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After racking up a rash of nominations and minor wins at the Academy Awards, a Participant film finally took the big prize when Spotlight won Best Picture in February.
After racking up a rash of nominations and minor wins at the Academy Awards, a Participant film finally took the big prize when Spotlight won Best Picture in 2016.
Fifty Shades of Grey dominated this year's Razzies, taking home five top prizes at the annual award ceremony that recognizes the worst in film.
Keep in mind last year at Sundance, we produced the film that won the jury prize [«I Don't Feel at Home In This World Anymore»], and we acquired «Mudbound» in the biggest acquisition of the festival.
Weinstein Co's prized asset is its library of 277 feature films that have generated over $ 2 billion in aggregate box office receipts worldwide.
28 Oct 2014 — Coca - Cola's Del Valle Reserva brand of juice won the Technology in Beverage Packaging prize at the 2014 ABRE Awards for being the first brand to use Tetra Pak cartons with bio-based low - density polyethylene (LDPE) films derived from sugar cane.
I have no pictures of the prize because I don't have it myself but here is what is in the gift package: include sunglasses, stickers, a poster, pins and a book from the film.
In May, I wrote a blog that used Game Theory - the branch of economics invented by John Nash, the Nobel prize winner featured in the film The Beautiful Mind - to explore the likely outcome of the Brexit negotiations.
For their prizes, each was given a branded VFL Ghana bag containing; an android kiddy tablet, 10 exercise books, an Ewe — English Dictionary, Epistles to my Bubune (collections of letters), The Bloody Ingrate (story book), Nsempiisms (A collection of poetry, storytelling and satire), Love brewed in the African Pot (Africa's sensational film hit — Now a comic strip), This is Ghana (Tourism book), a food flask, a cutlery set, a portable radio set and a watch.
In this series of animated films, Nobel prize - winning scientists talk about work, life and discoveries that changed the world.
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The prize pack consists of advance screening passes to see the film POMPEII on February 19th before it opens in theatres at the Fifth Avenue Cinemas (2110 Burrard St, Vancouver), limited edition toques and film posters.
Many film fans assume that Mitchell won his 1939 Best Supporting Oscar for his portrayal of Gerald O'Hara in the blockbuster Gone With the Wind; in fact, he won the prize for his performance as the drunken doctor in Stagecoach — one of five Thomas Mitchell movie appearances in 1939 (his other films that year, classics all, were Only Angels Have Wings, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame).
Sure, this film possesses a better pedigree than most movies of its type — director Fatih Akin is rated higher in international film circles than «Death Wish» remake director Eli Roth, Diane Kruger won the Best Actress prize at Cannes for her performance and the movie is Germany's entry for this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film — and its intentions may be nobler, but, at its heart, it is not markedly different from its genre brethren.
The film aims to strike a universal chord by asserting that Helen doesn't know the significance of a prized baseball she rescued.
The film, which won the top prize this year at the Director's Fortnight sidebar, is primarily concerned with the body and brain of Brady (Brady Jandreau) a rising rodeo champ whose career is cut short by a major head injury.
The prize is Stifler, who has always had the films» best one - liners and who here borders on — but does not cross over into — the territory of being over-used.
A nominee for the Platform prize at the 2017 Festival, the debut film by Michael Pearce is a riveting, slow - burning thriller about the limits of love and the darkness inside us.
Winners, announced at a red - carpet event May 10, hosted by United Talent Agency in Beverly Hills, are awarded industry mentorships; the opportunity to screen their film at the Los Angeles - based HollyShorts Film Festival (August 9 - 18), an Academy Award - qualifying competition; $ 1,000 grants provided by Universal Filmed Entertainment Group towards their next production; and other prizes, including Dell computers and a Nike gift bag with assorted products, including a pair of shoes from the new FlyEase line!
Foster received the Best Actress prize for her work in the 1988 film «The Accused» and the 1991 movie «The Silence of the Lambs» and has directed films such as the 2011 film «The Beaver» and 1995's «Home for the Holidays.»
New films from Terrence Malick, whose The Tree of Life took the top prize last year, and There Will Be Blood director Paul Thomas Anderson, were not ready in time for inclusion, while Woody Allen's latest, To Rome with Love, is anticipated to be added to the lineup at a later date.
With her observational style favouring the minimalist movie movement, her four films to date have garnered a slew of acclaim, including the SIGNIS prize at the 2010 Venice Film Festival for the revisionist western Meek's Cutoff.
