CANNES, France — In a stunning surprise, Gus Van Sant's «Elephant,» a low - budget independent film inspired by the Columbine shootings, won both the Palme d'Or and the best
director award here Sunday at the 56th Cannes Film Festival.
Not exact matches
Here Denis Robinson, artistic
director of
award - winning barbers Ruffians, which has four locations in London and one in Edinburgh, details why these five treacherous celeb styles shouldn't have worked, why they did against all logic and how they can work for you too.
Following a reception and program, the sixth annual «Architect of Defense»
award was presented to the President and CEO of Phygen Coatings, Inc. and Sterilucent, Inc., David C. Bell (pictured
here with Alliance
director Chip Laingen).
$ 140 per person inclusive of tax and service charge register
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Director of Scampi Restaurant, Walnut Street Café, and the Renegade Wine Dinner - Chef Sommelier for Daniel Johnnes «La Paulée», Food & Wine host for Playboy - Founding member of Winemakers & Sommeliers for California Wildfire Relief - His cellars have been recipients of Wine Spectators «Grand
Award»; Tribeca Grill, Veritas, GILT, and Pearl & Ash - Named «Sommelier of the Year 2014» by Food & Wine Magazine - «Wine Person of the Year 2014» by Imbibe Magazine - «Sommelier of the Year 2015» by Eater National - Featured in the New York Times, Food & Wine Magazine, Men's Journal, the New York Post, Martha Stewart, and Wine Spectator
Here at the
Director of Public
Award for Bath and North East Somerset, we have put in place a Food Forum to support schools around all aspects of food in schools.
Here, Rick Stevens, Argonne associate laboratory
director and principal investigator of the CANDLE project (left) accepts the
award from HPCwire CEO Tom Tabor (right).
Here we see the
award winning and Internationally acclaimed
director Sharmeed Obaid wearing two different formal outfits.
Immediately following, Natalie Portman joined Ron Howard to present the
award for Best
Director and declared «
Here are the all - male nominees,» with a much - needed spike of spite.
Veteran French actor André Wilms, whose association with the filmmaker dates back to 1992's «The Bohemian Life» (for which he won a European Film
Award) takes the lead
here, while other Kaurismäki alumni in the cast include New Wave icon Jean - Pierre Léaud and, of course, the
director's favorite actress Kati Outinen.
Ahead of its UK release next month, a new poster has arrived online for Michael Moore's latest documentary Where to Invade Next; check it out
here... SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Where to Invade Next Academy
Award ® - winning
director Michael Moore is back with WHERE TO INVADE NEXT: a provocative and hilarious comedy in which Moore will stop -LSB-...]
Yet
here we are in 2008 and Eastwood has won two Academy
Awards for Best
Director, twice been honored by the
Directors Guild of America, and won countless critics prizes for his work.
Fredrik Bond has been making «short» movies for the past decade as an
award - winning commercials
director (view some
here) and luck would have it that he gets to work from a top tier 2007 Blacklist Screenplay and a solid ensemble with the likes of Shia LaBeouf (who reportedly dropped acid for some scenes), Aubrey Plaza, Rupert Grint, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, Til Schweiger and Melissa Leo.
«There are 21 million people in slavery now as we sit
here,» said
director Steve McQueen while accepting the
award for best film.
«And
here are the all - male nominees,» Portman slipped in as she and Ron Howard were about to announce the nominees before
awarding the prize to The Shape of Water
director Guillermo del Toro.
Given its successful run throughout
awards season, Three Billboards would be the favorite
here, were it not for the fact that its
director, Martin McDonagh, was snubbed in the best -
director category.
Here's my picks for Best Actor, Actress,
Director, and Picture at the 2011 Academy
Awards Sunday night Feb. 27.
You can click
here to read what she had to tell us about making Halloween II (2009) and working with
director Rob Zombie and future Academy
Award Winner Octavia Spencer, and then scroll down to check out Part 2 of our conversation!
Ahead of its release next week, Paramount Pictures has dropped a new poster for
director Rupert Wyatt's (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) remake of the 1974 crime drama The Gambler... SEE ALSO: Read our review of The Gambler
here Jim Bennett (Academy
Award - nominee Mark Wahlberg) is a risk taker.
Here's what was on our (and your) minds: • In the week's biggest precursor news, Danny Boyle won the
Directors» Guild
Award.
