Sentences with phrase «winning debut feature»

In this award - winning debut feature, Israel delivers a precious take on the classic romantic comedy, casting a pair of autistic characters as its lovestruck leads.

Phang's award ‐ winning debut feature Half - Life premiered in 2008 at the Tokyo International and Sundance film festivals.

Her award - winning debut feature documentary Memories of a Penitent Heart, about her uncle Miguel's untimely death from AIDS, was called «exceptional» and «profoundly affecting» by The Village Voice.

This Kickstarter reward will be the DIGITAL PREMIERE for Rockwell's debut «Hero» (1983)-- the rangy, offhandedly eccentric U.S. Film Festival (now known as Sundance) award - winning debut feature.

Lukas Dhont's Camera d'Or - winning debut feature is, according to CineVue's Joseph Walsh, a «sympathetic and emotionally rich portrait» of Laura, a 15 - year - old girl, born in the body of a boy, who dreams of becoming a ballerina.

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Last year, the company debuted virtual reality roller coasters and this year it will feature an extensive roster of Warner Bros - and DC Comics - branded rides and attractions, including the world debut of the next generation of the award - winning Justice League: Battle for Metropolis interactive dark ride.

The Scarlet Knights were 9 - 1 late in 2012, and their Big Ten debut in 2014 featured a win over Michigan, a near - defeat of Penn State, and a bowl romp over North Carolina.

A 12 - 0 or 13 - 0 BYU season would feature big wins in September and likely a high - ranking debut in the CFP rankings.

One of the many players to arrive during the mad Icelandic spending spree in the summer of 2007, Kieron Dyer made his debut for West Ham in an away win at Birmingham before featuring for England against Germany at Wembley just a few days later.

Having featured predominantly for the Under - 21s, Rodriguez made his first - team debut as a late substitute in a FA Cup third - round win over Dagenham & Redbridge.

By the time he was 17, the young midfielder had become a regular with Atleti's B team, playing in the third tier of Spanish football, and a debut with the senior side came in March 2012, featuring in the last six minutes of a Europa League win over Beşiktaş.

Over in the Netherlands, meanwhile, Marco van Ginkel picked up right where he left off in his second spell with PSV Eindhoven, notching a debut goal in their 2 - 0 win over Excelsior (for whom Danilo Pantic did not feature).

Carroll Ballard's feature debut is rich in adventure, suspense and mythical elements and marks the prize - winning short - subjects director as a major talent.

This accomplished feature debut for director / co-scenarist Cutter Hodierne (expanding his 2012 Sundance grand jury prize - winning short of the same name) follows an oil tanker's hijacking and its aftermath through the primary viewpoint of a young Somali who's reluctantly taken part.

Following his Goya - winning performance in filmmaker Amenábar's chilling feature debut, Thesis, Martínez has successfully alternated between lesser - known Spanish features and major exports.

This accomplished feature debut for director / co-scenarist Cutter Hodierne (expanding his 2012 Sundance grand jury prize - winning short of the same name) follows an oil tanker's hijacking and its aftermath through -LSB-...]

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Adapted for screen by Ian McEwan from his 2007 novella, this debut feature from four - time Olivier Award - winning theatre director Dominic Cooke is, at its heart, a deceptively simple tale.

When it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year, writer - director John Maclean's debut feature won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize.

Marios Piperides» debut feature won the Best International Narrative Feature at the fefeature won the Best International Narrative Feature at the feFeature at the festival.

The fiction feature debut from award - winning documentary filmmaker Andrew Jarecki is as schizoid in many respects as its main character.

«Winter's Tale» is the feature film directorial debut of Academy Award - winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, who penned the 2001 Best Picture winner «A Beautiful Mind».

His narrative feature debut, Tornando a casa (Sailing Home) won the director several awards at international film festivals in 2001 and was nominated for Best First Feature at the Italian Golden feature debut, Tornando a casa (Sailing Home) won the director several awards at international film festivals in 2001 and was nominated for Best First Feature at the Italian Golden Feature at the Italian Golden Globes.

Comodin won admirers with his 2011 feature debut Summer of Giacomo, and this follow - up, though perhaps too obviously beholden to the likes of Lisandro Alonso and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, contained some of the most haunting passages of the festival.

Almost 30 years ago, the 62 - year - old won the Cannes» Camera d'Or for her feature debut, «My Twentieth Century.»

Steven Soderbergh became a Hollywood player virtually overnight after his debut feature, Sex, Lies and Videotape won the Audience Award at Sundance in 1989.

Léonor Serraille's feature debut, Jeune Femme, won over critics at last year's Cannes Film Festival.

Refn debuted his last two features, «Only God Forgives» and «Drive,» in competition, winning the director prize for the latter.

