Sentences with phrase «debut director»

The critically admired but little heralded Under the Shadow was a surprise success, taking best screenplay for writer - director Babak Anvari, best supporting actress for Avin Manshadi, and the Douglas Hickox award for best debut director for Anvari.

As the title card for Unforgettable was projected onto the screen at the beginning of our preview of this new psychological drama from debut director Denise Di Nova, I could only imagine the thoughts of irony going through my fellow critics» heads as the film played out before us.

Elsewhere, «Hunger» inevitably took the Discovery Award for debut director Steve McQueen, while «Waltz With Bashir» was an inspired choice for the Best Composer prize (beating Oscar - winner «Atonement,» no less).

THE DOUGLAS HICKOX AWARD [BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR] Bart Layton — The Imposter Ben Drew — Ill Manors Rowan Athale — Wasteland Rufus Norris — Broken Sally El Hosaini — My Brother The Devil

I have viewed the trailer for the film «Book Club» for a couple of months and anticipated viewing it, despite feeling pretty sure that the story would be entirely too predictable by debuting director Bill Holderman and his co-writer Erin Simms.

At this point, she was 70 years old, making her one of the oldest debut directors in Hollywood history.

Such preconceptions reckon without the graceful modulation of debut director John Carroll Lynch, himself a fine character actor (Fargo, Zodiac).

Helmed by feature debut director Nick Tomnay, The Perfect Host actually cruises along for a while on the relative strength of its two wholly invested lead performances.

Writers / debut directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein (The Incredible Burt...

The cast are uniformly excellent and it is a credit to feature film debut directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris that they have taken such a diverse ensemble of actors and seamlessly blended their acting styles together.

The big difference here is John Cho, as well as debut director Aneesh Chaganty, who did a short for Google Glass called Seeds that evidently impressed a lot of people.

Making his shift from stage theater and TV to film, debuting director Rupert Goold, who wrote the screenplay with David Kajganich, makes it clear that he trusts the facts and implications of the story he's telling.

This year's Grand Prix went to 38 - year - old debut director László Nemes for Son of Saul, the Auschwitz - set story of a prisoner working as a Sonderkommando, guiding Jews into the gas chambers and then disposing of their bodies.

Complied with a great, hilarious script, debut director Nick Gomez goes over the top to make us laugh, and totally succeeds.

Until, that is, you see what debuting director Bill Holderman and his cowriter Erin Simms have concocted for this quartet of greats.

Congratulations to Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard on winning Best Debut Director at The British Independent Film Awards

The AMD Next Wave helps foster and support today's most exciting debut directors who may become tomorrow's industry leaders.»

Every year the Oscars have the ability to wave the magic wand over a fresh young ingenue, an exciting debut director, or a brilliant new writer.

Debuting director Vadim Perelman's adaptation of the Andre Dubus» novel is made to be an «Oscar Movie».

Debut director Ricardo de Montreuil only cares about filming pretty people in the most hackneyed positions imaginable.

Debuting director Chuck Russell elicits poor performances from most of his thesps, making it difficult to differentiate between pic's comic relief and unintended howlers.

Debut director Yanne Demange does a remarkable job of ramping up the tension in the early scenes as his camera jostles with protestors summonsed by their wives and mothers» ritual banging of dustbin lids on the pavements.

Debut director Robin Pront takes an awfully long time — too long, actually — to get to his inevitable confrontations, and then his film is done.

Snappily directed by debuting director Kay Cannon (a screenwriter on the Pitch Perfect trilogy and, more substantially, TV's 30 Rock), Blockers brews a bubbling panic among the parents, invading where they shouldn't and brandi

Big Muddy (Unrated) Nadia Litz and Justin Kelly co-star as mother and son operating on the wrong side of the law in this remarkable neo noir reminiscent of Red Rock West from debut director Jefferson Moneo.

In highlighting the human element of the sport as well as the high - stakes, hair - raising reality of their exploits, debut director Richard De Aragues has crafted a film that transcends the bounds of traditional racing fans.

First - class, monstrous horror from debuting director Corin Hardy.

Debuting director Michael Gracey and screenwriters Jenny Bicks (2014's «Rio 2») and Bill Condon (2006's «Dreamgirls») unapologetically burst with heart - on - sleeve earnestness and sentimentality in a passion project about leading with your heart, making dreams a reality with pennies to your name, and proving 19th - century society wrong and pleading for acceptance in the most glorious of ways.

FILM critic Alistair Harkness reviews the world premiere of debut director Mark Gill's unauthorised biopic of Morrissey at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Just like he did in the Oscar - nominated script for The Kids Are All Right he co-wrote, debut director Stuart Blumberg gives us a lazy, smugly plotted tale full of dull characters who all share a common characteristic: They think they're wise and worldly, but they're really just selfish fuck - ups.

This certainly isn't the case with the latest reboot of Brighton Rock by screenwriter / debut director Rowan Joffe (The American).

Debut director Yann Demange has quite a bit to juggle with there but the script by Gregory Burke (who wrote the acclaimed play Black Watch) is as tight as a Lambeg drum and we have the outstanding presence of O'Connell to hold everything together.

Of the features sampled before the festival, many provided MIFF with its best and brightest offerings, including the Michael Haneke's beautiful, brave and brutal Palme d'Or winner Amour and debut director Behn Zeitlin's spellbinding and striking Sundance hit Beasts of the Southern Wild.

For now, debut director Joe Kosinksi wisely soft - pedals the stereoscopic dazzle.

See Get Out, from debuting director Jordan Peele (one half of the comic team of Key and Peele), and get woke.

Debut director Helen Walsh is an established creator of mysterious, sexually curious fictional females.

Strengths: Debuting director Aaron Sorkin's «Molly's Game» plays well for audiences and critics, who adore Jessica Chastain in the splashy title role based on the memoir by high - stakes poker wrangler Molly Bloom.

Debut director Josh Trank and his fellow first - time writer Max Landis (son of The Blues Brothers director John) attempt to appropriate the style to superhero genre, with science fiction offering Chronicle the result of their efforts

In a slightly surprising result, Duncan Jones's sci - fi debut claimed the night's top prize, Best British Independent Film, as well as Best Debut Director honors.

A brave ending of sorts is briefly tempted, but debut director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr (or, more likely, the studio that has been tinkering with this film for the last year) doesn't have the guts to go through with it.

A powerful and essential story beautifully told by debut director James Kent, Testament of Youth is old - fashioned but proper film - making with a huge truth at its core.

Credit also goes to debut director Kelly Fremon Craig for drawing up a series of life events and situations (the majority of the first 10 minutes are flashbacks to Nadine's early childhood and adolescence, showcasing that good things rarely happen in her life) that make the following 90 minutes or so of craziness (and sometimes frustrating personality traits) worth empathizing over.

Den Of Thieves review: Gerard Butler leads the cast of this gritty cops and robbers thriller from debut director Christian Gudegast.

The film is also one of Yelchin's last roles; debut director Finley dedicates it to him.