Sentences with phrase «film win this year»

The film won this years prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and has been getting a lot of press (both positive and

And maybe we will see a late - breaking film win this year, thus breaking the pattern that has been set since Million Dollar Baby.

Not exact matches

The dark comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won big at the Golden Globes earlier this year, but the film has also seen a sustained backlash from critics over its questionable ending and a perceived failure in fleshing out the movie's non-white characters.

In addition to Bullock's win, it somehow managed to get a best picture nomination, because 2009 was not the finest year for film.

Last year's winner had an October release, which set the film up well to benefit from the notorious Oscar bump following its Best Picture nomination and eventual win.

Keep in mind last year at Sundance, we produced the film that won the jury prize [«I Don't Feel at Home In This World Anymore»], and we acquired «Mudbound» in the biggest acquisition of the festival.

The Oscar - winning film, which premiered 75 years ago, showed us who the good guys were.

The film is in the hands of Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal (the director and screenwriter of The Hurt Locker, which you may remember for winning every Oscar ever) and will hit theaters shortly before next year's presidential election...

It is, as well, an antidote to Mississippi Burning, a dishonest, award - winning new film in which blacks wait patiently and fearfully in the background for deliverance by two white FBI agents, played by Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe, who zealously bend the law in the interest of justice — a film one fears will have a profound effect on the way many Americans view their nation in the King Years («The Dream Dafoed,» as the Village Voice put it).

It's a safe bet that the film will win at least a few of those, but even if it doesn't, 12 Years a Slave has undoubtedly brought back up an important, though often glossed over, part of American history.

If you've listened to his music, including his most recent album, Darkness and Light, his Grammy - winning debut Get Lifted, his Oscar - winning single for the film Selma, «Glory,» or really any of the other releases in his 15 - year career, those deep Christian roots probably won't be a surprise.

And while it's true that every branch of Christianity has been racked with scandal over the years, films like the Oscar - winning Spotlight and Netflix true crime series The Keepers do a much better job of creating compelling art that raises questions about faith and morality.

Last night, the 31 - year - old won the prize for Best Screenplay and Best Director, with his film winning Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, and its stars, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, winning Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

The Academy Award - winning director has been faced with controversy in recent years but has been making favorable waves in Hollywood for his critically acclaimed film, Hacksaw Ridge.

When Spotlight, the critically acclaimed film about the Boston Globe's investigation into clergy sexual abuse, won best picture at this year's Oscars, producer Michael Sugar accepted the award with a message: This film gave a voice to survivors and this Oscar amplifies that voice which we hope....

For example, the year Dan Barber filmed Chef's Table was also the year Blue Hill at Stone Barns won a James Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurant and was named one of the World's 50 Best Restaurants.

Within the span of a year, the driver who is considered one of NASCAR's rising stars has voiced a character in a Hollywood blockbuster, had a cameo in a film helmed by an Academy Award - winning director, and appeared on an NBC television show.

Meanwhile, the main reason why the «whining fans» want to see the back of Wenger is not necessarily because Arsenal is not winning much, the main reason is because they are fed up seeing the same film played out same way every single year.

Sections may include who won the World Series and other sports championships as well as a cost of living comparison — who knew a carton of milk was only $ 1.20 in 1985 — films that came out the same year they were married and chart topping songs of the year.

The film follows Emma Morley, (Anne Hathaway) a working class budding writer and Dexter Mayhew, (Jim Sturgess) a rich, handsome playboy intent on a TV career, along a winding twenty - year - long path of will - they - won't - they - get - a-move-on.

It features Emmy - award winning actor John Turturro and 14 - year - old Jaeden Lieberher, and it will be filmed entirely in the Buffalo Niagara region from Sept. 11 to Oct. 20.

It features Emmy - award winning actor John Turturro and 14 - year - old Jaeden Lieberher, and it will be filmed...

The beauty vloggers have spoken, and Frozen flat - out wins for the most imitated look from an Oscar - nominated film this year.

The dating site is working with Entertainment One and BBC Films to help promote the film and give singles the chance to meet David Brent, played by comedian Ricky Gervais, or win a year's supply of gig tickets.

Two years before March would win an Academy Award for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde he was just beginning to get featured film roles rather than parts as an extra.

Not surprisingly, The Walk touches many of the same moments as Man on Wire, the excellent 2008 film that won the best documentary Oscar for that year.

Amour won the Palme d'Or at Cannes last year, and it's a rare double nominee at the Oscars for both Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film, but this isn't a film that rests easily among other films.

For National Public Radio and LA Theater Works Alma performed in the radio versions of Zoot Suit and Nilo Cruz's Pultizer Prize winning play Anna in the Tropics opposite Jimmy Smits.As a 25 year member of El Teatro Campesino (ETC) founded by Luis Valdez, she has appeared in landmark ETC productions of; Zoot Suit, both the film and play (1979 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award - Best Play); Corridos, both the TV version (1987 Peabody Award) and play; I Don't Have to Show You Any Stinking Badges; and Mummified Deer (Back Stage West «Honorable Mention» for her role as Mama Chu), all written and directed by Valdez.Ms.

