Sentences with phrase «best language film»

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Best foreign language film of the year «The Broken Circle Breakdown» Belgium «The Great Beauty» Italy * WINNER «The Hunt» Denmark «The Missing Picture» Cambodia «Omar» Palestine

In L.A., he worked on a successful lobbying campaign that helped earn the Canadian film Les Invasions Barbares an Oscar for best foreign - language film.

Miramax picked up Children of Heaven for distribution, and it was nominated for a best foreign language film Oscar in 1998.

His hobbies included watching films on TV, especially those on football, athletics, boxing, as well as Ghanaian and Nigerian films which were acted in Ewe and English, as he could not speak any other language than the two.

Like fellow French - Canadian drama Incendies (see below) the previous year, Monsieur Lazhar earned an Oscar nomination for best foreign - language film.

Of course, there is pleasure in talky scenes à la Tarantino, but this Korean film, directed by Kim Ki - Duk, driven by body language and nuance, does so well without them.

In Clare Peploe's English - language film version, which opens today in New York and Los Angeles, Marivaux's trademark banter — what the French call «marivaudage» — is blunted, but his jaunty, slightly decadent spirit is well served by the director and her superb cast.

It is both the source of her frustration — her struggles to speak up and assert herself in the film's earlier scenes — as well as a secret strength: She understands the language of this world, and watching her slowly take command is stirring.

Even with the presence of a rare outright misfire (Third Person, from Crash director Paul Haggis), SPC managed to boost its already - high average Metascore by a few points last year, thanks to widely praised films like Mr. Turner (the year's # 2 drama, behind Boyhood), Leviathan (2014's best - reviewed foreign - language film), and Sundance hit Whiplash.

Denmark takes the stage back in a most dramatic fashion with A Royal Affair, recently named one of the five Oscar nominees for best foreign language film.

This isn't just the best foreign language release in 2006, it's one of the best films of the the year.

His latest, «In the Fade,» is Germany's Oscar submission and one of the nine films shortlisted for best foreign language film.

Despite some genuinely hilarious sequences that, regrettably, are spaced too far apart, this meditation on the things that matter in life is too slow and at times too forced to deserve the high praise it has been getting (including an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film that should have gone to a number of other more worthwhile pictures).

After earning an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film for Embrace of the Serpent, director Ciro Guerra returned to the Director's Fortnight with this story of an indigenous Wayuu family caught up in the Colombian drug trade.

(There's a good reason for the latter, however: its unusually high total the year before was a result of releasing the Swedish - language films based on Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy.)

Filmed without narration, subtitles, or any comprehensible dialogue, Babies is a direct encounter with four babies who stumble their predictable ways to participating in the awesome beauty of life.Needless to say, their experience of the first year of life is vastly different, yet what stands out is not how much is different but how much is universal as each in their own way attempts to conquer their physical environment.Though the language is different as well as the environment, the babies cry the same, laugh the same, and try to learn the frustrating, yet satisfying art of crawling, then walking in the same way.You will either find Babies entrancing or slow moving depending on your attitude towards babies because frankly that's all there is, yet for all it will be an immediate experience far removed from the world of cell phones and texting, exploring up close and personal the mystery of life as the individual personality of each child begins to emerge.

This is a great film, made even greater because Paddy Considine (one of the best actors in the English language, who stole the show in In America) is in it.

This French - language film did not make the cut of the five nominated 2017 films for Best Foreign Language Film.

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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.

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.

The film is nearly as handsome as the director's extraordinary «The Great Beauty» (2013), an Oscar winner for best foreign language film.

Villeneuve broke through with «Incendies,» which earned an Oscar nom for best foreign language film in 2011, but he has hardly gone Hollywood.

Granted by France's Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers, the SACD Award for best French - language film went to Pierre Salvadori's screwball crime romcom «The Trouble with You.»

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As his English - language debut and first time working with Hollywood actors, The Lobster marks the beginning of a new chapter for Yorgos, whose previous films (My Best Friend, Kinetta, the Academy Award — nominated Dogtooth, and Alps) were each made in Greece on an extremely modest budget with a crew made up of Yorgos's friends.

Gavin Hood is a South African filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and actor, best known for writing and directing the Academy Award — winning foreign language film Tsotsi.