Then again, there was little precedent for grim Gothic horror films winning the top prize when «The Silence of the Lambs» swept the board nearly 20 years ago — every Oscar pundit's go - to exception that proves the, well, exception.
David's persistence in trying to grant his Dad his humble desires despite the inevitable absence of prize noney and thus poke two fingers at his home town former cronies who have written him off, is touching and enteraining enables a small triumph; act of tenderness which makes this film quietly memorable in underlining the need for small but significant acts of human kindness.
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Good spirits: Director of the film Guillermo del Toro had a hilarious moment ahead of accepting the shiny new prize as he double checked the card and smiled into the camera after he had confirmed the win for himself
Director of the film Guillermo del Toro had a hilarious moment ahead of accepting the shiny new prize as he double checked the card and smiled into the camera after he had confirmed the win for himself.
It's also one of my favorite four films and I would be very happy if it figured among the prizes.
And just as Topsy - Turvy was as much a depiction of the man behind the camera as it was about Gilbert and Sullivan, so too does a palpable affinity for Leigh's current subject course through every frame of this Cannes prize - winning film.
Word has it that the films vying for that prize include The Shape of...
Based on the best - selling prize - winning novel by Meg Rosoff, «How I Live Now» is the latest film from director Kevin Macdonald («Touching The Void,» «The Last King Of Scotland,»), and toplines Saoirse Ronan as an American teen, Daisy, who comes to stay with distant relatives in a time of strifOf Scotland,»), and toplines Saoirse Ronan as an American teen, Daisy, who comes to stay with distant relatives in a time of strifof strife.
Already «La La Land» has taken top prize at the Toronto International Film Festival, and was awarded best film of 2016 by the New York Film Critics Circle.
Accepting the World Cinema documentary directing prize, «Winnie» helmer Pascale Lamche pointedly said her film was «for those who know that history is not made by great men» — a sentiment echoed by one of the U.S. doc winners, «Step» director Amanda Lipitz, when she said, «These girls show that nothing is impossible when you surround yourself with a group of powerful women.»
Inspired by the life of Pulitzer prize - winning journalist Gary Webb (Jeremy Renner) and his «Dark Alliance» exposé on the explosion of crack cocaine in the United States (which inevitably ruined his career), the film draws attention to the power and reach of fourth and fifth estate journalism and to the subjective objectivism of its gatekeepers.
The International Panorama section of the festival, which showcases international films from Europe, the U.S., the Middle East and South America screened a mixture of prize - winners from major A-list festivals, particularly Berlin and Cannes.
The total value of prizes awarded in 2017 was over $ 90,000 in - camera packages, film stock, production services, and software.
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.
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As far as these types of films go, Moore's screenplay is incredibly unexceptional, pouring on the heavy - handedness unabashedly (including his prized line «sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine, used three times), such as showing the juxtaposition of heterosexual flirtation between Matthew Goode and Tuppence Middleton.
It's rare for the cinematography prize to go to a film not nominated for best picture — not that Deakins hasn't had more shots on goal than many of his contemporaries; five of his 14 notices have come for best picture nominees, and one of them, «No Country for Old Men,» won the big prize.
Bravo won the festival's short film grand jury prize with her «Gregory Go Boom» in 2014 and directed an episode of the Golden Globe winning television show «Atlanta.»
Namely, these films have been heralded with top prizes at important film festivals, giving them a sheen of prestige that even the best PR campaigns can't buy.
It was a night of surprises at the 68th Cannes film festival, with many critics» favourites thwarted and the jury — who are only allowed to award one prize per film — exhibiting eclectic taste and a pronounced accent on the celebration of French acting talent.
And with the exception of one film (Pascal Rabaté's Holidays By the Sea, which took the directing prize), that's the case here.
Gillespie's film in a breath of fresh, icy air, in the midst of so many serious and emotionless films that only seek to win prizes.
She and writer - director Joshua Marston shared a lot of prizes for the film, including the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's New Generation Award.
The film won a Venice Festival prize, whereupon Monicelli embarked on a lengthy apprenticeship as assistant to several of Europe's top directors: Gustav Machaty, Pietro Germi, and a host of others.
On the feature film side of things, Guillermo del Toro took the top prize for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for his work on the Best Picture nominated The Shape of Water, putting him on the level with his «Three Amigos» compadres Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro González Iñárritu.
Winner of the 2015 Grand Jury Documentary prize at Sundance this past January, this film — produced and edited by women, and with a mostly - female crew — tells the story of the six young Angulo brothers, who were raised in New York City with little to no contact with the outside world.