For all of Netflix's efforts to break
into the film awards - season game outside of their documentaries, the streaming service walked away with the Robert Altman cast ensemble award for its $ 12.5 million Sundance Film Festival pickup Mudbound.
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.
Not exact matches
Heading
into the 75th annual Golden Globe
Awards this weekend, the popular streaming service has a big lead on its digital rivals, with a dozen Golden Globe nominations overall across the event's television and
film categories.
When Spotlight, the critically acclaimed
film about the Boston Globe's investigation
into clergy sexual abuse, won best picture at this year's Oscars, producer Michael Sugar accepted the
award with a message: This
film gave a voice to survivors and this Oscar amplifies that voice which we hope....
Films, made - for - television movies or television series previously entered
into or nominated for an
award, or
awarded a prize in another
film and television competition are eligible to be entered for the AMVCAs».
The
film is an exclusive look
into the life of Sidney Kimmel, produced by Emmy
Award - winning journalist Laurie Singer and filmmakers Tim Bloomquist and Mike Vogel.
Every year the ASCB chooses two or three proposals from those submitted by member labs across the world and
awards each of them a $ 1,000 unrestricted production grant to turn its research
into a short
film.
Though this is very much an ensemble
film, Christian Bale's performance as Dicky Ecklund will likely get the lion's share of attention as we head
into awards season.
The
film, based on Peter Morgan's
award - winning play, primarily details the build - up
into the interviews among both sides, as Frost prepares by collaborating with a ragtag group of intellectuals (including Sam Rockwell's James Reston Jr and Oliver Platt's Bob Zelnick) and Nixon conspires with trusted aide Jack Brennan (Kevin Bacon) to turn the hyped conversations to their advantage.
They've taken one of the most glamorous actresses of the modern era — a woman whose looks have been abstracted
into hubba - hubba caricature in most
films, and on
awards shows — and ironically restored her earthliness by having her play a creature not of this earth.
From 2001 - 2003, Tyler dedicated her time and effort
into the
award - winning
film adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy.
It won two jury
awards at Sundance, and arguably an appreciation for Nick Cave the artist would influence any viewer's perception of 20,000 Days On Earth, but what really affects ones viewing of this
film is entering
into it and viewing it as a documentary disguised as a fictional
film, or a fictional
film disguised as a documentary.
(The
film, which plunges viewers directly
into the often dangerous action, deservedly won a cinematography
award at the Sundance
Film Festival.)
Before I Disappear Shawn Christensen converts his Academy
Award winning short
film featuring a man who discovers his motivation to stay alive
into a full feature
film with Before I Disappear.
A better route would have been using the imagery to cover the ad space, as Universal did beautifully with their respective campaigns for Cinderella Man and Jarhead, but even still, Warner Bros. had their thoughts together for marketing this
film throughout the summer and
into the
awards season.
Do you think the
film will factor
into this year's
awards season?
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.
The
film won't be launched until a fall festival, right
into awards season later this year.
When he collected those
awards last February, Iñárritu was already well
into production on his follow - up
film,
Since first citing year - end cinematic achievements in 1929, NBR has recognized a vast selection of outstanding studio, independent, foreign - language, animated and documentary
films, often propelling recipients such as George Miller's visionary 2015 Best Film winner MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
into the larger
awards conversation.
A dramatic script at AFI, however, led to a prestigious Chesterfield fellowship
award - overseen by Steven Spielberg - and was made
into a feature
film starring Kevin Bacon and Evan Rachel Wood.
Writer / Director Damien Chazelle has turned his Sundance
award - winning short
film into a fascinatingly brutal message movie that begs for discussion and debate.
Critics casually and regularly mentioned «Oscar» in their reviews but the precursor
awards didn't bite (the Golden Globes forcing that
film into Drama when
films of its kind usually compete in Musical surely didn't help).
Telsey + Company's L.A. office — based Tiffany Little Canfield, who cast the new «Mary Poppins,» has a long history of musical series and
films (in addition to the SAG
award — winning «This Is Us»), so hers might be the room to get
into.
Love & Mercy, co-written by Oscar ® nominated screenwriter Oren Moverman, also stars Elizabeth Banks and Paul Giamatti, and is directed by Bill Pohlad, known as the Academy
Award ® - nominated producer for such bold
films as Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, Sean Penn's
Into the Wild and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain.
Beavan is an eight time Academy
Award nominated designer who began in the theatre before moving
into film with Merchant Ivory Productions in the 1980s.
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.
As we move
into mid-October, the
awards season is beginning to take shape, in the sense that we are getting our first reactions to some of the year's most anticipated
films.
Surely that's good enough to get a
film into the year - end
awards conversation, isn't it?
McAdams isn't ready to get
into juicy spoiler territory just yet, but when MTV News caught up with her at the Gotham Independent
Film Awards in New York City last night (November 30), which she was attending for her new
film «Spotlight,» the actress finally opened up about why she decided to join the Marvel family.
