Sentences with phrase «winning sleeper hit»

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A24 A24 followed up its Best Picture win for «Moonlight» by releasing another sleeper hit: «Lady Bird.»

The actor, who starred in one of the big sleeper hits of last year, Gareth Edwards «micro-budget creature flick «Monsters,» last night was announced as having won the second lead in The Playlist's single most anticipated film of the next few years, «Cogan's Trade,» Andrew Dominik «s follow - up to «The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.»

While we have our share of problems with the kinda twee, kinda cliche - indie - pop - song - rolled - up - into - a-movie indie flick, it picked up mostly strong reviews and managed to be a fairly modest sleeper hit on its release in 2008, winning the John Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirit Awards the next year.

Sverak won the foreign film Oscar for his art house sleeper hit Kolya (1996) about a stepfather and his little boy and his latest called Barefoot is another childhood tale set in the countryside during World War II.

But if you factor in a Disney film, writing an Oscar - winning song for The Muppets, a sleeper hit HBO sitcom, and the fact that this musical - comedy duo is one of the funniest and most talented acts to come along in two decades — well, an explanation begins to take shape.

It became a sleeper hit and won the Kodansha Manga Award in shōnen category in 2011.