The only deserving film to win a nod from the competition jury (Assayas shared
the directing award with Cristian Mungiu, whose Graduation is solid but hardly as adventurous as his three earlier features), Personal Shopper is as ephemeral as the ghost that haunts the imagination of Maureen (Stewart), whose recently deceased twin brother had mediumistic powers.
Not exact matches
Instead, she seems to have mixed it up
with the Denzel Washington -
directed «Fences,» which is also up for several
awards tonight.
If you're ready to start saving by using
direct deposit, opening an
award - winning account
with Synchrony Bank could help you to reach your savings goals.
The bestselling author of Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire, he lives in New York City
with his wife, Carol Cymbala, who
directs the Grammy
Award - winning Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir.
I could have given a few Arsenal players the Man of the Match
award for yesterday's hard fought win at Newcastle,
with Cazorla's probing and patient passing as well as Oxlade - Chamberlain's
direct approach and shot for the goal being key factors, but for me the anchoring presence of Coquelin in midfield and his ability to keep the ball and his cool amid concerted pressure was brilliant.
Here's the caption @nascarcasm claims goes
with this photo: Oscar winners (from left) Christian Bale (Best Actor In A Supporting Role, «The Fighter»), Natalie Portman (Actress In A Leading Role, «Black Swan»), Melissa Leo (Actress In A Supporting Role, «The Fighter»), Colin Firth (Actor In A Leading Role, «The King's Speech») and Kurt Busch (Best
Directing, Cinematography, Costume Design and Short - Subject Documentary, «A Positive Step For Me»), celebrate backstage following the Academy
Awards, which honor achievement in filmmaking.
Cuomo's office said that grants made available through the program «will be
awarded through a competitive process,
with priority given to nonprofits
with State contracts that provide
direct services in high - need communities, particularly smaller nonprofits and nonprofits that lack access to other capital funding opportunities.»
Ms. Reyero's thesis, «Advances in biodiesel production: ethanolysis and new heterogeneous catalysts,» was
directed by Professor Luis Gandía Pascual and Professor María Cruz Arzamendi Manterola, from the Department of Applied Chemistry at the UPNA, and was
awarded an Outstanding
with Honours PhD.
Several conclusions now can be drawn: (1) research grants are used to pay for indirect expenses by all science faculty researching in a laboratory, (2) many scholarly investigations by faculty not needing to work in a research laboratory have their indirect expenses paid by some internal budget at the same institutions, (3) research grant
awards for indirect expenses at some institutions exceed the amount given for
direct expenses, and, (4)
direct experience
with paying for indirect expenses leads many Principal Investigators to have questions and suspicions that some type of hidden purpose or scam might be going on
with the current system for using research grant funds to pay for indirect expenses.
However, I find it baffling how a 24 year old «blogger»
with no qualifications or credentials in the aforementioned disciplines of study, has the audacity to write an article attempting to refute the claims and findings of a man
with 40 + years experience in scientific research, a who was involved in the discovery of dioxin, recognized as one of the most deadly toxins ever found, a man who has written hundreds of scientific papers, a recipient of numerous
awards for his work as a biochemist and a man who
directed the most comprehensive study of diet, lifestyle and disease on humans, ever.
Of course, some of the most laboriously expositional dialogue in recent television history also distracts which, combined
with the most functional, dull and themeless music I have heard in a TV drama of late, is likely to leave audiences perplexed; bearing in mind that 2008's John Adams,
directed by Tom Hooper (the recent recipient of a well - deserved Academy
Award for The Kingà cents â
Most recently he performed in the workshop of Sondheim's Wiseguys,
with Nathan Lane, which was
directed by Sam Mendes, and
with Alan Alda and Alfred Molina in the Tony
Award - winning Art, which moved to Los Angeles following its successful six - month run at Broadway's Royale Theatre.His numerous stage credits also include Arcadia, The Devil's Disciple, Noises Off and Sweeney Todd.
While Emmy - winning Survivor producer and host Jeff Probst (born November 4th, 1962) has occasionally taken a seat besides Kelly Ripa on Live
with Regis and Kelly and even
directed his own
award - winning feature film, chances are that when all is said and done, the role he'll be best remembered for is that of the firm but fair host who snuffed out more than his share of torches on the popular competitive reality show that made him a household name.
The film is based on the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life
with Stephen, by Jane Hawking, and is
directed by Academy
Award winner James Marsh («Man on Wire»).
Since 1980, Ms. Grant has mixed acting
with directing, and in 1982, launched anWhile still in her teens, Lee Grant established herself as a formidable talent by winning the Critics Circle
Award for her performance as the shoplifter in the Broadway production of Detective Story.
Scorsese has also
directed numerous documentaries including the Peabody
Award winning No Direction Home: Bob Dylan and Elia Kazan: A Letter to Elia; as well as Italianamerican, The Last Waltz, A Personal Journey
with Martin Scorsese through American Movies, Il Mio Viaggio in Italia, Public Speaking, Shine a Light and George Harrison: Living in the Material World, for which Scorsese received Emmy
Awards for Outstanding
Directing for Nonfiction Programming and Outstanding Nonfiction Special.
