Sentences with phrase «first film award»

Both films premiered in competition with «Girl» winning the best first film award, the Camera d'Or, while «Lazzaro» nabbed Best Screenplay.

The first film award of the night was a mild surprise: Sam Rockwell won Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the violent, racist cop Jason Dixon in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Not exact matches

Netflix was also shut out in the award show's film categories, with the streaming service's original feature film Mudbound failing to win either of its two nominations, while the Cambodian Civil War drama First They Killed My Father also fell short in the foreign film category.

He worked with stars like John Legend and Oprah Winfrey before launching his own multi-platform media company, Macro Ventures, which was behind the production of Denzel Washington's Academy Award - nominated feature film «Fences» in 2016, and more recently, the acclaimed indie film «Mudbound,» which Variety predicts may be the first Netflix feature to compete for an Oscar.

In the first award year, 1964, three films were cited — Fail Safe, Fate Is the Hunter, and Becket.

The film awards process was first proposed by the West Coast Committee of the Broadcasting and Film Commission.

It is also instructive to note that no awards were given in the first three categories because of the specific requirement that the films be «Christian» in orientation.

Marisa Miller Wolfson, creator of the award winning documentary film Vegucated, took some time out to talk with me at the New York Green Festival about her film, her next projects, what inspires her, and easy first steps for people to take to transition to a healthier way of eating for personal health, the planet and the animals.

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.

After examining news photos and television films, they awarded first to Carlos.

Chocolate Milk: The Documentary counters this habitually negative narrative as award - winning director and producer Elizabeth Bayne, MPH, MFA explores the racial inequities of breastfeeding in her first feature - length film.

Old Sturbridge Village presented the first lifetime achievement award to Ken Burns himself in 2008 in honor of his many award - winning documentary films.

DeFrancisco said he's not going to drop his criticism of the state's film tax credits, a program that awards $ 420 million annually to one industry and stands to benefit the hub's first tenant, The Film House, a movie production studio.

It's the first live - action comic - book film to be nominated for best picture at the Golden Globes (airing this Sunday); and Reynolds is up for the best actor award for his masterful portrayal of the anti-hero.

In our first week's hours - long phone conversations and daily multiple emails, he's already invited me to Academy - members - only film viewings and — get this — the Academy Awards ceremony!

The unanimously - praised film with a modest budget of $ 23 million deservedly won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (the first for Spielberg), Best Cinematography (Janusz Kaminski), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score (John Williams), Best Editing (Michael Kahn), and Best Art Direction.

The film represents the first of many collaborations between Spielberg and Polish cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, who won an Academy Award for his work and was subsequently invited to join the ASC.

The film went on to sweep the Academy Awards and it won Spielberg his first Best Director Oscar.

The first recipient of MDA's Humanitarian of the Year Award, Masak's work as field announcer for the Special Olympics and his eight - year stint as host of The Jerry Lewis Telethon represents only a fraction of his remarkable work as a compassionate philanthropist, and though Masak's film work may not be as prolific or as frequent as his extensive television work, his roles in such films as Tora!

The second film's success was perhaps even more staggering than the first: The Godfather, Pt. 2 garnered six more Oscars, including a win for Coppola in the Best Director category; Robert DeNiro won his first Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor field; and the movie itself became the first and only sequel ever to win Best Picture honors.Next, Coppola began adapting the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness, transferring its story to the heart of the Cambodian jungle at the height of the conflict in Vietnam.

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.

Also starring Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver, the film netted several 2007 Genie Award nominations, but only won one: Best Supporting Actress, which went to Moss.2007 also gave Moss her first taste of financial success since the Matrix films with the surprise - hit thriller Disturbia, a thinly - veiled teenage retread of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece Rear Window.

Wings, the first feature film to win an Academy Award, tends to disappoint a little when seen today.

Winner of the very first Best Picture Academy Award, this film is one that every movie buff should see.

The following year, he played blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo in the film Trumbo (2015), nabbing Cranston his first Academy Award nomination.

She recreated this portrayal in the 1951 film version, earning her a Cannes Film Festival Award as Best Actress, her first Academy Award nomination and an invitation to the prestigious Actors Studio.

The Sting became one of the biggest hits of the early»70s; grossing 68.5 million dollars during its first run, the film also picked up seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Adapted Score for Marvin Hamlisch's unforgettable setting of Scott Joplin's ragtime music.

