BRUSSELS -- Tommy Lee Jones' directorial debut The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada won the Grand Prix at the Flanders International Film Festival in Ghent this weekend. The jury -- which included Brenda Blethyn, Arthur Lappin, Dominique Deruddere and Jose Luis Castineira de Dios -- awarded the festival's prestigious best music prize to Stephen Warbeck for John Madden's Proof. Best screenplay went to Singapore's Eric Khoo and Wong Kim Hoh for Be With Me, also directed by Khoo. China's Li Yu won the best director prize for his film Dam Street. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which won awards in Cannes for best screenplay (Guillermo Arriaga) and best actor (Jones), also stars Barry Pepper, Julio Cesar Cedillo, January Jones and Dwight Yoakam. A gruesome tale of a man who is shot in the Texas desert and hastily buried before being twice disinterred, it is already tipped to feature strongly in Oscar nominations.
- 10/24/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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