Tag: Sundance

And with that, the last major film festival ends with La Bola Negra, I Play Rocky, and Being Heumann emerging as strong Oscar contenders. People’s Choice Award La Bola Negra People’s Choice Award, First Runner Up I Play Rocky People’s Choice Award, Second Runner Up Being Heumann People’s Choice Award, Documentaries Darlene Love: I Know…

Venice boosted the candidacy of John Malkovich for certain with Woman Unknown a little less certain at this juncture but it certainly puts that film and star Mathilde Arcel (Best Actress winner) into the conversation. Golden Lion Woman Unknown Grand Jury Prize Possible Love Special Jury Prize NAZA Silver Lion Ilya Khrzhanovsky – DAU Volpi…

The first of the big three fall festivals started Sep. 4 and will complete today, Sep. 7. These were the films that showed. Telluride does not give out awards so we won’t get much information out of these other than a list of films that could be contenders and which will be the some of…

All of the awards that are fit to print. The Festival Grand Jury Prize U.S. Dramatic Josephine Audience Award U.S. Dramatic Josephine Directing Award U.S. Dramatic Josef Kubota Wladyka – Ha-Chun, Shake Your Booty! Screenwriting Take Me Home Editing Barbara Forever Grand Jury World Cinema Dramatic Shame and Money Audience Award World Cinema Dramatic Hold…

This is the last major festival before the Oscars and its winners have often presaged Oscar attention, though last year’s winner was held back to this summer and managed to flop so we’ll see how this year’s selections do. Hamnet looks to be in the strongest position while Frankenstein shows it’s not just an average…

We’ll have the awards from Toronto next week but before then, we have Venice. Their award winners don’t have as good a track record as some but their winners certainly have a chance at the Oscars. The Festival Golden Lion Father Mother Sister Brother Grand Jury Prize The Voice of Hind Rajab Special Jury Prize…

This one wrapped up after a four-day event. They don’t give out awards so we’re only looking at the films in competition where there were a lot more than usual in the main program and far fewer than usual in the shorts program. The Festival Main Program The American Revolution Ask E. Jean Ballad of…

In the first of our festival postings for the new year, here’s what happened at the Sundance Film Festival this year. The Festival Grand Jury Prize U.S. Dramatic Atropia Audience Award U.S. Dramatic Twinless Directing Award U.S. Dramatic Rashad Frett – Ricky Screenwriting Sorry, Baby Editing André Is an Idiot Grand Jury World Cinema Dramatic…