Sentences with phrase «first film a prize»

The jury for the first film prize comprises recent Cannes Grand Prix winner Alice Rohrwacher, Argentine director Lisandro Alonso, Canadian direction Ron Mann, Chinese producer Vivian Qu, and Romanian director and writer Razvan Radulescu.

Not exact matches

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.

As a screenwriter first and foremost (and a director with little to no innate visual sense), I tend to prize narrative and story over most other elements in film.

With that in mind, Kathryn Bigelow's film could become the first to sweep the big three critics» prizes since «L.A. Confidential» in 1997.

I haven't seen the the Van Sant film since first screening it last May in Cannes, where it won a prize.

The film won the Golden Lion (the top prize) in Venice last year, but while early reviews have been very good, some critics have claimed it doesn't quite reach the heights of the first two films.

At the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, she became the first African - American woman to win the Best Director prize for her second feature film, Middle of Nowhere (US Dramatic Competition).

It's not as narratively or emotionally fluent as Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios» breakout debut Güeros (2014), another Berlinale debut which won the prize for best first film that year, but looks and sounds just as gorgeous, AND it has the same kind of melancholic charm to it.

Paul Schrader's «First Reformed,» which premiered at Venice and played the Telluride and Toronto film festivals, took home MFF's Fiction Feature prize.

«The Imitation Game» has a lot going for it and if it lives up to expectations it can be a major player, but first it will have to beat out its fellow Weinstein Co. films before it gets to truly make a play for the big prize.

Nyong» o (who made her feature film debut with this movie, never mind being a first - time nominee) snagged the Screen Actors Guild prize, but Lawrence did win the Golden Globe and British Academy of Film and Television Arts prize.

The love was quite well spread with Lee Chang - dong's «Burning» taking the FIPRESCI prize, Lukas Dhont's «Girl» the Camera d'Or (best first film), Gaspar Noe's «Climax» winning the Director's Fortnight section, and Ali Abbasi's Border» the Un Certain Regard award.

«I can not tell you, as much as I thought the memoir and Solomon's words and work was special, I had no concept until I saw the movie for the first time,» said the film's screenwriter, John Ridley, accepting the prize in that category as he referred to protagonist Solomon Northup.

The preferential ballot, in a competitive year with more more than two rivals vying for the prize, means you will have three or more films that collect a large slice of the vote in the first round of counting.

Both the LA and NY groups chose «The Social Network» as best picture and «Carlos» as best (and most) foreign - language film — all five and a half hours and 11 languages: English, French, German, Spanish (with a Venezuelan accent), various dialects of Arabic, Russian, Hungarian, Italian... LAFCA left no doubt about its esteem for both movies, with «Carlos» coming in as first runner - up for best picture and Fincher and Assayas sharing the director's prize.

Last year's Teddy prizes were unusually Hollywood friendly with James Franco's first short film The Feast of Stephen [clip.

Bennett Miller is the first director to be nominated since the expansion of the Best Picture category to not have his film up for the big prize.

1 Day until... Today Blue Caprice competes for two Gotham Film Awards 1 Day until... NYFCC, the oldest film critics organization (not to be confused with NYFCO, a much newer upstart) kicks off critics prize season and we get our first clue as to whether Cate Blanchett's Blue Jasmine is a steamroller (Dec 3rd) 2 Days until... NBR announces kicking off the not - critics - but - we - also - give - prizes prize season (Dec 4th) 5 Days until... Blue is the Warmest Color wins -LRB-?)

The film played in the Un Certain Regard section (but should have been in the main competition) and is eligible for the festival's Camera d'Or prize (for best first film) and the Queer Palm (for films by or about LGBTQ stories), the only film playing with that distinction.

(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.

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.

The film won the Caméra d'Or for best first feature, the Queer Palm for LGBT - relevant films, and a best performance prize for Polster in the Un Certain Regard awards — an impressive haul for an impressive film.

• «The Hurt Locker» triumphed at the National Society of Film Critics Awards, the first film in 12 years to sweep the three top critics» prizes.

What's interesting to note: if Lady Bird, The Shape of Water, or Three Billboards win Best Picture, it will be the first time since 2004 that a film featuring a woman nominated for Best Actress took the top prize.

In the first year that Cannes started calling their top prize the Palme d'Or, the Delbert Mann drama and romance based on a Paddy Chayefsky teleplay won the film festival's highest honor — and went on to earn four Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writing and Best Actor for Ernest Borgnine.

Runge's film opens as the couple first receive news that Joseph has won the prize.

The film, which also stars Joaquin Phoenix as a drifter sailor who becomes one of Dodd's first followers, won the Silver Lion award for best direction and the Volpi Cup prize for best acting (split between Hoffman and Phoenix) at Venice on Saturday.

CINEFONDATION FIRST PRIZE - PAUL EST LÀ (Paul Is Here) directed by Valentina MAUREL INSAS, Belgium SECOND PRIZE - HEYVAN (AniMal) directed by Bahram & Bahman ARK Iranian National School of Cinema, Iran THIRD PRIZE - DEUX ÉGARÉS SONT MORTS (Two Youths Died) directed by Tommaso USBERTI, La Fémis, France The CST Jury decided to award the VULCAIN PRIZE FOR ARTIST - TECHNICIAN to: Josefin ASBERG for her remarkable artistic contribution to match the inventiveness of the film THE SQUARE.

