Sentences with phrase «for genre awards»

Three of Alison's novels have been finalists for genre awards, including the Lou Allin Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novella.

Mixed Up has fiction to please everyone (crime, slice of life, and some scifi, fantasy, and horror) but here are ones with a fantastical or science fictional or supernaturally horrific element for the genre awards circuit:

Not exact matches

Award - winning filmmaker Ken Burns is responsible for such genre - defining and genre - defying documentary series as The Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz, to name a few.

Award winning actor F. Murray Abraham has also established a reputation for his powerful and sensitive work in the genre of spoken word with music.

The festival has become known for its diverse, genre - friendly titles that stand apart from other festivals where prestige pictures step into the awards race.

By upholding Ellison's vision to put filmmakers and artists first and preserve their authentic creative voices no matter the genre or medium, in 5 years, the company has garnered a total of 32 Academy Award nominations for their projects, including ZERO DARK THIRTY, JOY, THE MASTER, FOXCATCHER, and THE GRANDMASTER.

For anyone who thought this might be an awards player, this release date rules that out, but given the logline, it seems more like a straight genre piece anyway.

«Game of Thrones,» «Big Little Lies» and «Feud: Bette and Joan» also received two awards apiece for achievements in make - up and hair styling in their respective genres.

It's less that an inspiring based - on - a-true-story film is a rarity during the awards season — voters for the Oscars often love those — but that Spielberg has become so known for this genre.

The eight best picture nominees for the 88th Academy Awards represent a range of genres and tone.

Jordan Phipps is making big waves this year in the genre community, with a stellar performance in this year's festival favorite Close Calls and a lead role in the upcoming Halloween horror anthology 10/31, so we were thrilled to catch up with Jordan on the Orange Carpet for quick interview following our screening of Close Calls at the 2017 Halloween International Film Festival in Kill Devil Hills, NC, where she would go on to win the Best Actress award.

Giménez, who has already received over 30 awards worldwide for his work on the film, breathes much - needed new life into a genre plagued by convention and shows us that passion can be found in the most unlikely of places.

As we head towards the 2017 Academy Awards, many horror fans (myself included) are insisting that John Goodman be nominated for 10 Cloverfield Lane, and all the Oscar chatter got us thinking about other great genre performances that probably should have, at the very least, nabbed nominations.

A lucrative blockbuster winning over genre enthusiasts and thoughtful moviegoers alike, as well as being the rare sci - fi film to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, District 9 is exactly the kind of thing that sets someone up for the sophomore jinx.

The studio made its mark on the shooter genre with its award - winning Painkiller series of games for PC and Xbox prior to

Anyway, rooting for genre movies as always but if they really do n`t want to award sci fi or horror again, than Social Network would do.

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).

The awards ceremony, which takes place during the 2012 D.I.C.E summit on February 9, champions all corners of the games industry with prizes for retail, downloadable and mobile games as well as individual categories for specific genres.

SPECIAL MENTION AWARDS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Emma Thompson — for her eclecticism in switching from period films to fantasy genre, to contemporary settings.

The 2018 list includes genres not known for success at film awards generally.

Recognizing the unique challenges in designing wardrobes for different genres and time periods, the Costume Designers Guild splits its awards into «period,» «contemporary,» and «sci - fi / fantasy» categories.

As the postscript to a successful year for the Australian film industry — 2007 has seen the release of Clubland, Noise, The Home Song Stories and IF Best Feature Film award winner The Jammed — and hot on the heels of horror film Rogue comes Gabriel, a moody and visually impressive genre piece about the battle for the souls of those committed to purgatory.

And for the film — a genre - bending and visually arresting tale of an adulterous couple whose bad deeds quite literally come back to haunt them — Oshima wound up receiving one of the highest honors of his career: the best director award at Cannes.

Perhaps more notable, however, was a non-win: the mere nomination of Sigourney Weaver for Best Actress, an extreme rarity for a film that combined three genres often viewed as pariahs to major awards programs: horror, science fiction, and action.

An enduring genre favorite, «Rosemary's Baby» is one of the rare genre films to receive major award - worthy acclaim during its release, earning nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress, the latter of which was won by Ruth Gordon.

Lloyd Kaufman received the special Legend Award in 2017 for his contributions to the independent horror genre.

Universal has unveiled a new poster and teaser trailer for The Others director Alejandro Amenábar's psychological thriller Regression, starring Academy Award ® nominee Ethan Hawke (whose previous genre outings include Daybreakers and Sinister), Emma Watson and fellow Harry Potter alumnus David Thewlis, recently seen in Stonehearst Asylum.

