Deep into a summer of superhero blockbusters and romantic comedies, the first trailers for the year's dramatic award hopefuls are starting to hit the web.
I am excited to see that one of our city's artists will have the chance each year to receive such a dramatic award, enabling them to pursue their creative passion, and I am hopeful that it will be yet another reason to encourage artists to choose to make Baltimore their home".
Osborne says: "We want to continue to grow, despite the economic recession, and to further expand our reputation for creating dramatic, contemporary awards and trophies that never fail to impress".
Fruitvale Station first screened at Sundance 2013, where it won the grand jury (dramatic) prize as well as the audience award (dramatic), and was also selected for Cannes.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, a film about a pair of student filmmakers who befriend a girl with cancer, won both the US dramatic audience award and the grand jury prize at the 31st Sundance film festival awards.
The Birth of a Nation, Nate Parker's film about the Nat Turner slave revolt, won both the US dramatic audience award and the grand jury prize at the 32nd Sundance film festival awards.
Ms. Kusama also won the festival's dramatic directing award, while Mr. Lonergan won its screenwriting prize.
Other notable nods include a world cinema dramatic directing award for Sebastián Silva's acid trip comedy Crystal Fairy, starring Michael Cera; a special jury award for sound design to Shane Carruth's offbeat Upstream Color; and another special jury award for "punk spirit" to A Punk Prayer, the documentary about Russian activist/musicians Pussy Riot.
It had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and won the dramatic directing award this year.
The dysfunctional family interaction was the pained heartbeat of Catherine Hardwicke's "Thirteen," the winner of the dramatic directing award.
