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.
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.
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.
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.
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.