Sentences with phrase «best nonfiction film»
Also at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Sarah Polley's «Stories We Tell» was named best nonfiction film and Bruno Delbonnel received best cinematographer for «Inside Llewyn Davis.»
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BEST NONFICTION FILM * 1.
The critics also named The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson as best screenplay and chose Citizenfour as best nonfiction film.
The annual IDA Documentary Awards celebrates the best nonfiction films, programs and filmmakers of the year at the world's most prestigious event dedicated solely to the documentary genre.
Not exact matches
If what you want is to hear people talk about Petit (including Petit), you might as well buy a copy of the memoir upon which the «The Walk» is based, or watch James Marsh's great 2008 nonfiction film «Man on Wire,» which includes so many re-enactments that it's half a drama, anyway.
Terence Davies» «Of Time and the City,» which is both a documentary and a personal narrative, was chosen as best «nonfiction film.»
The film, based on the nonfiction book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, showcases the parts of Zamperini's life that took place both immediately before and during WWII — with a bit of childhood flashbacks thrown in for story purposes as well.
It may not be Wright's best film (that honor likely goes to Atonement) nor is it his most exciting (I'm a huge Hannah stan personally) and it's very far from his lower - tier material (The Soloist, Pan) but Darkest Hour sees the English auteur flexing his muscles in new and exciting ways, turning historical nonfiction into a calculated character study, an intoxicating courtroom drama and an electrifying thriller in its own right.
Based on the nonfiction book compiled by Long Beach high school teacher Erin Gruwell from the writings of her economically - challenged and scholastically - underserved students taken from their diaries, Freedom Writers is a formula feel - good film about one teacher's near - quixotic quest to get her students to learn something about themselves, and about others, in order to not be swallowed up by the negativity surrounding them.
Both films are contenders in the Oscars documentaries race, which only has one nonfiction category of Best Documentary.
Hidden Figures Recently adapted to film — with Oscar nominations for best picture and best adapted screenplay — Margot Lee Shetterly's nonfiction book depicts the lives of four black women who, as mathematicians and engineers, helped send the first American astronaut into space.