Not exact matches
Not only were multiple songs from Kearney's
debut featured on primetime TV shows and in movies, but the album was also nominated for a Dove
Award from the Gospel Music Association.
Last year, the company
debuted virtual reality roller coasters and this year it will
feature an extensive roster of Warner Bros - and DC Comics - branded rides and attractions, including the world
debut of the next generation of the
award - winning Justice League: Battle for Metropolis interactive dark ride.
It wasn't long after her 1998 graduation that the aspiring actress made her
feature debut in the 2000 drama Our Song, with nominations for the film at the Independent Spirit
Awards and the Sundance Film Festival serving to increase her exposure among cinephiles, even if the film did go largely unseen by the masses.
«White Shadow,» the first
feature from Berlin - based Israeli filmmaker Noaz Deshe, which plays Sundance this weekend having already picked up the Best
Debut award in Venice, mired us deep in this quandary, being a story, bruisingly told, set in the horrifying world of «albino hunting» in Tanzania, where local superstitions have led to a lucrative trade in albino body parts believed by witch doctors to have mystical properties.
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Award - winning director Brad Bird (Ratatouille) makes his live action
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Adapted for screen by Ian McEwan from his 2007 novella, this
debut feature from four - time Olivier
Award - winning theatre director Dominic Cooke is, at its heart, a deceptively simple tale.
Camille Vidal - Naquet's
debut feature follows Leo (Félix Maritaud, winner of the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star
Award in the Critic's Week sidebar), a 22 - year - old gay hustler in the city of Strasbourg.
The
award for best performance went to Victor Polster for Lukas Dhont's
debut feature Girl.
After climbing the credits to make her
feature debut in My Name is Tanino, McAdams was nominated for a Genie
award (the Canadian equivalent of an Oscar) for her performance in 2002's Perfect Pie.
Director, Producer, and Actor Kasi Lemmons had the film world buzzing in 1997 when her
feature - length
debut «Eve's Bayou» hit art - house screens and racked up film festival
awards along the way.
The fiction
feature debut from
award - winning documentary filmmaker Andrew Jarecki is as schizoid in many respects as its main character.
Chandor's
debut feature, which earned him a Best Original Screenplay nomination at the Academy
Awards, was a claustrophobic ensemble drama that related the bankruptcy of a Lehman Brothers analogue with elaborate, yet somewhat clunky, dialogue.
Nominated for two César
Awards including Best
Debut Feature.
With a sizeable spate of accolades to his name for his
debut effort El Bola and sophomore
feature November (including two Goyas, a European Film and Cinema Writers Circle
award, and recognition from the
«Winter's Tale» is the
feature film directorial
debut of Academy
Award - winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, who penned the 2001 Best Picture winner «A Beautiful Mind».
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.
His
feature directorial
debut, Ek Hazarachi Note (1000 Rupee Note), has received over 30
awards.
Cirkus Columbia The fourth film from Bosnian director Danis Tanović, and his third since his
debut feature No Man's Land took home the Cannes Film Festival best screenplay
award in 2001 and the best
«Intermission» (2003) The
debut feature of theater director John Crowley (whose «Brooklyn» should be a major player in the
awards season later this year), «Intermission» is exactly the sort of film that should sink a neophyte: a sprawling ensemble piece mired in an unshakeable (and to some audiences, incomprehensible) Dublin argot.
Steven Soderbergh became a Hollywood player virtually overnight after his
debut feature, Sex, Lies and Videotape won the Audience
Award at Sundance in 1989.
Niamh Creely talks to Gerard Barrett, winner of this year's IFTA Rising Star
award, about his
debut feature which is set in his home county, Kerry.
At Sundance, writer - director Robert Eggers won the U.S. Dramatic Competition Directing
Award for his
debut feature about a Puritan family in 1630s New England who leave their community to start their own farm on the edge of a forest.
