Sentences with phrase «winning war drama»

After the Oscar - winning war drama THE HURT LOCKER, perhaps there was nobody better to tackle the decade - long hunt for the worlds most wanted terrorist...

Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal, the filmmaking team behind the Oscar - winning war drama The Hurt Locker and the tremendous post-9 / 11 procedural Zero Dark Thirty, are looking to possibly turn the...

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Netflix was also shut out in the award show's film categories, with the streaming service's original feature film Mudbound failing to win either of its two nominations, while the Cambodian Civil War drama First They Killed My Father also fell short in the foreign film category.

Award - winning film maker, Cary Joji Fukunaga has issued a statement requesting for his critically acclaimed war drama, «Beasts Of No Nation'to be removed from the 2015 Ghana Movie Awards nominations announced on Friday afternoon in Accra, Ghana.

From legendary director Clint Eastwood comes this powerful, Oscar (R)- winning drama that reveals Kyle's penetrating story from his Texas roots to his unparalleled accuracy in war - torn Iraq.

In 1987, he starred as anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom alongside Kevin Kline, and though the film itself alienated some critics (Pauline Kael called it «dumbfounding»), Washington's powerful performance earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.Two years later, Washington netted another Best Supporting Actor nod — and won the award — for his turn as an embittered yet courageous runaway slave in the Civil War drama Glory.

In television, Sutherland won both Emmy and Golden Globe awards as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the HBO film Citizen X, and he won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Clark Clifford, advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson, in the HBO historical drama Path to War.

Kathryn Bigelow follows - up her Oscar winning military / war - based dramas «The Hurt Locker» and «Zero Dark Thirty» with a look at the 1967 Detroit riots, specifically shedding light on an incident in American history that most people don't know much about.

The Emmy - winning drama about a Nazi war - crime trial, which was American television's first miniseries in 1974, will be accompanied by a discussion led by its legendary producer, Douglas S. Cramer, and one of its stars, Juliet Mills.

Following their work as award - winning commercial and music video directors, Rønning and Sandberg directed the World War II action drama «Max Manus: Man of War» before taking on «Kon - Tiki.»

Women and space were a winning combo at the movies this weekend, with Theodore Melfi's fact - based drama Hidden Figures and the blockbuster prequel Rogue One: A Star Wars Story finishing in a virtual tie for first at the domestic box office.

Acting veteran and multiple Tony Award — winning thespian Mark Rylance pulled off somewhat of an upset in the supporting actor category, winning for Steven Spielberg's Cold War — era drama «Bridge of Spies» ahead of Sylvester Stallone's projected win for reprising his role as Rocky Balboa in «Creed.»

British star Mark Rylance won the best supporting Oscar for his role of KGB agent Rudolf Abel in Steven Spielberg's Cold War - set drama «Bridge of Spies».

The set features eight films all together, including two of his early British thrillers (the classic Sabotage with Sylvia Sidney and lighter and lesser Young and Innocent), his World War II drama Lifeboat and all four films made for David Selznick: the Gothic classic Rebecca (Hitchcock's only film to win an Oscar for Best Picture), the Gregory Peck films Spellbound and The Paradine Case, and the romantic masterpiece Notorious.

The decade that began with him winning a Best Original Screenplay for Patton had just ended with his Vietnam War drama Apocalypse Now overcoming virtually every conceivable filmmaking obstacle (including a heart attack, lead role recasting, and typhoon)

This World War II drama about a famous code - breaker has just recently won the highly - coveted People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, and is set to be the opening gala at the London Film Festival.

In selecting a director of photography for his haunting, elegiacal war drama, Malick chose two - time Academy Award - winning director of photography John Toll, ASC (Legends of the Fall, Braveheart), whose work on The Thin Red Line recently earned him both the New York Film Critics» and National Society of Film Critics» awards for Best Cinematography.

In this period, he tackled an Oscar - winning drama about alcoholism (The Lost Weekend), two well - regarded film noirs (Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard), a war drama (Stalag 17), two light - hearted rom - coms (Sabrina, Seven Year Itch) a gripping murder - mystery (Witness for the Prosecution) and perhaps the funniest American movie of all time (Some Like It Hot).

The Oscar - winning director of war drama THE HURT LOCKER,...

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Over the past two decades, their collaboration has yielded some of the most powerful works in contemporary British cinema, including The Wind That Shakes the Barley (now streaming on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck in a limited engagement), which chronicles the lives of two brothers during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War, and last year's Palme d'Or — winning drama I, Daniel Blake, which skewers the brutal bureaucracy of the British welfare system.

