Sentences with phrase «best film prize»

Hunger also won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award for a New Generation film in 2008 and the best film prize at the London Evening Standard Film Awards in 2009.

Sam Mendes» film, a critical hit which has also been the most successful 007 outing at the box office, was the first Bond movie to be nominated for the best film prize at the awards.

In competition for the best film prize, Thoroughbreds is an original and brilliantly executed psychological thriller — spikily performed by its two up - and - coming lead actresses and directed with a muscular authority that belies the fact that it's writer / director Cory Finley's first film.

Notably, though, «Moonlight» scored more best film prizes from critics groups around the country, making it a formidable dark horse every step of the way.

Not exact matches

After racking up a rash of nominations and minor wins at the Academy Awards, a Participant film finally took the big prize when Spotlight won Best Picture in February.

After racking up a rash of nominations and minor wins at the Academy Awards, a Participant film finally took the big prize when Spotlight won Best Picture in 2016.

Last night, the 31 - year - old won the prize for Best Screenplay and Best Director, with his film winning Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, and its stars, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, winning Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

John Nash, made famous by the film A Beautiful Mind, has won the Abel prize — but not for his best - known work

Many film fans assume that Mitchell won his 1939 Best Supporting Oscar for his portrayal of Gerald O'Hara in the blockbuster Gone With the Wind; in fact, he won the prize for his performance as the drunken doctor in Stagecoach — one of five Thomas Mitchell movie appearances in 1939 (his other films that year, classics all, were Only Angels Have Wings, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame).

Sure, this film possesses a better pedigree than most movies of its type — director Fatih Akin is rated higher in international film circles than «Death Wish» remake director Eli Roth, Diane Kruger won the Best Actress prize at Cannes for her performance and the movie is Germany's entry for this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film — and its intentions may be nobler, but, at its heart, it is not markedly different from its genre brethren.

How the Oscar people could have (totally) turned their back on a performance as a good as this puzzles; although the film and actor won prizes in Cannes and New York.

The prize is Stifler, who has always had the films» best one - liners and who here borders on — but does not cross over into — the territory of being over-used.

The Canadian film premiered at Slamdance 2013 and took home the Best Narrative Feature prize, initiating a successful festival run...

Though it lost Best Picture to The Godfather (fair enough), Bob Fosse's movie musical holds the record for most Academy Awards won by a film that did not also win the big prize.

Foster received the Best Actress prize for her work in the 1988 film «The Accused» and the 1991 movie «The Silence of the Lambs» and has directed films such as the 2011 film «The Beaver» and 1995's «Home for the Holidays.»

Winslet herself got a well - deserved prize, though I can't help wishing that she had been awarded it for her performance in Revolutionary Road: a better performance in a far superior film.

It's been a trivia note ever since as the last time a film won the big prize without a Best Director nomination to back it up and it's unlikely that the feat will be repeated any time soon.

Departures, a Japanese meditation on death, was the other odd winner, taking the best foreign language film prize from the much - fancied Waltz With Bashir and The Baader Meinhof Complex.

Then again, there was little precedent for grim Gothic horror films winning the top prize when «The Silence of the Lambs» swept the board nearly 20 years ago — every Oscar pundit's go - to exception that proves the, well, exception.

Good spirits: Director of the film Guillermo del Toro had a hilarious moment ahead of accepting the shiny new prize as he double checked the card and smiled into the camera after he had confirmed the win for himself

Beauvois's film (the French Oscar submission, which surprised many by failing to make the Academy's shortlist) took the top prize, but it was «The Ghost Writer» that netted the most wins, with four — including two for Polanski himself (Best Director and Adapted Screenplay), plus honors for editing and Alexandre Desplat's score.

Based on the best - selling prize - winning novel by Meg Rosoff, «How I Live Now» is the latest film from director Kevin Macdonald («Touching The Void,» «The Last King Of Scotland,»), and toplines Saoirse Ronan as an American teen, Daisy, who comes to stay with distant relatives in a time of strife.

Already «La La Land» has taken top prize at the Toronto International Film Festival, and was awarded best film of 2016 by the New York Film Critics Circle.

The jury decision, he revealed, came only after some old - fashioned horse - trading: Bille August's «Pelle the Conqueror» won over Chris Menges» «A World Apart» in a 6 - 4 vote, but jury president Ettore Scola only got the «World Apart» supporters to stop arguing when he offered to not only give that film the Grand Jury Prize (second prize), but also let its lead actresses share the best - actress award, making it the only film to win more than one prize.

