Sentences with phrase «foreign film award»

Coincidentally, a reader asked yesterday why the Academy doesn't drop the foreign - language requirement from their foreign film award.

Meanwhile, the best foreign film award went to Andrey Zvagintsev's «Leviathan», a movie that is scathingly critical about the state of contemporary Russia.

Likely to be Germany's submission to the foreign film awards competition, the drama takes an interesting point of view and the leading performance by Christian Friedel is engrossing.

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.

The absence of any reference to The Greatest Story Ever Told by the Catholics and the fact that all but one of the films cited were foreign made, added to the furor of the National Council awards, created a shock wave in the industry still reverberating.

In addition to taking home the Oscar for Best Foreign Film at that year's Academy Awards, the film earned star Max von Sydow near universal praise from critics» circles.

For her work in the film, Mulligan won a number of critics awards for Best Actress, as well as garnering nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press, the Screen Actors Guild, and the Academy.

The subsequent film, Like Water for Chocolate (1993), ended up as one of the most profitable foreign movies ever exhibited in America and won a number of international awards as well as multiple Silver Ariels, Mexico's equivalent of the Oscar.

It makes for a powerful drama, one that has rightly been topping many critics» polls and gathering up awards, including a Golden Globe for best foreign film.

The 2018 Academy Award nominations also include another transgender entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category with the Chilean / German co-production, A Fantastic Woman, a film about a trans woman who faces transphobia while mourning her lover's death.

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.

It was Switzerland's offering to the Academy Awards for best foreign film of 2006.

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.

Sometimes those few mostly come in the form of foreign language film contenders, but sometimes Cannes blows away even Toronto when it comes to giving awards season its main contenders.

Gavin Hood is a South African filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and actor, best known for writing and directing the Academy Award — winning foreign language film Tsotsi.

The film may be smarting from its widely (if not, ahem, entirely) unexpected omission from the Oscar foreign - language shortlist earlier this week, but Xavier Beauvois's sombre religious drama «Of Gods and Men» found more love in its home country, where it scooped a leading 11 nominations for the César Awards.

«Boyhood» and «The Grand Budapest Hotel» earned the top film prizes for drama and comedy or musical, respectively, at the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.'s 72nd Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night.

Ruth «s critically - acclaimed film Loving took home the award for Best Movie For Grownups, while Isabelle «s Elle scored Best Foreign Film, Annette was honored with Best Actress for 20th Century Women, and Jeff hit the stage to accept Best Support Actor for his work in Hell or High Water.

Thanks to the vagaries of film distribution and the increasing difficulties of small films and foreign language productions to get theatrical releases, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Turkish drama, which won the Best Director award at Cannes 2008, this one - week Seattle engagement at the Varsity Theatre is the film's American theatrical debut.

Participant's more than 80 films, including Spotlight, Contagion, Lincoln, The Help, He Named Me Malala, The Look of Silence, CITIZENFOUR, Food, Inc. and An Inconvenient Truth, have collectively earned 56 Academy Award ® nominations and 12 wins, including Best Picture for Spotlight and Best Foreign Language Film for A Fantastic Woman.

The 300 - plus member Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) of television, radio, and online film critics voted on the awards and they usually do a better job than the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in my opinion.

Voting is open until December 12 at 11:59 p.m. Categories include Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Documentary, Best Animated Film, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent film).

Disobedience marks the first English - language film for Chilean director Lelio — whose transgender romance A Fantastic Woman recently won the Academy Award for best foreign - language film — and it is also his most affecting work.

Last year's Palme d'Or winner was Ruben Ostlund's The Square, which went on to be nominated for best foreign language film at the Academy Awards.

The movie, which has options for English or German audio tracks, was selected as Austria's foreign film entry in the forthcoming Academy Awards.

Director Oliver Hirschbiegel is a prodigious talent, whose best known movie, Downfall — the 2004 account of Adolf Hitler's last days — garnered an Academy Award nomination for best foreign language film and launched an enduring internet meme.

