Sentences with phrase «feature film prize»

Overlap between the DGA and the directing branch of the Academy is particularly strong; last year's top feature film prize went to eventual Academy Award winner Damien Chazelle for «La La Land.»

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Weinstein Co's prized asset is its library of 277 feature films that have generated over $ 2 billion in aggregate box office receipts worldwide.

In May, I wrote a blog that used Game Theory - the branch of economics invented by John Nash, the Nobel prize winner featured in the film The Beautiful Mind - to explore the likely outcome of the Brexit negotiations.

The Canadian film premiered at Slamdance 2013 and took home the Best Narrative Feature prize, initiating a successful festival run...

On the feature film side of things, Guillermo del Toro took the top prize for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for his work on the Best Picture nominated The Shape of Water, putting him on the level with his «Three Amigos» compadres Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro González Iñfeature film side of things, Guillermo del Toro took the top prize for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for his work on the Best Picture nominated The Shape of Water, putting him on the level with his «Three Amigos» compadres Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro González IñFeature Film for his work on the Best Picture nominated The Shape of Water, putting him on the level with his «Three Amigos» compadres Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro González Iñárritu.

Other films walking away with prizes included Pixar feature Inside Out, which won Best Animated Ffeature Inside Out, which won Best Animated FeatureFeature.

Other winners include: Coco, which won Best Animated Feature, Faces Places, which picked up the prize for Best Documentary Feature, and Raw, a French horror film about a teenage vegetarian who realizes she is a cannibal, was named Best Foreign Language Film.

At the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, she became the first African - American woman to win the Best Director prize for her second feature film, Middle of Nowhere (US Dramatic Competition).

The indie has taken several notable prizes at domestic film festivals, including a special jury prize for breakout performance from the Los Angeles Film Festival for star Auden Thornton, as well as the narrative feature audience prize from the Austin Film Festival.

Paul Schrader's «First Reformed,» which premiered at Venice and played the Telluride and Toronto film festivals, took home MFF's Fiction Feature prize.

Making history, however, are the foreign film «A Fantastic Woman» and feature documentary «Strong Island,» projects with transgender voices, making it quite possible that the work of an openly trans person could earn one of the industry's top prizes in March.

Nyong» o (who made her feature film debut with this movie, never mind being a first - time nominee) snagged the Screen Actors Guild prize, but Lawrence did win the Golden Globe and British Academy of Film and Television Arts prize.

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya: Isao Takahata's film, likely the last production by Studio Ghibli's two masters (Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises lost to Frozen last year), probably has no shot at Best Animated Feature (How to Train Your Dragon 2 is the heavy favorite), but if it did somehow get the prize, no win on Oscar night would make us happier.

Guillermo del Toro's creature feature The Shape of Water triumphed at the Critics» Choice awards, winning four prizes including best film and best director.

A prize - winner at Sundance, the film features...

McQueen gave a shout - out to John Cassavetes as a formative influence when he accepted the director prize, and during his feature acceptance speech offered praise to the film's two nominated actors who didn't come away victorious.

By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Christopher Nolan's frequent collaborator, Wally Pfister, collected the feature - film prize at the 25th annual American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Awards for his work on last summer's blockbuster sensation «Inception.»

There was one a film trilogy, featuring outstanding special effects and a central performance from Andy Serkis, that failed twice in an Oscar category before finally taking home the prize on the third try.

Much like last year, one of the Best Picture nominees for the Academy Awards ended up taking the top prize with Spotlight winning Best Feature, not to mention a prize for the film's director Tom McCarthy, who also got a prize along with Josh Singer for the film's script.

With 10 best picture nominations to choose from, there could be a twist: Perhaps the blockbuster «Toy Story 3» (also nominated in the animated feature film category) or the Coen brothers» revisionist Western, «True Grit,» could sneak in and snatch the big prize.

Argo, Ben Affleck's third feature film, is looking more and more like a lock for the Best Picture prize at Sunday's Oscars, and even if the man himself didn't get a Best Director nomination, it's still a remarkable culmination of one of the most fascinating second acts in Hollywood.

Viewers in Mexico also had plenty to celebrate when the highest grossing film in the history of their country's box office, Lee Unkrich's «Coco,» was honored with two prizes, Best Animated Feature and Best Song («Remember Me»).

, these events, hosted by Criterion staff members, will feature special guests, screenings and audience prizes, while offering unique insight into the company's process and the stories behind the films they release on Blu - rays and DVDs.

For the Annies, the two films are competing in separate races for the top prizes — Coco for Best Animated Feature and The Breadwinner for Best Animated Feature...

With A-Listers like Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie rumored to be interested in it, the script for Quentin Tarantino's 9th feature film could be a huge prize for...

Director Jairus McLeary accepts the grand jury prize for documentary feature for his film «The Work,» co-directed by Gethin Aldous.

The film won the Caméra d'Or for best first feature, the Queer Palm for LGBT - relevant films, and a best performance prize for Polster in the Un Certain Regard awards — an impressive haul for an impressive film.

Pre-Star Wars director, USC graduate, and writer George Lucas had begun his career as director of the science - fiction film THX 1138 (1971), an expanded version of a prize - winning feature film he made while studying film at USC.

