A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

2006 film by Dito Montiel
Movie film Q1540260
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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is a crime film, drama film, coming-of-age film, and biographical film.

It won the Sundance U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic[1][2] and the Sundance Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast[1][2].

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

Summary

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is a film[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,080 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints received the Sundance U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic[3].
  • A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints received the Sundance Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast[4].
  • A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints's instance of is recorded as film[5].
  • A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was directed by Dito Montiel[6].
  • Dito Montiel wrote the screenplay for A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints[7].
  • A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints's composer is recorded as Jonathan Elias[8].
  • A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints's genre is crime film[9].
  • A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints's genre is drama film[10].
  • A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints's genre is coming-of-age film[11].
  • A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints's genre is biographical film[12].
  • A cast member of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was Robert Downey Jr.[13].
  • A cast member of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was Shia LaBeouf[14].
  • A cast member of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was Rosario Dawson[15].
  • A cast member of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was Melonie Diaz[16].
  • A cast member of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was Chazz Palminteri[17].
  • A cast member of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was Dianne Wiest[18].
  • A cast member of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was Channing Tatum[19].
  • A cast member of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was Eric Roberts[20].
  • A cast member of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was Federico Castelluccio[21].
  • A cast member of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was Martin Compston[22].
  • A cast member of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was Eleonore Hendricks[23].
  • A cast member of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was Scott Michael Campbell[24].
  • A cast member of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was Olga Merediz[25].
  • A cast member of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was Peter Anthony Tambakis[26].
  • A cast member of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was Anthony DeSando[27].

Body

Authorship and Creation

Producers include Trudie Styler[28], Robert Downey Jr.[29], and Sting[30]. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was directed by Dito Montiel[6]. Dito Montiel wrote the screenplay for it[7]. Cast members include Robert Downey Jr.[13], Shia LaBeouf[14], Rosario Dawson[15], Melonie Diaz[16], Chazz Palminteri[17], and Dianne Wiest[18].

Publication

Publication dates include January 20, 2006[31] and September 29, 2006[32]. Original languages include Spanish[33] and English[34]. Genres include crime film[9], drama film[10], coming-of-age film[11], and biographical film[12]. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was distributed by video on demand[35].

Reception

Awards received include Sundance U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic[3], a class of award[36], in United States[37] and Sundance Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast[4]. Reviews include 75%[38], 6.6/10[39], and 67/100[40].

Why It Matters

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints ranks in the top 3% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,080 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]

FAQs

What awards did A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints receive?

Honors received include Sundance U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic[3] and Sundance Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast[4].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . Sundance Institute Digital Archive. Retrieved . history.sundance.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [12] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  11. [15] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [21] . wikidata.org.
  18. [22] . Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. wikidata.org.
  19. [23] . Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. wikidata.org.
  20. [24] . Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. wikidata.org.
  21. [25] . Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. wikidata.org.
  22. [26] . wikidata.org.
  23. [27] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [28] . wikidata.org.
  25. [29] . wikidata.org.
  26. [30] . wikidata.org.
  27. [3] . Sundance Institute Digital Archive. Retrieved . history.sundance.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [4] . Sundance Institute Digital Archive. Retrieved . history.sundance.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [33] . wikidata.org.
  30. [34] . wikidata.org.
  31. [35] . wikidata.org.
  32. [38] . Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  33. [39] . Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  34. [40] . wikidata.org.
  35. [31] . wikidata.org.
  36. [32] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [37] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [41] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [42] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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