Sentences with phrase «winning debut film»

Xavier Dolan's award winning debut film (and Canadian Oscar submission in its year) I Killed My Mother is FINALLY getting a US theatrical release.

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If you've listened to his music, including his most recent album, Darkness and Light, his Grammy - winning debut Get Lifted, his Oscar - winning single for the film Selma, «Glory,» or really any of the other releases in his 15 - year career, those deep Christian roots probably won't be a surprise.

An independent film darling, Ross made her debut in STRANGER INSIDE, winning an IFP Gotham Award for Best Breakthrough and an independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Debut Performdebut in STRANGER INSIDE, winning an IFP Gotham Award for Best Breakthrough and an independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Debut PerformDebut Performance.

He won a part in the disastrous film Myra Breckinridge (1970), his screen debut, then appeared in small roles in a handful of films during the»70s.

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

Announcing that the 1996 - 1997 season of Roseanne would be his last, Goodman limited himself to infrequent appearances on the series, his absences explained away as a by - product of a heart attack suffered by his character at the end of the previous season.After making his 10th appearance on Saturday Night Live (2000), Goodman could be seen playing a red - faced bible salesman in director Joel Coen's award winning O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000), and participated in Garry Shandling's film debut What Planet Are You From?

He made his screen debut in 1983 in the film comedy Baby It's You, and won the Venice Film Festival's Best Actor award that year for his work in Robert Altman's Streamers.

In 1932 he won great acclaim for his work in the play The Animal Kingdom, leading to an invitation from Hollywood where he made his film debut in 1932.

Though Nashville won just a single Oscar and a single Golden Globe, each for Best Original Song (for «I'm Easy», written and performed by Carradine), it was nominated for five of the former and eleven of the latter, which even bestowed two nominations each on Tomlin and Blakley, actresses making their film debuts, while classifying the film as a drama (back when true musicals weren't so rare).

The film is the directorial debut of Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (two of the Oscar - winning screenwriters of The Descendants), who also pen the excellent screenplay and take supporting roles.

It's been seven years since designer Tom Ford made a splash with his award - winning writing - directing debut A Single Man, and it's no surprise that his second film is just as exquisitely beautiful to look at...

The studio swiftly hired Hugh Hudson, hot off the Oscar - winning «Chariots Of Fire» to direct the finished film, with Christopher Lambert as the king of the swingers, along with Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm and, as Jane, a debuting Andie MacDowell, who hilariously had her voice dubbed over by Glenn Close due to her impenetrable Southern accent.

«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 Globes.

The film debuted at the SXSW Film Festival where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary.

THE DVD One of six films that won the second round of Amazon's DVD Decision 2006, Looker debuts on the format in a handsome 2.37:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer that occasionally succumbs to pinholes and a high density of grain.

Thanks to the vagaries of film distribution and the increasing difficulties of small films and foreign language productions to get theatrical releases, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Turkish drama, which won the Best Director award at Cannes 2008, this one - week Seattle engagement at the Varsity Theatre is the film's American theatrical debut.

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.

Katheryn Bigelow, Oscar - winning director of The Hurt Locker, became an executive producer of Matthew Heineman's directorial debut Cartel Land after seeing it, which should be a pretty good indicator of the film's impact.

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.

It garnered seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Walter Huston, recreating his earlier stage role, who should have won the Oscar with his sensitive portrayal against winner Paul Muni for The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)-RRB-, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Maria Ouspenskaya, reprising her role from the earlier stage production, and in her film debut), and Best Sound Recording, and won only one Oscar for Best Art Direction - Interior Decoration.

Kaluuya, who is hotly anticipated to be nominated for his first ever Oscar for his performance in Get Out, saw his director Jordan Peele win Best Directorial Debut for the satirical horror, which was also named among NBR's top 10 films of the year.

The film has won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and was also nominated for the festival's Palm d'Or Cannes and now it's making its DVD and Blu - ray debut March 12.

It's not as narratively or emotionally fluent as Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios» breakout debut Güeros (2014), another Berlinale debut which won the prize for best first film that year, but looks and sounds just as gorgeous, AND it has the same kind of melancholic charm to it.

