Sentences with phrase «short film academy»

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On Monday, New Form Digital, the studio formed by Discovery, Academy Award - winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) and Academy Award winning producer Brian Grazer, announced that it was partnering up with a collection of YouTube stars to fund and develop 14 short films, The Los Angeles Times reported.

Fast - casual chain Chipotle Mexican Grill added some spice to its long - running «Food With Integrity» sustainable farming campaign by teaming with Academy Award - winning design firm Moonbot Studios for The Scarecrow, an animated short film and accompanying mobile game created to increase consumer awareness of animal confinement, synthetic growth hormones, toxic pesticides and other fixtures of industrial food production.

The Academy dubbed it the year's best movie, but it is still an indie film and — Oscar bump or not — it will fall well short of any blockbuster's box - office gross.

Founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy Award - winning short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ young people (ages 13 - 24).

Thomas first combined the ministry with sports and school in 2011 at a short - lived technical film school in Memphis called Shepherd Film Academy.

His short film Dear Basketball just won the award for «best animated short» at the 2018 Academy Awards.

I was there with several of my sister bloggers and a crowd of movie fans who braved the weather to dress up, watch Academy Award nominated short films and then get down at the after party.

Note that most other awards organizations treated Damien Chazelle's Whiplash script as an original screenplay, but the Academy considered it to be an adapted screenplay for reasons known only to the Academy (Chazelle has previously released a single Whiplash scene as a short film to raise funds to complete the full movie, which is apparently the source of the problem).

As a result, recipients of the LIM Award qualify for consideration in the Short Films category of the Annual Academy Awards ® without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy rules.

Before I Disappear Shawn Christensen converts his Academy Award winning short film featuring a man who discovers his motivation to stay alive into a full feature film with Before I Disappear.

From British / Irish director Martin McDonagh, who'd already had massive transatlantic success with plays like «The Beauty Queen of Leenane» and «The Cripple of Inishmaan» and had already won an Academy Award for his short film «Six Shooter,» the hitman black comedy was not just the arrival of an exciting new director, but also marked a refreshing change of pace for Farrell, whose split personality of rugged charm, soulfulness and hair - trigger volatility found its most perfect vehicle to date.

ShortsHD, an online short film channel, has announced that they have partnered with Magnolia Pictures to release all 15 Academy Award nominated short films in theaters starting this February.

He already made guest appearances in television series and short films while still attending the Academy of Dramatic Arts.

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SKE will finance and produce the film with Plan B Entertainment, which has Academy Award - celebrated films «The Big Short,» «Selma,» «12 Years A Slave» and «The Departed» to its credit.

However, his prior filmmaking efforts were male dominated: In 2006, he won an Academy Award for his short film «Six Shooter,» which stars Brendan Gleeson; for McDonagh's 2008 feature - length debut «In Bruges,» he paired the actor with Colin Farrell in a devious tale about bumbling hitmen.

The film will be directed by Nora Twomey from Cartoon Saloon, co-director of the Academy Award ® nominee for Best Animated Feature The Secret of Kells and director of the multiple award winning shorts From Darkness and Cúilín Dualach (Backwards Boy).

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences continued its trend of the past several years by recognizing smaller independent films over major Hollywood fare — one possible explanation why «Dreamgirls» fell short of votes for a best picture nomination.

Her short film Our Rhineland has garnered broad acclaim, including a Director's guild of America Student Film Award and an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences College Television Award.

(Two additional international films on the Academy's short list of eligible contenders were also stop - motion works.)

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The Motion Picture Academy of Arts & Sciences has announced its short list for the films that will vie for the Best Visual Effects Oscar.

Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs appointed Reginald Hudlin (directors branch), Gregory Nava (writers branch), and Jennifer Yuh Nelson (short films and feature animation branch) to join the Academy's 51 - seat Board of Governors for three - year terms.

Director Shawn Christensen won an Academy Award for his short film Curfew.

Today's Edinburgh talk may have centered on festival opener «Away We Go» (more on that to come), but the day's real delight was «Mary and Max» (*** 1/2), an alternately disarming and disconcerting feature debut from claymation maestro Adam Elliot, who won a 2003 Academy Award for his short «Harvey Krumpet,» and carries that film's decidedly -LSB-...]

While that hasn't stopped previous films from scoring wins here, the last time I thought the Academy would go for a film about people living in and around landfills, surviving off the detritus they find there (2006's Documentary Short Subject nominee Recycled Life), I lost an Oscar pool.

I just caught wind that Focus Features» animated endeavor «9» from writer / director Shane Acker (and based on his Academy Award - nominated short film) has been slated for 2009, removing it from the already thin slate of contenders in the animated feature category.

Walter won an Academy Award in 2013 for Best Live Action Short for his film «Helium.»

The three top picks, all chosen by Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs and approved by the Board of Governors, are Reginald Hudlin (directors branch), Gregory Nava (writers branch) and Jennifer Yuh Nelson (short films and feature animation).