Written (
with Jean - Claude Grumberg and Karim Boukercha) and
directed by Academy
Award winner Costa - Gavras (Z, Missing), this adaptation of Stéphane Osmont's book Le Capital follows a ruthless executive Marc Tourneuil (Gad Elmaleh) as he climbs the corporate ladder of France's Phenix Bank.
Additional film credits include TALK TO ME; the 2006 Oscar ® winning Best Picture, CRASH, which Cheadle also produced; HOTEL RWANDA, for which his performance garnered Academy
Award ®, Golden Globe ®, Broadcast Film Critics
Award and Screen Actors Guild ®
Award nominations for Best Actor; OCEAN»S ELEVEN, OCEAN»S TWELVE, and OCEAN»S THIRTEEN,
directed by Steven Soderbergh; Mike Binder's REIGN OVER ME
with Adam Sandler; the Academy
Award ® winning film TRAFFIC and OUT OF SIGHT, both also
directed by Soderbergh; Paul Thomas Anderson's critically acclaimed BOOGIE NIGHTS; BULWORTH, SWORDFISH, MISSION TO MARS, John Singleton's ROSEWOOD, for which Cheadle earned an NAACP Image
Award nomination; FAMILY MAN,
directed by Brett Ratner and starring Nicolas Cage; COLORS, HAMBURGER HILL, and the independent features MANIC and THINGS BEHIND THE SUN.
Academy
Award ® winner Angelina Jolie
directs and produces Unbroken, an epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis «Louie» Zamperini (Jack O'Connell) who, along
with two other crewmen, survived in a raft for 47 days after a near - fatal plane crash in WWII - only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner - of - war camp.
Academy
Award ® winner Bill Condon will
direct both films starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner along
with Billy Burke as Charlie Swan as well as returning members of the Cullen Family including Peter Facinelli as Carlisle, Elizabeth Reaser as Esme, Jackson Rathbone as Jasper, Nikki Reed as Rosalie, Ashley Greene as Alice and Kellan Lutz as Emmett.
It's been seven years since designer Tom Ford made a splash
with his
award - winning writing -
directing debut A Single Man, and it's no surprise that his second film is just as exquisitely beautiful to look at...
The success continued
with 2017 BAFTA nominations for LIM
Award finalists Standby
directed by Charlotte Regan, and The Alan Dimension
directed by Jac Clinch.
The Greatest Showman is
directed by exciting new filmmaker, Michael Gracey,
with songs by Academy
Award winners Pasek and Paul.
The
Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary was presented to: Sandi Tan, for her film Shirkers (Director & Screenwriter: Sandi Tan, Producers: Sandi Tan, Jessica Levin, Maya Rudolph)-- In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan shot Singapore's first indie road movie
with her enigmatic American mentor Georges — who then vanished
with all the footage.
The film reunites the actors
with Christopher Nolan, who recently
directed them in the
award - winning blockbuster «Inception.»
Megan Leavey is
directed by Gabriella Cowperthwaithe who struck a blow for ending the captivity of Killer Whales
with her
award - winning doc Blackfish.
John Malkovich was presented
with the Milton Shulman
Award for Best Director after helming play Good Canary - his
directing debut - beating John Tiffany for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Dominic Cooke for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
The
Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic was presented to: Sara Colangelo, for her film The Kindergarten Teacher (Director & Screenwriter: Sara Colangelo, Producers: Talia Kleinhendler, Osnat Handelsman - Keren, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Celine Rattray, Trudie Styler)-- When a Staten Island kindergarten teacher discovers what may be a gifted five year - old student in her class, she becomes fascinated and obsessed
with the child — spiraling downward on a dangerous and desperate path in order to nurture his talent.
And, AWFJ recognizes the superb women's programming
with presentation of EDA
Awards for female -
directed films.
For the second consecutive year, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists is partnering
with DOXA Documentary Film Festival to present EDA
Awards for best female -
directed films at the 16th annual festival, to be held from May 4 to 14, in Vancouver, BC.
In addition to presenting year end
awards during the annual movie awards season, AWFJ partners with select film festivals throughout the year to present EDA Awards for best female directed films in the documentary, narrative feature, and short categ
awards during the annual movie
awards season, AWFJ partners with select film festivals throughout the year to present EDA Awards for best female directed films in the documentary, narrative feature, and short categ
awards season, AWFJ partners
with select film festivals throughout the year to present EDA
Awards for best female directed films in the documentary, narrative feature, and short categ
Awards for best female
directed films in the documentary, narrative feature, and short categories.
Teller was honored
with their Vanguard
award for his work in the film, written and
directed by Ben Younger.
Rob Minkoff («The Lion King,» «Stuart Little»)
directs,
with special effects and make - up design by six - time Academy
Award winner Rick Baker («How the Grinch Stole Christmas») and sets by Oscar - winning production designer John Myhre («Elizabeth,» «Chicago»).