The 11th Cinema Eye Honors
Awards Ceremony occured on January 11 and saw Yance Ford's STRONG ISLAND make history as the first film to win the awards for Outstanding Feature, Outstanding Direction and Outstanding
Awards Ceremony occured on January 11 and saw Yance Ford's STRONG ISLAND make history as the first film to win the
awards for Outstanding Feature, Outstanding Direction and Outstanding
awards for Outstanding
Feature, Outstanding Direction and Outstanding
Debut.
The Hoosier
Award, which recognizes a significant cinematic contribution by a person or persons with roots in Indiana, or a film that depicts Hoosier State locales and stories, went to «Columbus,» the
debut feature film of director Kogonada, which was set and shot in the southern Indiana city noted for its Modernist architecture.
She made her
feature film
debut in director Todd Graff's CAMP, a favorite at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, for which she earned an Independent Spirit
Award nomination.
The 11th Cinema Eye Honors
Awards Ceremony occurred on January 11, 2018 and saw Yance Ford's STRONG ISLAND make history as the first film to win the awards for Outstanding Feature, Outstanding Direction and Outstanding
Awards Ceremony occurred on January 11, 2018 and saw Yance Ford's STRONG ISLAND make history as the first film to win the
awards for Outstanding Feature, Outstanding Direction and Outstanding
awards for Outstanding
Feature, Outstanding Direction and Outstanding
Debut.
Barnz's
feature directorial
debut, the
award - winning PHOEBE IN WONDERLAND, starring Felicity Huffman, Patricia Clarkson and Elle Fanning, premiered in competition at Sundance 2008, and was released nationally in 2009.
2015 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: Scottish director John Maclean mimics the heart and charisma of the old western with his
feature film
debut «Slow West» starring Kodi Smit - McPhee and Academy
Award nominee Michael Fassbender.
However, his prior filmmaking efforts were male dominated: In 2006, he won an Academy
Award for his short film «Six Shooter,» which stars Brendan Gleeson; for McDonagh's 2008
feature - length
debut «In Bruges,» he paired the actor with Colin Farrell in a devious tale about bumbling hitmen.
After securing the 2013 Sundance Film Festival's Screenwriting
award, a slot on the National Board of Review's top ten list of indie films, and the vocal support of critical heavy hitters like A.O. Scott, Lake Bell's pitch - perfectly precise comedy In A World... announced itself as one of the more confident
debut features in recent memory, let alone from an actor - turned - director / writer.
Moroccan writer - director Meryem Benm» Barek tearfully accepted the Best Screenplay
award for her
debut feature «Sofia»; a Casablanca - set drama about a 20 - year - old woman facing arrest after giving birth to a baby out of wedlock, it draws heartfelt attention to the lack of women's rights in the filmmaker's home country.
Currently in release is Tom Hooper's THE KING»S SPEECH, which has been nominated for 12 2011 Academy
Awards ®, including Best Picture; Derek Cianfrance's Academy
Award ® - nominated BLUE VALENTINE; and John Wells»
feature directorial
debut, THE COMPANY MEN.
Of course, there is plenty of US Independent hipster bait and buzzy international
award winners to whet our appetites too, with some
feature debuts that prompt exploration into what will no doubt be a great MIFF.
This Kickstarter reward will be the DIGITAL PREMIERE for Rockwell's
debut «Hero» (1983)-- the rangy, offhandedly eccentric U.S. Film Festival (now known as Sundance)
award - winning
debut feature.
Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting
Award (U.S. Dramatic) and actress / writer / director Lake Bell's
debut feature, In A World is the sassy portrait of the unsung community of voiceover artists and voice coaches, living on the fringe of the «industry», never basked in Oscar glory, but with its own rules, hierarchy and Life Achievement ceremonies.
Her
award - winning
debut feature documentary Memories of a Penitent Heart, about her uncle Miguel's untimely death from AIDS, was called «exceptional» and «profoundly affecting» by The Village Voice.
Longoria can currently be seen guest - starring on the Golden Globe
Award - winning FOX comedy «Brooklyn Nine - Nine» and will star in upcoming
feature films «Refugio» (Academy
Award - nominee Demian Bichir's directorial and writing
debut), «Any Day» alongside Sean Bean and Kate Walsh, and «Visions.»