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.

The 35 - year - old Oscar - winning actress debuted her baby bump earlier in the night at the premiere of the film and revealed to the world that she's pregnant with her first child.

The film, which is Garland's highly anticipated follow - up to his Oscar - winning debut Ex Machina, is due for its US release on February 23 and will now arrive on the streaming service less than three weeks later, Deadline reports.

Mirroring last week's home video debuts of both Django Unchained and Dragon, next Tuesday pairs an Oscar - winning Weinstein Company film (Silver Linings Playbook) with this little - known Radius - TWC one possessing a comparable tone and target audience.

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.

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.»

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.

After making an impressive film debut in Our Song in 2000, she went on to win the NAACP Image Award just five years later for playing Ray Charles» wife, Della, opposite Jamie Foxx in Ray.

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.

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

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.

Other awards included writer Stephen Beresford and producer David Livingstone winning in the outstanding British debut category for Pride; Interstellar won best special visual effects; Ida won best film not in the English language; and Jack O'Connell won the EE rising star award.

Winning the Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival this year, the film is the highly anticipated English language debut of internationally acclaimed Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos and is set for general release in Ireland on 16th October.

Layton won the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for the film.

Tunisia will be represented by Ala Eddine Slim, whose film «The Last of Us» won the Lion of the Future for Best Debut Film at the 2016 Venice International Film Festival.

An official trailer has debuted for the film Mr. Roosevelt, which won the Audience Award at the SXSW Film Festival this year.

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.»

In the feature, Donaldson effectively compares and contrasts the career trajectories for Mimi Leder, who made her name through her Emmy - winning work on «ER,» directed the one of the top - grossing films of 1998 with «Deep Impact» and then went to «movie jail» and didn't direct another film for nine years after the middling performance of her 2000 family drama «Pay It Forward,» to those of Trevorrow, who made his feature debut with the Sundance hit «Safety Not Guaranteed,» won the choice gig helming «Jurassic World» on director Brad Bird's recommendation and managed steer to the reboot of one of the most popular film franchises of all time to giant box - office success.

Mijke de Jong (Director / Writer, The Netherlands) has shown great social engagement in her work over the past 25 years: starting with her co-authored feature film debut, LOVE HURTS (1992), which won the Special Jury Prize in Locarno, through to her latest film, LAYLA M. (2016).

Chow Yun - fat, at this time the biggest star in the colony, hot off the smashing success of A Better Tomorrow, plays the middle brother while pop star Jacky Cheung, himself on the road to a successful film career (he'd win the Supporting Actor Hong Kong Film Award this year for his work in Wong Kar - wai's debut feature As Tears Go By), plays the youngest.

Martin McDonagh (pictured above), the award winning Irish playwright behind The Pillowman and the Oscar winning shot film Six Shooter, made his feature film debut in 2008 with In Bruges, an extraordinarily black dramedy about two hit - men (played by Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell, the latter of whom picked up a Golden Globe for his efforts) on vacation in the medieval Belgian town of Bruges.

His multi-country cast ranges from Irishman Colin Farrell, Brits Rachel Weisz, Ben Whishaw, and Olivia Coleman, Frenchwoman Lea Seydoux, American John C. Reilly, and Greek Angeliki Papoulia, who described the film as «funny, violent and sweet» at last year's Cannes, where «The Lobster» debuted to positive notices and won the Jury Prize.

When you're Rob Marshall and only have two other feature films on your directing resume, it takes some guts to embark on a project like Nine, even if you did manage to win a Best Picture Oscar for your directorial debut Chicago (an award that many film critics strongly disagree with, incidentally).

The Cleanse is both written and directed by filmmaker Bobby Miller, making his feature directorial debut after a whole bunch of award - winning short films, including Tub and End Times.

Today's Edinburgh talk may have centered on festival opener «Away We Go» (more on that to come), but the day's real delight was «Mary and Max» (*** 1/2), an alternately disarming and disconcerting feature debut from claymation maestro Adam Elliot, who won a 2003 Academy Award for his short «Harvey Krumpet,» and carries that film's decidedly -LSB-...]