Sentences with phrase «top film prize»

There are legitimate cases to be had for Dunkirk, The Shape of Water or Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to capture the Brits» top film prize.

The Revenant won the top film prize at the 30th annual ASC Awards, making it a threepeat for cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki.

«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.

Not exact matches

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.

The film won the top prize, the Grand Prix Award, at the Life Sciences Film Festival in Prague in 2014.

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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.

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.

Stay updated on which films are taking home top honors from the season's major critics prizes, guild awards and more.

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.

A film released in Dec. hasn't taken the top prize since «Million Dollar Baby» eleven years ago.

Beauvois's film (the French Oscar submission, which surprised many by failing to make the Academy's shortlist) took the top prize, but it was «The Ghost Writer» that netted the most wins, with four — including two for Polanski himself (Best Director and Adapted Screenplay), plus honors for editing and Alexandre Desplat's score.

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.

Chloe Zhao's «The Rider» follows a South Dakota rodeo rider in a lush, isolated setting that landed the film the top prize at Directors» Fortnight in Cannes earlier this year.

The Belgian brothers, whose films document working - class hardships with docu - realist intimacy, have twice won the top festival prize, the Palme d'Or.

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.

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.

The screenplay categories are where the Academy often gives an award to a multi-nominated film that isn't going to pick up one of the top prizes — see Alexander Payne.

The film won the Golden Lion (the top prize) in Venice last year, but while early reviews have been very good, some critics have claimed it doesn't quite reach the heights of the first two films.

The Oscars 2018 Honest Trailer lines up all nine of the movies up for this year's top prize in film and fires off some quick jabs at them.

At the press conference, Almodóvar was asked how he felt about the fact that the film did not win the top prize.

Saturday afternoon, the National Society of Film Critics has named Jean - Luc Godard «s Goodbye to Language the best film of the year, narrowly beating out Richard Linklater «s acclaimed Boyhood for the top prize.

Whoever wins this, it'll show (I think) that that was the runner - up film for Best Picture... unless it's a shock win for Michael Haneke or Benh Zeitlin in which case the voters felt that Spielberg (Lincoln) & Lee (Pi) had been awarded enough in previous years and they weren't quite ready to hand the once «difficult» Russell (Playbook) the top prize.

The film had been seen as a best picture front - runner after it picked up a Screen Actors Guild of America honor for its last weekend and nabbed a top prize at the Globes.

Making history, however, are the foreign film «A Fantastic Woman» and feature documentary «Strong Island,» projects with transgender voices, making it quite possible that the work of an openly trans person could earn one of the industry's top prizes in March.

After months of speculation, tireless campaigning, and a lot of experts flip - flopping their picks, the film that seemed to be the frontrunner from the start won the top prize when «Argo» was named best picture at the 85th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday night.

The Tom McCarthy helmed film upset nomination leaders «The Revenant» and «Mad Max: Fury Road» to win Oscar's top prize.

The film picked up five of the 11 prizes for which it was nominated - including best film, top director for Damien Chazelle and leading actress for Emma Stone - at the annual ceremony hosted for the 12th year in a row by Stephen Fry at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Overlap between the DGA and the directing branch of the Academy is particularly strong; last year's top feature film prize went to eventual Academy Award winner Damien Chazelle for «La La Land.»

Additionally, LGBT films Dallas Buyers Club and Philomena were up for the top prizes.

Voters» tabulations will determine between five and ten films up for the top prize.

Other films from Cannes making their US debut at Telluride include the Russian «Loveless,» directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, about an unhappy couple searching for their son, and winner of Cannes» Jury Prize; «A Man of Integrity,» by Mohammad Rasoulof, set in corrupt Iranian society, which won the Grand Prize of the Un Certain Regard section; «The Rider,» by Chloe Zhao, about a badly injured young South Dakotan rodeo rider, which won the top prize, the Art Cinema Award, of the Director's Fortnight; «Tesnota (Closeness),» about a Jewish family forced to try to ransom their son and his new bride, also in Un Certain Regard, by Kantemir Balagov; and Barbet Schroeder's documentary about a Buddhist monk, «Le venerable W.»

The auteur - driven film would screen out of competition for the event's Golden Bear top prize, which will be awarded by a jury led by Meryl Streep on February 20th.

There are two things keeping cinematic ladies away from the Best Picture race: female - centric films aren't getting the same level of successful campaigning for the top prizes, obviously, and roles that * could * go to women are going, instead, to men.

Though I ended up only writing about ten of them, I did get to see or revisit more than half of the now 85 films awarded that industry's top prize and I assigned each of them a score out of ten (down to quarter - points).

In the weeks following each film has seemed ready to take the top prize even as their «statistical» flaws begin to rack up.

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.

Richard Gere stars in this disjointed film as the father of a contender for top prize in a national spelling bee.

Overall, while such films as The Grand Budapest Hotel and Whiplash secured multiple Academy Awards, it was Birdman that secured the top two prizes of the night: Best Director and Best Picture.

For some reason, I feel like this jury will resist giving the top prize to a film that seems to be begging for it, which rules out what would otherwise be the two most likely contenders: Winter Sleep and Leviathan.

There were three big hitters in the Golden Globes» comedy film categories — Get Out, Lady Bird, and I, Tonya — and Lady Bird ended up walking away with the top prize, winning Best Motion Picture: Comedy or Musical, along with Best Actress in a Motion Picture: Comedy or Musical for its star Saoirse Ronan.

Filmed entirely in Austin on a low budget and telling a story that takes place over one Thanksgiving, Krisha won a well - deserved Grand Jury top prize at SXSW.

It sounds simple enough, but Enyedi, a Hungarian director who won a top prize at Cannes for her 1989 film «My 20th Century,» goes a step further.

Much like last year, one of the Best Picture nominees for the Academy Awards ended up taking the top prize with Spotlight winning Best Feature, not to mention a prize for the film's director Tom McCarthy, who also got a prize along with Josh Singer for the film's script.

That made room for a handful of other films to collect multiple prizes including The Hateful Eight (Top 10,...

’12 Years A Slave» has been winning a rash of critics awards the last week, and today the Las Vegas Film Critics Society joined in the fun also awarding top prize to the Fox Searchlight film along with Steve McQueen for directing and Lupita N'yongo for Supporting Actress.

The film, which was made for $ 4.5 m, beat out Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Call Me By Your Name for the top prize.

NO won the top prize as part of the Director's Fortnight at Cannes, and was nominated for an Oscar ™ as best foreign language film.