foulkes and Alan Smith.
The First Feature
Award went to «Neither Heaven nor Earth,» co-written and
directed by Clément Cogitore.
Former television director Zwick, who would
go on to make Academy
Award nominated epics like Glory and The Last Samurai,
directs his first feature film with this one, and the result is uneven for the most part, but when it works, it works well.
The Panavision Spirit
Award for Independent Cinema, given to a unique independent feature that has been made outside mainstream Hollywood,
went to «Poppy Shakespeare,»
directed by Benjamin Ross, and starring Naomie Harris and Anna Maxwell Martin.
If this teaser trailer for the new Lenny Abrahamson -
directed drama is anything to
go by, Brie Larson has just launched herself into the
awards season race.
That something became the screenplay of «Away We
Go,» a romantic comedy
directed by Academy
Award winner Sam Mendes («American Beauty,» «Revolutionary Road»), which opens June 12.
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.
Besides Amy Adams and Quentin Tarantino, the Hollywood Ensemble
Award will be
going to the cast of «Argo», the Hollywood
Directing Award will be
going to David O. Russell for «The Silver Linings Playbook», the Hollywood Actress
Award will be
going to Marion Cotillard for «Rust and Bone», and Robert De Niro will be receiving the Hollywood Supporting Actor
Award for «The Silver Linings Playbook».
The Best International Film
Award goes to «A Woman in Berlin» (Eine Frau in Berlin),
directed by Max Färberböck.
Best Documentary Film
Award went to «Yes Madam, Sir,»
directed by Megan Doneman.
Bruce Corwin
Award for Best Live Action Short Film Under 30 Minutes
went to «Love You More,»
directed by Sam Taylor - Wood, produced by the late Anthony Minghella, the film stars Harry Treadaway and Andrea Riseborough as two teenagers who are drawn together by the Buzzcocks» single «Love You More» in the summer of 1978.
Award - winning writer / director John Butler (RTE's award winning sketch show Your Bad Self, debut novel The Tenderloin) makes his feature directing debut with this hilarious and touching comedy about male friendship — developed and co-written with actor / writer Peter McDonald (I Went Down, When Brendan Met Trudy), and produced by Rebecca O'Flanagan and Rob Walpole (The Good
Award - winning writer / director John Butler (RTE's
award winning sketch show Your Bad Self, debut novel The Tenderloin) makes his feature directing debut with this hilarious and touching comedy about male friendship — developed and co-written with actor / writer Peter McDonald (I Went Down, When Brendan Met Trudy), and produced by Rebecca O'Flanagan and Rob Walpole (The Good
award winning sketch show Your Bad Self, debut novel The Tenderloin) makes his feature
directing debut with this hilarious and touching comedy about male friendship — developed and co-written with actor / writer Peter McDonald (I
Went Down, When Brendan Met Trudy), and produced by Rebecca O'Flanagan and Rob Walpole (The Good Man).