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National Board Of Review Awards 2016
88th NBR Awards Best Film: '' Manchester by the Sea'' The 88th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in film for 2016, were announced on November 29, 2016. Top 10 Films Films listed alphabetically except top, which is ranked as Best Film of the Year: *'' Manchester by the Sea'' *'' Arrival'' *''Hacksaw Ridge'' *''Hail, Caesar!'' *'' Hell or High Water'' *''Hidden Figures'' *''La La Land'' *'' Moonlight'' *'' Patriots Day'' *''Silence'' *'' Sully'' Top Foreign Films *''Elle'' *''The Handmaiden'' *'' Julieta'' *'' Land of Mine'' *'' Neruda'' Top Documentaries *'' De Palma'' *''The Eagle Huntress'' *'' Gleason'' *''Life, Animated'' *'' Miss Sharon Jones!'' Top Independent Films *''20th Century Women'' *'' Captain Fantastic'' *''Creative Control'' *'' Eye in the Sky'' *''The Fits'' *''Green Room'' *''Hello, My Name Is Doris'' *''Krisha'' *'' Morris from America'' *''Sing Street'' Winners Best Film: *'' Manchester by the Sea'' Best Director: *Barry Jenkins, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchester By The Sea (film)
''Manchester by the Sea'' is a 2016 American drama film written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan that stars Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, and Lucas Hedges. Centered around the themes of depression, guilt, grief, responsibility, dysfunctional families, and post-traumatic stress disorder, the plot follows a depressed and grief-stricken man who was accidentally responsible for the deaths of his three children and must care for his teenage nephew after the death of his brother. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2016, and was picked up by Amazon Studios for distribution. ''Manchester by the Sea'' was filmed during March and April 2015 in the eponymous Massachusetts town and other towns in the state, such as Beverly, Essex, Gloucester, Swampscott, Lynn, Middleton, Tewksbury, and Salem. It began a limited release on November 18, 2016, before a wide release on December 16, 2016. It grossed $79million worldwide against a budget of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Land Of Mine
''Land of Mine'' ( da, Under sandet, lit=Under the Sand) is a 2015 historical war drama film directed by Martin Zandvliet. It was shown in the Platform section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. It was selected and nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 89th Academy Awards. The film is inspired by real events and tells a story of German prisoners of war ordered to clear land mines in Denmark after World War II. It is estimated that more than 2,000 soldiers including a number of teenagers, under the command of German officers, removed mines. 169 of them lost their lives during the five months of mine clearing, 165 were severely wounded and 167 lightly wounded. The removal was part of a controversial agreement between the German Commander General Georg Lindemann, the Danish Government and the British Armed Forces, under which German soldiers with experience in defusing mines would be in charge of clearing the mine fields. Plot Following th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hello, My Name Is Doris
''Hello, My Name Is Doris'' is a 2015 American coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama film directed by Michael Showalter from a screenplay by Laura Terruso and Showalter, about a woman in her 60s who tries to act on her attraction to a younger co-worker. It stars Sally Field in the title role, alongside Max Greenfield, Beth Behrs, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Stephen Root, Elizabeth Reaser, Natasha Lyonne and Tyne Daly. The film had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival on March 14, 2015, and was theatrically released on March 11, 2016, by Roadside Attractions. Plot Doris Miller is a shy, eccentric, 60-something woman, living alone following the death of her mother, with whom she has lived for her whole life. At the funeral, her brother Todd and his wife Cynthia try to persuade her to sell the house, especially the possessions she has hoarded over decades. Doris had been caring for her mother for years and thereby neglecting her own social life and development. As a result, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Room (film)
''Green Room'' is a 2015 American horror-thriller film written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier, and produced by Neil Kopp, Victor Moyers and Anish Savjani. Starring Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, Callum Turner and Patrick Stewart, the film focuses on a punk band who find themselves attacked by neo-Nazi skinheads after witnessing a murder at a remote club in the Pacific Northwest. The film came from Saulnier's desire to direct a thriller set in a green room. Principal photography took place during October 2014 in Portland, Oregon. The film was financed and produced by Broad Green Pictures. ''Green Room'' was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. At the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, the film finished third in the balloting for the Grolsch People's Choice Midnight Madness Award. The film began a limited release on April 15, 2016, before being widely released on May 13 through A24. It appeared on many cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fits (film)
''The Fits'' is a 2015 American drama film directed by Anna Rose Holmer in her feature debut. The film tells the story of Toni (Royalty Hightower), an 11-year-old tomboy who struggles to fit into a girls’ dance troupe, which begins to suffer from an inexplicable epidemic of violent fits. The film premiered at the 2015 Venice Film Festival and was selected to take part in the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Oscilloscope Laboratories obtained U.S. distribution rights to the film before its Sundance debut. Plot Eleven-year-old Toni trains with her brother Jermaine in the boxing gym at the Lincoln Community Center in Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit .... She starts to take notice of the girls’ dance team which also practices there. Toni watches through the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eye In The Sky (2015 Film)
