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Departures, a Japanese meditation on death, was the other odd winner, taking the best foreign language film prize from the much - fancied Waltz With Bashir and The Baader Meinhof Complex.

Notably, though, «Moonlight» scored more best film prizes from critics groups around the country, making it a formidable dark horse every step of the way.

Not exact matches

Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos told Variety that he was pulling the films from screening at Cannes after organizers set a rule that bars any film that doesn't have theatrical distribution from prize eligibility.

The officials at Cannes set new rules preventing films without theatrical distribution in France from competing for the festival's prizes.

28 Oct 2014 — Coca - Cola's Del Valle Reserva brand of juice won the Technology in Beverage Packaging prize at the 2014 ABRE Awards for being the first brand to use Tetra Pak cartons with bio-based low - density polyethylene (LDPE) films derived from sugar cane.

I have no pictures of the prize because I don't have it myself but here is what is in the gift package: include sunglasses, stickers, a poster, pins and a book from the film.

Sure, this film possesses a better pedigree than most movies of its type — director Fatih Akin is rated higher in international film circles than «Death Wish» remake director Eli Roth, Diane Kruger won the Best Actress prize at Cannes for her performance and the movie is Germany's entry for this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film — and its intentions may be nobler, but, at its heart, it is not markedly different from its genre brethren.

Winners, announced at a red - carpet event May 10, hosted by United Talent Agency in Beverly Hills, are awarded industry mentorships; the opportunity to screen their film at the Los Angeles - based HollyShorts Film Festival (August 9 - 18), an Academy Award - qualifying competition; $ 1,000 grants provided by Universal Filmed Entertainment Group towards their next production; and other prizes, including Dell computers and a Nike gift bag with assorted products, including a pair of shoes from the new FlyEase line!

New films from Terrence Malick, whose The Tree of Life took the top prize last year, and There Will Be Blood director Paul Thomas Anderson, were not ready in time for inclusion, while Woody Allen's latest, To Rome with Love, is anticipated to be added to the lineup at a later date.

The New York — born — and — raised directors Josh and Benny Safdie's films have earned them awards from around the world, including FIPRESCI prizes and Independent Spirit and Gotham awards.

Stay updated on which films are taking home top honors from the season's major critics prizes, guild awards and more.

Based on the best - selling prize - winning novel by Meg Rosoff, «How I Live Now» is the latest film from director Kevin Macdonald («Touching The Void,» «The Last King Of Scotland,»), and toplines Saoirse Ronan as an American teen, Daisy, who comes to stay with distant relatives in a time of strife.

The International Panorama section of the festival, which showcases international films from Europe, the U.S., the Middle East and South America screened a mixture of prize - winners from major A-list festivals, particularly Berlin and Cannes.

As always, some of the strongest films in Cannes could be found outside the main competition, and a few of them duly won prizes from their respective juries.

Screen appraises the short film prize - winners from Cannes across Competition, Cinefondation, Directors» Fortnight and Critics» Week.

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.

The film isn't going to win any prizes for originality, but the use of practical effects as well as the support from the makers of the original, is making this one not to be missed.

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.

The film is about an elderly man venturing from Montana to Nebraska in order to claim a million dollar prize with his son.

After months of speculation, tireless campaigning, and a lot of experts flip - flopping their picks, the film that seemed to be the frontrunner from the start won the top prize when «Argo» was named best picture at the 85th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday night.

Other films from Cannes making their US debut at Telluride include the Russian «Loveless,» directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, about an unhappy couple searching for their son, and winner of Cannes» Jury Prize; «A Man of Integrity,» by Mohammad Rasoulof, set in corrupt Iranian society, which won the Grand Prize of the Un Certain Regard section; «The Rider,» by Chloe Zhao, about a badly injured young South Dakotan rodeo rider, which won the top prize, the Art Cinema Award, of the Director's Fortnight; «Tesnota (Closeness),» about a Jewish family forced to try to ransom their son and his new bride, also in Un Certain Regard, by Kantemir Balagov; and Barbet Schroeder's documentary about a Buddhist monk, «Le venerable W.»

These special screenings give studios a chance to reveal their prized gems to an audience of critics from different media outlets, with the hopes they'll spread the good word about the film.

There are two things keeping cinematic ladies away from the Best Picture race: female - centric films aren't getting the same level of successful campaigning for the top prizes, obviously, and roles that * could * go to women are going, instead, to men.

The awards included prizes from FIPRESCI (the Prize of the International Critics) as well as NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) highlighting a few foreign films.

Campillo's film is the most critically laureled film of the year so far, having picked up five prizes from critics groups, including both the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn..

