Sentences with phrase «win tiff»

If the wildly romantic, utterly charming musical doesn't win TIFF's People's Choice Award (itself a harbinger of Academy Award success), then I will eat my hat — after tap - dancing on it a bit, of course.

Yanillys Perez» feature debut, which won the TIFF 16 Dropbox Award for the Discovery Section, is a work of creative nonfiction.

Brie Larson, Room — Lenny Abrahamson's tense adaptation of Emma Donoghue's bestseller won TIFF's People's Choice audience award in no small part due to Larson's precisely calibrated performance.

The impressive film by Chilean director Pablo Larrain won TIFF's Platform Prize, a fledgling, juried honour designed to champion artistic filmmaking which is now in its second year.

David O Russell's comedy about love and mental health, starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, wins TIFF's top prize

Not exact matches

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 8 September: Oscar - winning director, Danis Tanovic, took to the stage to resounding applause following the screening of Tigers, his new 90 - minute fact - based drama, and revealed that the character played by Emraan Hashmi, called Ayan in the film, was actually in the theatre.

I hope you win a prize, Tiff!

If approved, courts would automatically award legal fees in cases in which pain tiffs have substantially prevailed in winning access to records and there was no reasonable basis for their denial.

Freeheld does have the potential to be something very special; Moore's turn last year at TIFF for Still Alice won her the gold, and the relevant topics that the film presents might be too much for critics to ignore.

It's notable because (as TIFF reminded us with tags in front of every film) in past years Slumdog Millionaire and The King's Speech were winners of the «Audience Award», later going on to also win Best Picture as well as the hearts of the entire world.

The movie is one of two Lelio dramas heading to TIFF this year; the other is «A Fantastic Woman,» which earned acclaim at Berlin and won Lelio the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay.

«The Shape of Water's» Golden Lion win isn't as much of a slam dunk prognosticator as the TIFF Audience Award, but del Toro's fairy tale does join «Somewhere,» «The Wrestler,» and Brokeback Mountain» as recent American productions to win top honors at Venice.

The former won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, while the latter shocked mostly everyone in the industry by winning the Audience Award at TIFF.

Five TIFF audience winners have gone on to win the Oscar for Best Picture; «HURT» takes new jury prize

Five TIFF audience winners have gone on to win the Oscar for Best Picture: «12 Years a Slave» in 2013, «The King's Speech» in 2010, «Slumdog Millionaire» in 2008, «American Beauty» in 1999 and «Chariots of Fire» in 1981.

Not content to bring just one award - winning film («A Fantastic Woman «-RRB- to TIFF 2017, Sebastián Lelio doubles up this year with another engrossing female - led drama.

Additionally, the winners of the various awards at TIFF were announced, including an important win for Tom Hooper's The King's Speech, which took home the coveted Audience Award (the same that Slumdog Millionaire won before it went on to nab Best Picture at the Oscars).

The top 12 features well loved playwright's like Tennessee Williams (though I was surprised by his second most revived), Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, and of course Edward Albee's masterpiece Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf • Variety Rance Howard, the character actor and father of Ron Howard, has passed away • Gr8ter Days David Cassidy, 70s teen idol of the Patridge Family has passed away • Variety The Seen and Unseen, which you'll remember I raved about at TIFF, has won two new prizes this past week, splitting the Grand Prize at Tokyo FilmEx and winning the APSA for Youth Feature.

There's already Oscar chatter about Stone, who won last year's best - actress award for La La Land, a TIFF favorite that helped boost the festival's reputation as an awards forerunner.

The film, which is considered a leader in the Oscar race for Best Picture after triumphant screenings in Toronto and Telluride, won the strongest reaction from TIFF - goers who deposited their ticket stubs while leaving the theater or cast ballots online.

Seven of his films, including Alice in the Cities (74) and Kings of the Road (76), screened at the inaugural Festival in 1976, and he returned to TIFF with the features Paris, Texas (84), which won the Palme D'Or and the British Film Academy Award; Lisbon Story (94); Land of Plenty (04); Pina (11), which was nominated for an Oscar; Every Thing Will Be Fine (15); and Les Beaux Jours d'Aranjuez (16).

An aboriginal filmmaker from Quebec who attended the Canadian Film Centre, Barnaby's film, Rhymes For Young Ghouls won the 2013 TIFF Top Ten and Best First Feature at VIFF 2013.

Award - winning filmmaker Chloe Zhao's second full - length feature film, The Rider, screened as a part of the TIFF» Next Wave» section last week.

Emma Stone, the «Birdman» nominee and Oscar frontrunner, came out of Venice (winning Best Actress), Telluride, and Toronto with raves for her role as an enchanting singer - dancer - actress in Damien Chazelle's TIFF audience - winner «La La Land.»

The second adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Pulitzer Prize - winning novel about a populist - leaning stump - thumper modeled after Huey Long, the film garnered attention first for its sterling cast and Tiffany pedigree, then for its sudden disappearance from last year's Oscar slate, only to appear now, without fanfare (save a gala screening at last week's TIFF), in the middle of what's traditionally a dumping ground for dead weight.

It won the award for Best Canadian Feature Film at TIFF and earned nominations from the Directors Guild of Canada, the Genie Awards and the Online Film Critics Society.

Byron Allen continues his winning streak at 2017's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), closing a deal for the North American rights to John Curran's «Chappaquiddick.»

Olivia Wilde won the inaugural IMDB «Starmeter» award at TIFF 2013.

This would end up winning the top prize from TIFF's Platform section.

It rightly won the FIPRESCI award in TIFF's Discovery program.

I was at TIFF in 2009 when word reached us that Samuel Maoz's «Lebanon,» a drama notable for unfolding entirely within the tight confines of an Israeli tank, had just won the Golden Lion in Venice.

«Our job is to try to rip down walls and start conversations, and this year's festival reflects that,» said TIFF Artistic Director Cameron Bailey just days before the controversy over DACA boiled over in the U.S. «What TIFF is here to say is that the forces trying to build walls are not going to win.»

It was the last day before the TIFF premiere of Alias Grace — the new miniseries from CBC and Netflix, based on Margaret Atwood's Giller Prize - winning novel of the same name.

The TIFF win comes on the heels of best screenplay honours for Three Billboards at the Venice Film Festival.

With a Best Director win at Cannes and consistently high praise doled out at TIFF (though not so much, perhaps, Movie Mezzanine's), Bennett Miller's psycho - wrestling thriller Foxcatcher comes freighted with high expectations (not to mention a barrage of ugly awards - season punditry.)

But as the Academy looks to reverse the tide of racial myopia, there remain plenty of other diverse options, from Mira Nair's lovely Queen of Katwe, a surprise runner - up for TIFF's People's Choice prize, to Denzel Washington's Fences, which will at the very least be a showcase piece for the actor - director, and especially for Viola Davis, who will be a top Best Actress contender (assuming they don't relegate her to the Supporting category, which is always possible as studios piece together the likeliest winning strategy).

La La Land: Damien Chazelle's love letter to Hollywood came into TIFF with more heat than any other film: It infatuated audiences at the Venice Film Festival, where Emma Stone won a best actress award, and continued to wrap North American critics around its lithe little finger in Toronto.

That leaves us pondering a number of questions: With «The Shape of Water» winning the top prize at Venice and finding more fans at TIFF, does it have the edge on «Lady Bird»?

This is the case whatever you think about the efficacy or otherwise of those questions, or whatever is your personal opinion of who ought to have won in the Carlson versus Nye tiff.