Giménez, who has already received over 30
awards worldwide for his work on the
film, breathes much - needed new life
into a genre plagued by convention and shows us that passion can be found in the most unlikely of places.
«The Grand Budapest Hotel,» «Birdman» and «
Into the Woods» won feature
film honors Tuesday evening at the 17th Costume Designers Guild
Awards.
As
awards season kicks
into high gear this month, certain
films that aren't «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» should see box - office gains from conversations about and nominations for the best pictures and acting performances of 2015.
Look deep
into the movie listings this January, past the big name
awards fodder, the PT Andersons and the Rob Marshalls, the biopics and social problem
films, and you'll find, in limited release, the latest picture from one of the most influential and important directors of the past 40 years, Tsui Hark, whose name remains so unknown in the US he's as likely to be identified by his personal name as his family name (for the record: he is Mr. Tsui, not Mr. Hark; pronounced «Choy — Hok»).
1) My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan, 1989) This is the
film turned Daniel Day - Lewis, great actor,
into Academy
Award - winner Daniel Day...
In honor of the movie's home video release (and before this weekend's Academy
Awards, where it's nominated for Best Animated Feature), I spoke with Molina about the power of the
film's music, how physically visiting a place like Monte Alban actually translates
into a movie's screenplay, and much more.
Lauren and Christopher adapted The Strange Ones
into their first feature
film of the same name, starring James Freedson - Jackson and Alex Pettyfer, which world premiered to critical acclaim at the SXSW
Film Festival in 2017, receiving the Jury
Award for Best Breakthrough Performance.
SNUB: Tom Hanks.Sully had already lost a lot of its steam going
into awards season, but even if the
film as a whole and director Clint Eastwood weren't exactly shoo - ins anymore, we figured Tom Hanks would at least get a Golden Globe nomination.
Writer - director Sara Colangelo expands her 2010 short
film Little Accidents
into her first full - length feature, which recently received an Independent Spirit
Award nomination for Best First Screenplay.
As the
film heads
into awards season following a summer release, talk will presumably build about which of the women leads the
film, but any such debate should be nipped in the bud: Moore and Bening are as democratic a partnership as the characters they play, each performance informing the other to an equal extent as they intricately map out their roles in the parenting game.
Now, given that you premiered this
film back at Cannes, you've been on a press blitz longer than most filmmakers are accustomed to, especially filmmakers with
films going up for
awards consideration
into the fall.
Nominated for the National Book
Award in 1962, and now made
into a
film directed by Sam Mendes and starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, Revolutionary Road was the only book of his own that Yates considered a masterpiece, regretting that he'd written it first.
Usually the victory laps that play out on the stage of the Academy
Awards are kicked into motion as early as a year prior to the ceremony, when a film, say, premieres at a festival and the media's whipped - up buzz incentivizes a studio to get to work on an awards cam
Awards are kicked
into motion as early as a year prior to the ceremony, when a
film, say, premieres at a festival and the media's whipped - up buzz incentivizes a studio to get to work on an
awards cam
awards campaign.
Some of these launched at prestige fall
film festivals («Downsizing,» «Molly's Game,» «Hostiles,» «
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool»); others are bonafide
awards contenders (Steven Spielberg's «The Post» and Paul Thomas Anderson's «Phantom Thread»); and some, like Hugh Jackman vanity musical «The Greatest Showman,» will soon skid
into either bad reviews or audience reaction, or both.
And the
award for
Film that made me smile the most so far this year goes to... So, after admitting that Side Effects would be his last
film before going
into retirement, one of my favorite directors Steven Soderbergh did the most logical thing and... made another movie.
Oscilloscope Labs has just released the first official US trailer for a coming - of - age
film titled Summer 1993, which is Spain's official entry
into the Best Foreign Language category at the Academy
Awards this year.
EW — On Wednesday, the SAG
Awards announced their nominees for this year's best performances in
film and television, kicking the Oscar race
into high gear.
Many of us already knew, going
into Saturday night's show, that Pawel Pawlikowski's «Cold War,» Alice Rohrwacher's «Happy as Lazzaro,» Spike Lee's «BlacKkKlansman,» Nadine Labaki's «Capernaum» and Hirokazu Kore - eda's «Shoplifters» were certain to go home with
awards, though which
film would win what remained a mystery.
Consider the art house credentials behind this
film: besides Vitti: director Joseph Losey, known for his collaborations with Harold Pinter («The Servant,» «Accident»); Terence Stamp, fresh off his disturbing turn in William Wyler's «The Collector,» which won him a best actor
award at Cannes; and Dirk Bogarde, the onetime matinee idol who had grown
into an adventurous, risk - taking actor.
With «Walter Mitty» plowing through its theatrical run and
into awards season, Martinez took the time to sit down and tell us about working on that project as well as his experience on a number of other
film sets.