Category: Festivals
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66th Annual Cannes Film Festival Award Winners Announced
Main Competition Palme d’Or: Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche) Grand Prix: Inside Llewyn Davis (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) Best Director: Amat Escalante – Heli Jury Prize: Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-Eda) Best Screenplay: A Touch of Sin Actress: Berenice Bejo – The Past Actor: Bruce Dern – Nebraska Camera d’Or: Ilo Ilo…
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Selections
The Cannes Film Festival, one of the most important festivals in the world, announced its full selections list. The festival has long been an Oscar precursor even if a majority of its awards fail to mirror Oscar. A lot of important pictures that become big contenders have emerged from Cannes even out of competition, so…
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What did Telluride and Venice Teach Us About the Oscars?
Both the Telluride and Venice Film Festivals ended in the last week. These two festivals, along with the currently running Toronto Film Festival, are some of the prime locations for major Oscar contenders to premiere their films. Here is a look at some of the films that opened to welcome applause at the two festivals,…
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2011 Venice Film Festival Prizes Announced
The winners for the 68th Venice Film Festival prizes have been announced. VENEZIA 68 Golden Lion for Best Film Faust by Aleksander Sokurov (Russia) Silver Lion for Best Director Shangjun CAI for the film Ren Shan Ren Hai (People Mountain People Sea) (China – Hong Kong) Special Jury Prize Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese (Italy) Coppa…
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What Did Cannes Teach Us About the Oscar Race?
The Cannes Film Festival is the first major event of every film season. It is the time when several films that will be vying for the Oscar next year are first shown, when the film studios are busy looking at projects to distribute both in America and internationally and a time for the brightest and…
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Cannes Film Festival Winners
The winners of the 64th Festival de Cannes have been announced and despite all the grousing over The Tree of Life being a heavily divisive film, it still managed to pick up the top prize. After Lars von Trier’s outburst about Hitler sympathies (for which he later apologized), the perception was that his film Melancholia…
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Festival: Sundance Film Festival
The annual Park City, UT festival started by Robert Redford, revealed its winners today. Here’s a list. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Like Crazy Grand Jury Prize, Documentary: How to Die in Oregon Grand Jury Prize, World Cinema Dramatic: Happy, Happy Grand Jury Prize, World Cinema Documentary: Hell and Back Again Audience Award, Dramatic: Circumstance Audience…
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Cannes 2010 and the Oscars
What can this year’s Cannes Film Festival tell us about the Oscars? When it comes to prestige, the Cannes Film Festival is one of the most celebrated and respected film awards to receive. When it comes to the Academy Awards, though, the Cannes Film Festival doesn’t always line up too nicely with what gets honored…
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Festival de Cannes: Winners Announced
The Cannes Film Festival is over and the awards have been announced. Below are the official winners listed on the Cannes website In Competition: Feature Films Palme d’Or Lung Boonmee Raluek Chat (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives) Grand Prix Des Hommes et Des Dieux (Of Gods and Men) Best Director Mathieu Amalric…
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Cannes Film Festival: Lineup Announced
Opening Film (Out of Competition) Robin Hood (Ridley Scott, USA) In Competition Tournee (Mathieu Almaric) Des Hommes et des Dieux (Xavier Beauvois) Hors la loi (Rachid Bouchareb) Biutiful (Alejandro Gonzales Innaritu) A Screaming Man (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) Housemaid (Im Sangsoo) Copie Conforme (Abbas Kiarostami) Outrage (Takeshi Kitano) Poetry (Lee Chang-dong) Another Year (Mike Leigh) Fair Game…
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Festival: Sundance Winners
Below are the Sundance Film Festival prizes. I’ve tried to break them into categories, but some of the breaks don’t feel right, but I’m not certain how else to break them up. Grand Jury Awards Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic: Winter’s Bone Grand Jury Prize, Documentary: Restrepo Audience Awards Dramatic Audience Award: happythankyoumoreplease Documentary Audience Award:…
