Director: Robert Eggers Producers: Daniel Bekerman, Lars Knudsen, Jodi Redmond, Rodrigo Teixeira, Jay Van Hoy Premiere: 2015 Sundance Film Festival, U.S.
Dramatic Directing Award
Director: Eliza Hittman Producers: Brad Becker - Parton, Andrew Goldman, Drew P. Houpt, Paul Mezey Premiere: 2017 Sundance Film Festival, U.S.
Dramatic Directing Award
In 2011, feature filmmaking debutant Sean Durkin proved the toast of the festival, with Martha Marcy May Marlene missing out on the Grand Jury Prize to Like Crazy, but taking home the U.S.
dramatic directing award.
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.
This premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where Sean won
the Dramatic Directing Award.
Six Catalyst films made waves at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival: Beach Rats (U.S.
Dramatic Directing Award), Chasing Coral (U.S. Documentary Audience Award), The Force (U.S. Documentary Directing Award), Patti Cake $, Unrest (Special Jury Award for Editing) and Strong Island (Special Jury Award for Storytelling), which is also nominated for an Academy Award.
Four Catalyst projects premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, including The Hunting Ground, Cartel Land (U.S. Documentary Directing and Cinematography Awards), 3 1/2 Minutes and Ten Bullets (Special Jury Award for Social Impact) and The Witch (U.S.
Dramatic Directing Award).
She starred in The Witch, which won the U.S.
Dramatic Directing Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
Not exact matches
He also starred in and received a Golden Globe
Award nomination for HBO's
dramatic film about the Lindberg baby kidnapping, «Crime of the Century»
directed by Mark Rydell.
The indie movie (which won the
Directing Award in the U.S.
Dramatic Category at Sundance), has received universal acclaim from critics.
Academy
Award - winning director Danny Boyle, who is also a
Dramatic Need trustee,
directed the production.
The
Directing Award: U.S.
Dramatic was presented to: Sara Colangelo, for her film The Kindergarten Teacher (Director & Screenwriter: Sara Colangelo, Producers: Talia Kleinhendler, Osnat Handelsman - Keren, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Celine Rattray, Trudie Styler)-- When a Staten Island kindergarten teacher discovers what may be a gifted five year - old student in her class, she becomes fascinated and obsessed with the child — spiraling downward on a dangerous and desperate path in order to nurture his talent.
(via IndieWire) Grand Jury Prize,
Dramatic: Winter «Äôs Bone Waldo Salt Screenwriting
Award: Winter «Äôs Bone
Directing Award,
Dramatic: 3 Backyards
Dramatic Audience
Award: happythankyoumoreplease Grand Jury Prize,...
The
dramatic comedy was
directed by Tony
Award - winner Matthew Warchus («God of Carnage») from a screenplay by Stephen Beresford.
Winner of the
Directing Award Dramatic and Special Jury Prize for Vera Farmiga for Down to the Bone in (2004), and winner of the Grand Jury Prize
Dramatic and Waldo Salt Screenwriting
Award for Winter's Bone (2010), this originally had Casey Affleck in the lead, but Ben Foster might be a better casting bet for a survivalist protective father with a complicated past and will be a perfect spotlight to launch a new career for the young co-lead kiwi thesp Thomasin McKenzie.
At Sundance, writer - director Robert Eggers won the U.S.
Dramatic Competition
Directing Award for his debut feature about a Puritan family in 1630s New England who leave their community to start their own farm on the edge of a forest.
DreamWorks Pictures» / Fox 2000 Pictures» upcoming
dramatic thriller
directed by three - time Academy
Award ® - winning director Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List) and starring two - time Academy
Award winner Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump, Read More →
DreamWorks Pictures» / Fox 2000 Pictures» upcoming
dramatic thriller
directed by three - time Academy
Award ® - winning director Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List) and starring two - time Academy
Award winner Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump, Philadelphia), has been titled Bridge of Spies.
Her second feature, Beach Rats was selected for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and premiered in U.S.
Dramatic Competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, where she was given the
Directing Award.
The World Cinema Audience
Award:
Dramatic was presented to Kinyarwanda,
directed and written by Alrick Brown, which tells the story of Rwandans who crossed the lines of hatred during the 1994 genocide, turning mosques into places of refuge for Muslims and Christians, Hutus and Tutsis.
The World Cinema Audience
Award:
Dramatic was presented to Metro Manila, co-written and
directed by Sean Ellis — Seeking a better life, Oscar and his family move from the poverty - stricken rice fields to the big city of Manila, where they fall victim to various inhabitants whose manipulative ways are a daily part of city survival.
The
Directing Award:
Dramatic was presented to Martha Marcy May Marlene,
directed and written by Sean Durkin.
The Audience
Award:
Dramatic was presented to Circumstance,
directed and written by Maryam Keshavarz, in which a wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession.
