Sentences with phrase «first feature film oscar»

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Having Mudbound become the first Netflix original feature film to compete at the Oscars would be a big deal for the streaming service, and a Golden Globes win (it's nominated for Best Original Song, and Mary J. Blige is nominated as a supporting actress) could be the first step.

Fascinating results have emerged, such as the feature film NAIROBI HALF LIFE, which was the first Kenyan contribution to the Oscars in 2012.

Britain's Aardman Animations had been going since the early 1970s, and had won three Oscars for its short films «Creature Comforts,» «The Wrong Trousers» and «A Close Shave» (the latter two featuring Wallace and Gromit), by the time that the company's founder, Peter Lord, and his collaborator Nick Park codirected their first feature, Chicken Run, in 2000.

The animated film adaptation of Persepolis (US release December 2007) has garnered huge international acclaim and won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival; in 2008 it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film and won two Cesar Awards (the French version of the Oscars) for Best First Film and Best Adaptation.

Julian Schnabel isn't the only artist of his 1980s New York generation to go into moviemaking — think Robert Longo, David Salle, Cindy Sherman — but he's certainly the one who has pushed that second career the furthest and gotten the most widely admired results, from his first feature film, Basquiat, in 1996 to The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, nominated for four Oscars in 2008.