At Sundance, writer - director Robert Eggers won the U.S. Dramatic Competition Directing Award for his debut feature about a Puritan family in 1630s New England who leave their community to start their own farm on the edge of a forest.

The 11th Cinema Eye Honors Awards Ceremony occured on January 11 and saw Yance Ford's STRONG ISLAND make history as the first film to win the awards for Outstanding Feature, Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Debut.

The 11th Cinema Eye Honors Awards Ceremony occurred on January 11, 2018 and saw Yance Ford's STRONG ISLAND make history as the first film to win the awards for Outstanding Feature, Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Debut.

Tipping makes his feature directorial debut and is regarded as one of the independent and festival space's hot emerging talents after his Student Academy 2012 bronze medal - winning short Nani and Swimming In Air earned plaudits.

Barnz's feature directorial debut, the award - winning PHOEBE IN WONDERLAND, starring Felicity Huffman, Patricia Clarkson and Elle Fanning, premiered in competition at Sundance 2008, and was released nationally in 2009.

However, his prior filmmaking efforts were male dominated: In 2006, he won an Academy Award for his short film «Six Shooter,» which stars Brendan Gleeson; for McDonagh's 2008 feature - length debut «In Bruges,» he paired the actor with Colin Farrell in a devious tale about bumbling hitmen.

Nyong» o (who made her feature film debut with this movie, never mind being a first - time nominee) snagged the Screen Actors Guild prize, but Lawrence did win the Golden Globe and British Academy of Film and Television Arts prize.

Oscar - winning actress Marion Cotillard is set to star in «Gueule d'ange,» a French drama which will mark the feature debut of Vanessa Filho.

Longoria can currently be seen guest - starring on the Golden Globe Award - winning FOX comedy «Brooklyn Nine - Nine» and will star in upcoming feature films «Refugio» (Academy Award - nominee Demian Bichir's directorial and writing debut), «Any Day» alongside Sean Bean and Kate Walsh, and «Visions.»

Ford also made history when he won three awards including direction, debut and nonfiction feature film at the Cinema Eye Awards.

Steve McQueen) Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch Having won the Camera d'Or for his feature debut «Hunger» back in 2008, Steve McQueen opted to go to Venice for his follow - up «Shame,» but all the stars look to be aligning for his third film, «Twelve Years A Slave,» to end up at Cannes.

Despite an early snub at the Golden Globes, Peele won Best Directorial Debut from the National Board of Review and is up for both Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures and Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First - Time Feature Film Director at the Directors Guild Awards.

The English - language «Paradise Hills» also marks the feature debut of Spain's Alice Waddington, whose short, «Disco Inferno,» won best director at Austin's Fantastic Fest.

The film has just screened for the press, and Arnold — who won the bronze - medal Jury Prize in 2006 with her debut feature «Red Road» — has evidently built on that success, but it seems the real revelation is the film's 17 year - old star, Katie Jarvis.

«Finding Vivian Maier,» co-directed by Maier's chief curator, John Maloof, debuted last November at DOC NYC and went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at the Miami Film Festival (tying with «The Overnighters» by Jeff Moss), the audience awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best New Director at the Portland International Film Festival, a Founder's Prize at the Traverse City Film Festival and the John Schlesinger Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

«Son of Saul,» a remarkable, unnerving debut feature from Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes, won the Grand Prix (second prize).

Hooligan Sparrow won Achievement in a Debut Feature Film.

It's almost ten years between your debut feature, «A Way Of Life,» which won you a BAFTA, and the release of «Belle.»

Mark Noonan's debut feature «You're Ugly Too» won Best Screenplay at the 12th Skip City International D - Cinema Festival in Japa

Honorable Mentions: As usual, some good films have to fall just outside the top 10 list including: Tommy Lee Jones «feature - length directorial debut, «The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada ``; Christopher Nolan «s excellent, in - between - Batman - movies cum rival magician film, «The Prestige,» starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale; Guillermo del Toro «s fantastical fairy tale, «Pan's Labyrinth ``; Sofia Coppola «s anachronistic teen alienation set in the 16th century, «Marie Antoinette ``; Martin Campbell «s superb rebooting of the Bond franchise with «Casino Royale ``; Martin Scorsese «s «Infernal Affairs» remake «The Departed» (which has been on TV so many bloody times, its power has worn off); Oliver Assayas ««Clean» which featured a Cannes - winning performance by Maggie Cheung as a struggling addict; and Park Chan - Wook «s final installment of his vengeance trilogy, the beautifully haunting, «Lady Vengeance.»

Last year, she won the Emerging Canadian Director Award for her feature debut, a micro-budget fiction called Never Eat Alone (2016).