Last month we brought you a teaser trailer for Tully [watch it
here], and now the first poster has arrived online for Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody's upcoming comedy featuring Charlize Theron; take a look
here... A new comedy from Academy
Award ® - nominated
director Jason Reitman («Up in the Air») and Academy
Award ® - winning screenwriter Diablo Cody («Juno»).
Director Tom Hooper, who's had such triumphs in recent years with both The King's Speech and Les Misérables, has over-indulged his leading man
here, although it has to be said this type of big performance does tend to secure
award nominations, particularly when the subject of gender confusion is involved.
Here, the 10
directors and producers behind this year's lead actor and actress nominees offer up the scenes where their leads rose to the challenge — and showed off truly
award - worthy acting chops.
Writer /
director Craig Johnson (previously of True Adolescents) won the Walt Salt Screenwriting
Award along with his co-writer Mark Heyman (Black Swan) at this year's Sundance Film Festival for The Skeleton Twins, which received many positive notices including one
here at Way Too Indie.
Yahoo! Movies has debuted a new poster and trailer for Legend, the upcoming crime thriller from
director Brian Helgeland, which stars Tom Hardy in the dual role of infamous London gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray; check them out
here... From Academy
Award ® winner Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential, Mystic River) comes the true story of the -LSB-...]
The London Film Critics Circle
Awards were held last night across the Atlantic as something of a calmer arthouse alternative to the multiplex - lusting Critics Choice
Awards here in the States, though they did share one winner: George Miller took Best
Director for Mad Max Fury Road.
His loss
here, as well as writer /
director Kenneth Lonergan, marked a total shutout for Manchester by the Sea for an
award.
Overlooked
here by the Spirit
Awards either because their budgets didn't meet qualification or otherwise: Searchlight's Battle of the Sexes and The Shape of Water (that Guillermo del Toro movie has a reported production cost north of $ 30M); Taylor Sheridan's Wind River, which won best
director at Un Certain Regard at Cannes; and Focus Features» slate of Paul Thomas Anderson's The Phantom Thread (which technically starts screening this weekend), Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled which won her best
director at Cannes, and Joe Wright's Darkest Hour.
Here are the complete noms for the 25th anniversary Gotham Independent Film
Awards including the Spotlight on Women
Directors «Live the Dream» Grant.
Another notable moment arrived when Natalie Portman co-presented the best
director award alongside Ron Howard, calling out the category's major oversight by declaring, «
here all the all - male nominees.»
Picking up an
award from the London Film Critics» Circle, Winslet said, «there are
directors, producers, and men of power who have for decades been
awarded and applauded for their highly regarded work... As women around the world and from all walks of life marched last weekend, once again joining together to speak out against harassment, exploitation, and abuse, I realised that I wouldn't be able to stand
here this evening and keep to myself some bitter regrets that I have about poor decisions to work with individuals with whom I wish I had not.»
In presenting the
award for Best
Director alongside Ron Howard, she slipped in some pointed commentary: «And
here are the all - male nominees.»
If the rivers of opinion washing along the Croisette following the 8:30 a.m. press screening are reliable,
director Miller's latest is destined for
awards here and Academy
Award nominations aplenty in early 2015, most certainly for Steve Carell as billionaire chemical fortune heir and fatally obsessive wrestling enthusiast John du Pont.
Here are the WINNERS of the 2015 European Film
Awards: Best European Film «The Lobster» «Mustang» «A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflection on Existence» «Rams» «Victoria» «Youth» — WINNER Best European
Director Malgorzata Szumowska, «Body» Yorgos Lanthimos, «The Lobster» Nanni Moretti, «Mia Madre» Roy Andersson, «A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflection on Existence» Sebastian Schipper, «Victoria» Paolo...
Following on from the latest UK trailer [watch it
here], we now have a new UK poster for Lenny Abrahamson's
award winning drama Room starring Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay; check it out... SEE ALSO: Read our reviews for Room
here and
here An intensely powerful and wonderfully life - affirming experience, Room is the new film from acclaimed
director, -LSB-...]
The
director's eclectic career includes Gods and Monsters, Kinsey, a Candyman sequel and two Twilight sequels, but his work on two Academy
Award - winning musicals, Chicago (which he wrote) and Dreamgirls (which he both wrote and directed), certainly serves him well
here.
