Sentences with phrase «film audience award»

Kwedar's preternatural ability to blend high drama with explosive pressure cooking won him and his film the Audience Award for Narrative Competition at this year's SXSW Film Festival and, arguably more importantly, near universal praise.

Not exact matches

Last night at the Academy Awards, audiences witnessed the most awkward moment in Oscar history: Somehow, the wrong film was announced for Best Picture.

When it comes to the opposite sex, it's Trailer for Irish film Speed Dating - Winner of the Audience Award at The European Independent Film Festival, 2007, Indianapolis International

Enter Tom Hooper fresh off his 2010 Oscar winning biopic The King's Speech, who, knowing he would need to do more than simply put the stage show on film to find an audience, teamed up with two - time Academy Award nominated screenwriter William Nicholson (Gladiator).

Heder's dead - on characterization struck a chord with audiences and the small independent film became a huge hit, raking in over 44 million dollars and winning the MTV Movie Award for Best Movie.

Her performance in the Academy Award ® nominated film LAGAAN for which she was nominated for a Zee Cine Award (Indian Oscar) for Best Supporting Actress, brought her to the attention of American audiences.

For as Mehari said in an interview at the Sundance Film Festival, where the film won the World Cinema Audience Award for drama, «Difret» (the word means «to dare» but can also refer to rape) is a work without specific evil - doers.

He is best known to audiences for his starring roles in the films HOT TUB TIME MACHINE and HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2, as well series regular roles in GREEK and THE OFFICE, for which he and the cast received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.

Some detractors have criticized the film's depiction of the tribes as simplistic; such objections did not dissuade audiences or the Hollywood establishment, however, which awarded the film seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

The film won the «Audience Choice Award» in the «New York's International Latino Film Festival» and in the «Havana International Film Festival».

In 1997, Tickell set out on the road with a biodiesel powered «Veggie Van» and a video camera and began filming what would eventually become known as FUEL, the 2008 Sundance Audience Award winning documentary film that investigates the possible replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energy.

This was something like a miracle: Haneke's gracious affability aside, his has always been, openly and decisively (he's quite literally said as much) an oppositional cinema — often abrasive (his one noble failure, 1997's Funny Games, and its shot - for - shot English - language remake from 2008, being the prime specimens), always painstakingly conscientious and morally committed to disturb (all of his films from The Seventh Continent through The White Ribbon) art films that mean to engage and provoke the audience, not please or reassure in a way that could ever be mistaken for award - grubbing.

Conveyed via two interviews done with Mike Nichols and theater director Jack O'Brien in the summer of 2014 at the Golden Theatre, where «An Evening with Nichols and May» premiered in 1960 — one in front of a paying audience, and one not — McGrath's film attempts to capture how a seven - year - old immigrant from Nazi Germany became one of the most influential and award - winning directors of all time.

The tasteless bombardment that is Les Misérables would, under most circumstances, send audiences screaming from the theater, but the film is going to be a monster hit and award winner, and not entirely unjustly.

«We felt the film would appeal to a broad range of the upscale moviegoing audience, who had spent the last month watching many of the Academy Award nominees,» noted CBS Films» EVP of distribution, Steven Friedlander.

This winner of the audience award for best narrative film at the Palm Springs International Film Festival is the kind of whimsically smart - aleck British film that goes down well on this side of the Atlantic.

Two of the biggest studio films of the year in the awards race are both from Paramount, and both will be challenging for mainstream audiences — Silence and Arrival.

«Cold Fish,» inspired by one of Japan's most notorious serial killers, and «Bedevilled,» the Korean revenge film and audience award winning favorite of the fest.

It's notable because (as TIFF reminded us with tags in front of every film) in past years Slumdog Millionaire and The King's Speech were winners of the «Audience Award», later going on to also win Best Picture as well as the hearts of the entire world.

Oh, and best of all, Joel Grey (openly gay now but not at the time of winning his Best Supporting Actor award) as that scary Master of Ceremonies who acts as the audience's window into the twisted heart of the rise of Nazi - ism in Germany, and an observer / commenter to the bisexual threesome that gives the film its frisson.

Later, the film won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Hamptons International Film Festival.

For those who enjoyed Radnor's first effort, this is leaps and bounds better in writing and direction while still retaining what made his Audience Award Winning film from Sundance 2010 such a beloved festival film.

The film debuted at the SXSW Film Festival where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary.