«The Judgment,» a $ 1.8 million film that won the $ 45,000 Best Narrative Feature prize at the Indianapolis Heartland Film Festival, does not focus on the refugees being smuggled and killed.

It would have been nice to see film join Beauty and the Beast, Toy Story 3, and Up as the only animated features ever to be nominated for the top prize.

Anahita Ghazvinizadeh's short film Needle, which won the 2013 Cinefondation prize at Cannes, premieres today on the Criterion Channel as part of our weekly Short + Feature.

Artistic Director Charles Tesson might look to re-invite Santiago Mitre, who won the top prize in 2015, has a high profile sophomore feature The Summit ready, so could potentially show up in one of these sidebars and in the same line of thinking, Jonas Carpignano could return to the section with his 2nd film, A Ciambra.

After winning the Un Certain Regard Grand Jury prize for her 2009 sophomore feature The Father of My Children, Mia Hansen - Love (who is married to Olivier Assayas), has quickly become one of the most notable directors working with her lauded trio of films.

«The Square,» Ruben Östlund's outrageous satire centered on the world of modern art, was named Best Foreign Film; Pixar's «Coco» won the prize for Animated Feature; and «Jane,» Brett Morgen's film focusing on the life and work of primatology scientist Jane Goodall, won the Best Documentary award.

It's an impressive feature debut for French filmmaker Xavier Legrand (an Oscar nominee in the short film category), who duly won the Venice jury's Silver Lion for best director, and who stands a shot at winning another prize in Toronto's Platform competition.

Their short film Violence in the Cinema, garnered two prizes from the Australian Film Institute, spurring them on to make a feature film, Mad Max (1979), which became a global blockbuster.

What's interesting to note: if Lady Bird, The Shape of Water, or Three Billboards win Best Picture, it will be the first time since 2004 that a film featuring a woman nominated for Best Actress took the top prize.

The caustic, darkly comic ballbuster Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri walked away from the Globes with trophies in four of the six categories it was nominated in, and the most awards of any feature film of the night: The movie took the Best Motion Picture — Drama) prize, stars Sam Rockwell and Frances McDormand both took home acting awards in their categories, and director Martin McDonagh won for his screenplay.

That top prize was given to a film called Touch Me Not, an experimental feature about intimacy and touch, directed by Romanian filmmaker Adina Pintilie (seen above).

This year, the best narrative feature category sees 12 films battling it out for the prestigious prize, while 12 documentaries from around the word will compete to be named best documentary feature.

After cleaning up with various critics groups and other film - honoring bodies, and going 1 - 2 at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards, commercial juggernauts Wall ▪ E and The Dark Knight both got relegated to somewhat unfortunately expected, consolation - type booby prizes: a Best Animated Feature nod for the former, and a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Heath Ledger for the latter, among a mess of other, lesser nods.

The film was nominated for three Academy Awards ® including Best Picture, won the Palme d'Or at the 2011 Cannes International Film Festival, and shared the prize for Best Feature at the 2011 Gotham Independent Film Awards.

Why: If you think of the writing categories as the ones where Academy voters give consolation prizes to films they like but don't want for Best Picture, then expect to see Jordan Peele on stage early in the evening, picking up the hardware for his feature debut as writer / director.

But Luca Guadagnino's moving romance Call Me By Your Name also picked up a couple of major wins: Costar Timothée Chalamet received the Breakthrough Actor award, and the film claimed the top prize of Best Feature, increasing its chances of an Oscar nod, à la previous winners Moonlight, Spotlight, and Birdman,

12 movies are featured in the Official Competition, with local films and international releases duking it out for the top prize of $ 60,000.

A Mermaid Tale The tale of two mermaids who come ashore to work as nightclub performers, the ambitious first effort captured a World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Unique Vision and Design for director Agnieszka Smoczyńska to go along with the Best Debut Feature prize she won at her native Poland's Gdynia Film Festival when the film made its world premiere in September.

Juried by film professionals, the winner of each of these 5 feature film competitions will be announced at the Golden Space Needle Awards on June 12 and will split the proceeds of a $ 32,500 cash prize - pool ($ 5,000 for features and $ 2,500 for shorts).

SIFF 2017 IBERO - AMERICAN COMPETITION WINNER GRAND JURY PRIZE THE WINTER (EL INVIERNO)(d: Emiliano Torres, Argentina / France 2016) JURY STATEMENT: A complex and multi-layered first feature that bends the Western genre to create a remarkable film that is as much about the relationship between two men, as it is about Man's relationship to the landscape.

It's a category where even the notoriously conservative Academy have been known to push the boat out a little, but the new faces it sometimes features (last year's winner Lupita Nyong» o, for example) tend to need to break out in an otherwise recognized, buzzed film (like «12 Years a Slave») and even those picks are often offset by nods for established actresses who either deserve a consolation prize or who in general feel like they haven't ever really been given their due.

list for March as the most anticipated docu feature) and Jim Cummings «Thunder Road (which was our highest ranked male filmmaker with a film project debut on our most anticipated American indies for 2018) were handed the Grand Jury prizes in their respective Comp sections.