Brooklyn - based filmmaker Sophia Takal won a Chicken & Egg Emergent Narrative Woman
Director Award on Tuesday night
here at South by Southwest, and, for the most part, her debut feature Green bears out that honor.
«We've seen some pretty remarkable success in a first year of Denver Public Schools» effort
here at Far Northeast Denver,» A + executive
director Van Schoales said Wednesday as he stood in the lobby of High Tech Early College, one of the smaller schools opened with grant dollars
awarded to remake long - struggling Montbello High School.
Having just been honoured with the title of Abu Dhabi's Leading Business Hotel at the World Travel
Awards for the fifth consecutive year, Angela Christodoulopoulou,
director of sales and marketing at Sofitel Abu Dhabi Corniche,
here sits down with Breaking Travel News to tell us about the property and what the titles mean to them.
Our team of an
award winning Course
Director and 3 Master Instructors have decades of dive training experience shared between them and are
here to help you during and after your IDC.
A former host to the World Travel
Awards Grand Final, Massimiliano Zanardi, managing
director at Mazagan Beach & Golf Resort,
here tells Breaking Travel News how the association with brand bolsters the reputation of the hotel.
With the carrier recognised as Africa's Leading Airline by voters at the World Travel
Awards, Breaking Travel News
here talks with Vincent Coste, commercial
director, Kenya Airways, to find out what it means to pick up this prestigious honour.
On a successful night for the inimitable retreat, George Cohen, managing
director, Shambala Private Reserve, South Africa,
here speaks to Breaking Travel News about how it feels to have been honoured by the World Travel
Awards.
Kamal Haer, area
director sales and marketing, Bali Resorts, InterContinental Hotels Group
here chats with Breaking Travel News editor Chris O'Toole about the
award winning InterContinental Bali.
It's finally
here — the
award - winning cult sensation Deadly Premonition is now available on PC in an enhanced
Director's Cut package!
Honoring Marieluise Hessel collector and philanthropist with the Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts
Award Read more about our honoree
here Presented by Tom Eccles executive
director Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art Bard College Also recognizing Sara Raza Guggenheim UBS MAP curator Middle East & North Africa Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum with the 2016 New Leadership
Award Read more about our NLA awardee
here Featuring mother and daughter Keynote by Mariko Silver president Bennington College Introduced by Joan Shigekawa former acting chairman National Endowment for the Arts Read more about our keynote presenters
here
Honoring Marieluise Hessel collector and philanthropist with the Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts
Award Presented by Tom Eccles executive
director Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art Bard College Also recognizing Sara Raza Guggenheim UBS MAP curator Middle East & North Africa Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum with the 2016 New Leadership
Award Featuring mother and daughter Keynote by Mariko Silver president Bennington College Introduced by Joan Shigekawa former acting chairman National Endowment for the Arts Read the Program Journal To view our week of events, click
here To watch videos of the event, click
here.
«By uniting the Nexus
Award under the umbrella of ART PARTY, we aspire to introduce our increasing and diversified audiences to individuals like Mr. Walker who have and will continue to shape the landscape of contemporary art
here in Atlanta,» says Executive
Director, Veronica Kessenich.
In
awards news: this year's BP Portrait
Award has announced its shortlist, with artists Miriam Escofet, Felicia Forte, Ania Hobson and Zhu Tongyao in the running — the winner will be announced in June; LA's Mike Kelley Foundation has named recipients for its 2018 Artist Project Grants — the Craft & Folk Art Museum, Fulcrum Arts, Hammer Museum, JOAN, LA Freewaves, LAXART, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Latin American Art, Self Help Graphics & Art and the Underground Museum will receive a total of USD$ 400,000 in support; ArtCenter / South Florida have announced a new USD$ 500,000 visual art
awards called the Ellies, with first recipients anounced in October; and the official selection for the 71st Cannes film festival, which runs 8 — 19 May, is
here, with Jean - Luc Godard, Spike Lee and Jia Zhangke in competition — only three out of 18 films competing for the Palme d'Or have female
directors.
Here to discuss the implications of Brexit on immigration law, the challenges of residency requirements, and the implementation of citizenship programmes, is Micha - Rose Emmett, Managing
Director at CS Global Partners, an international, industry - leading,
award - winning legal advisory firm specialising in citizenship and residence solutions.
Natalie Portman, briefly onstage to announce the
award for Best
Director, delivered a stone - eyed improvised line: «
Here are the all - male nominees.»