Sentences with phrase «winning foreign language film»

«Secret in Their Eyes» (November 20): Eduardo Sancheri's novel that previously made for an Oscar - winning foreign language film (directed by Juan José Campanella) now gets the American treatment, this time from the acting talent of Chitwetel Ejiofor, Julia Roberts, and Nicole Kidman.

Sebastián Lelio's follow - up to his Academy Award - winning foreign language film A Fantastic Woman teems with deeply stirring passion.

Gavin Hood is a South African filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and actor, best known for writing and directing the Academy Award — winning foreign language film Tsotsi.

The Salesman, directed by Iranian film - maker Asghar Farhadi, who is boycotting the ceremony because of Donald Trump's travel ban, has won the foreign language film Oscar.

«Toni Erdmann» from Germany probably will win foreign language film, although «The Salesman» from Iran may triumph.

It's that middle section where a certain Hungarian filmmaker wins the foreign language film award or the director of a little - seen short injects mania and uncompromising glee into an evening full of been - there - done - that Meryl Streep stares.

Not exact matches

The film, by director Andrey Zvyagintsev, won the Golden Globe for foreign language film on Sunday, making it the first Russian movie to win a Globe since 1969's «War and Peace.»

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.

Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's first English language film This Must Be the Place was a drifting disappointment, but when his follow - up, The Great Beauty, wowed the cinemagoing world (and won the Foreign - Language Oscar) his status as a master filmmaker was confirmed.

Thanks to mainstream America's huffy dismissal of subtitles when it comes to cinema, we continue with another unnecessary remake of a foreign film, Secret in Their Eyes, an English language, celebrity studded face - lift of Argentinean Juan Jose Campanella's 2009 title (which won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film thatforeign film, Secret in Their Eyes, an English language, celebrity studded face - lift of Argentinean Juan Jose Campanella's 2009 title (which won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film thatForeign Language Film that year).

It's favored to win the best foreign language film at the Oscars.

«Coco» was named best animated film; «Faces Places» won the best foreign language film prize; and «Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982 - 1992» won best documentary film.

Disobedience marks the first English - language film for Chilean director Lelio — whose transgender romance A Fantastic Woman recently won the Academy Award for best foreign - language film — and it is also his most affecting work.

An openly trans actress presented for the first time, and her movie, A Fantastic Woman, won best foreign language film.

I thought about changing my prediction to a shock win for Michael Haneke until I remembered that no director of a foreign language film has ever won this prize — no not even Federico Fellini or Ingmar Bergman, Oscar's indisputable favorites as foreign auteurs go.

French love story «Blue Is the Warmest Color» won in all categories it was nominated for, including foreign language film and young actor / actress for the film's lead, Adele Exarchopoulos.

The official State Department Persian - language Twitter account, @USAdarFarsi, congratulated Asghar Farhadi for winning best foreign - language film for «The Salesman,» as Reuters first reported.

The director, who emigrated from Warsaw to London when he was 14, won the best foreign language film Oscar for his period drama Ida in 2015.

His sentiments were echoed in more specific terms by the Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, who won best foreign - language film for The Salesman, but elected not to attend the ceremony in protest of Trump's immigration ban on seven majority - Muslim countries.

Hungary has picked harrowing Holocaust drama Son of Saul as its nomination for the 2016 best foreign language film Oscar, less than three weeks after it won the runner - up Grand Prix prize at the Cannes film festival.

As he noted in the statement, Farhadi in 2012 won the best foreign - language film award for «A Separation.»

The film, loosely based on a 2009 Argentine thriller that won the foreign - language Oscar, garnered about $ 6.6 million.

The film is a tightly wound, superbly performed tale of revenge and redemption in the wake of the Irish Troubles, which sees Hirschbiegel (after the best - buried Hollywood stumble of «The Invasion») matching and exceeding the muscular, no - nonsense storytelling skills that won him a foreign - language Oscar nod for «Downfall» a few years back.

«Cold War» Pawel Pawlikowski (Main Competition) Pawlikowski's last film, «Ida,» won the foreign - language Oscar, and stills from this film have the same gorgeous black - and - white look and disconcerting, nearly square aspect ratio.

When: March 8th Why: Park Chan - wook isn't the only foreign director making his English - language debut this month, as Niels Arden Oplev follows up his award - winning Swedish version of «The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo» with a new film that reunites him with star Noomi Rapace.

NO won the top prize as part of the Director's Fortnight at Cannes, and was nominated for an Oscar ™ as best foreign language film.

