Wally Pfister, not Roger Deakins, won
the main film prize at the 25th Annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards.
Not exact matches
In those
films, the hero Indy went through all the pain, dodged the arrows, conducted the meticulous research in order to discover the treasure, whatever it was, only for the dastardly Belloq to turn up at the last minute with his Nazi allies to petrodollar away the
main prize right at the last.
As always, some of the strongest
films in Cannes could be found outside the
main competition, and a few of them duly won
prizes from their respective juries.
At this year's Locarno Festival, (recently renewed) artistic director Carlos Chatrian similarly declared that he foresaw increasing numbers of women filmmakers in the competitions of major festivals and that he was especially proud to tout, in Locarno's
main competition section (with 17 world premieres), eight women directors.1 And Locarno's outcome, amid an impressively deep competition pool, was unexpectedly different: although I, Daniel Blake did win the audience award of the Festival's mainstream Piazza Grande section, a female writer / director, Ralitza Petrova, took the festival's top
prize for her brooding and bleak Bulgarian
film Godless.
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.
Directed by Ben and Josh Safdie, the
film was a highlight of the festival, with our own A.A. Dowd declaring Pattinson's performance as a twitchy bank robber attempting to engineer his brother's release from police custody the most deserving for the
Main Competition's best actor
prize.
, Binoche has been honoured for a succession of very fine and sensitive performances that have earned her the
main prizes at the Berlin, Venice, and Cannes
film festivals, ascending to the heights of Oscar fame when she won Best Supporting Actress for her work in The English Patient.
The
main Palme d'Or
prize for the 68th edition of the
film festival will be awarded tomorrow (Sunday) night.
Some galleries, like London's MOT International, who are screening a
film by Turner
prize contender Elizabeth Price, do it with dignity — in a little cinema, away from the
main drag.
His works have been screened at numerous international
film festivals and, in 2014, Sound of My Soul won the
main prize at the
film festival in Oberhausen.