In 2016, for instance, The Revenant won the Globe for
the top drama prize, beating out eventual Best Picture winner Spotlight.
In addition to the taking home
the top drama prize, the emotional drama also garnered dual acting awards for both Sterling K. Brown (Outstanding Actor, Drama Series) and Ron Cephus Jones (Outstanding Supporting Actor, Drama Series).
Not exact matches
«Boyhood» and «The Grand Budapest Hotel» earned the
top film
prizes for
drama and comedy or musical, respectively, at the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.'s 72nd Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night.
Ben Affleck's Iran hostage
drama Argo was again victorious with its second significant award in just two days; «Best Cast Ensemble» (the
top prize) at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards
The surprise winner of the
top prize at Cannes, this three - hour French
drama is unlike any movie we've ever seen, getting so deeply under the skin of its central character that we find universal truths...
The four
top jury
prizes at Sundance 2010 were awarded Saturday night to Debra Granik's «Winter's Bone» for best U. S.
drama, Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington's «Restrepo» for U. S. documentary, David Michôd's «Animal Kingdom» for world
drama, and Mads Brügger's «The Red Chapel» for world documentary.
Answering our call was Annette Bening, who plays former Hollywood leading lady Gloria Grahame romantically linked to a much younger man in her final years in «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool»; Jessica Chastain, who plays real - life poker entrepreneur Molly Bloom targeted by the FBI in «Molly's Game»; Diane Kruger, who won the Cannes film festival's
top acting
prize for her portrayal of a woman whose husband and child have been killed by terrorists in «In the Fade»; Margot Robbie, who stars as disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding in the quirky «I, Tonya»; Saoirse Ronan, as a Sacramento teen looking for her place in the world in «Lady Bird»; and Kate Winslet, who stars in Woody Allen's 1950s Coney Island
drama «Wonder Wheel.»
In the first year that Cannes started calling their
top prize the Palme d'Or, the Delbert Mann
drama and romance based on a Paddy Chayefsky teleplay won the film festival's highest honor — and went on to earn four Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writing and Best Actor for Ernest Borgnine.
On Body and Soul (Netflix) This abstract Hungarian
drama won the Golden Bear
top prize at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival, a distinction that would help push it to a Best Foreign Language Film nomination.
It might still run into trouble with the new (and newly diverse) Academy; one year after Moonlight's historic victory, handing the
top prize to a
drama that humanizes a racist cop might feel too much like a Trumpian backslide.
Four - hour black - and - white Filipino revenge
drama scores
top award while Tom Ford's
drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams takes runnerup
prize and Emma Stone named best actress for La La Land
The SAG Awards also hand
prizes to the
top TV shows of the year, with the best
drama gong set to go to Boardwalk Empire, Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones, Homeland or House of Cards.
Up next: It's a tie at Cannes» 61, as Luis Buñuel's anarchic Viridiana splits the
top prize with a forgotten French
drama, The Long Absence.
The wonderful Benedict Cumberbatch stars in this WWII
drama about British code - breaker Alan Turing which has just won the
top prize at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Mungiu is the only figure on the jury to have taken home the festival's
top Palme d'Or
prize, which he won in 2007 for the harrowing
drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.
To date, Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri has struck a chord during awards season, earning five Golden Globe nominations including Best
Drama and five SAG Awards including best ensemble, the org's
top prize.
CANNES, FRANCE — One of the most generous juries at any recent edition of the Cannes film festival handed out
prizes Sunday night to 9 of the 20 films in competition,
topped by the Golden Palm for Michael Haneke's period
drama, «The White Ribbon.»
At the Academy Awards,
dramas usually claim not only the
top prize, but all major categories and most of the minor ones too.
But Mahershala Ali's astonishing work in Moonlight, which makes for an excellent way to reward the film even when it may not win the
top prizes (see best
drama, above), ought to be rewarded here, even if its understated power is pretty much the opposite of everything the Globes stand for.
Largely because of Jesuthasan's vivid performance, the film won the Palme d'Or
prize, the
top award in Cannes, beating out Laszlo Nemes's Hungarian Holocaust
drama «Son of Saul» which took the Grand Prix.
The 74th Golden Globe Awards, hosted by Jimmy Fallon, handed one of its
top prizes to Moonlight, naming that poetic film the year's best
drama.
If they indeed go 0 - 3 on Sunday and «The Shape of Water» takes the
top prize, the fantasy
drama will join eight other Best Picture champs that did not convert any of its three - plus acting nominations into wins.