Irish films and filmmakers also have the opportunity to walk away with one of
our coveted festival awards.
Not exact matches
But the most popular acclaim was reserved for the superb American noir «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» the third and finest feature from the English writer - director Martin McDonagh («In Bruges,» «Seven Psychopaths»), which was announced on Sunday as the winner of the
festival's
coveted People's Choice
Award.
Ilo Ilo is the feature debut of Singaporean director Anthony Chen, which this week sees its release after a lengthy
festival tour during which, amongst many other prestigious
awards, it picked up the Camera d'Or 2013, the
coveted cinematography prize at Cannes.
«Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» took the
coveted audience
award, Lady Gaga performed for the premiere of her Netflix documentary, «Bodied» director Joseph Kahn kicked the Beyhive and Guillermo del Toro's «The Shape of Water» emerged as the season's
festival darling.
The jury of the 2017
festival, headed by American actor Annette Bening,
awarded this year's highly
coveted Golden Lion for Best Film to Fox Searchlight's «The Shape of Water,» Guillermo Del Toro's Cold War - era romantic fantasy starring Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Octavia Spencer.
The must - attend ceremony is being held in partnership with TravelRave, Asia's most influential travel trade
festival, and will include a gala dinner, top entertainment, as well as the presentation of the
coveted awards.
To date, 23 film
festivals have selected these films as part of their programs, and the films have won nine
awards, including Wildscreen's
coveted Panda
Award for the Best Campaign Film.