Sentences with phrase «drama race which»

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The series establishes the context of Simpson's fame and his relationship with the African - American community while also exploring the history of race relations in Los Angeles, all of which lays the groundwork that helps recreate some of the shock and drama that fed the media circus around Simpson's murder trial.

The Tour de France, a 2,800 - mile bicycle race which runs its brutal but glorious course for 24 days, providing all France with the extravagance and flaunty drama it has loved since Bonaparte, began this year under a fierce June sun which turned its route into a fillet of melting tar.

Riders are scored according to finishing position in each event before the drama of the final event, the points race, in which riders can lose or gain points, the rider with the highest total crowned the winner.

Much of the drama in Rockland was reserved for the committee races, which are not followed closely by the general public, but are very important to the inside political game.

If the project moves forward (the script is still being written), the drama will center on a scientist and her former mentor as they battle for control over the human genome, the culmination of which could mean life or death for the entire human race.

He returned to the Oscar race in 2014 playing the title role in Clint Eastwood's 21st century war drama American Sniper, for which he also was nominated for Best Picture, having served as a producer on the film.

Poor health dogged Ford's career during the 1950s, but he still managed to create The Sun Shines Bright (1953)-- one of his favorite films, dealing with politics and race relations in the 19th century South — Mogambo (1953), and The Searchers (1956), which is considered one of the most powerful Western dramas ever made.

The 46 - year - old actress was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Dorothy Vaughan in the biographical drama which follows the story of African American female mathematicians who worked for NASA during the Space Race.

Nothing really special until the racing scenes, which are good enough to earn it a mild recommendation for those interested in either the sport itself or just not - too - heavy dramas revolving around overcoming one's afflictions through spirit and determination.

StudioCanal UK has revealed a new 60 - second trailer for the indie drama The Mercy, which tells the story of a humble man who takes an unfinished boat on a race around the world for an adventure.

The actress, who previously starred in short - lived J.J. Abrams drama «Undercovers,» is phenomenal in Amma Asante's «Belle,» in which she plays a mixed - race woman in 18th century England struggling to feel comfortable in her own skin.

Angelina Jolie's Cambodian drama, First They Killed My Father, was nominated in the best - foreign - film category, as was Paul Verhoeven's Elle, which raced through the stateside awards season last year.

He's also proud of his two new films, the subtle romantic comedy «Tumbledown,» which opens Friday, and the historical drama «Race,» opening Feb. 19, in which he plays the coach of famed African American athlete Jesse Owens (Stephan James), who won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics in 1936.

As impressive as Ruffalo is, though, the real star of this coming - of - age drama might be Forbes» autobiographical script, which is as compellingly specific as it is wise and thoughtful about class, race, family and parental sacrifice.

This year, the Best Motion Picture — Drama race is headlined by Call Me by Your Name, Dunkirk, The Post, The Shape of Water, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which bodes well for their Oscar prospects.

I thought Mara would be one of this season's front - runners for playing the title role in the biblical drama Mary Magdalene, but the Weinstein Company pushed that film to Easter and now Mara's only horse in the race is Una, a stage adaptation in which she confronts the man who took sexual advantage of her as a child.

After misfiring with the earnest yet flat NFL drama Concussion, Will Smith is heading back into the awards race with this star - studded tale in which he plays alongside Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren and Kate Winslet.

Perhaps for the sheer devilment, they could have given something to, say, Kathryn Bigelow's powerful race drama Detroit, a highly plausible Oscar - worthy film, which the Academy hive mind mysteriously decided was worth precisely zilch and became utterly forgotten about.

But Sam Rockwell's racist cop is permitted a disputed moral comeback, and it sometimes looked as if his racism was allowed into the film as set - dressing, to offset a drama of forgiveness to which race was essentially irrelevant.

The race kicked off early with the Sundance premiere of The Sessions, in which previous Best Actress winner Helen Hunt was singled out for her touching work opposite John Hawkes in the character - centric drama.

Mudbound, which debuted on Netflix and in limited theaters last weekend, is an old - fashioned epic drama about race relations in the 1940s Deep South, adapted from Hillary Jordan's 2008 novel.

For an article just published by Ed Next which looked at how New York managed to win second place in round 2 of Race to the Top, I interviewed many key players in the drama.

Albrecht Goertz's gorgeous 503 could not have come at a worse time for BMW, as Douglas Blain explains in Drama Queen / In 1966 and All That, Steve Welsh reports from the unrivalled Goodwood Revival historic race meeting, which this year marked 50 years since Australian driver Jack Brabham won the Formula One World Championship in a car of his construction / Kit Foster tells the story of the American Underslung, the first American sports car, and examines one of the prized survivors of this pioneering but short - lived marque in Swing low, sweet chariot / In his article, Cross-Channel concours, Jörg Sierks chooses his favourites from two prestigious concours events, held on the same weekend on opposite sides of the English Channel / With the help of rarely seen archive photographs, D'Arcy Lever looks back at the highly effective trials specials built by Sydney Allard before World War Two.

In addition to companies being featured in Project CARS, Slightly Mad has also commissioned the motorsports simulation publication Sim Racer Magazine to compile news reports for the game's «Race Calendar», which - according to the developer - will consist of «exclusive media coverage within the game of all the podiums, drama, and atmosphere of your career and events happening around you throughout the year».

Whether the series will still mandate pit stops (which provide a source of drama during each race, since mistakes are easy to make under high - pressure situations), or something else will take their place, remains to be seen.