Sentences with phrase «film follows prize»

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Chloe Zhao's «The Rider» follows a South Dakota rodeo rider in a lush, isolated setting that landed the film the top prize at Directors» Fortnight in Cannes earlier this year.

Following rave reviews the film scooped the jury prize at the Cannes closing ceremony last night.

Adapted from Frank Bill's 2013 noir novel of the same name, the film follows a man hard up for cash and determined to support his family competes in the Donnybrook, a legendary, bare - knuckle brawl where a $ 100,000 prize goes to the last man standing.

In the weeks following each film has seemed ready to take the top prize even as their «statistical» flaws begin to rack up.

It will be interesting to see if the Oscars will follow suit and honor The Shape of Water, considering that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has only honored a fantasy film with its top prize once before, with The Lord of the Ring: The Return of the King's Best Picture win in 2004.

After breaking out in 2012 with «Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare» — a film he co-directed with Susan Froemke, and which was nominated for a Grand Jury prize at Sundance — the 34 - year - old filmmaker followed up with a one - two punch: the Oscar - nominated drug documentary «Cartel Land» in 2015, and his latest film, «City of Ghosts,» which is already garnering buzz in advance of next year's nominations.

Of the documentaries (in recent years, Searching for Sugar Man and Twenty Feet From Stardom began their journeys at the festival before going on to Oscar glory), the frontrunner out of the new batch is Weiner, winner of the US documentary grand jury prize, which tracks Anthony Weiner's disastrous mayoral bid in 2014, followed closely by Life, Animated, an incredibly moving film that explores how films helped an autistic person communicate with the outside world.

At the center of this year's film selection is Benh Zeitlin's Sundance Film Festival grand jury prize winner «Beasts of the Southern Wild,» which revolves around a six year old's youthful imagination as she deals with the harsh realities of her ailing father and her rapidly sinking house following a huge storm.

The introspective, soft - spoken actor will be interviewed in an onstage Q&A at A Tribute to Viggo Mortensen on Saturday, June 11 at the Egyptian, followed by a screening of his latest film Captain Fantastic, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year and was just honored with the Best Director prize for writer / director Matt Ross from the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes.

Well Go USA CEO Doris Pfardrescher had been tracking Feng Xiaogang's I Am Not Madame Bovary for a while, finally grabbing rights to the film ahead of its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, picking up a film critics prize there followed by the Grand Jury Prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

The most recent addition to the gallery stable is the French artist and 2013 Turner prize winner Laure Prouvost, who shows a new film and hip - hop soundtrack in which she follows the dreams and desires of a group of teenagers cruising through contemporary Los Angeles.

Although interest at bookmakers has been low - a reflection, perhaps, of a relatively controversy - free year - painter Tomma Abts is marginally favourite to win the # 25,000 prize, closely followed by film - maker Phil Collins.

Campbell was asked if he would like to follow the former Turner prize winner Steve McQueen into narrative film, working with the studios.