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).
If you would like to enter for your chance to win one of these great
prizes, please leave us a comment below or send us an email with your favorite character
from the
film.
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.
If you would like to enter for your chance to win one of this great
prize, please leave us a comment below or send us an email with your favorite character
from the
film.
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.