Sentences with phrase «nominated film directed»

Adapted from the bestselling novel by Norwegian author Jo Nesbo, this now BAFTA Award nominated film directed by Morten Tyldum concerns Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie), a corporate CEO headhunter living a life of luxury with his beautiful wife Diana (Synnove Macody Lund).

For all of the times the Academy has nominated films directed by women for Best Picture, the directors have declined except for four times: Lina Wertmuller in 1976, Jane Campion in 1993, Sofia Coppola in 2002, and Kathryn Bigelow in 2009.

Not exact matches

She also helped finance the Screen Actors Guild nominated feature film The Butler, directed by Lee Daniels and distributed by Harvey Weinstein.

Nominated for ten Oscars, the film is beautifully filmed and directed.

The Golden Globe - nominated director of Selma, Ava DuVernay is going to direct a film adaptation of the acclaimed fantasy novel, A Wrinkle in Time.

Unlike previous years, Ghana recorded a lot of new faces on the nomination list; some of whom Included new actor, Joseph Otsiman who got the nod for Best Actor In Supporting Role for his performance in the drama thriller film, The Cursed Ones directed by Nana Obiri Yeboah, who was also nominated for AMAA 2016 Award For Best Director category.

Knowing the documentary would premiere on Cupid's big day, our friends at Single Edition invited us to an advanced screening in New York City, which featured a Q&A with Robert Kenner of the Oscar - nominated Food, Inc., who both directed and produced the film.

Lean on Pete is directed by Andrew Haigh, who, as shown by his previous two films, the excellent Weekend (2011) and the flawed but Oscar - nominated 45 Years (2015), has a sure touch for characters in realistic environments.

Prior to that, he produced and starred in Phil Morrison's black comedy ALL IS BRIGHT alongside Paul Rudd and lent his vocal talents to the English - language version of the Oscar - nominated French animated feature, ERNEST & CELESTINE, and the highly anticipated feature - film adaptation of THE LITTLE PRINCE, directed by Mark Osborne.

That this is the first film for director Joe Mantello, who was nominated for a Tony for directing the stage version, may be compounding the problem.

Greig was nominated for a BIFA for her lead role in the film TAMARA DREW, directed by Stephen Frears.

This Austrian film directed by Ulrich Seidl was nominated for the Palme d'Or in the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix - Golden Apricot reward in Yerevan International Film Festival.

Most recently in 2013, Friend co-stared as Oliver Baumer in STARRED UP, directed by David Mackenzie; the film was nominated for eight British Independent Film Awards.

He took the lead in the BAFTA - nominated short film LOVE YOU MORE by Patrick Marber, directed by Sam Taylor - Johnson.

Pencil - thin Canadian actress Lynn Carlin was Oscar - nominated for her very first film, the John Cassavetes - directed Faces.

The film was written and directed by Noah Buschel, who also wrote and directed Glass Chin, nominated for 2014 Tribeca's Best Narrative Feature.

Ulu Grosbard, a Tony - nominated stage director who also worked in film, directing such movies as «True Confessions» and «The Deep End of the Ocean,» died late Sunday or early Monday in New York City, according to his family.

The festival nominated female - directed films for the EDA Awards in three categories: Best Female - Directed Narrative, Best Female - Directed Documentary and Best Female - Directed Short.

Love & Mercy, co-written by Oscar ® nominated screenwriter Oren Moverman, also stars Elizabeth Banks and Paul Giamatti, and is directed by Bill Pohlad, known as the Academy Award ® - nominated producer for such bold films as Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, Sean Penn's Into the Wild and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain.

DOXA programmers have nominated female - directed films in two EDA Awards categories: Best Female - Directed Feature Length Documentary and Best Female - Directed Documentary Short.

It's the kind of costume drama that BAFTA usually eats up, about an important historical event, and an excellent film to boot, except of course, it's about a black woman, and directed by a black woman, so why would it be nominated?

The filmmakers have assembled a stellar cast, including Felicity Jones, nominated for an Academy Award for her leading role in The Theory of Everything; Diego Luna, who was featured in 2008's Oscar - winning Milk and 2013's Elysium; Ben Mendelsohn, recently nominated for an Emmy for his leading role in Bloodline and co-starring in the upcoming Mississippi Grind; Donnie Yen, Hong Kong action star and martial artist who starred in Ip Man and Blade II; Jiang Wen, who co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in the award - winning Let the Bullets Fly and Devils on the Doorstep; Forest Whitaker, recently featured in the critically - acclaimed Lee Daniels» The Butler and winner of an Academy Award for his leading role in 2006's The Last King of Scotland; Mads Mikkelsen, who starred in The Hunt and was the memorable villain from 2006's Casino Royale; Alan Tudyk, who plays a performance - capture character in Rogue One, stars in the soon - to - be-released Con Man series and Trumbo, which releases this November; and Riz Ahmed, who was recently featured in Nightcrawler and starred in the BAFTA - winning film Four Lions.

