Sentences with phrase «best documentary prize»

«Life Itself,» Steve James's documentary about the life and work of Pulitzer Prize - winning film critic Roger Ebert, won the Best Documentary prize at the 5th American Film Festival in Wrocław, Poland.

The Best Documentary prize was given to This Is Not a Film, which was also given a special award by the organization.

Their Best Documentary prize went to The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye by Marie Losier.

It also earned a Jury Prize at the Documentary Edge Festival in New Zealand and the Best Documentary prize at the 5th American Film Festival in Wrocław, Poland.

Julianne Moore won best actress for Still Alice and Citizenfour picked up a second best documentary prize.

«Searching for Sugar Man» picked up the Best Documentary prize and led to a massive resurgence in fortunes for its subject.

Not exact matches

He's coming off Emmy and Oscar nominations for his documentary Cartel Land, after winning Best Director prize at 2015 Sundance.

«Coco» was named best animated film; «Faces Places» won the best foreign language film prize; and «Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982 - 1992» won best documentary film.

Other winners include: Coco, which won Best Animated Feature, Faces Places, which picked up the prize for Best Documentary Feature, and Raw, a French horror film about a teenage vegetarian who realizes she is a cannibal, was named Best Foreign Language Film.

It's a good thing that «Sacro GRA» won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, yesterday (making it the first documentary to win the top prize in the 70 - year history of the festival).

«20 Feet From Stardom,» a film about the unsung lives of backup singers, took the prize for best documentary.

• «Exit Through the Gift Shop», an inventive puzzle of a documentary about street art directed by the artist known as Bansky, won the Best First Feature prize in addition to the Allan King Documendocumentary about street art directed by the artist known as Bansky, won the Best First Feature prize in addition to the Allan King DocumentaryDocumentary Award.

The Best Ensemble Cast prize went to «American Hustle»; the EDA for Best Documentary went to Sarah Polley's «Stories We Tell»; and Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg's «The Hunt» was embraced for Best Non-English-Language Film.

Look out for my review of the Best International Short Documentary prize winner in early April.

It was a much coveted prize for the streaming giant, marking its fifth year in a row being nominated for Best Documentary Feature — last year, it won its first Oscar for documentary short The WhiDocumentary Feature — last year, it won its first Oscar for documentary short The Whidocumentary short The White Helmets.

Canadian filmmakers were also honoured in the TFCA's other awards, with Stories We Tell winning the Allan King Documentary Award and Panos Cosmatos sharing the Best First Feature prize for Beyond the Black Rainbow with Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild.

And by anywhere, I specifically mean the Academy's own shortlist for Best Documentary Feature; in the last five years, the ultimate winner of the prize and a bulk of runners - up have played the fest.

The four top jury prizes at Sundance 2010 were awarded Saturday night to Debra Granik's «Winter's Bone» for best U. S. drama, Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington's «Restrepo» for U. S. documentary, David Michôd's «Animal Kingdom» for world drama, and Mads Brügger's «The Red Chapel» for world documentary.

Musician - driven documentaries have fared well at the Oscars in recent years, with «Searching for Sugar Man» winning the documentary prize in 2013 and «Twenty Feet From Stardom» doing so in 2014.

Meanwhile, speaking after her Edward Snowden film «Citizenfour» won the prize for documentary, director Laura Poitras noted that Snowden and the movie sought to «expose a threat [not only] to our privacy but to our democracy itself,» as she was flanked by investigative reporter and film subject Glenn Greenwald, as well as Snowden girlfriend Lindsay Mills.

The company's ascent up Hollywood's awards ladder began at the 2016 Academy Awards, where Brie Larson picked up the best actress Oscar for Room, Amy was named best documentary, and Ex Machina got the prize for best visual effects — all A24 films.

Other highlights from 2016 (and also must see films) have included the very informative and poignant documentary, «Maya Angelou and Still I Rise,» by Rita Coburn Whack and Bob Hercules; Mick Jackson's «Denial,» the gripping Holocaust denial tale with compelling performances from Rachel Weisz and Timothy Spall; Paul Verhoeven's «Elle,» with its great Isabelle Huppert performance; the remarkably thoughtful sci - fi film, «Arrival,» by Denis Villeneuve; Tom Ford's «Nocturnal Animals,» with its outstanding performances from Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon; David Mackenzie's «Hell or High Water,» this summer's sleeper hit; Cristian Mungiu's «Graduation,» winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes; and Cristi Puiu's «Sieranevada,» winner of the top prize at this year's Chicago International Film Festival.