So, after the Oscar winning heights of «The Hurt Locker ``, director Kathryn Bigelow decides to stick to a winning formula and follow up that success with another war themed drama.

Drama «A Monster Calls» and the Mel Gibson's war film «Hacksaw Ridge» also received two wins each.

Oldman can currently be seen alongside Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James in «The Darkest Hour» as World War II British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and at the weekend he won the Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama prize at the Golden Globes and he has also been nominated for the Leading Actor gong at this year's BAFTA Film Awards.

Kate Winslet has been nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning for the 2008 World War II - era drama «The Reader.»

The Oscar - winning director of war drama THE HURT LOCKER, will helm this new action - thriller that will focus on the early hunt for infamous terrorist.

An established screenwriter of such films as Scarface, Conan the Barbarian, and Midnight Express (which won him the Adapted Screenplay Oscar), Stone would cement his reputation as a director with Platoon, a drama based on his experiences in the Vietnam War.

The Hurt Locker, the intense war drama about explosives experts in Iraq, took top honors in the 13th annual Online Film Critics Society Awards, winning Best Picture against fellow nominees Inglourious Basterds, A Serious Man, Up, and Up in the Air.

Zero Dark Thirty 2012, 157 minutes, R / Director: Kathryn Bigelow / Writer: Mark Boal / Stars: Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Ehle, Mark Strong, Kyle Chandler, Edgar Ramirez, James Gandolfini, Chris Pratt Buy It: Blu - ray Combo • DVD • Instant Video The search for Osama bin Laden seemed as appropriate as any story for director Kathryn Bigelow and producer - screenwriter Mark Boal to tackle after their little Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker held on to win the Best Picture Oscar, defeating among other movies the behemothic blockbuster directed by Bigelow's ex-husband James Cameron.

Christopher Nolan's intense World War II epic Dunkirk follows with eight, while Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which won best motion picture (drama) at the Golden Globes and outstanding performance by a cast (the best picture equivalent) at the SAG Awards, is up for seven awards.

«The Hurt Locker»: Jeremy Renner stars on this Oscar - winning drama which follows an an Iraq War Explosive Ordnance Disposal staff as they are trying to continue to exist towards insurgents and the tension of conflict.

The Counterfeiters joins a long line of stirring World War II dramas that have won awards and critical acclaim.

The Civil War - set drama about an injured Union soldier who gets taken in at an all - girls school started off its awards season at Cannes, where Coppola became the second woman in history to win the fest's best - director prize.

Warner Brothers realized they had a winning combination, and immediately cast the pair in the historical war drama The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936).

A super-concentrated packet whose features have the precision of an X-Acto knife, Natalie Portman literally and figuratively blasted out of the box as a pubescent punkette assassin in The Professional (1994) and hasn't taken a breather since, working with the top stratum of directors in a carousel of genres ranging from costume drama (The Other Boleyn Girl) to space opera (the Star Wars prequel trilogy), to mirror - splintering psychodrama (Black Swan, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role).

Previously, Soviet director Yuliva Solntseva won for her 1961 war drama «Chronicle of Flaming Years,» about the Russian resistance to the 1941 Nazi occupation, according to Deadline Hollywood.

He was an executive producer on the celebrated 2015 war drama Beasts of No Nation, and he both stars in and produced Crown Heights, which won the audience award at Sundance earlier this year.

Albrecht Goertz's gorgeous 503 could not have come at a worse time for BMW, as Douglas Blain explains in Drama Queen / In 1966 and All That, Steve Welsh reports from the unrivalled Goodwood Revival historic race meeting, which this year marked 50 years since Australian driver Jack Brabham won the Formula One World Championship in a car of his construction / Kit Foster tells the story of the American Underslung, the first American sports car, and examines one of the prized survivors of this pioneering but short - lived marque in Swing low, sweet chariot / In his article, Cross-Channel concours, Jörg Sierks chooses his favourites from two prestigious concours events, held on the same weekend on opposite sides of the English Channel / With the help of rarely seen archive photographs, D'Arcy Lever looks back at the highly effective trials specials built by Sydney Allard before World War Two.

Former Pratt Institute President James B. Donovan is the focus of Bridge of Spies, a Cold War - era biographical drama by Academy Award - winning director Steven Spielberg that was released in theaters around the country on October...