Chinese director Jia Zhangke took home the best screenplay award at Cannes last year, and many stateside critics — including the L.A. Times» Kenneth Turan — put it on their lists of top foreign films for 2013.

Swedish director Ruben Östlund's «The Square,» a many - barbed satire of the art world, was nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language film.

And while it's an art that has already yielded our first magnum opus of the year, the 100 Most Anticipated Movies Of 2014, (and we should probably be awarded the rest of January off as a result) there's still a category of film we've left unmined: those movies that we saw and reviewed in 2013 at festivals or sneak screenings or parts foreign tha t won't be in theaters until 2014.

The Iranian film The Salesman is shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

His work on the film awarded him a Golden Globe from the Hollywood Foreign Press, and Helen Mirren won an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Oh, fine, Russell Crowe), devouring trailers, and nodding with approval over the awards praise showered upon the film version of «Les Misérables» by the Screen Actors Guild and the Hollywood Foreign Press.

You hear that question every year around awards time, maybe more often than you hear it applied to the Hollywood Foreign Press, which gives out the Golden Globes for film and TV.

His newest film, Caché (also known as Hidden), received the San Francisco Film Critics Circle award for Best Foreign Language Film, as well as several other American awards, leading to the assumption that a wide variety of reviewers not only liked the film, but also bothered to see it at all.

The one remaining elephant in the room is the 2015 Silver Screen Riot Awards where we pick and choose from the elite and populist alike to make our selection for best director, performer, cinematographer, screenplay, documentary, foreign film, action movie, horror movie and comedy.

As he noted in the statement, Farhadi in 2012 won the best foreign - language film award for «A Separation.»

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.

Shortlist announced for the prestigious best foreign film Academy Award, with Russia's Leviathan duking it out with Poland's Ida

«Argo» proved to be an awards juggernaut overseas, as well, winning best foreign film over such entires as Denmark's «A Royal Affair» and the Belgian drama «Bullhead.»

It turns out they were a series of very mediocre jokes about things that had happened so far, like Harris mispronouncing Chiwetel Ejiofor's name, Terrence Howard getting surprisingly emotional, and Pawel Pawlikowski getting played off by the music as he accepted the award for best foreign film.

Oscilloscope Labs has just released the first official US trailer for a coming - of - age film titled Summer 1993, which is Spain's official entry into the Best Foreign Language category at the Academy Awards this year.

His previous work includes a host of various Indian films, including composing for Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Foreign Film.

The latter film won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Winner of Best Picture Awards at numerous international film festivals including Sydney, Berlin and Fajr in its native Iran, as well as the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, the film is an intimate drama about conflict within and between two families of vastly different social and economic standings.

BEST PICTURE: «Birdman» ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD FOR BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING: Richard Linklater — «Boyhood» BEST ACTOR: Michael Keaton — «Birdman» BEST ACTRESS: Rosamund Pike — «Gone Girl» BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Edward Norton — «Birdman» BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Patricia Arquette — «Boyhood» ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicholas Glocobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo — «Birdman» ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Gillian Robespierre — «Obvious Child» BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: «The Lego Movie» BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: «CitizenFour» BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: «Ida» (Poland) VINCE KOEHLER AWARD FOR BEST SCI - FI, FANTASY or HORROR FILM: «The Babadook»

Angelina Jolie's Cambodian drama, First They Killed My Father, was nominated in the best - foreign - film category, as was Paul Verhoeven's Elle, which raced through the stateside awards season last year.

Many films listed are the official submissions and shortlists for the Foreign Language Film Oscar at next year's Academy Awards.

This fantastic Chilean movie is on the Oscar nominees for Best Foreign Language film, and a strong contender for the award.

In honor of this week's release of «A Fantastic Woman,» the pick today is going to be another Academy Award nominated foreign film.

From there, the nine films are voted upon again by the Foreign Language Film Award Committee, and a secret ballot is used to determine the resulting five nominees.