Sentences with phrase «up grand jury prize»

Spike Lee's Trump - baiting comedy BlacKkKlansman takes runner - up grand jury prize, while Capernaum, by Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, comes in third

Banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi «s Taxi, in which the filmmaker stars as a taxi driver talking to passengers as he navigates the streets of Tehran, won the Berlinale Golden Bear for best film Saturday at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.Another fest favorite, Chilean director Pablo Larraín «s subversive and darkly comic new film El Club (The Club), picked up the Grand Jury prize, or the Silver Bear.

Not exact matches

Elsewhere, Greek film «Miss Violence» also proved popular, taking both the Silver Lion and the Best Actor prize for Themis Panou, while Tsai Ming - Liang «s «Stray Dogs» won the Grand Jury Prize, Elena Cotta took Best Actress for «Via Castellana Bandiera» (which we unfortunately didn't see), Tye Sheridan was awarded Best Young Actor for David Gordon Green «s «Joe,» Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope picked up Best Screenplay for «Philomena,» and Philip Groning «s «The Police Officer's Wife» won a Special Jury Prize.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, which won both the audience award and the grand jury prize at Sundance, was scooped up by Fox Searchlight and opens June 12.

Netflix films have been released with comparatively little fanfare (the Grand Jury prize winner of Sundance, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore dropped onto the platform in February and registered nary a blip, with Bong Joon - ho's Okja also not succeeding in moving the needle all that much), as they seemed content with simply putting it up on the service and setting up a few awards qualifying runs in New York and LA and leaving it at that.

After breaking out in 2012 with «Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare» — a film he co-directed with Susan Froemke, and which was nominated for a Grand Jury prize at Sundance — the 34 - year - old filmmaker followed up with a one - two punch: the Oscar - nominated drug documentary «Cartel Land» in 2015, and his latest film, «City of Ghosts,» which is already garnering buzz in advance of next year's nominations.

«Tower» picked up the SXSW Grand Jury prize for documentary.

Well Go USA CEO Doris Pfardrescher had been tracking Feng Xiaogang's I Am Not Madame Bovary for a while, finally grabbing rights to the film ahead of its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, picking up a film critics prize there followed by the Grand Jury Prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

Daughters of the Dust bowed at Sundance in 1991 and lit up the festival, winning best cinematography for Jafa and ending up a finalist for the Grand Jury prize.