Sentences with phrase «major film award»

Well, joining the ranks of Keanu Reeves, Robert Duvall, Liam Neeson, and Jenna Jameson is recent Best Actor nominee for almost every major film award and winner of some, Mickey Rourke playing Richard «Demo Dick» Marcinko in the Bethesda - published Rogue Warrior.

Davis Guggenheim's doc about poor kids and charter schools got 11 major film award nominations and won four, including the National Board of Review and Sundance Audience Prize.

Most major film award organizations rarely recognize films directed as females as award - worthy, and in some cases this is because the film industry rarely hires women to direct studio films.

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Last night, the Gotham Awards show, essentially the first major film awards of the season, decided to show some love for Jordan Peele's directorial debut.

Very few women are ever nominated for this category in major film awards ceremonies; fewer still win.

Not exact matches

Netflix has been stocking up its portfolio of original content with an eye toward challenging major film and television studios as well as bringing home award show hardware.

But in a year that's seen a slew of big budget releases and star - powered projects from some of Hollywood's most notable filmmakers (Martin Scorsese, Kenneth Lonergan, Mel Gibson) it was a $ 5 million film with no major superstar names that brought home the night's biggest award.

The food protection and preservation capabilities of X-Hance film from RPC bpi protec have been acknowledged in a major sustainability awards programme.

I don't see actresses wearing black to the major film critics awards.

Take away The Wind Rises, which was briefly screened in 2013 only to qualify for awards (which it did, collecting an Oscar nomination for best animated film), and Disney's 2013 average drops to 53.4 (the studio's lowest average since 2010), though that was still higher than four other major distributors last year.

The HFPA voters — a relatively small group as far as major awards bodies go — typically make some oddball selections, and while not all of their film choices were favorites among the film critic community, the voters seemed to avoid any laughably bad selections this year.

The film received critical praise at the major film festivals at Sundance, Tribeca, and was the Teddy Award winner at the Berlin Film Festival.

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.

Stay updated on which films are taking home top honors from the season's major critics prizes, guild awards and more.

And yes, this is most certainly a film to look out for this Oscar season, although Hancock's Saving Mr. Banks was perhaps held in too high a regard sight - unseen before it was passed over for most of the major awards on nominations day, so a wee bit of caution is apt.

Starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence as the two leads, the film is expected to be one of the major contenders in the upcoming Award season.

A few films expected to be major players in the awards season — some of which have not yet opened — were largely ignored by the guild.

It's easy to imagine this film winning major awards, too, if it hadn't predated the Academy Awards by two awards, too, if it hadn't predated the Academy Awards by two Awards by two years.

The first film out of the gate that could be a major contender at the Academy Awards next year is Snowden.

«Intermission» (2003) The debut feature of theater director John Crowley (whose «Brooklyn» should be a major player in the awards season later this year), «Intermission» is exactly the sort of film that should sink a neophyte: a sprawling ensemble piece mired in an unshakeable (and to some audiences, incomprehensible) Dublin argot.

Also worth mentioning is Kerry Washington in Django Unchained should that film become a major Awards player, but it's tough to parse out her true odds until the film has been seen.

However, the comparisons that this film invokes hardly augur a major awards run; Lee Daniels» The Butler was a complete miss with Oscar.

In addition, the inaugural Steve Friedman Award, meant to honor «a person or film that drives major public discourse on a topic or issue,» has been presented to Patty Jenkins» Wonder Woman, while the Elaine May Award, for a deserving person or film that brings awareness to women's issues, was presented to Lady Bird.

Los Angeles / November 28, 2016 — The International Press Academy (IPA) announces its nominations for the 21st Annual Satellite ™ Awards and for the first time the IPA is awarding a separate independent film and major studio film as Best Picture.

We're not quite sure yet if the film will be a major awards player but it's hard to disregard the pedigree of someone like Warren Beatty; 14 Oscar nominations, including a directing win for Reds and the recipient of the Irving Thalberg Award in 1999.

The Golden Globes, which were handed out last weekend, are the only major awards to make a distinction between drama and «musical or comedy», and Martin McDonagh's new film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, duly walked away with four of the coveted awards, including Best Motion Picture.

I went on to say «I'm fairly sure that the film will also pick up some major award nominations, though it probably won't win any.»

The award, established in 1986, is given every year to a person or entity that has made a major contribution to LGBTQ representation in film, television, or the media arts.

The only major awards nominations «All the Money» has a chance at are the BAFTAs (noms out Jan. 9) and The Oscars (noms announced Jan. 23)-- if Scott, Plummer and crew can get filming and editing done in time.

Six films have won all 3 major guild awards in the past, and only one didn't win the Oscar (Apollo 13, which lost to Braveheart.)

Here is a list of all major 2016 films in the Oscar race this year and their FYC / awards pages.

What You Need To Know: George Clooney and Grant Heslov «s Smoke House Productions has made two films in the last two years («Argo» and «The Ides of March «-RRB-, and both have been major awards - season players.

Then, we revisit two interviews with first - time directors who could win major awards on Sunday: Yance Ford, whose film Strong Island is up for Best Documentary, and Greta Gerwig, a contender for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Lady Bird.

The Prize, which carries a $ 20,000 cash award by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is presented to an outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character.

Playing Marina Vidal, the film's central character, Vega became the first transgender performer to win a major movie award when she received the Best Actress nod at Mexico's Fenix Aaward when she received the Best Actress nod at Mexico's Fenix AwardAward.

In the last couple of weeks the major fall film festivals have unveiled aggressively competitive line - ups, and the amount of potential awards product landing at Venice, Telluride, Toronto and New York is, as usual, vast.

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.

Not surprisingly, Haneke's Amour, a French / German / Austrian coproduction, made a clear sweep of the major awards; for best film, director, and acting awards for the two leads Jean - Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva.

Netflix has just gained some major talent for its post-apocalyptic thriller How It Ends, with Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker joining David M. Rosenthal's film.

Not only did it lose Best Picture, it lost other major awards that films with 14 nominations just don't lose.

But in a year when some wondered if «Star Wars» could get any major awards love, a film editing nomination — along with score, visual effects and two sound nominations — makes for a key battlefield victory.

The award finishes what was a very successful festival for Irish films with The Summit being snapped up by a major US distributor Sundance Selects after its premiere at the festival and the Irish short animation Irish Folk Furniture directed by Tony Donoghue scooping the Best Animation prize at the festival.

«A Fantastic Woman» (Chile) U.S. distributor: Sony Pictures Classics Synopsis: With seven feature length films under his belt, Chilean director Sebastián Leilo finally got major international awards attention with «A Fantastic Woman,» the first of his works to be nominated for an Oscar.

At the end of the film, after Morris has snuck off with some local kids and gotten stranded in another part of the country, Curtis rescues him, and then gives a little speech, which in a fair world would earn Robinson multiple major awards nominations.

One week after La La Land won the Toronto People's Choice Award — a key indicator of a film's likelihood of securing an Oscar nomination for Best Picture — another major awards season clue has come to us in the form of the DOC NYC's Short List.

But never mind: it is a superb film, possessed of the kind of inspired simplicity that is very difficult to achieve, and is genuinely «indie» in its soul — perhaps the most indie movie to have had major awards success in living memory.

Now, try to imagine such a film being uncertain to be recognized in every major award category.

From winning state awards to completing women - led short films, members of the Alliance of Women Film Journalist marked an array of major milestones in 2015:

As anyone could have guessed, it received a number of major Academy Award nominations (six) that echoed its status as one of the most critically acclaimed films of 2016.