''Eye in the Sky'' is a 2015 British thriller film starring Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, and Barkhad Abdi. Directed by Gavin Hood and written by Guy Hibbert, the film explores the ethical challenges of drone warfare. Filming began in South Africa in September 2014. The film premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival on 11 September 2015. Bleecker Street distributed the film in cinemas in the United States with a limited release on 2016 and then a wide release on 1 April. It is the last live-action film to feature Alan Rickman, who died in January 2016 (his last film overall, ''Alice Through the Looking Glass'', features his voice acting only). The film was dedicated to his memory. Plot The film opens in Nairobi, Kenya, where Alia Mo'Allim, a young girl, twirls a hula hoop in her backyard. British Army Colonel Katherine Powell wakes up and hears that an undercover British/Kenyan agent has been murdered by the Al-Shabaab (militant group), Al-Shaba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creative Control (film)
''Creative Control'' is a 2015 American science fiction drama film, directed by Benjamin Dickinson from a screenplay written by Micah Bloomberg and Dickinson. It stars Dickinson, Nora Zehetner, Dan Gill, Alexia Rasmussen, Gavin McInnes and Reggie Watts. The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 14, 2015. It was released on March 11, 2016, by Amazon Studios and Magnolia Pictures. Plot In the near future, an ad executive uses a new reality technology to conduct an affair with his best friend's girlfriend. Cast * Benjamin Dickinson as David * Nora Zehetner as Juliette * Dan Gill as Wim * Alexia Rasmussen as Sophie * Gavin McInnes as Scott * Reggie Watts as Reggie Watts * Himanshu Suri as Reny * Jay Eisenberg as Hollis * Meredith Hagner as Becky * Jake Lodwick as Gabe * Robert Bogue as The Actor * Jessica Blank as Lucy * Austin Ku as Teddy * H. Jon Benjamin as Gary Gass * Sonja O'Hara as Lauren * Jon Watts as Commercial Director Post-production A campaig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Fantastic (film)
''Captain Fantastic'' is a 2016 American Comedy drama, comedy-drama film written and directed by Matt Ross (actor), Matt Ross and starring Viggo Mortensen, Frank Langella, Kathryn Hahn, and Steve Zahn. The story centers on a family forced by circumstances to reintegrate into society after living in isolation for a decade. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2016. It was screened in the ''Un Certain Regard'' section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. It was theatrically released on July 8, 2016 by Bleecker Street (company), Bleecker Street. It was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten independent films of 2016 and Mortensen was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama, Golden Globe, the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, BAFTA Award, and the Academy Award for Best Actor. Plot Ben Cash, his wife Leslie, and their six children live an isolated existence on ten acres in the mou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th Century Women
''20th Century Women'' is a 2016 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Mills and starring Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Lucas Jade Zumann and Billy Crudup. The film is set in 1970s Southern California and based in part on Mills' childhood. The film was produced by Annapurna Pictures in 2015, and had its world premiere at the New York Film Festival on October 8, 2016, and was theatrically released on December 28, 2016, by A24. The film was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actress for Bening, as well as for Best Original Screenplay at the 89th Academy Awards. Plot In 1979, 15-year-old Jamie Fields is a high school student living in a Santa Barbara boarding house run by his single mother, 55-year-old Dorothea. Their tenants are 24-year-old Abbie Porter, a photographer being treated for cervical cancer, and William, a carpenter and mechanic. Jamie's best friend is 17-year-old Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Sharon Jones!
''Miss Sharon Jones!'' is a 2015 documentary film about the singer Sharon Jones. The film depicts Jones' battle with cancer while continuing to perform with her group the Dap-Kings. Reception ''Miss Sharon Jones!'' has received mostly positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 87%, based on 38 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 77 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Soundtrack The soundtrack to the film was released by Daptone on August 19, 2016. The album compiles songs from the three previous studio albums by Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings: ''100 Days, 100 Nights'' (2007), ''I Learned the Hard Way ''I Learned the Hard Way'' is the fourth studio album by American soul and funk band Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, released April 6, 2010 on Daptone Records. Production for the album took place at the label's House of Soul Studios during 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life, Animated
''Life, Animated'' is a 2016 American documentary by director Roger Ross Williams. It is co-produced by Williams with Julie Goldman, Carolyn Hepburn and Christopher Clements. ''Life, Animated'' is based on journalist Ron Suskind's 2014 book ''Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism'', which tells the story of his son, Owen Suskind, who struggled with autism and learned how to communicate with the outside world through his love of Disney films. Upon its release, the film received rave reviews from critics and won numerous awards including the Sundance Film Festival award for Best Direction and the Special Achievement Annie Award. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film category at the 89th Academy Awards, but lost to '' O.J.: Made in America''. Synopsis Owen Suskind was diagnosed with autism at the age of 3. As Owen withdrew into his silent state, his parents almost lost hope that he would find some way to meaningfully inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gleason (2016 Film)
''Gleason'' is an American documentary film premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, covering five years in the life of the former New Orleans Saints football defensive back Steve Gleason, who has Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), sometimes known as Lou Gehrig's disease, a rare incurable neurodegenerative condition associated with the former New York Yankees baseball star Lou Gehrig, who died from the disease in 1941. Background and production Steve Gleason, who was a defensive back for the New Orleans Saints, is best known for his 2006 block of the opposing team's punt in a game on September 25 against the Atlanta Falcons broadcast on ''Monday Night Football'', which, according to Robert Mays writing for ''the Ringer'', was "...the play that sparked a magical season, inspired a statue, and revived a franchise ..." That game was the first time the Saints had played in their home stadium, the Superdome (now the Mercedes-Benz Superdome) since before Hurricane Katrin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |