Sentences with phrase «best first feature film»

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Having Mudbound become the first Netflix original feature film to compete at the Oscars would be a big deal for the streaming service, and a Golden Globes win (it's nominated for Best Original Song, and Mary J. Blige is nominated as a supporting actress) could be the first step.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

Here are just a few: Jordan Peele became the first African American to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out, and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won for Best Picture — a film featuring a female actor in the lead role hasn't won the category since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.

Husband - wife duo Jared and Jerusha Hess literally came out of nowhere — well, the heart of Utah — in 2004 when they made their first feature film, Napoleon Dynamite and took the film world by storm with a wildly successful screening at the Sundance Film Festival.

The first of three well - received «omnibus» films hosted by Somerset Maugham, Quartet features four of Maugham's most celebrated stories, each introduced by the author himself.

As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie star.

After his latest feature WINTER SLEEP (2014) won Palme d'Or this year, there is no better timing to assess Nuri Bilge Ceylan's previous works, personally I was daunted by my first experience with his film, THREE MONKEYS (2008, 6/10), so until now I dare to stride a second step, here comes

With success on the small screen soon prompting James to try his talent in feature films, a supporting role in 50 First Dates and a co-starring role opposite Will Smith in Hitch found the television favorite's amiable humor translating well to the big screen.

Rian Johnson's first feature was the well received, low - budget indie titled «Brick» (2005), which told a high - school story in a film noir style, narrated by Gordon - Levitt.

Being the first feature film that Steven S. DeKnight has directed (having only worked on television beforehand), I went in with a little apprehension, to begin with, but his work on television or smaller films may suit him better.

Writer / director Ira Sachs, who made his first feature film, «The Delta,» about 15 years ago (which I haven't seen), brings to life the story of two well - educated Manhattanites who have an anonymous sexual encounter that grows into a 10 - year relationship.

There's a scene in Bryan Bertino's film «The Strangers» that handily encapsulates the film's nervy brand of terror, one so good and simple that it served as the film's poster image when the 2008 feature first hit theaters: it's Liv Tyler, standing alone in her kitchen, looking out into what seems to be — what should be — an empty house.

After winning an Oscar for his short film «Six Shooter», director Martin McDonagh's first feature length dares to combine a crime thriller with comedy and the results are surprisingly good.

The service has films licensed from major studios — Lionsgate, MGM, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. — as well as indie distributors including Janus Films, Flicker Alley, Icarus Films, Kino, Milestone, Zeitgeist, Film Movement, Global Lens, First Run Features, Oscilloscope Laboratories and Shout Factory.

But I'm sticking with my feeeling that «ÄúThe Hurt Locker «Äù will pull this one out — that for a variety of reasons, including the simple fact that she made the better movie, Kathryn Bigelow will become the first woman to ever win the DGA feature film award.

The Walt Disney Co. is pushing back «The Good Dinosaur,» the Pixar movie that had been set for release in 2014, making next year the animation studio's first without a feature film since 2005.

Between his narrative and documentary features, director Kevin Macdonald is well on his way to banging out six films in the span of three years, and we now have our first look at the Last King of Scotland helmer's 2014...

Peterson, who began at Pixar as an animator on its first feature film, «Toy Story,» and co-directed the 2009 Oscar - winning movie «Up,» conceived the idea for «The Good Dinosaur,» which envisions an Earth where dinosaurs never became extinct.

His narrative feature debut, Tornando a casa (Sailing Home) won the director several awards at international film festivals in 2001 and was nominated for Best First Feature at the Italian Golden feature debut, Tornando a casa (Sailing Home) won the director several awards at international film festivals in 2001 and was nominated for Best First Feature at the Italian Golden Feature at the Italian Golden Globes.

One of the best films I saw at this year's Sundance Film Festival was writer - director Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal «s first feature, The Words.

But it's unfair to judge on a book on its cover (or title) and after seeing Matthew Vaughn's film adaptation which releases this weekend, I can honestly say that Kick - Ass is much better than I first expected and Vaughn's big - screen version of the graphic novel features sharp writing, brilliant performances, and of course, indulgent action sequences and story - telling.

Also, this is Grandage's first feature film; he was previously a theater actor turned theater director and has won several distinguished awards, including the Laurence Olivier theater award for Best Director for «Caligula» in 2004.

As the first big - budget feature from director Julius Onah, he acquits himself well, and almost every single problem the film has comes down to a script that, by Uziel's own admission, was re-written on - the - fly during production.

(remix) music video by Danger Mouse and Jemini; deleted scenes and alternative takes, five in total, including an alternative ending (9 min) with a less subtle conversation between Richard and Mark, but a haunting final image of Richard with Anthony; images from Anjan Sarkars graphic novel animation matched to actual dialogue from the films soundtrack (the scene where Herbie first sees the elephant); In Shanes Shoes (24 min) documentary featuring the premiere at the 2004 Edinburgh Film Festival, interviews with Shane Meadows about run - ins with violent gangs in his youth, and on - location clowning; Northern Soul (26 min) also made by Meadows in 2004, and starring Toby Kebbell as an aspiring wrestler with no actual wrestling experience or talent - this comic short is as amateurish as its protagonist, and serves only to show how much better Dead Mans Shoes is.

The film bypassed Best First Feature even though it is technically Benh Zeitlin's first and step up to the bigger category Best Feature (rules prohibit a film from being in bFirst Feature even though it is technically Benh Zeitlin's first and step up to the bigger category Best Feature (rules prohibit a film from being in bfirst and step up to the bigger category Best Feature (rules prohibit a film from being in both).

The British studio's first film, 2000's stop - motion Chicken Run, would have won the Best Animated Feature Oscar had that award been launched a year earlier than it was.

One of the biggest discoveries and best films of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival is a Belgian dramatic feature titled Girl, from first - time filmmaker Lukas Dhont.

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 first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), It Happened One Night is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the early sound era, packed with clever situations and gags that have entered the Hollywood comedy pantheon and featuring two actors at the top of their game, sparking with a chemistry that has never been bettered.

Writer / director Martin McDonagh's first full - length feature film has all the scabrous, deliciously un-PC hallmarks of his best theatre work, with a guffaw - inducing smattering of anti-American, anti-European, and, er, anti-dwarf one - liners.

While Pitch Black was a surprisingly good film, there never seemed enough there to warrant the lavish amounts spent on The Chronicles of Riddick (featuring the long - awaited first pairing of Vin Diesel and Judi Dench).

From 3D cane toads on opening night (Cane Toads: The Conquest) to John Woo kung fu to close the program (Reign Of Assassins), possibly the world's first «womantic» feature (the Brisbane - based comedy Jucy) to the utterly indescribable (Tommy Wiseau cult phenomenon The Room), the new look festival — in a new timeslot and new venues (Palace Centro and Barracks cinemas, and Tribal Theatre)-- has assembled an amazing line - up, with films for young (well, 18 and over for the most part, given the severing of links between BIFF and Cine Sparks) and old.

A kind of subversive take on the traditional Noah story, Take Shelter made good on the promises of writer / director Jeff Nichols» first feature Shotgun Stories, establishing him as a powerful new voice in the film community.

The 2017 Directors Guild of America Awards announced their picks for both the best film directors and first - time feature directors of the year.

The film was distributed by Kino Lorber and nominated for multiple Spirit Awards including Best First Feature and Best Cinematography.

After twelve seasons of Family Guy and his first feature film, Ted, Seth MacFarlane «s sense of humor is well - established at this point.

Rolling Stone recently spoke with Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman, portraying T'Challa (Black Panther), as he covers the publication's March 2018 issue, as well as director Ryan Coogler — as both detail more about the highly - acclaimed film and its impact, with it being the first Marvel Studios movie to put a person of color in the lead role and to feature a mostly black cast.

The Danish Girl — if it is going to rally anything in the race it could hit here, with Eddie Redmayne — both films from Focus features that made Best Pic hit here first in the past two years.

Clips of the film featuring Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell and Blake Lively are included in the video, as well as footage of the rainy first hours of the Riviera - set festival.

The first disc includes the theatrical release of the film, along with an interesting feature commentary track by director Marshall and screenwriter Bill Condon, as well as the deleted musical number «Class,» and a 27 - minute documentary on bringing the musical to the big screen («From Stage to Screen: The History of Chicago»).

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.

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After capturing the Golden Bear at Berlin, the feature, Farhadi's fifth, went on to rake in unprecedented earnings for an Iranian film as well as a stream of honors that culminated in its becoming the first Iranian film to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

The Croods is the first film of 2013 (so far) and should be on the short list for Best Animated feature in the next Oscar race.

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The film is also nominated for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay for the 2012 awards.

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 Screenfirst full - length feature, which recently received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First ScreenFirst Screenplay.

Jean Renoir's Swamp Water (Twilight Time), his first American feature, isn't ranked among his best films but it has always been one of my favorites.

Voted by a jury of 16 members, Pascale Ferran's Lady Chatterley won the 64th Prix Louis Delluc for best feature of the year while the eighth Prix Louis Delluc for first film went to thesp Jean - Pierre Darroussin for «The Premonition» (Le Pressentiment).

The fifth feature from About Elly writer / director Asghar Farhadi, and the first Iranian film to win the Golden Bear for best film at the Berlin Film Festival (as well as earning best actor and actress awards for the excellent ensemble cast at the same event), A Separation tells a personal tale rampant with politics.