«The Square,» Ruben Östlund's outrageous satire centered on the world of modern art, was named Best Foreign Film; Pixar's «Coco» won the prize for Animated Feature; and «Jane,» Brett Morgen's film focusing on the life and work of primatology scientist Jane Goodall, won the Best Documentary award.

«Talya Lavie's Zero Motivation, a dark comedy about the life of Israel's female soldiers, took the jury prize for best narrative feature at the Tribeca Film Festival, while Marshall Curry's Point and Shoot, the account of a young American caught up in the Libyan Revolution, was named best documentary feature.

This year, the best narrative feature category sees 12 films battling it out for the prestigious prize, while 12 documentaries from around the word will compete to be named best documentary feature.

Winner of the Audience Award and Best Canadian Film prizes at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, this is a film I saw twice on the big screen this past year (and was moved to tears both times, I proudly attest) and one that eloquently makes its case early in the film when an early Charley Patton recording is played and lands like lightning.

Editor Jim Scott picked up best editing honours in the World Cinema Documentary category for his work on the Greenpeace doc How to Change the World, and The Witch, a Canada - US co-production about a family dealing with an eerie force in 1630s New England won U.S - based Robert Eggers the prize for best direction in the domestic dramatic category.

Rio Ferdinand was close to tears when he accepted the prize for Best Single Documentary at the Virgin TV British Academy Television Awards, held at The Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday night.

Deb Shoval's AWOL won the jury award (and a $ 1000 cash prize) for Best Narrative Feature, Maisie Crow's JACKSON took home the jury award (and $ 1000 courtesy of Classic American Hardwoods) for Best Documentary Feature, and Madsen Minax's KAIROS DIRT & THE ERRANT VACUUM received the nod (and a $ 1000 cash prize) as Best Hometowner Feature.

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It recounts such a fascinating, absorbing, and instructive tale, full of delayed revelations and subtle pleasures, that the jury unanimously gave it the top prize, citing it as both the best documentary and the best narrative film.

Best Documentary was given to Marmato, directed by Mark Grieco, and the Best New American Cinema prize was handed to Red Knot, directed by Scott Cohen.

Last year, the NBR picked three eventual Oscar winners — Manchester by the Sea director Kenneth Lonergan and star Casey Affleck, as well as best documentary winner O.J.: Made in America — but also gave their best director prize to Barry Jenkins for Moonlight, an early award that bolstered that film's status as the underdog champion of the year (and eventual best picture winner).

Previous teams have struggled to keep the show moving while giving out all 24 prizes, including such obvious audience bathroom breaks as best sound editing and best documentary short subject.

After winning Best Canadian Documentary, this insightful, involving portrait of breathtaking Haida Gwaii and the people who call it home also won Best British Columbia Film, which came with a $ 500 cash prize sponsored by the Canadian Media Production Association - BC Producers» Branch.

The Look of Silence (2016 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary) premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI award, and went on to receive another 70 prizes, including an Independent Spirit Award, the IDA Award for Best Documentary Feature, a Gotham Award, and three Cinema Eye Honors.

The film won the «best documentary» prize in 2012 at the San Antonio Independent Film Festival, a Christian - oriented movie showcase, and is sold on the Web site of Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist who, the report says, views public schools as» «part of a wicked plan» by «sick deviants» to enslave humanity under a satanic New World Order» that worships Lucifer.

Indeed it received third prize in the Discovery Channel's 2005 documentary «World's Best Beaches».

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won first prize in the Montreal Festival for Films on Art and was hailed by the Museum of Modern Art as one of the three best documentaries of 2012.

He is the recipient of numerous prizes, including the Absolut Art Award (2011), the Young Artist Prize at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001), the Prix Gilles Dusein, Paris (2000), the Best Documentary Film Award from the Filmfest in Tirana (2000); and the International Film Festival in Santiago de Compostela (1999).

Cassoni's effort to forestall the coal mining is the subject of a documentary being shot by Michael O'Connell, the filmmaker from North Carolina best known for his prize - winning 2008 film «Mountain Top Removal.»