The coming - of - age film also earned the coveted Best Screenplay honor along with the Special Gotham Jury award and IFP Gotham Audience award.

«Intermission» (2003) The debut feature of theater director John Crowley (whose «Brooklyn» should be a major player in the awards season later this year), «Intermission» is exactly the sort of film that should sink a neophyte: a sprawling ensemble piece mired in an unshakeable (and to some audiences, incomprehensible) Dublin argot.

The audience award for best documentary went to Gen Silent (d. Stu Maddox), a film that brings to light homophobia rampant in elderly care services.

Nine Catalyst films premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival: Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock, Dark Money, The Devil We Know, Inventing Tomorrow, Night Comes On (NEXT Innovator Award), Sorry To Bother You, A Thousand Thoughts, This Is Home (World Documentary Audience Award), and Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Her follow - up film, Eden, won the Audience Award at SXSW 2012 and was showered with rave reviews on the festival circuit and its brief theatrical run.

When the film premiered at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival in March where it took home the Audience Award for Narrative Feature Competition, nobody could have predicted just how timely it would be upon the release in early November.

The film won the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and also won the Un Certain Regard category at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival as well as the 2013 Vanguard Award presented by Sundance Institute and Tiffany & Co..

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.

The Short Film Audience Award, Presented by YouTube, based on web traffic for 12 short films that screened at the Festival and were featured on The Screening Room, was presented to:

The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, also winning the Audience Award at the Fantasia Film Festival.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — November 17, 2017 — LOS ANGELES, CA — The American Film Institute (AFI) today announced the films that received the Audience and Jury awards at AFI FEST 2017 presented by Audi.

Audience everywhere can journey back to Mars with the all - new extended edition of the 7 - time Academy Award nominated space film The Martian coming to Digital HD, DVD and Blu - ray on Wednesday 24 August 2016.

«Hello, My Name is Doris,» the most successful acquisition in the history of the SXSW Film Festival, received the 2016 SXSW Headliner Audience Award and was cited by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten independent films of the year.

«Audience awards help bring film lovers together, while building momentum for the filmmakers in this year's festival.»

In an attempt to play down the award, director Frears said he was «just a bloke who makes films and hopes the audience likes them».

When you think of an audience award, you always think of films by Peter Jackson, where you can join in and yell every few minutes.

The film comes in the wake of 2013's heart wrenching Sundance Jury Prize award winner, Blood Brother, a film that seemed to come out of nowhere to wow audiences and critics alike, and apparently even the likes of Terrence Malick and Atticus Ross who came on to Hoover's latest project to executive produce and serve as composer, respectively.

Park City, UT — Sundance Institute this evening announced the Jury, Audience, NEXT < = > and other special awards of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival at the feature film Awards Ceremony, hosted by Joseph Gordon - Levitt in Park City,awards of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival at the feature film Awards Ceremony, hosted by Joseph Gordon - Levitt in Park City,Awards Ceremony, hosted by Joseph Gordon - Levitt in Park City, Utah.

Among other things, the filmmaker spoke about where he came up with the inspiration for «Citadel,» how having a limited budget and short shooting schedule place restrictions on what he could shoot for the film and how he reacted when he heard he won the Midnighter Audience Award at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival.

«Room» has been chosen by the audience as the best film at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, winning the festival's Grolsch People's Choice Award at a ceremony in Toronto on Sunday.

This drama about a young mother and her 5 - year - old son held prisoner by a sexual predator has been collecting audience prizes at just about every film festival it has played, including the bellwether People's Choice Award at Toronto.

One such film struck such a chord with viewers that it took out the festival's audience award, with The Intouchables exuberant and empathetic within its heartfelt, humorous buddy comedy mould.

King Jack premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival where it took home the Narrative Audience Award and was called, «A stylish, sensitive coming - of - ager,» by Variety.The film will continue its festival run during 2015, with an international premiere in London in September.

Buried because there isn't much of an audience for this kind of film anymore except if it figures somehow into the film awards circuit.

The film has already snapped up the Special Jury Prize at the Gotham Independent Film Awards and was an Overall Audience Favorite at MVFF40.

TIFF doesn't go overboard with awards, but because it is a public festival in the middle of a big city, the Audience Award is one of the most important awards they give out because it not only indicates which film is truly spectacular, but it means it also plays very well with general audiences.

British audiences proved this past weekend that they have an appetite for serious films, putting three of the year's top awards contenders in the first three spots on the box office chart.