Since then, ten years later, Polanski made his own honored Holocaust film, the Best Director - winning The Pianist (2002).

A humorous bit - part as a conservative 12 - year - old facing the wrath of a group of lethal liberals in 1995's The Last Supper dropped a dollop of humor in the mix before Moss returned to more dramatic roles in Separate Lives (1995) and A Thousand Acres (1997), and the talented young actress continued her winning streak with roles in such diverse films as The Joy Riders and Mumford (both 1999).

As with the documentary category, the Academy previously released a foreign film shortlist in December, and at that time the omissions of films such as the widely praised Two Days, One Night, Winter Sleep (which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes last year), and Mommy were considered major snubs.

Despite winning critical acclaim for her performance, it would be four years, save for a cameo in the Coens» Raising Arizona (1987) and various small roles, before she would be featured in another major film production.

After his latest feature WINTER SLEEP (2014) won Palme d'Or this year, there is no better timing to assess Nuri Bilge Ceylan's previous works, personally I was daunted by my first experience with his film, THREE MONKEYS (2008, 6/10), so until now I dare to stride a second step, here comes

Many film fans assume that Mitchell won his 1939 Best Supporting Oscar for his portrayal of Gerald O'Hara in the blockbuster Gone With the Wind; in fact, he won the prize for his performance as the drunken doctor in Stagecoach — one of five Thomas Mitchell movie appearances in 1939 (his other films that year, classics all, were Only Angels Have Wings, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame).

After Johnny has nearly blown things with Gheorge by reverting to his bad habits, Lee, who won a directing prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival, finds a way to end the film on a hopeful, if somewhat implausible, note.

Though it's among the best - reviewed movies of the year and is just about guaranteed to be 2011's # 1 film by earnings, don't expect Deathly Hallows Part 2 to score a Best Picture Academy Award win like Lord of the Rings: Return of the King did.

The legendary Japanese director has created some of the most critically - acclaimed animated films of the last 20 years, including PRINCESS MONONOKE and SPIRITED AWAY (for which he won an Oscar), but I've foolishly avoided his work.

In two years since the first film, Jennifer Lawrence has not only won an Oscar (for SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK) but also become one of the most sought - after actresses in Hollywood.

Air of sober intimacy notwithstanding, Amour, which won the Palme d'or at this year's Cannes Film Festival (Haneke's second such honor in only three years), is a horror film.

The film, directed by John Lee Hancock, won AFI's 2014 «Movie of the Year» Award and was recognized by the National Board of Review in their «Top 10 Films» and chronicles the true story of the development of the 1964 Walt Disney film Mary Poppins.

Resuming his movie career with 1962's Taras Bulba, Salt went on to win an Academy Award for his screenplay for 1969's Midnight Cowboy; nine years later, Salt, Robert C. Jones, and Nancy Dowd shared an Oscar for Coming Home (1978), his final film.

After winning the Palme d'Or in 2014 for Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan returned to Cannes with another long, dense, dialogue - heavy film, and it's currently the highest - scoring film to come out of this year's festival.

From the poster and an early first glimpse of the film, it looks to be another piece of brutal, bloody, stylized mayhem from the man who brought us the Pusher Trilogy, Bronson, and Valhalla Rising, and won best director at Cannes (where he could be returning this year) for Drive.

Take a Pulitzer Prize - winning author's first original screenplay, attach a respected director whose last film was considered a disappointment by many, and add a cast that includes Michael Fassbender (one of the highlights of that disappointing film), Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, and Cameron Diaz, and you have a solid formula for one of the most anticipated films of the year.

Still, nearly two - thirds of the studio's films failed to win over critics, and Paramount's average Metascore declined a bit compared to the year before.

Since the best picture nominee pool was expanded six years ago, no film below fourth place among the nominees (ranked by Metascore) has won the Oscar.

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

He made his screen debut in 1983 in the film comedy Baby It's You, and won the Venice Film Festival's Best Actor award that year for his work in Robert Altman's Streamers.

In 1968 he completed his first studio film, the box - office bomb Finian's Rainbow, followed the next year by The Rain People.When he was just 31, Coppola won his first Academy Award for his work on the screenplay of 1970's Patton.

In 1987, he starred as anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom alongside Kevin Kline, and though the film itself alienated some critics (Pauline Kael called it «dumbfounding»), Washington's powerful performance earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.Two years later, Washington netted another Best Supporting Actor nod — and won the award — for his turn as an embittered yet courageous runaway slave in the Civil War drama Glory.