(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French film and, for that matter, any non-English-language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.

Thanks to the vagaries of film distribution and the increasing difficulties of small films and foreign language productions to get theatrical releases, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Turkish drama, which won the Best Director award at Cannes 2008, this one - week Seattle engagement at the Varsity Theatre is the film's American theatrical debut.

This is one of the best openings for a foreign language film this year, a category that includes Music Box Films» The Innocents, which is currently approaching a $ 1 million U.S. gross.»

Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, the film is the first English - language effort from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, whose 2009 film «Dogtooth» was an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.

Thanks to mainstream America's huffy dismissal of subtitles when it comes to cinema, we continue with another unnecessary remake of a foreign film, Secret in Their Eyes, an English language, celebrity studded face - lift of Argentinean Juan Jose Campanella's 2009 title (which won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film that year).

It's favored to win the best foreign language film at the Oscars.

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«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.

Disobedience marks the first English - language film for Chilean director Lelio — whose transgender romance A Fantastic Woman recently won the Academy Award for best foreign - language film — and it is also his most affecting work.

The association voted THE SQUARE as the best foreign - language film of the year.

The association voted BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR as the best foreign - language film of the year.

Last year's Palme d'Or winner was Ruben Ostlund's The Square, which went on to be nominated for best foreign language film at the Academy Awards.

It is a shame that this film isn't as good as it should be, but if you throw everything else out the window for a little less than 90 minutes, some fun can be found in this foreign language film.

Director Oliver Hirschbiegel is a prodigious talent, whose best known movie, Downfall — the 2004 account of Adolf Hitler's last days — garnered an Academy Award nomination for best foreign language film and launched an enduring internet meme.

The association voted FORCE MAJEURE as the best foreign - language film of the year.

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But Billboards still speaks the language of film, with incredibly well - staged scenes and a great visual gag involving Officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell) and his music.

Best motion picture of the year «Amour» «Argo» «Beasts of the Southern Wild» «Django Unchained» «Les Misérables» «Life of Pi» «Lincoln» «Silver Linings Playbook» «Zero Dark Thirty» Performance by an actor in a leading role Bradley Cooper in «Silver Linings Playbook» Daniel Day - Lewis in «Lincoln» Hugh Jackman in «Les Misérables» Joaquin Phoenix in «The Master» Denzel Washington in «Flight» Performance by an actress in a leading role Jessica Chastain in «Zero Dark Thirty» Jennifer Lawrence in «Silver Linings Playbook» Emmanuelle Riva in «Amour» Quvenzhané Wallis in «Beasts of the Southern Wild» Naomi Watts in «The Impossible» Performance by an actor in a supporting role Alan Arkin in «Argo» Robert De Niro in «Silver Linings Playbook» Philip Seymour Hoffman in «The Master» Tommy Lee Jones in «Lincoln» Christoph Waltz in «Django Unchained» Performance by an actress in a supporting role Amy Adams in «The Master» Sally Field in «Lincoln» Anne Hathaway in «Les Misérables» Helen Hunt in «The Sessions» Jacki Weaver in «Silver Linings Playbook» Achievement in directing «Amour,» Michael Haneke «Beasts of the Southern Wild,» Benh Zeitlin «Life of Pi,» Ang Lee «Lincoln,» Steven Spielberg «Silver Linings Playbook,» David O. Russell Best foreign language film of the year «Amour,» Austria «Kon - Tiki,» Norway «No,» Chile «A Royal Affair,» Denmark «War Witch,» Canada Best animated feature film of the year «Brave,» Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman «Frankenweenie,» Tim Burton «ParaNorman,» Sam Fell and Chris Butler «The Pirates!

An openly trans actress presented for the first time, and her movie, A Fantastic Woman, won best foreign language film.

Swedish director Ruben Östlund's «The Square,» a many - barbed satire of the art world, was nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language film.

Now opening theatrically in a new cut that runs a leisurely 151 minutes (four minutes shorter than the version that played at Cannes), «The Square,» which will represent Sweden in the upcoming Oscar race for best foreign - language film, may be addressing a broader, less industry - entangled crowd.

Chile's Oscar nominee for best foreign language film is a drama called «A Fantastic Woman.»

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