I admit my outrage
with the film grew in
direct proportion to the accolades it got, so when I saw her get the
award, I just had had enough (correction: that was when the Academy snubbed 86 - year - old Emmanuelle Riva to give the Oscar to Jennifer Lawrence, but that's a whole other story).
Winner of the
Directing Award Dramatic and Special Jury Prize for Vera Farmiga for Down to the Bone in (2004), and winner of the Grand Jury Prize Dramatic and Waldo Salt Screenwriting
Award for Winter's Bone (2010), this originally had Casey Affleck in the lead, but Ben Foster might be a better casting bet for a survivalist protective father
with a complicated past and will be a perfect spotlight to launch a new career for the young co-lead kiwi thesp Thomasin McKenzie.
Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and
directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis
Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents
with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books
with resourceful heroines, narratives
with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.
Hawke is coming off of a busy year
with awards season contender Boyhood; documentary Seymour: An Introduction, which he produced and
directed; Michael and Peter Spierig's Predestination; Andrew Niccol's Good Kill; and Shakespeare update Cymbeline.
He won the MTV Movie
Award for «Best Villain» two years in a row and followed it up
with another wonderfully evil performance in Fox's monster hit RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (
directed by Rupert Wyatt) alongside James Franco, Freida Pinto, and John Lithgow.
The festival will open
with a fundraising benefit night featuring Matthew Heineman's «Cartel Land,» which won the U.S. Documentary
directing and Cinematography
awards at the Sundance Film Festival.
Academy
Award nominated Guillermo del Toro (PAN»S LABYRINTH, CRIMSON PEAK) will
direct and co-write
with Vanessa Taylor («Game of Thrones,» DIVERGENT).
John Shea
directed and co-scripted (
with James Cummings and Dave McLaughlin) this low - budget crime drama which won the American Independent
Award at the 1998 Seattle Film Festival.
It's a charming romp
with an engaging cast more than dutifully
directed with a touch of whimsical urgency, wonderfully supplemented by an entertainingly anxious score by composer Charlie Mole, Parker's musical alter - ego, and a lovely landscape designed by
award - winning Luciana Arrighi (Howard's End) and captured by Oscar - nominated (Room
with a View, Howard's End) director of photography Tony Pierce - Roberts.
SAN RAFAEL, CA (August 8, 2017)-- The Mill Valley Film Festival is proud to honor acclaimed director Todd Haynes (Carol, Far From Heaven, Safe, I'm Not There)
with a Tribute, featuring an onstage conversation and presentation of the MVFF
Award in recognition of a career that exemplifies the art of great
directing.
Were it not for the Netflix label, a movie
with a 93 % Rotten Tomatoes score,
directed by an Oscar nominee and starring two Oscar winners (Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson) in supporting roles would absolutely be in the
awards discussion.
David Arquette (The Darwin
Awards, Riding the Bullet) gets a role that practically anyone could play as the live - in companion who keeps Dana's wife, played by Catherine Keener (Friends
with Money, Capote), busy as her husband pursues his writing and
directing.
The documentaries also fared well: Jacob Kornbluth's «Inequality for All» and Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson's «American Promise» came away
with Special Jury Prizes, and Zachary Heinzerling won the
directing award for «Cutie and the Boxer.»
Roadside Attractions» 2016 slate included a strong line - up of
award - winners led by Kenneth Lonergan's «Manchester By The Sea,» starring Casey Affleck; «Hello, My Name is Doris,»
directed by Michael Showalter and starring Sally Field; «Southside
With You,» produced by and starring Tika Sumpter and was the directorial debut of Richard Tanne; Tom Tykwer's «A Hologram For The King,» starring Tom Hanks; Whit Stillman's «Love & Friendship,» starring Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny; and James Schamus» «Indignation,» starring Logan Lerman, among others.
Needless to say, a historical drama
directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep is pretty much the Platonic ideal of
awards season wild cards, even before you factor in the extent to which a movie about the journalists who declassified the Pentagon Papers might dovetail
with current events (every vote is a vote against «fake news»).
Sure to remind some of «Cellular,» the 2004 picture starring Kim Basinger, Chris Evans and Jason Statham, The Call is, for the most part, a gripping little tight - knit crime thriller
directed by Brad Anderson («The Machinist «-RRB- and blessed
with decent work by Halle Berry (Academy
Award winner for «Monster's Ball «-RRB- as heroine Jordan, and Abigail Breslin (Oscar nominee for «Little Miss Sunshine «-RRB-, as Casey, the girl Jordan is trying to save.
One's enjoyment (or better yet, interest) in Legend, as written and
directed by Brian Helgeland (an Academy
Award winner for «L.A. Confidential» and a Razzie winner for «The Postman»), will most likely hinge on one's ability to understand the deep Cockney accent everyone speaks here (even a universal translator would not help
with much of...