Sentences with phrase «same kind of awards»

Mark, you note that even very successful comedies like Postcards From the Edge and When Harry Met Sally are rarely showered with the same kind of awards and acclaim as more serious prestige fare.

Not exact matches

Many of you may have already felt the same way, but betting on the defensive player of the year award before the season begins is kind of a fish bet.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Paramount Pictures announced on Tuesday, October 28, 2014 that Academy Award ® - nominees Greg Kinnear and Djimon Hounsou and Academy Award ® - winners Renee Zellweger and Jon Voight will star in Same Kind of Different As Me, based on the best - selling nonfiction book by Ron Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent, author of the bestselling book Heaven Is for Real.

From the looks of the teaser trailer revealed at the Game Awards at the end of last year, it looks to be the same kind of stiletto - wearing, ass - kicking, magic - hair - wielding action of the last two games.

HDT had been awarded a government contract for the same kind of system sold by Brown's company.