prizewinner
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“Nuisance Bear,” a prizewinner at Sundance earlier this year, brought an effective style of its own to a story set in Churchill, Manitoba, aka the “Polar Bear Capital of the World.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
The best thing about “Close,” an Oscar nominee for international feature and a major prizewinner at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, is its firm but gentle destigmatization of boyhood intimacy.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2023
The movie, which features a love story between a married man and a transgender woman, is Pakistan’s entry for next year’s Academy Awards and was a prizewinner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2022
He says he’ll put the seeds from his new prizewinner up for auction, too.
From Scientific American • Oct. 28, 2022
Harry eyed me and then said, “Let me look at him. He’s a prizewinner, isn’t he? If they had an entry for moths at the Fentress Fair, you’d take it, easy.”
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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