Six Catalyst films made waves at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival: Beach Rats (U.S. Dramatic Directing Award), Chasing Coral (U.S. Documentary Audience Award), The Force (U.S. Documentary Directing Award), Patti Cake $, Unrest (Special Jury Award for Editing) and Strong Island (Special Jury Award for Storytelling), which is also nominated for an Academy Award.

He was also nominated for a directing Oscar for his subsequent film, UP IN THE AIR, for which he DID win the AFI movie of the year award.

The director of the Globe - nominated Holocaust film talks to Jason Solomons about why he chose to direct Bernhard Schlink's German fable, working with Kate Winslet and his personal odyssey as a film - maker

WHY: Phil Morrison is perhaps best known for directing the Oscar - nominated film «Junebug,» but any promise that he may have showcased with that movie has likely already been forgotten about between his little - seen follow - up «Perfect Partner» and this joyless black comedy.

The solo film being built around the King of Wakanda already has Oscar - nominated filmmaker Ryan Coogler attached to direct and write the screenplay.

Gerwig is the most notable takeaway from the morning's nominations, nominated for her solo directing debut for a film that passes the Bechdel - Wallace test with ease.

This film, Pale Blue Dot, is co-written and directed by Academy Award - nominated Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air and Thank You for Smoking).

In 2017, the HFPA had a chance to nominate a number of great directors, including Bigelow (Detroit), Dee Rees (Mudbound), Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman) and, arguably the biggest snub of all, Greta Gerwig, who saw her Lady Bird screenplay and film get nominated... but not her work directing it.

Nominated for the National Book Award in 1962, and now made into a film directed by Sam Mendes and starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, Revolutionary Road was the only book of his own that Yates considered a masterpiece, regretting that he'd written it first.

Ava DuVernay, the director behind the Oscar - nominated Martin Luther King Jr. biopic «Selma,» will write, produce, and direct a feature film set in the time of Hurricane Katrina, the company backing the film said on Monday.

The Salesman (or Forushande) is both written and directed by prominent Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, of many acclaimed films previously including About Elly, A Separation (which was nominated for Best Screenplay in 2011), and The Past.

I think I'm a little behind on my directed by women and silent film goals, but I watched some films I'd been meaning to watch for years and lots of Oscar nominated and winning films leading up to the Oscars this Sunday.

Frears, who was nominated for Best Director for his 2006 film The Queen (about Victoria's great - great granddaughter Queen Elizabeth II), read three drafts before agreeing to direct the project.

Toni Erdmann was the most - nominated film of the day with five, also picking up directing, screenplay and acting nominations for Sandra Hüller and Peter Simonischek.

Because of this, Karlson drew the assignment of directing the film's sequel, Ben (1972), featuring an Academy Award nominated title song sung by none other than Michael Jackson.

«The Voices» is directed by Oscar nominated Iranian filmmaker Marjane Satrapi («Persepolis») and marks the acting debut of producer Adi Shankar, best known for executive producing action flicks «The Grey» and «Dredd,» as well as several «bootleg» Marvel short films.

The film, directed by Stephen Frears «was nominated for Best Actress (Judi Dench) and Best Actor (Steve Coogan).

While praising Jordan Peele for becoming only the third person to be nominated for Best Directing, Screenplay and Picture for his debut film, Kimmel joked, «None other than President Trump called Get Out the best first three - quarters of a movie this year.»

Perhaps best known for «Europa Europa» (nominated in 1991 for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, Germany somehow not submitting it for Best Foreign Language Film), and directing Leonardo DiCaprio in the little - seen Arthur Rimbaud arthouse film «Total Eclipse» (1995), Holland has had a resurgence in recent years.

Jean Negulesco directed one of the great dark films from classic Hollywood, The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), but by the time of the Oscar - nominated Pleasure Seekers (1964), he was all about light and breezy.

The ceremony was hosted by comedian Mike Birbiglia, who was nominated as a Breakthrough Actor for his film «Sleepwalk With Me,» which he also wrote and directed.

It's hard to believe this is a movie written by the guy who directed Hidden Figures, though to be fair, while powerfully moving, that film, which was nominated for three Oscars this year, wasn't without its cliches and awkward moments.

She has also been nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for her work on the 1990 film «Europa Europa,» which she also directed.

There are also a number of younger directors still making plenty of films that have yet to get a best directing award — Ridley Scott has been nominated 3 times (Thelma and Louise, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down), Terrence Malick has been nominated 2 times (Tree of Life, The Thin Red Line, Paul Thomas Anderson has been nominated once (There Will Be Blood) and Tim Burton has never received a directing nomination.

Bigelow is directing from a script by Mark Boal, who also penned and produced her 2010 Best Picture and Best Director Oscar winner «The Hurt Locker,» as well as her 2010 Academy Award nominated film «Zero Dark Thirty.»

ET has an exclusive look behind the scenes of the Oscar - nominated film, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

Denis Villeneuve, who helmed the Oscar - nominated Foreign Language film Incendies, directs this suspense thriller from an original screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski (Contraband).

It's an animated film featuring the voices of Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey and Rooney Mara; Travis Knight, the Oscar - nominated animator of Coraline, directed.