Sentences with phrase «best feature director»

The biggest clue will come on Saturday when the Directors Guild of America names its Best Feature Director: the nominees are the same as the Academy's, except that the DGA opted for Nolan, not the Coens.

Not exact matches

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

The day included half a dozen panels featuring journalists, researchers and technologists, as well as two keynote conversations, both moderated by Tow Center director Emily Bell.

Set mostly in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, the film boasts a director and primary star who are both African - American men (director Ryan Coogler and actor Chadwick Boseman), while the cast also features numerous other notable black stars, such as Oscar winners Lupita Nyong» o and Forest Whitaker as well as Angela Bassett and Michael B. Jordan.

She has also been the featured and keynote speaker at conferences and forums of directors, CEOs, and investors, as well as an invited panelist at directors» conferences.

Best Picture: «The Shape of Water» Lead Actor: Gary Oldman, «Darkest Hour» Lead Actress: Frances McDormand, «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» Supporting Actor: Sam Rockwell, «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» Supporting Actress: Allison Janney, «I, Tonya» Director: «The Shape of Water,» Guillermo del Toro Animated Feature: «Loving Vincent,» Animated Short: «Revolting Rhymes» Adapted Screenplay: «The Disaster Artist» Original Screenplay: «The Big Sick» Cinematography: «Blade Runner 2049» Roger Deakins Best Documentary Feature: «Last Men in Aleppo» Best Documentary Short Subject: «Traffic Stop» Best Live Action Short Film: «The Silent Child» Best Foreign Language Film: «The Insult» (Lebanon) Film Editing: «Baby Driver» Sound Editing: «Dunkirk» Sound Mixing: «Dunkirk» Production Design: «The Shape of Water» Original Score: «Star Wars: The Last Jedi Original Song: «This Is Me» from «The Greatest Showman» Makeup and Hair: «Darkest Hour» Costume Design: «Phantom Thread» Visual Effects: «Star Wars: The Last Jedi»

This new component of SFWSC, the most respected and influential international spirits competition of its kind, features an all - star panel of judges, led by SFWSC's Director of Judging and leading bar professional, Tony Abou - Ganim, and including the likes of best - selling author and whiskey expert Fred Minnick and Ziggy Eschliman, award - winning radio and television personality and educator, who will blind taste cocktail recipes submitted by some of the industry's most respected leaders including author and beverage consultant Kimberly Haasarud and James Beard - honored cocktail historian, David Wondrich.

Featuring all - stainless construction including base frame — and being fully enclosed for OH&S odour and aerosol control — the new design advances rotary drum screen technology well into the 21st century, said Michael Bambridge, Managing Director of -LSB-...]

Featuring all - stainless construction including base frame — and being fully enclosed for OH&S odour and aerosol control — the new design advances rotary drum screen technology well into the 21st century, said Michael Bambridge, Managing Director of CST Wastewater Solutions.

Sander Kool, Sales & Marketing Director at Clondalkin Kirchberg, explains: «Traditionally packaging has been used for visual communication, but tactile is now recognised as an important feature for communicating with customers at the point of sale as well.

TGI Fridays is launching the Red Hot Summer of Music, a summer - long celebration featuring an online contest in search of the best undiscovered musical artists, with three - time Grammy Award - winning artist and Creative Director for Malibu Red NE - YO, and some of YouTube's top artists.

Drawing Room also features a selection of cocktails from beverage director Paul McGee, wine from Andrew Algren, as well as curated selection of beer, available all day.

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Choral conductor Robert Shaw was known for his arrangements and recordings of Christmas music, and this concert of his work features his protegee Sylvia McNair as well as Vocality, the new chorus created by Chicago Children's Choir director Josephine Lee.

Immediately following the screening of the film, I'll be introducing a panel discussion featuring the film makers along with celebrity chef Monica Pope (Bravo Top Chef Masters and a Food & Wine Best New Chef); Recipe for Success «s Director of Operations, chef Molly Graham; and Brian Giles, General Manager of Houston ISD / Aramark Food Services.

Moderated by NYCAN Executive Director Derrell Bradford, the panel featured leaders in the education reform movement as well as public school parents from across the state.

The event featured Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, secretary of State Rossana Rosado, and Alphonso David, Counsel to the governor, as well as representatives from Action Environmental, Ben & Jerry's, ConBody, and VICE Media, and Chris Watler, executive director for Center for Employment Opportunities New York, who discussed the benefits of hiring formerly incarcerated individuals.

Simon Woolley, director of Operation Black Vote, which ran a high - profile campaign featuring prominent black British stars with white faces, welcomed the progress made but added: «Although this is encouraging and a positive development, it's simply not good enough in terms of composition of parliament.

With data from Voyager, Galileo, New Horizons, Hubble and now Juno, we have a better understanding of the composition and evolution of this iconic feature,» said Jim Green, NASA's director of planetary science.

It features JSC director and former astronaut Ellen Ochoa assuring viewers that NASA values «the skills and talents of every individual, regardless of differences including sexual orientation and gender identity» and that despite the «difficulties» and «hardships» members of the target audience may be undergoing now, «I promise life will get better.»

Short interactive videos in the exhibit's theater feature IBM researchers such as David Ferrucci (who led the development of Watson) as well as scientists such as Howard - Yana Shapiro, global director of plant science and external research at Mars Inc. «We wanted to do something that would be open to the public,» says IBM's Lee Green, vice president of brand experience and strategic design.

The meeting featured a keynote address from Bruce R. Conway, PhD, Director of the Robertson Therapeutic Development Fund at The Rockefeller University, as well as a panel discussion on best practices for translational science featuring Dr. Conway, Michael L. Batten, MD, MBA, of the JDRF T1D Fund, Andres Hurtado - Lorenzo, PhD, Director of Translational Research at the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation, Elizabeth Schwarzbach, PhD, Vice President of Business Development at NYSCF, and Caren A. Heller, MD, MBA, of the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation.