It's rare for the cinematography prize to go to a film not nominated for best picture — not that Deakins hasn't had more shots on goal than many of his contemporaries; five of his 14 notices have come for best picture nominees, and one of them, «No Country for Old Men,» won the big prize.

Namely, these films have been heralded with top prizes at important film festivals, giving them a sheen of prestige that even the best PR campaigns can't buy.

On the feature film side of things, Guillermo del Toro took the top prize for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for his work on the Best Picture nominated The Shape of Water, putting him on the level with his «Three Amigos» compadres Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro González Iñárritu.

«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 films walking away with prizes included Pixar feature Inside Out, which won Best Animated Feature.

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.

-- Buzzsaw McThunder's»70s Dance Party, named after Iron Goat's recent hazy IPA release (and assistant brewer Adam Boyd's former film persona), starts at 7 in the taproom complete with disco ball, DJ music and a prize for best period costume.

The film won the Golden Lion (the top prize) in Venice last year, but while early reviews have been very good, some critics have claimed it doesn't quite reach the heights of the first two films.

Elsewhere, the film nabbed a prize for Best Editing, turning 10 nominations into 6 wins.

At the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, she became the first African - American woman to win the Best Director prize for her second feature film, Middle of Nowhere (US Dramatic Competition).

The film's cast took home the Best Ensemble Cast prize, with Mahershala Ali winning Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Juan, a father - figure of sorts to the film's lead character Chiron, a young African - American male coming to terms with his sexual orientation.

That a classy spy film won the prize, an American president took Leading Actor and an 85 year - old landed Leading Actress is a testament to the inclusiveness of the BAFTAs this year - and we think that's rather a good result.

That's the general thrust of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, the sort of well - acted, well - written but self - consciously hip seriocomedy that can't help but win prizes at international film festivals.

He has won the Best Director prize twice at Locarno (Elle veut le chaos and Curling), while his latest film, Vic + Flo Saw a Bear, won the Alfred Bauer Award at Berlin.

The indie has taken several notable prizes at domestic film festivals, including a special jury prize for breakout performance from the Los Angeles Film Festival for star Auden Thornton, as well as the narrative feature audience prize from the Austin Film Festival.

It's not as narratively or emotionally fluent as Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios» breakout debut Güeros (2014), another Berlinale debut which won the prize for best first film that year, but looks and sounds just as gorgeous, AND it has the same kind of melancholic charm to it.

Saturday afternoon, the National Society of Film Critics has named Jean - Luc Godard «s Goodbye to Language the best film of the year, narrowly beating out Richard Linklater «s acclaimed Boyhood for the top prize.

Whoever wins this, it'll show (I think) that that was the runner - up film for Best Picture... unless it's a shock win for Michael Haneke or Benh Zeitlin in which case the voters felt that Spielberg (Lincoln) & Lee (Pi) had been awarded enough in previous years and they weren't quite ready to hand the once «difficult» Russell (Playbook) the top prize.

The film isn't going to win any prizes for originality, but the use of practical effects as well as the support from the makers of the original, is making this one not to be missed.

The film had been seen as a best picture front - runner after it picked up a Screen Actors Guild of America honor for its last weekend and nabbed a top prize at the Globes.

Bening and eight other international celebrity jurors will hand out the awards at the festival, including the Golden Lion for best film and Silver Lion for best director and the grand jury prize.

British writer - director Martin McDonagh, whose film «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» took the best picture honor as well as the original screenplay prize, noted the timeliness of his movie in his acceptance speech.

After months of speculation, tireless campaigning, and a lot of experts flip - flopping their picks, the film that seemed to be the frontrunner from the start won the top prize when «Argo» was named best picture at the 85th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday night.

The film picked up five of the 11 prizes for which it was nominated - including best film, top director for Damien Chazelle and leading actress for Emma Stone - at the annual ceremony hosted for the 12th year in a row by Stephen Fry at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya: Isao Takahata's film, likely the last production by Studio Ghibli's two masters (Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises lost to Frozen last year), probably has no shot at Best Animated Feature (How to Train Your Dragon 2 is the heavy favorite), but if it did somehow get the prize, no win on Oscar night would make us happier.

«Lady Bird» was also nominated for best picture, a prize awarded to a film's producers.