Sentences with phrase «top audience prize»
But the top audience prize doesn't always go to Oscar hopefuls, as evidenced by such titles as Where Do We Go Now?
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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.
Whale Rider was seen by millions of people and won over two dozen prizes around the world, including top honors at the Toronto (the People's Choice Award), Sundance (the Audience Award), Rotterdam, San Francisco, Maui, and Seattle (Best Film) Film Festivals.
AMERICAN HONEY, won a top prize at the Cannes Film Festival and is getting lots of rave reviews, but I don't think that main stream audiences will be so enthusiastic.
In September, Three Billboards was a surprise winner of the audience award at Toronto International Film Festival, the festival's top prize.
Add in the fact that a vote for the film also represents a vote for the much - mourned UK Film Council — oh, and that it just happens to be a smash hit with British audiences — and the royal biopic would likely have been a lock for the top prize even without the support of major US guilds.
This movie, which scored top prizes at last year's Gdynia Film Festival and keeps winning new accolades all over the world, marks an arrival of a new, formidable directing talent and I hope it will find the widest possible audience.
The Top Five bumpers will play at the Fantastic Fest 2015 Awards Ceremony, and the audience will select the grand prize winner.
Launch Pad's top 10 finalists will pitch their automotive businesses in front of a live audience in room N258 on Wednesday, November 2, 11:00 a.m. — 12:30 p.m. Launch Pad, powered by SEMA's Young Executives Network (YEN), provides automotive innovators under 40 a platform to showcase their products and services, and provides the competition winner with a prize package to help grow the business.
 On Wednesday December 4th, spectators packed out the San Pedro Lions Den as the audience craned to see just which of the young girls would claim the top prize.
Three Colours: Blue was an immediate success, winning the top prizes at the 1993 Venice Film Festival and unanimous praise from critics and audiences the world over.