The film, which won genre festival FantasticFest's Next Wave Best Screenplay award, is about a group of friends who meet for a dinner party on the night of an abnormal astrological occurrence.

Gamora actress Saldana said the snobbery is «insulting» to the cast and the crew and called for awards organisers to pay more attention to the genre.

At the film's recent press day, Shyamalan and Blum discussed their creative partnership and the most surprising aspect of working with each other, why the scares in this film are deceptively simple yet terrifying and original, how the mock documentary style format gave Shyamalan new cinematic tools for keeping the audience guessing, his directing style, what he was looking for in his young actors, why he cast experienced stage actors for the grandparents» roles, his collaboration with award - winning DP Maryse Alberti, how he recruited Oxenbould to shoot the chase sequence underneath the house, why he likes treating B genre movies like they're A dramas, and more.

The various other genre awards are won by Christopher Willis his Russian - inspired music for the satirical comedy «The Death of Stalin»; and Theodore Shapiro for his anarchic but wonderfully sincere score for the animated super hero parody «Captain Underpants: The First Epic Adventure».

In addition to The Shape of Water, genre titles like Blade Runner 2049, The Last Jedi, Get Out, and Logan are all up for an impressive spread of categories that include more than the traditional collection of technical awards that more FX - heavy films that tend to be nominated for those awards.

In a rare breakthrough for a genre show, «Game of Thrones» capped off a historic evening with the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama,

DONALD SUTHERLAND: Sutherland has appeared in films of every genre, with more than 140 credits over his more than 50 years in Hollywood, but the Canadian actor has never been nominated for an Academy Award.

For a genre that sometimes fails to produce enough titles to make a yearly awards list, it's fantastic to see so much renewed interest in the genre of fireballs, uppercuts, and hurricane kicks.

Despite Best Picture wins for movies like Hitchcock's psychologically spooky Rebecca and Jonathan Demme's suspenseful classic The Silence of the Lambs, as well as the Best Director nomination awarded to The Sixth Sense's M. Night Shyamalan, it's safe to say that genre movies just can't catch a break with this awards body.

While the film community scrutinizes every decimal point on the box office returns for summer's superhero blockbusters and Academy Awards hopefuls, the horror genre has quietly been churning out some of the most profitable films in the industry recently.

Set for July 24, the mtvU Fandom Awards will pay tribute to the best offerings in genre film and television from the past year, with musical act Linkin Park headlining the ceremony at San Diego's Petco Park.

It needs that — Get Out is already eight months old and few films released in February are ever nominated for Academy Awards, let alone those made by black first - time writer - directors like Jordan Peele, and in the horror genre no less.

These wins bode well for Get Out «s Oscar chances, which until now seemed like a dark horse choice because of the Academy's reluctance to award genre films.

Ever since the launch of Anomaly: Warzone Earth [$ 1.99] back in 2012 which completely reversed the tired Tower Defence genre on its head with beautiful graphics to boot - and even won an Apple Design Award for their efforts - 11 Bit Studios have strived in releasing games that are ever increasing in quality.

However — if you don't like the crime drama genre (along the lines of The Departed), or easily cringe (like I do) at bursts of violence (of the gun and fist variety), then you may want to skip Black Mass and just wait for the Depp highlight reel come Awards Season.

Final Verdict: Hugh Laurie is incredible as the title character, but the writers deserve MVP award for making such a complicated genre so accessible.

A super-concentrated packet whose features have the precision of an X-Acto knife, Natalie Portman literally and figuratively blasted out of the box as a pubescent punkette assassin in The Professional (1994) and hasn't taken a breather since, working with the top stratum of directors in a carousel of genres ranging from costume drama (The Other Boleyn Girl) to space opera (the Star Wars prequel trilogy), to mirror - splintering psychodrama (Black Swan, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role).

And at Car and Driver, the VW Golf GTI wins an award for standing the test of time: «The Golf GTI is the progenitor of the hot - hatch genre, and age has not dulled its abilities — and so we name it a 10Best winner.»

Your e-book, This Plague of Days, Omnibus Edition was awarded an Honorable Mention for Writer's Digest's Self - Published e-Book Awards in Genre.

Imagine working your tail off to become a writer, to hone your craft, to connect with audiences who clamor for your work, then let your mind be transported to the bliss of being nominated for one of the most prestigious awards in your genre.

The RITA honors the best in the romance genre (the award is named for the first president of RWA), and the Golden Heart recognizes romance manuscripts that have not received an offer for publication.

For a complete list of the winners in each genre and category, check out IndieReader.com's Discovery Awards announcement.

First, some 20 years ago, it was the YA novel that was declared dead, only for an influx of new authors and the arrival of the Michael L. Printz Award to take the genre to unexpected heights.