The Excellence in Cinematography
Award:
Dramatic was presented to Pariah,
directed and written by Dee Rees; cinematographer: Bradford Young.
The World Cinema
Directing Award:
Dramatic was presented to Tyrannosaur,
directed and written by Paddy Considine.
A U.S.
Dramatic Special Jury
Award for Sound Design was presented to Shane Carruth and Johnny Marshall for Upstream Color, written &
directed by Shane Carruth.
The
Directing Award: U.S.
Dramatic was presented to Afternoon Delight, written and
directed by Jill Soloway — In this sexy, dark comedy, a lost L.A. housewife puts her idyllic life in jeopardy when she tries to rescue a stripper by taking her in as a live - in nanny.
The Cinematography
Award: U.S.
Dramatic was presented to Bradford Young for two films he was Director of Photography on: Ain't Them Bodies Saints,
directed by David Lowery, and Mother of George,
directed by Andrew Dosunmu.
«I don't know what to say,» whispered Beach Rats helmer Eliza Hittman when she took the stage to accept her U.S.
Dramatic Best
Directing Award on Saturday in Park City.
The jury at Sundance recognized this and Soloway took home the
Directing Award for the U.S.
Dramatic Competition.
Presents THE WITCH A film by Robert Eggers *** Winner —
Directing Award,
Dramatic — 2015 Sundance Film Festival *** THE WITCH will have its International Premiere at Read More →
Castelluccio played Channing Tatum's father in A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and received two
awards — one for best
dramatic directing and best
dramatic ensemble headed by Robert Downey Jr., Chazz Palminteri and Rosario Dawson.
The Audience
Award:
Dramatic was presented to The Surrogate, written and
directed by Ben Lewin, about: Mark O'Brien, a 36 - year - old poet and journalist in an iron lung, decides he no longer wishes to be a virgin.
The World Cinema
Directing Award:
Dramatic was presented to Teddy Bear (from Denmark),
directed by Mads Matthiesen — Dennis, a painfully shy 38 - year - old bodybuilder who lives with his mother, sets off to Thailand in search of love.
He was nominated for the Prime - time Emmy
Award for Outstanding
Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or
Dramatic Special; the Royal Television Society
Award for Breakout Performance Behind the Scenes; and, the BAFTA
Award for Best Direction for his work on Bleak House, which was the Best Drama Serial winner at the British Academy Television
Awards 2006.
The Excellence in Cinematography
Award: US
Dramatic was presented to Beasts of the Southern Wild,
directed by Benh Zeitlin, featuring cinematography by Ben Richardson.
The World Cinema Audience
Award:
Dramatic was presented to Valley of Saints, written and
directed by Musa Syeed, about: Gulzar plans to run away from the war and poverty surrounding his village in Kashmir with his best friend, but a beautiful young woman researching the dying lake leads him to contemplate a different future.
Grand Jury Prize (
Dramatic): «Like Crazy» Grand Jury Prize (Documentary): «How To Die In Oregon» World Cinema Jury Prize (
Dramatic): «Happy, Happy» World Cinema Jury Prize (Documentary): «Hell and Back Again» Audience
Award (
Dramatic): «Circumstance» Audience
Award (Documentary): «Buck» World Cinema Audience
Award (
Dramatic): «Kinyarwanda» World Cinema Audience
Award (Documentary): «Senna» The Best of NEXT Audience
Award: «to.get.her»
Directing Award (
Dramatic): Sean Durkin, «Martha Marcy May Marlene»
Directing Award (Documentary): Jon Foy, «Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles» World Cinema
Directing Award (
Dramatic): Paddy Considine, «Tyrannosaur» World Cinema
Directing Award (Documentary): James Marsh, «Project Nim» Waldo Salt Screenwriting
Award: «Another Happy Day» World Cinema Screenwriting
Award: «Restoration» Documentary Editing
Award: «If a Tree Falls» World Cinema Documentary Editing
Award: «The Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975» Cinematography
Award (
Dramatic): «Pariah» Cinematography
Award (Documentary): «The Redemption of General Butt Naked» World Cinema Cinematography
Award (
Dramatic): «All Your Dead Ones» World Cinema Cinematography
Award (Documentary): «Hell and Back Again» Special Jury Prize (Acting): Felicity Jones, «Like Crazy» Special Jury Prize (
Dramatic): «Another Earth» Special Jury Prize (Documentary): «Being Elmo» World Cinema Special Jury Prize (Documentary): «Position Among The Stars» World Cinema Special Jury Prize (
Dramatic): actors Olivia Colman and Peter Mullan, «Tyrannosaur» Alfred P. Sloan Prize: «Another Earth» Sundance / NHK International Filmmakers
Award: Cherien Dabis
U.S.