Long known for his acclaimed work as a playwright, McDonagh's twisted yet captivating characters and scenarios have also made for compelling film viewing, starting with his directorial debut «Six Shooter,» which earned an Academy Award in 2006 for Best Live - Action Short Film, and followed by In Bruges (shot by Eigil Bryld) and Seven Psychopaths.

In February, we host our Annual Oscar Shorts Festival — these are the fifteen short films nominated for Academy Awards in the categories of Best Animation, Best Live - Action and Best Documentary.

Since that auspicious debut, he has continued to collaborate with Anderson on «The Darjeeling Limited» (which the pair wrote with Roman Coppola); the short film «Hotel Chevalier»; his animated feature, «Fantastic Mr. Fox» (for which he contributed his vocal talents); «Moonrise Kingdom» (part of Anderson's stellar ensemble cast of Murray, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton and Frances McDormand), which set a new record at the specialty box office over Memorial Day weekend for best limited indie debut of all time, and, the Academy Award nominated film, «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» whose eclectic cast brought back thespians Murray, Norton and Swinton, along with Willem Dafoe, Soirsae Ronin, Ralph Finnes, Jude Law, Jeff Goldblum, Owen Wilson and Adrian Brody.

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Still, he won an Academy Award for the similarly fantastical short film «Helium,» which shared a number of themes and demonstrated he has a facility for working with younger actors.

This film's merit lies in its stunning color photography, for which it won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, which is also why the new Blu - ray release from 20th Century Fox's is a total winner: the film has received a glorious transfer with results that are nothing short of dazzling.

We've also already seen cop spoofs before in the Naked Gun and Police Academy films, the latter of which Quintano graduated from, leaving us with no concrete hook to ride for its short running length.

Volume 2 includes two Toy Story shorts, two Mater shorts, three shorts created for films» home video releases, four of what you may consider Pixar's signature dialogue - free prestige shorts (three of them Academy Award nominees), and one atypical work making its disc debut after appearances on iTunes, Facebook, and YouTube.

AMPAS also announced on Tuesday that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 90th Academy Awards ®.

The film's kid - friendly presentation, in which the bears are personified, is highly reminiscent of the True - Life Adventures films that won Walt Disney a number of Two - Reel Short Subject and Documentary Feature Academy Awards in the 1950s.

The foreign language category includes two films on the Academy's short list, The Salesman and Toni Erdmann, and one that was actually nominated the year before but not commercially released: Embrace of the Serpent.

After Russell Crowe's one - two punch of Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind (both very standard, Oscar - friendly choices), the Academy chose a cynical musical (Chicago), a fantasy epic (Return of the King), a tiny, short story boxing fable with a pro-euthanasia message (Million Dollar Baby), a wild ensemble film about racism (Crash), a dark crime epic (The Departed), another dark crime epic with an inconclusive ending no less (No Country for Old Men), and a movie about modern India (Slumdog Millionaire).

While it doesn't look like we'll be getting much in the way of extras, at least we get a behind the scenes look at the making of the film, in addition to McDonagh's Academy Award - winning short film from 2004, so if you were as enamored with this future Oscar winner as the critics and guilds have been, then be sure to note the February 13th (Digital HD) and February 27th (Blu - ray / DVD) release dates.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces eight contenders for the best documentary short film Oscar (THR).

THE 85TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS And the winners are: BEST PICTURE Argo BEST DIRECTOR Ang Lee, Life of Pi BEST ACTRESS Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook BEST ACTOR Daniel Day - Lewis, Lincoln BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Chris Terrio, Argo BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM Brave BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM Paperman BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Claudio Miranda, Life of Pi BEST COSTUME DESIGN Jacqueline Durran, Anna Karenina BEST DOCUMENTARY Searching for Sugar Man BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT Inocente BEST FILM EDITING William Goldenberg, Argo BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Amour BESTRead More →

THE 88th ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS The Complete List of Winners... and some commentary BEST PICTURE Spotlight BEST DIRECTOR Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, The Revenant BEST ACTOR Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant BEST ACTRESS Brie Larson, Room BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy, Spotlight BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, The Big Short BEST EDITING Margaret Sixel, Mad Max Fury Road BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Son of Saul, Hungary BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Emmanuel «Chivo» Lubezki, The Revenant First to win three back to back Oscars in this category.

Precious Images, made for the Directors Guild of America, won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short and has become the most widely shown short in film hisShort and has become the most widely shown short in film hisshort in film history.

Adapted from the James Joyce story of the same name (it has featured in the acclaimed Irish writer's short works collection Dubliners), The Dead was Huston's 37th feature film as a director, and came just two years after his final Academy Award ® nomination for Prizzi's Honor.

• And finally, at least one Oscar race got properly under way as the Academy announced the eight films longlisted for the Best Doumentary Short award.

The Academy has named the 10 animated short films that will advance in the voting process for the Oscars.

Workman created several short films and opening sequences for ten Academy Awards presentations and two Emmy Award shows, and in 1992 he was nominated for an Emmy for Directorial Achievement for his work on the Oscar show, and has also been nominated six times for editing on the Oscar show.