Ford also made history when he won three
awards including direction, debut and nonfiction feature film at the Cinema Eye A
awards including direction,
debut and nonfiction
feature film at the Cinema Eye
AwardsAwards.
Paddy Considine's
debut feature film Tyrannosaur is making an impression around the world, snapping up
awards at the Sundance Film Festival for the performances of its stars Olivia Coleman (Peep Show, Beautiful People) and Peter Mullan (My Name is Joe).
Phang's
award ‐ winning
debut feature Half - Life premiered in 2008 at the Tokyo International and Sundance film festivals.
In 2011, John Michael McDonagh's
debut feature The Guard was awarded Best Irish Feature at the Galway Film
feature The Guard was
awarded Best Irish
Feature at the Galway Film
Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh.
Despite an early snub at the Golden Globes, Peele won Best Directorial
Debut from the National Board of Review and is up for both Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures and Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First - Time
Feature Film Director at the Directors Guild
Awards.
«Finding Vivian Maier,» co-directed by Maier's chief curator, John Maloof,
debuted last November at DOC NYC and went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at the Miami Film Festival (tying with «The Overnighters» by Jeff Moss), the audience
awards for Best Documentary
Feature and Best New Director at the Portland International Film Festival, a Founder's Prize at the Traverse City Film Festival and the John Schlesinger
Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
You can't turn away wondering what Epps is going to do next from attacking Solomon to lusting after his top cotton picking slave, Patesy (Lupita Nyong» o, who is also generating serious
award buzz for thanks to an incredible
feature film
debut).
Best Film: Manchester by the Sea Best Director: Barry Jenkins, Moonlight Best Actor: Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea Best Actress: Amy Adams, Arrival Best Supporting Actor: Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water Best Supporting Actress: Naomie Harris, Moonlight Best Original Screenplay: Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea Best Adapted Screenplay: Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese, Silence Best Animated
Feature: Kubo and the Two Strings Breakthrough Performance (Male): Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea Breakthrough Performance (Female): Royalty Hightower, The Fits Best Directorial
Debut: Trey Edward Shults, Krisha Best Foreign Language Film: The Salesman Best Documentary: O.J.: Made in America Best Ensemble: Hidden Figures Spotlight
Award: Creative Collaboration of Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg NBR Freedom of Expression
Award: Cameraperson
Best Film: HER Best Director: Spike Jonze, HER Best Actor: Bruce Dern, NEBRASKA Best Actress: Emma Thompson, SAVING MR. BANKS Best Supporting Actor: Will Forte, NEBRASKA Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, FRUITVALE STATION Best Original Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Best Adapted Screenplay: Terence Winter, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Best Animated
Feature: THE WIND RISES Breakthrough Performance: Michael B. Jordan, FRUITVALE STATION Breakthrough Performance: Adele Exarchopoulos, BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR Best Directorial
Debut: Ryan Coogler, FRUITVALE STATION Best Foreign Language Film: THE PAST Best Documentary: STORIES WE TELL William K. Everson Film History
Award: George Stevens, Jr..
Their
debut feature has been making the rounds in festivals and on VOD, gathering critical acclaim and a handful of
awards along the way.
Last year, she won the Emerging Canadian Director
Award for her
feature debut, a micro-budget fiction called Never Eat Alone (2016).
Love After Love is the
feature directorial
debut of Russell Harbaugh (who was nominated for an Indie Spirit
Award for co-writing The Mend in 2016) and stars Andie MacDowell, Chris O'Dowd, and James Adomian.
Chow Yun - fat, at this time the biggest star in the colony, hot off the smashing success of A Better Tomorrow, plays the middle brother while pop star Jacky Cheung, himself on the road to a successful film career (he'd win the Supporting Actor Hong Kong Film
Award this year for his work in Wong Kar - wai's
debut feature As Tears Go By), plays the youngest.