In a recent article for the The New York Times, Dennis Lim wrote: «There was a time when the Academy Award for best foreign - language film reflected the state of world cinema: Fellini films won back - to - back Oscars in the mid 1950s, as did Bergman films in the early»60s.

(The Spanish - language film won the Oscar for best foreign language feature of 2017.)

The Iranian drama «A Separation,» which would've been graced with a dozen Oscar nominations (instead of two) by a more internationally minded academy, won for best foreign language film for this tale of a Tehran custody battle, a series of deceptions and the emotional costs of divorce.

The greatest film about trans living is Pedro Almodóvar's All About My Mother, which won the foreign language Oscar in 2000.

I»M NOT SCARED (Grade: B +): Gabriele Salvatores, whose «Mediterraneo» won a best - foreign language film Oscar in 1991, directed this absorbing, suspenseful and painfully poignant childhood drama about a 9 - year - old boy faced with an unusual moral dilemma in the golden Italian summer of 1978.

Non-American films rarely see much glory in the best picture category — The Artist was able to win, for example, only because it didn't contain any foreign language.

Flights of fancy also imbued Nguyen's previous feature Rebelle, which premiered at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival, where Congolese newbie Rachel Mwanza won best actress, before going on to nab an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film.

It was the Mexican filmmaker's second BAFTA, after having won best foreign language film for his 2006 Spanish - language film «Pan's Labyrinth.»

And moved they have been: A Fantastic Woman won both the Teddy Award and the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, and it was nominated for a best - foreign - language - film Golden Globe.

I was equally cheered by Chile's A Fantastic Woman winning for best - foreign - language film, and to see that film's star, Daniela Vega, on stage with her director Sebastián Lelio, who made a sober, compassionate film about a trans woman's experience starring a trans actress.

After winning the Golden Globe for best foreign language film earlier this month, In the Fade was snubbed in the same category by the...

«Disobedience» is the English - language debut of Sebastián Lelio, who became Chile's first - ever Academy Award winner with his best foreign language film win for «A Fantastic Woman.»

Often touted as an heir to Tarkovsky, Russian cinema's other famously austere Andrey, Zvyagintsev previously competed at Cannes with «Leviathan» (2014), which won the jury's screenwriting award and went on to score an Oscar nomination for foreign - language film.

I'm always game when a foreign language film wins a big typically «reserved - for - home» category.

The movie premiered in February at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear and Teddy awards, and it was recently selected as Chile's Oscar contender for foreign language film.

THE 88th ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS The Complete List of Winners... and some commentary BEST PICTURE Spotlight BEST DIRECTOR Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, The Revenant BEST ACTOR Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant BEST ACTRESS Brie Larson, Room BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy, Spotlight BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, The Big Short BEST EDITING Margaret Sixel, Mad Max Fury Road BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Son of Saul, Hungary BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Emmanuel «Chivo» Lubezki, The Revenant First to win three back to back Oscars in this category.

Berlin - based Films Boutique has been thriving with critically - acclaimed movies such as Houda Benyamina's «Divines», which won the Camera d'Or in Cannes; Lav Diaz's «The Woman Who Left», Golden Lion in Venice, Ciro Gerra's «Embrace of the Serpent», which won Directors» Fortnight and earned an Oscar nomination for best foreign - language film.

Andrey Zvyagintsev's «Loveless,» which is also nominated for a foreign - language Oscar, won the Cesar award for best foreign film, beating Christopher Nolan's «Dunkirk,» Damien Chazelle's «'' La La Land» and Ruben Ostlund's Cannes's Palme d'Or winner «The Square,» among other strong contenders.

In 2012, Telluride showcased the French end - of - life drama «Amour,» which went on to win the Oscar for foreign - language film, and this year programmers have scheduled several notable international films.

«The Secret in Their Eyes» surprised many by winning the 2010 Academy Award for best foreign - language film.

The Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who boycotted the event in protest at Trump's travel bans, won best foreign language film for The Salesman in what was widely seen as a rebuke to the White House.

His fifth feature film, A Fantastic Woman, won the 2018 Academy Award for best foreign - language film and the Independent Spirit Award for best international film.

Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi («A Separation,» «The Past»), coming off his foreign language film Oscar win for «The Salesman,» is already back with his next effort «Everybody Knows» set to serve as the opening film of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in May.

«Elle,» the French drama that won the Globe for foreign - language film, opens Friday at Regal Winter Park...