In competition for the best film prize, Thoroughbreds is an original and brilliantly executed psychological thriller — spikily performed by its two up - and - coming lead actresses and directed with a muscular authority that belies the fact that it's writer / director Cory Finley's first film.

Fox Searchlight, which released Cahill and Brit Marling's first collaboration «Another Earth,» scooped up the brainy sci - fi drama co-starring Marling and Astrid Bergès - Frisbey at Sundance, where it won this year's Alfred P. Sloan prize, which is awarded to a film pertaining to science or technology.

It seemed a given that Iñárritu would win director after taking the DGA prize, but if «The Revenant» had won best picture as well, it would have marked the first time in the Oscar's 88 years that the same filmmaker had won both director and best film two years running.

As the first awards show of the season, the Globes has always served as a reliable, if not jocular, primer into how the rest of the television and film prize calendar will end up panning out.

Among the names we find Josh Mond (who broke out big with James White in 2016), 2018 SXSW winners Nijla Mu» min and Olivia Newman (read our piping hot First Match review) along with Ana Asensio (Grand Jury prize for Most Beautiful Island in 2017), and Celia Rowlson - Hall whose MA is still a topical film discussion point in my spheres.

Juan Antonio Bardem's Death of a Cyclist (1955), one of the first Spanish films to win the critics» prize at a major European festival, was crucial in launching the modern Spanish cinema.

A Mermaid Tale The tale of two mermaids who come ashore to work as nightclub performers, the ambitious first effort captured a World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Unique Vision and Design for director Agnieszka Smoczyńska to go along with the Best Debut Feature prize she won at her native Poland's Gdynia Film Festival when the film made its world premiere in September.

After making a big splash at the 2015 Sundance film Festival at the beginning of the year, landing some big prizes at the indie showcase, the touching sensation Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is coming to theaters this summer, and the first trailer has just arrived.

«Lean on Pete,» one of 21 films competing for festival's Golden Lion prize, is the first American movie by British director Haigh.

Her first short film as a writer / director, Atlantic Avenue, won prizes at the Nantucket Film Festival, Milwaukee Film Festival, and the Tenerife International Film Festival, and also screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, Clermont Ferrand and the Palm Springs International Film Festival, among others.

SIFF 2017 IBERO - AMERICAN COMPETITION WINNER GRAND JURY PRIZE THE WINTER (EL INVIERNO)(d: Emiliano Torres, Argentina / France 2016) JURY STATEMENT: A complex and multi-layered first feature that bends the Western genre to create a remarkable film that is as much about the relationship between two men, as it is about Man's relationship to the landscape.

5:45 am (25th)-- TCM — Of Human Bondage Bette Davis won a Best Actress Oscar in 1935 for the film Dangerous, but it's widely believed that it was a bit of a consolation prize for not winning for this film the year before — one of her first prestigious leading roles, in an adaptation of a W. Somerset Maugham novel.

«Zero Motivation» Israeli dark comedy «Zero Motivation» won the top Narrative Prize at Tribeca this year, and it felt like this was the rare prize winner that won almost unanimous support from attendees: the film attracted raves from pretty much everyone that saw it, and marks first - time filmmaker Talya Lavie as an exciting new comedic voice in cinema.

Not as commendable were the slick but forgettable Leatherface, the first disappointment by French filmmaking duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury; the Spierig Brothers» Jigsaw, part 8 of the exhausted Saw series; the dull Amityville: The Awakening by Franck Khalfoun, usually a respectable genre director, who does still add his share of clever touches (and meta moments, like when a group of teenagers watch the original Amityville Horror in the «real» Amityville haunted house, into which one's family has just moved); Open Water 3: Cage Dive, whose shark - franchise designation was tacked on as an afterthought, not that it helped to draw in audiences (in an anemic year for great whites, 47 Meters Down takes the prize for the best shark film); Jeepers Creepers 3, a super-limited release — surely in part because of director Victor Salva's history as a convicted child molester — which just a tiny bit later would probably have been shelved permanently in light of the slew of reprehensible - male - behavior outings in recent months.

Carax's film, his first since «Pola X» in 1999, won the fest's top prize, the Gold Hugo for Best Film, from the festival jury.

Sam Mendes» film, a critical hit which has also been the most successful 007 outing at the box office, was the first Bond movie to be nominated for the best film prize at the awards.

In 2015, her short film Share screened at the Telluride Film Festival, won a jury prize at SXSW 2015, and won Cinéfondation's First Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

BEST FIRST FILM BY A CANADIAN DIRECTOR Sleeping Giant, Andrew Cividino ($ 500 cash prize sponsored by Telefilm Canada.)

His feature film, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, won the Palme d'Or prize at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival in 2010, making it the first Southeast Asian film to win cinema's most prestigious award.

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There were many incredible submissions, but we could only pick 3 winners: The first prize went out to UCLA TFT student Mark Columbus for The Battle of the Jazz Guitarist, an autobiographical short film about the complicated relationship between father and son.

Awards for Out (Tse): — Orizzonti award, best medium - length film, 67th Venice Film Festival — ARTE Award for best European film, Oberhausen Short Film Festival — First prize, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival