Sentences with phrase «when acclaimed films»

Unlike last year, when acclaimed films like «Toni Erdmann» and «Paterson» were overlooked completely, this year's awards went to celebrated films that, for the most part, had strong support from the press and from festivalgoers.

Not exact matches

When Spotlight, the critically acclaimed film about the Boston Globe's investigation into clergy sexual abuse, won best picture at this year's Oscars, producer Michael Sugar accepted the award with a message: This film gave a voice to survivors and this Oscar amplifies that voice which we hope....

She appeared in a number of series, including the popular crime drama Cracker and such costume extravaganzas as Jane Eyre and Emma.Morton became known to an international film audience in 1997, when she won wide acclaim for her wrenching, fearless portrayal of a young woman driven to promiscuous behavior by the death of her mother in Carine Adler's Under the Skin.

In the Season 1 premiere, Hank is dismayed when he sees the film version of his acclaimed novel, agrees to a blind date arranged by his agent that goes horribly awry, and learns that his ex-girlfriend Karen is engaged to another man.

Following the series» demise in 1991, Helgenberger returned to television guest - star status on ER, where she had a four - episode - long recurring role, and in the miniseries The Tommyknockers.A presence on the big screen since 1989, when she made her feature - film debut in Steven Spielberg's romantic fantasy Always, Helgenberger has played a wide variety of roles in films ranging from Species (1995) to the moody The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) to Steven Soderbergh's widely acclaimed Erin Brockovich (2000).

When your last series of films was as critically acclaimed and beloved by audiences as Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy from the start of the last decade, there is very litle room for misstep in returning to the tale — just ask George Lucas.

HollywoodNews.com: «Smash His Camera,» the acclaimed new documentary from Academy Award winning director Leon Gast (When We Were Kings), has just released the official poster for the film.

The 2015 Japan Film Festival of San Francisco is adding 16 acclaimed films to its programming — including Best Animated Feature Oscar - nominee The Tale of Princess Kaguya and Studio Ghibli's latest film, When Marnie Was There (Pictured).

The feature film adaptation of the acclaimed National Theatre production documents the events that shook Suffolk in 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women.

Only the third film that the acclaimed actor has made as a director (after 2002's Antwone Fisher and his last, 2007's The Great Debaters), Washington certainly had familiarity with August Wilson's beloved Pulitzer Prize - winning material when he decided to bring it to the big screen; the actor won a Tony Award of his own for starring in the 2010 revival of the production, to go along with the play's Tony for Best Revival (and the many that it won during its first run on stage in 1987).

Barber previously worked with Lonergan on his acclaimed debut feature, «You Can Count On Me,» and she has provided music for films such as «Mansfield Park,» «Hysterical Blindness,» «A Price Above Rubies,» and «When Night Is Falling.»

And it feels especially weird when when a movie like that, in this case a film called Unlocked, is directed by an acclaimed documentary filmmaker like Michael Apted (the Up series).

The latest to follow in their footsteps is Alexandros Avranas ««Miss Violence,» and if our reaction when the film screened on the Lido yesterday is anything to go by, it's going to he just as acclaimed and successful as those pictures.

Directed by Tony Award winning Matthew Warchus (Matilda), the film received a standing ovation and received critical acclaim when it screened at Cannes in May.

When writer / director Paul Thomas Anderson made his acclaimed drama «The Master» (2012), he originally intended to shoot roughly 20 % of his tale of an alienated young man (Joaquin Phoenix) falling under the spell of the charismatic leader of a new religious movement (Philip Seymour Hoffman) in 70 mm, but wound up shooting nearly the entire thing in the process (the first narrative film to do so since the aforementioned «Hamlet»).

One of the most acclaimed entries in the influential series «Six Moral Tales,» Rohmer's film features Jean - Louis Trintignant as a pious Catholic engineer whose rigid ethical standards are challenged when he unwittingly spends the night at the apartment of a bold, brunette divorcée.

The film, which boasts and incredible cast, outstanding crew, and strong assortment of characters, has so far experienced almost universal critical and audience acclaim that will surely add - up when the domestic and international box office numbers arrive after the weekend.

The film is based on J.G. Ballard's acclaimed 1975 novel of the same name: «When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on «enemy» floors.»

Cannes has had problems leaning into super-male lineups (even when hugely acclaimed female directors are available) so it's worth noting that three of the first seventeen films announced in competition are from female filmmakers: Lebanon's Nadine Labaki, Italy's Alice Rohrwacher, and France's Eva Husson.

Fionn O'Shea was just three months into a business degree when he landed roles in Netflix hit The Siege of Jadotville and critically acclaimed Irish film Handsome Devil, opposite Andrew Scott, prompting him to ditch university to focus on acting full time.

The Academy acclaims the oppositional project of these new genre films; Logan articulates this in comic - book terms when a mad scientist (Richard E. Grant) restores Wolverine's twisted, evil doppelgänger: «You're a newborn by any measure.

Per theater average is a fun little metric that's most useful when applied to tiny films with white - hot critical acclaim.

The tendency for film critics and fans alike to give inflated ratings to filmmakers they personally favor or who are typically critically acclaimed, even when the films themselves are less than stellar.

Acclaimed Irish director Lenny Abrahamson follows up his award - winning films Adam & Paul, Garage and What Richard Did with an offbeat comedy about a young wannabe musician, Jon, played by Gleeson, who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant - garde pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank, (Michael Fassbender) a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head, and his terrifying bandmate Clara, played by Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Think about it: When you consider the most prominent and acclaimed composers in film history, names like Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Alexandre Desplat and Danny Elfman come to mind.

When an unhappy housewife (Bates) befriends a lady in a nursing home (Tandy) she hears a remarkable tale of laughter, devotion and a special friendship that defies all obstacles in this heart - warming film from acclaimed director Jon Avnet.

If nothing else, Jolie has delivered a breathtakingly beautiful film visually, with some shots, delivered with consummate perfection by acclaimed cinematographer Roger Deakins (Prisoners, Skyfall), making the film feel truly transcendent, especially when coupled with the transfixing score by Alexandre Desplat (Godzilla, The Grand Budapest Hotel).

When an unhappy housewife (Bates) befriends a lady in a nursing home (Tandy) she hears a remarkable tale of laughter, devotion and a special friendship that defies all obstacles in this heartwarming film from acclaimed director Jon Avnet.

Veteran South Korean DOP Chung - hoon Chung tones down the overtly «cinematic» richness of some of his most acclaimed work (Oldboy, 2003; Lady Vengeance, 2005; Stoker, 2013; The Handmaiden, 2016), only employing his consummate skill with colour, shadow and movement when the film earns that indulgence.

The film received much of its acclaim thanks to its legitimately beautiful iPhone 5s photography, but that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the movie's virtues, which back up what we suspected after «Starlet» — Baker's one of the most interesting indie filmmakers working.

This regularly happens when a critically acclaimed Broadway theatre show gets the film treatment.

When he's not winning Emmys for his incredible work on American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson or making it clear that he wouldn't say no to playing Green Lantern in the DC Extended Universe, he's starring on the critically acclaimed series This is Us and simultaneously filming Ryan Coogler's Black Panther and Shane Black «s The Predator.

The much - acclaimed film was a sensation when it screened at Sundance earlier this year and will be heading to the Toronto Film Festival.

Studio execs from 20th Century Fox met with Oscar consultants a few days ago to mull this question: What happens when the year's most acclaimed acting turn to date comes in a movie that skews about two generations too young for most film academy members?

We champion projects by America Ferrara and Eva Longoria, we cheer on Iñárritu and Chivo's Hollywood successes, we bemoan tone - deaf cultural commentary on SNL, and feel inspired when critically acclaimed films from Colombia, Venezuela, and Chile take European festivals by storm.

From the acclaimed Icelandic author of Absolution, The Journey Home (now about to start filming under Liv Ullmann's direction) and Walking into the Night: a haunting collection of thematically linked stories that encompasses the twelve months of a year, capturing the most candid moments between lovers, husbands and wives, parents and children — when truths and true feelings surge to the surface and everything changes.

Who: Amy Adams What: An 8 - episode series based on the creepy 2006 thriller by Gillian Flynn, who later had a breakout hit (and an acclaimed film adaptation) with her third novel Gone Girl When: Filming to begin in March; air date to be announced Where: HBO Why We're Excited: Adams, who's gotten five Oscar nominations, will bring sizzle to the role of a troubled newspaper reporter who returns to her hometown to investigate the grisly murders of two preteen girls.

When the movie adaptation premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February, critics loved the caustic, complex performances of the film — the superb cast includes Richard Gere as Stan, a congressman running for governor; Rebecca Hall as his wife, Katelyn; Steve Coogan as his less successful brother, Paul; and acclaimed actress Laura Linney as Paul's wife, Claire.

Los Angeles's most historic hotels were born in the early decades of the 1900s, just when the film industry was blossoming and gaining national and international acclaim.

If you missed out when Heavy Rain launched on PS3, this is the perfect way to experience this critically acclaimed film noir - style thriller.

Widely acclaimed when they debuted at the 2000 Whitney Biennial, Amer's paintings subvert the male - dominated language of Abstract Expressionism by embroidering iconic works from that period with images appropriated from pornographic magazines and Disney films.