The best in film and television was honored tonight at the 2023 Gotham Awards, which kicked off awards season with a bang!
18.11.2023 - 19:47 / deadline.com
This year’s winners at Camerimage Film Festival in Toruń, Poland were unveiled Saturday, with The New Boy, Warwick Thornton’s drama about an indigenous boy taken in at a mysterious remote monastery, taking the top prize.
Poor Things, Searchlight’s Yorgos Lanthimos drama starring Emma Stone, won the Audience Award at the festival, which focuses on the art of cinematography.
Camerimage’s Golden Frog is widely considered an Oscar precursor, with three of the past five Golden Frog winners going on to earn Oscar nominations in cinematography. Those titles include Lion (2016), Joker (2019) and Nomadland (2020).
Below is the complete list of this year’s winners.
MAIN COMPETITION
Golden Frog: The New Boy
cin. Warwick Thornton
dir. Warwick Thornton
Silver Frog: El Conde
cin. Ed Lachman
dir. Pablo Larraín
Bronze Frog: Poor Things
cin. Robbie Ryan
dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
FIPRESCI AWARD
The International Federation of Film Critics Award for Best Film: The Zone of Interest
cin. Łukasz Żal
dir. Jonathan Glazer
POLISH FILMS COMPETITION
Best Polish Film: Doppelgänger. The Double
cin. Bartłomiej Kaczmarek
dir. Jan Holoubek
FILM AND ART SCHOOL ETUDES COMPETITION
Laszlo Kovacs Student Award – Golden Tadpole – Cremation, Or The Quarantine Hotel
cin. Wen Lau
dir. Ning Qian
school: National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA)
Silver Tadpole: Plastic Touch
zdj. Celia Morales
reż. Aitana Ahrens
szkoła: The Madrid Film School (ECAM)
Bronze Tadpole: Poor Boy Long Way from Home
zdj. Tuur Oosterlinck
reż. Jonas Hollevoet
szkoła: Sint-Lucas School of Arts, Brussel (LUCA)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES COMPETITION
Golden Frog — best feature documentary: The Echo
cin. Ernesto Pardo
dir. Tatiana Huezo
DOCUMENTARY SHORTS COMPETITION
Golden Frog — best short
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