«20 Feet From Stardom,» a film about the unsung lives of backup singers, took the prize for best documentary.

Wanting to keep the studio workers in his employ from organizing, he came up with a canny solution: He founded a collective, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, that would, among other things, distribute prizes to Hollywood's creators — and that would help, Mayer hoped, to keep producers and actors and other laborers of the film industry in his thrall.

Some of the best - received films at earlier festivals will get their North American launches here, including «Life is Beautiful,» Roberto Begnini's Cannes winner about an Italian clown who fights the Nazis with laughter; Rohmer's heartwarming love story «Autumn Tale,» which charmed Telluride audiences; Ken Loach's «My Name Is Joe,» with Cannes best actor winner Peter Mullen as a recovering alcoholic facing tough times; Theo Angelopoulos» «Eternity and a Day,» this year's Cannes winner; «The General» (1999) which won Boorman the best director prize at Cannes, and the Cannes and Telluride favorite «Claire Dolan,» by Lodge Kerrigan, with Emily Watson («Breaking the Waves») as a prostitute who thinks she can detach from her work.

The film's jumping ground sees King, fresh from her 1972 US Open win, learning of the United States Lawn Tennis Association's new prize fund which sees women players offered eight times less than men.

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.

AMITY ADVENTURE: JAWSFESTTM TREASURE HUNT: Attendees will test their knowledge of the film as they explore Amity, collect items from the treasure hunt and return completed kits for great prizes.

The resulting book, published in 1966 complete with extensive stills from those films, became a classic, still in print, and still prized by filmmakers and film buffs who now have instant access to those films.

What's more, every one of these films since Rosetta has been in Competition (La Promesse screened in the Directors» Fortnight); every one of them has won a prize from the jury (with both Rosetta and The Child taking the Palme d'Or); and every one of them has been good to terrific (désolée, les haters, Lorna rules).

Genre played a welcome role in the Competition, represented by a black - and - white neonoir (F.J. Ossang's 9 Fingers, winner of the Best Director prize), an allegorical werewolf film from Brazil (Good Manners, from the team of Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas, winner of a Special Jury Prize), and a comic reimagining of a popular gothic parable (Serge Bozon's Madame Hyde, which won the Best Actress award for its star, Isabelle Huppert).

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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.

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The film's tonal range is formidable enough to suggest that this director may be a major talent who's now emerging from relative obscurity, thanks to the Berlin prize and subsequent attention at festivals in Toronto and New York.

(2) Two prizes were awarded, first to an animation film from Belgium, Oh Willy... by Emma De Swaef and Marc Roels and to a short live action film showcased in the Young Americans section, Roger Hayn's Introducing Bobby, the portrait of a bed - ridden ex-con.

Filipino director Lav Diaz took home the top prize from the 73rd Venice Film Festival with his newest (and one of his shortest) film, The Woman Who Left.

The debut film from Sean Durkin, a newcomer and the recent winner of the special jury prize for directing at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, has been trickling out in theaters across the country.

But just for the sake of it, let's see what we can glean from the cost vs. profit of the films up for the big prize.

Produced by his friend Byron Kennedy, with whom he founded the Kennedy Miller company, the short film picked up two prizes from the Australian Film Institute.

Written by Bob Nelson (the first time Payne wasn't directly involved in writing a film he's directed), the comedic drama stars Bruce Dern (who won best actor at Cannes and is a shoo - in for his first Oscar nomination in over 35 years) and Will Forte (of «Saturday Night Live» fame, pulling off a largely dramatic role) as a father and son road tripping it from Montana to Nebraska to claim the alleged prize money the mentally deteriorating father thinks he's won.

Notably, the top films in both the narrative and documentary categories differ from the ones that took home the grand jury prizes, which singled out «I don't feel at home in this world anymore» and «Dina» in the American categories.

We spoke to Chazelle at the Lower East Side's Metrograph; the next week, his film would win the top prize from the New York Film Critics Circle.

President Jane Campion and her jury including Sofia Coppola, Willem Dafoe, Nicolas Winding Refn and Gael Garcia Bernal picked the prizes from this year's selection of 18 films in competition.

In 2017, Amazon made a big splash at Cannes with two auteur - driven Competition films from Todd Haynes («Wonderstruck») and Lynne Ramsay («You Were Never Really Here»), and wound up with a Best Actor prize for Joaquin Phoenix.

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.

Bookending its 5 - day festivities are opening - night film Billy Bishop Goes to War, FeFF Honorary Director Barbara Willis - Sweete's crack at John MacLachlan Gray and Eric Peterson's slice of Canadiana, and festival closer Union Square, a Mira Sorvino starrer from former Sundance Grand Jury prize - winner Nancy Savoca.