Of the world premieres, the major gets for Toronto include Freeheld, Peter Sollett's LGBT drama starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page; Stonewall, Roland Emmerich's drama about the birth of the gay rights movement; Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van, which is rumored to feature an awards - worthy performance from Maggie Smith; Jay Roach's film Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston as the famed Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted in the 1940s; Terence Davies's anticipated follow - up to The Deep Blue Sea, Sunset Song; Charlie Kaufman's first stop - motion film, Anomalisa; and Eye in the Sky, Gavin Hood's thriller about piloted aircraft warfare, starring Aaron Paul and Helen Mirren.

The film is the director's first effort since A Single Man, Ford's directorial debut, which led to Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Academy Award nominations for Colin Firth, as well as a Golden...

But I'm sticking with my feeeling that «ÄúThe Hurt Locker «Äù will pull this one out — that for a variety of reasons, including the simple fact that she made the better movie, Kathryn Bigelow will become the first woman to ever win the DGA feature film award.

dick clark productions announced today that Oscar - winner Angelina Jolie, and author - activist Loung Ung will receive the «Hollywood Foreign Language Film Award,» at the 21st Annual «Hollywood Film Awards» for their critically - acclaimed film First They Killed My Father, which has been selected by Cambodia's Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film.

«Maze Runner: The Death Cure» is the highest grossing film of the weekend, but according to studio estimates Sunday, many moviegoers also chose the first weekend after Oscar nominations to catch up with some awards contenders like «The Shape of Water» which had its highest grossing frame with $ 5.7 million.

The National Board of Review, the oldest film organization to hand out year - end awards and who almost always announce their awards first, didn't take that news lightly and revealed today that their winners will be announced on November 29th.

Scorsese's and Spielberg's films aren't the first family movies to get awards buzz.

The honor makes the 39 - year - old star the first black screenwriter to ever win the award as he gave one of the best speeches of the night as he admitted he thought writing the film was «impossible.»

Since first citing year - end cinematic achievements in 1929, NBR has recognized a vast selection of outstanding studio, independent, foreign - language, animated and documentary films, often propelling recipients such as George Miller's visionary 2015 Best Film winner MAD MAX: FURY ROAD into the larger awards conversation.

In a way, you can look at these awards as the first «critics awards» since, if you scroll down and look at the judges, you'll see that they are all the same critics, generally speaking, who pick films for the critics awards.

The Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary was presented to: Sandi Tan, for her film Shirkers (Director & Screenwriter: Sandi Tan, Producers: Sandi Tan, Jessica Levin, Maya Rudolph)-- In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan shot Singapore's first indie road movie with her enigmatic American mentor Georges — who then vanished with all the footage.

The category was first introduced for the seventh Academy Awards, honoring the films of 1934.

His narrative feature debut, Tornando a casa (Sailing Home) won the director several awards at international film festivals in 2001 and was nominated for Best First Feature at the Italian Golden Globes.

For those who enjoyed Radnor's first effort, this is leaps and bounds better in writing and direction while still retaining what made his Audience Award Winning film from Sundance 2010 such a beloved festival film.

First, the New York Film Critics Circle ousts long - time film reviewer Armond White after he reportedly heckled Steve McQueen, the director of «12 Years a Slave,» at an awards dinner earlier this year.

Also, this is Grandage's first feature film; he was previously a theater actor turned theater director and has won several distinguished awards, including the Laurence Olivier theater award for Best Director for «Caligula» in 2004.

As his English - language debut and first time working with Hollywood actors, The Lobster marks the beginning of a new chapter for Yorgos, whose previous films (My Best Friend, Kinetta, the Academy Award — nominated Dogtooth, and Alps) were each made in Greece on an extremely modest budget with a crew made up of Yorgos's friends.

However, the only other actor with a real chance on this shortlist is The Master's Joaquin Phoenix, who had some momentum when the film was first released but who lost charm as Day - Lewis gained strength during this award season.

Reel FX Animation Studios, an award - winning animation studio in Dallas, TX and Santa Monica, is releasing its first feature length animated film, Free Birds (in theaters November 1).

Yan caught Warner Bros. / DC's attention with her first feature film, Dead Pigs, which won the World Cinema Dramatic Award For Ensemble Acting at Sundance.

During the interview, Hooper talked about if he felt any pressure following up Les Miserables and The Kings Speech, the experience of making a film about transgender issues when the subject is so timely, when he first realized Redmayne and Vikander would deliver such tremendous performances, deleted scenes, how his first cut compared to the finished film, if he's conscious of making «awards» films and whether he want to break out of that, future projects, and so much more.

«That such a tender film about the human condition is nominated for an Academy Award — my first film in nearly two decades, and in a year where so many exceptional women are being honored for their work behind - the - camera — humbles me.

She was a 2016 Sundance Feature Film Creative Producing Fellow with the film Monsters and Men, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Outstanding First Feature.