British independent
film award shortlist also includes Mike Leigh biopic Mr Turner and «honour killing» drama Catch Me Daddy
Not exact matches
Charlotte Rampling was omitted from the best actress
shortlist for her devastating performance in Andrew Haigh's 45 Years — which is only up for one
award, for outstanding British
film.
However, the only other actor with a real chance on this
shortlist is The Master's Joaquin Phoenix, who had some momentum when the
film was first released but who lost charm as Day - Lewis gained strength during this
award season.
The
film may be smarting from its widely (if not, ahem, entirely) unexpected omission from the Oscar foreign - language
shortlist earlier this week, but Xavier Beauvois's sombre religious drama «Of Gods and Men» found more love in its home country, where it scooped a leading 11 nominations for the César
Awards.
Already decorated with over 20 honours, including the 2016 Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Best Live Action Short Film
award, Graffiti marks the Barcelona - born director's return to both short
films and the Oscar race; he was previously
shortlisted for 2005's Avatar.
The Iranian
film The Salesman is
shortlisted for an Academy
Award for Best Foreign Language
Film.
And, in case it isn't clear, despite the Christmas week opening, this is not a
film with real
awards potential beyond a slim chance of cracking one of the technical categories (it is one of ten
shortlisted for the Oscars» five Visual Effects nominations).
Shortlist announced for the prestigious best foreign
film Academy
Award, with Russia's Leviathan duking it out with Poland's Ida
Many
films listed are the official submissions and
shortlists for the Foreign Language Film Oscar at next year's Academy
Awards.
The
film»71 has achieved the highest tally of nominations for this year's
awards with nine, while Pride is
shortlisted for seven.
This
shortlist consists of six
films chosen by the Academy's Foreign Language Film
Award Committee.
Oliver Schmitz's finessed feature also made the best foreign language
film shortlist for the 2011 Academy
Awards, with the work of the Mapantsula making the nine - strong
shortlist but failing to endure through to the final five.
But it was also an unusual kind of Cannes breakout, as following its very enthusiastic reception at the 2014 festival, the
film gathered gentle momentum internationally throughout the year, playing the festival circuit and sweeping the boards at Argentina's national
film awards, before being
shortlisted for the foreign - language Oscar in 2015 and getting a US release in February.
All of those
films will be struggling for a spot on the 15 -
film Oscar
shortlist — and observers of the category know that the biggest
awards hurdle for pop - culture docs can often be making it onto that list.
The
film was
shortlisted for a 2015 Academy
Award ® nomination and won a Special Jury
Award for Intuitive Filmmaking: Documentary at the 2014 Sundance
Film Festival.
Admittedly, most modern movies leave little to be desired in either standard or high definition and this isn't a
film making any technical
award shortlists.
Eighty - one countries have submitted
films for consideration in the Foreign Language
Film category for the 88th Academy
Awards ® and now it's time for you to vote on what
films you think will make the 9 -
film shortlist.
The
shortlist for the Razzies, which names the worst
films of the year, has been obtained by
awards site Gold Derby, listing...
We'd like to hear from people working in the
film industry about the lack of representation for female filmmakers on the 2018
shortlists so far, ahead of the Academy
Award nominations on 23 January.
The
film became one of the most successful documentaries of all time and picked up numerous prestigious
awards including the Grand Jury Prize at Miami Film Festival, the Golden Eye in Zurich and the Filmmakers» Award at Hotdocs, before winning two British Independent Film Awards, the BAFTA for best debut director and being shortlisted for the 2013 Academy A
awards including the Grand Jury Prize at Miami
Film Festival, the Golden Eye in Zurich and the Filmmakers»
Award at Hotdocs, before winning two British Independent
Film Awards, the BAFTA for best debut director and being shortlisted for the 2013 Academy A
Awards, the BAFTA for best debut director and being
shortlisted for the 2013 Academy
AwardsAwards.
Variety reports that Boal has been
shortlisted for the Gucci Group
Award, a prize presented during the festival since 2006 to honor outstanding cinematic achievement by individuals from outside the world of
film.
His short
film Contrapelo premiered at the Tribeca
Film Festival and was
shortlisted for an Academy
Award in 2015.
FUNN, the Sharjah - based foundation dedicated to promoting media arts for and among children and youth in the UAE, has announced that the jury of the 3rd edition of the Sharjah International Children's Film Festival (SICFF) is challenged by the large number and impressive quality of many of the submissions in the process of judging and
shortlisting the
films nominated for the SICFF
awards.
The jury, which is composed of prominent names in the filmmaking industry, including Emirati writer and filmmaker Manal Bin Amro, UAE filmmaker Abdullah Hassan Ahmed, Dr Shahin Yazdani, Professor in the Applied Communications programme at Sharjah Women's College, and Pakistani Shoaib Iqbal, Founder and Director of the Lahore International Children's Film Festival, revealed the main challenges they faced during the judging process and
shortlisting of the
films nominated for the SICFF
awards.
His work has been
shortlisted for the Philip K Dick and Seiun
awards, among others, and optioned for
film.
Austin has also scored nearly 50 feature
films, and his first major
film score, for the Sundance
Film Festival - winning
film Captain Abu Raed, was
shortlisted for the 2009 Academy
Awards for Best Original Score by the LA Times.
The
Award is supported by Channel 4, who have commissioned each of the
shortlisted artists to produce a new
film for their acclaimed Random Acts arts strand.
After fierce criticism of the
shortlists and the criteria for the
award in previous years, when candidates like the
film maker Derek Jarman (for his movie Caravaggio) were put forward, this year the Tate is refusing to publish the short list.
Recently
shortlisted for the Turner Prize for his
film All Divided Selves (2011), the final
film in a trilogy based on the psychiatrist RD Laing, Fowler's new work, made thanks to the support of the Contemporary Art Society Annual
Award for Museums, takes its starting point from material drawn from specific archives held in the North of England.
Alison Klayman's
films include Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (Special Jury Prize, Sundance 2012), which was on the Academy
Award shortlist for Best Documentary and was nominated for two Emmys and a Director's Guild of America
Award.
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.
But best of all are the superbly beautiful and compelling
films of Rosalind Nashashibi, 43, connecting lives and places, which should have been up for this
award decades ago but now star in a richly inventive and original
shortlist.
She has twice won the Rotterdam International
Film Festival Tiger
Award for short
film, was nominated for the 2013 Jarman
Award and
shortlisted for the 2013 - 15 Max Mara Art Prize for Women.
Selected 5: A lucky dip of early career artists»
film nominated by 2014 Jarman
Award shortlisted artists
Also
shortlisted for the
award are a French - born
film - maker and a painter who has become the first black woman to be in the running for the
award.
Following a successful national touring programme of exhibitions, talks and screenings,
shortlisted works were showcased at a special weekend of
film, live performances and artist / curator discussions at Whitechapel Gallery, prior to the concluding
awards evening event.
He was a recipient of the 2014 Ars Viva Prize for artists and the 2012 Jarman
Award for
film and video and was
shortlisted for the 2014 Turner Prize.
Artes Mundi 2017 winner John Akomfrah's
award winning
film Auto Da Re (2016) is on display along with the five other
shortlisted artists at the National Museum Cardiff until 17 February 2017.