DRAMATIC Grand Jury Prize: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Alfonso Gomez - Rejon Audience
Award: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Alfonso Gomez - Rejon
Directing Award: The Witch, Robert Eggers Waldo Salt Screenwriting
Award: The Stanford Prison Experiment, Tim Talbott Special Jury
Award — Cinematography: Diary of a Teenage Girl, Brandon Trost Special Jury
Award — Excellence in Editing: Dope, Lee Haugen Special Jury
Award — Collaborative Vision: Advantageous, Jacqueline Kim, Jennifer Phang
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
U.S. DOCUMENTARY Grand Jury Prize: The Wolfpack, Crystal Moselle
Directing Award: Cartel Land, Matthew Heineman Special Jury
Award — Social Impact: 3 1/2 Minutes, Marc Silver Special Jury
Award — Verite Filmmaking: Western, Bill Ross, Turner Ross Special Jury
Award — Break Out First Feature: (T) ERROR, Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe Special Jury
Award — Cinematography: Cartel Land, Matthew Heineman, Matt Porwoll Audience
Award — U.S. Documentary: Meru, Jimmy Chin, E. Chai Vasarhelyi Audience
Award — World Cinema
Dramatic: Umrika, Prashant Nair Audience
Award — World Cinema Documentary: Dark Horse, Louise Osmond Audience
Award — NEXT: James White, Josh Mond
In addition to A Monster Calls, current and upcoming releases from Focus include The Boxtrolls, the new family event movie from LAIKA,
directed by Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable with a voice cast that includes Ben Kingsley, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Elle Fanning, and Tracy Morgan; the true - life
dramatic thriller Kill the Messenger, starring Jeremy Renner; the romantic drama The Theory of Everything,
directed by Academy
Award winner James Marsh and starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones as Stephen and Jane Hawking; Black Sea, the suspenseful adventure thriller starring Jude Law for director Kevin Macdonald; the romantic drama A Little Chaos,
directed by Alan Rickman and starring Kate Winslet; Tarsem Singh's Selfless, starring Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kingsley; Leigh Whannell's Insidious: Chapter 3, the newest chapter in the terrifying horror series; Sinister 2,
directed by Ciaran Foy; and Stephen Hopkins» Race, starring Jeremy Irons, Jason Sudeikis, and Stephan James as the legendary athletic superstar Jesse Owens.
Alcon, one of the longest - running independent film finance and production companies in the world, has financed and produced, and / or co - financed / produced 33 films to date, including the recent critically acclaimed film Blade Runner 2049 from Academy
Award - nominated director Denis Villeneuve and starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford; the Academy
Award - nominated Best Picture The Blind Side, which earned Sandra Bullock a Best Actress Oscar; The Book of Eli, starring Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman; Insomnia, starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and Hilary Swank and
directed by Chris Nolan; The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants; P.S. I Love You, starring Hilary Swank; the critically acclaimed
dramatic thriller Prisoners,
directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Melissa Leo, Terrance Howard and Paul Dano; and the family hit Dolphin Tale starring Morgan Freeman, Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd and Kris Kristofferson.
The
Directing Award: U.S.
Dramatic was presented to: Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan for their film Swiss Army Man — Hank, a hopeless man stranded in the wild, discovers a mysterious dead body.
This is Element's third year at Sundance with Five Minutes of Heaven winning the prestigious World Cinema
Directing Award and World Cinema Screenwriting
Award in 2009 and last year the Irish box - office smash The Guard was the opening film at the world
dramatic competition.
Grand Jury Prize:
Dramatic — Fruitvale U.S.
Directing Award:
Dramatic — Jill Soloway, Afternoon Delight Waldo Salt Screenwriting
Award — Lake Bell, In A World Excellence in Cinematography
Award: U.S.
Dramatic — Bradford Young, Ain't Them Bodies Saints and Mother of George Special Jury
Award for Acting — Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley, The Spectacular Now Special Jury
Award for Sound Design — Upstream Color
Major names highlighted the winners for Cannes 2017's Directors» Fortnight prizes with Chloe Zhao's The Rider, which was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics, grabbing the Art Cinema
Award and French
directing legend Claire Denis tying with Philippe Garrel for the Society of
Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize with their films Let the Sunshine In (with Juliette Binoche) and Lover For a Day, respectively.
The
Directing Award: U.S.
Dramatic was presented to: Cutter Hodierne for Fishing Without Nets — A story of pirates in Somalia told from the perspective of a struggling, young Somali fisherman.
The drama,
directed by Alfonso Gomez - Rejon, won the grand jury prize and audience
award for best U.S.
dramatic feature at the Sundance Film Festival last month.
The
Directing Award: U.S.
Dramatic was presented to: The Witch (Director & Screenwriter: Robert Eggers)-- New England in the 1630s: William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness.