Nair’s feature debut, Salaam Bombay! which won the 1988 Cannes Camera d’Or, is a powerful expose of homeless children.
Camera d’Or Year 9 (1986): Claire Devers’s “Noir et Blanc” (“Black and White”)
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Devers’ screenplay is loosely based on Tennessee Williams’s story, “Le Masseur noir”
Project Hail Mary: Sci-Fi Epic Without Any Single Greenscreen Shot
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It tells the story of an astronaut (Gosling) on high-stakes mission to save Earth from an interstellar disaster who encounters an alien trying to save his world from the same fate.
Camera d’Or Year 7 (1984): Jim Jarmusch’s “Stranger Than Paradise”
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The cool feature established Jarmusch as the most hip indie director of the 1980s, a position that Tarantino would occupy a decade later.
Camera d’Or Year 6 (1983): Pál Erdőss’s “The Princess,” Hungarian Drama about Teenage Factory Worker
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The film won the Caméra d’Or at the 1983 Cannes Film Fest, and the Golden Leopard at the 1983 Locarno Film Fest.