With data from Voyager, Galileo, New Horizons, Hubble and now Juno, we have a better understanding of the composition and evolution of this iconic feature,» Jim Green, the director of planetary science at the agency, added in a statement.

The symposium will feature a keynote address by Jo Handelsman, Ph.D., director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, as well as a vendor fair and reception.

A live webcast includes the announcements from Oslo by Nils Christian Stenseth, President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, as well as a special Kavli Prize program from the World Science Festival in New York, featuring opening remarks by John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

Not everyone is a movie director or cinematographer who can figure out good lighting to highlight someone's most attractive features.

In an exclusive video interview for the Online Dating Minute, I spoke with Grant Hosford, Senior Director at Jazzed, who shared a behind the scenes look at the dating site, including what inspired eHarmony to create a social dating site, as well as describing some of their features.

Extras: The Blu - ray includes quite a few extra features, including a detailed, if at times kind of lethargic commentary by director Lloyd; three interlocked featurettes detailing the stage genesis of the property, the vocal training of the actors (including a laugh out loud segment showing the largely incompetent Firth attempting «dance moves»), as well as the source ABBA music; another featurette detailing the making of «Lay Your Love on Me,» a duet between Seyfried and Dominic Cooper that becomes a bit of a production number; deleted scenes (including the cut musical number «The Name of the Game») and a music video of «Gim me!

It's tautly helmed by first - time feature director Title and well - acted by the able cast, particularly Vance and Annabeth Gish.

As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie star.

With her first feature in seven years, director Pascale Ferran looks at the isolated lives of Gary, an American engineer played by The Good Wife's Josh Charles, and Audrey (Anais Demoustier), a hotel chambermaid at an airport hotel on the outskirts of Paris.

Less Is More, More is Less: In his second feature film, photographer - turned - director Anton Corbijn tries his best to match Clooney's hostile stillness with distance of his own, but his attempts at visual nuance inadvertently come off as conspicuous filmmaking choices overly fraught with meaning.

X-Men, which features an A-list cast and a top - notch director, represents Marvel's best chance at gaining a foothold in Hollywood.

Writer - director Ryan Fleck's Sundance - minted Half Nelson is a glancingly remarkable, two - handed character study that slips up a bit in its overly impressionistic trafficking but still features a solid performance from Ryan Gosling (above), who continues to be the best kept under - 25 secret in Hollywood.

With all of the attention August was drawing, he soon caught the eye of legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, and in 1992, the veteran director teamed with the relative newcomer for the feature The Best Intentions.

That alone would be reason to get excited, and Coogler makes good on the landmark project's potential by featuring a predominantly black ensemble, casting some of the best young actors around — from Chadwick Boseman (who proved his dramatic chops playing James Brown, Jackie Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall in recent years) to Michael B. Jordan (even more buff, and twice as charismatic, than he appeared in the director's two previous features, «Fruitvale Station» and «Creed»)-- as well as such legends as Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett.

But you could probably do better than spending 89 minutes with this Michael Bay - produced haunted house tale / board game adaptation from first - time director Stiles White, featuring a mostly no - name cast.

Indie veteran director Matthew Porterfield writes about how on his fourth feature «Sollers Point» he made a better film by remaining open.

Malkovich met with near - universal critical praise and garnered an Academy Award nomination for the neophyte feature director — as well as supporting actress Catherine Keener and writer Charlie Kaufman — though Stipe and the film itself were passed over for a Best Picture nod.Despite Single Cell's increasing prominence in the industry, Stipe continued to support C - Hundred for smaller - budgeted niche features such as writer - director Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward and McKay's coming - of - age drama Our Song, both of which were featured at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

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Director Max Joseph (MTV's Catfish) makes his narrative feature debut here and while he is keen on tapping into that younger audience he knows so well, at thirty - three this drama of young angst feels more manufactured than authentic.

The best thing about writer - director A.B. Shawky's feature - length debu... is the way it burrows inside Beshay's life without devolving into a pity party.

Dustin Hoffman, a 75 - year - old first - time feature director better known as a great old acting pro, conducts at a pleasant tempo.

Writer / director Ira Sachs, who made his first feature film, «The Delta,» about 15 years ago (which I haven't seen), brings to life the story of two well - educated Manhattanites who have an anonymous sexual encounter that grows into a 10 - year relationship.

Director Miguel Arteta and screenwriter Mike White collaborated recently on TV's Enlightened, but this is their first feature together since they made the scrappy Sundance favorites The Good Girl (2002) and Chuck & Buck (2000) back in the day.

A gritty, relentless wartime drama that blends its action set pieces with palpable despair and historical observation, «' 71» maintains a polished intensity that fares well for first - time feature director Yann Demange.

This movie features three stories directed by three great foreign directors, and the cast features some of the best foreign actors at the time too.

Angelina Jolie's second feature as a director, following her under - the - radar 2011 Bosnian drama In the Land of Blood and Honey, is a beautifully shot, well - acted, and worthy - to - a-fault Second World War survivor story that only intermittently achieves the kind of emotional impact for which it aims.

Despite his inclusion in the guild's highest honor, Davis failed to secure an Academy Award nomination for best director; the «Lion» helmer and his team were nevertheless rewarded with the award for outstanding directorial achievement of a first - time feature.

It works, and works well, thanks in large part to first - feature director Ruben Fleischer's dead - on sense of style in the action department, marrying horror and car chases in a way that pushes the story forward without losing in excitement.