Sentences with phrase «genius award from»
Will Ferrell wore a three - piece suit covered in dollar bills to accept the Comedic Genius Award from «Game of Thrones» star Peter Dinklage.
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LaToya Ruby Frazier, who received a master of fine arts degree from SU in 2007, was named one of 24 MacArthur Foundation «genius grant» award winners for 2015.
Half a century later most of the wall space in the Earth Policy Institute's small suite of offices is covered with honorary degrees from 23 universities and numerous plaques recording other awards, including a MacArthur Foundation «genius grant,» Italy's Presidential Medal of Honor and a U.N. Environment Prize.
Redmayne received an Academy Award earlier this year for his demanding lead performance in «The Theory of Everything» as the scientific genius Stephen Hawking, who suffered from motor neuron disease.
From Academy Award - nominated screenwriter JOHN LOGAN (Gladiator, The Aviator, Hugo, Skyfall) and acclaimed, Tony Award - winning director MICHAEL GRANDAGE in his feature film debut, comes Genius, a stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between the world - renowned book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and the larger - than - life literary giant Thomas Wolfe.
«Big Hero 6 The Series,» based on the Walt Disney Animation Studios» Academy Award ® - winning feature film, continues the adventures and friendship of 14 - year - old tech genius Hiro, his compassionate, cutting - edge robot Baymax and their friends Wasabi, Honey Lemon, Go Go and Fred as they form the legendary superhero team Big Hero 6 and embark on high - tech adventures as they protect their city from an array of scientifically enhanced villains.
Brad Bird, the Academy Award - winning director of such animated classics as «Ratatouille» and «The Incredibles,» has fashioned with Tomorrowland, a clever, but muddled story of a scrappy teen, Casey Newton (Britt Robertson, «The Longest Ride») and a cockeyed former boy genius, Frank Walker (George Clooney, «The Monuments Men») who join forces in an attempt to save the world from itself.
Positive comments from some recent users of this book include: Most schools are full of documents and data... Dr Slater is among the first to show how they can be used to compare what is said on paper and in interviews... The results will shock you... Dr Slater is a successful high school teacher and an award winning author... and here's why... Fantastic little book, punches well above its weight... Makes it seem so simple... the art of the genius... As an advocate of the What Works agenda, I think this book really is a wake - up call... A fantastic insight into the potential for using documents in research... Nails twenty years of research in twenty minutes... Worth every dime... Every student in my class (6th form) has been told to buy this book... and it's easy to see why... Shines a great big light on the power of documents in research... Surely this is the best book in its field... First class... I kept referring to this book in my presentation last week and the audience was ecstatic... Education research, usually has little effect on me... Until now... This book is formidable... Crushes the concept that education research is rubbish... fantastic insight... Blows you away with its power and simplicity... Huge reality check, senior school managers at good schools tell the truth, other's don't, won't or can't, and their students suffer.
From Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the National Book Foundation's 5 under 35 Award, the New Yorker's 20 under 40 Award, and a 2012 MacArthur Foundation genius grant, comes a novel about exile, about the loneliness and fragmentation of lives that straddle countries and histories.
Award - winning literary magazine publishing work by winners and finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur Genius Grant, National Book Award; first timers; and poets from 5 continents.
To reflect the creativity, artistry and technological genius within the video game development community, industry professionals from around the world nominate for the awards, free of charge.
Last year I gave the award to Black Flag, though Super Mario 3D World was a close contender along with the Dishonored DLC and Grand Theft Auto V. Despite the quality titles from last year, few matched the genius of the proceeding two years.
Recipient of the Art Prize in Time - Based Art from Grand Rapids Museum (2014), the inaugural U.S. Medal of Art (2012) and the MacArthur «Genius» Award (2006), Sikander's work helped launch a resurgence in the miniature painting department in the nineties at the National College of Arts in Pakistan.
Akunyili Crosby, who was raised in Nigeria and moved to the United States in 1999, received her MFA from Yale in 2011, and was awarded a MacArthur Foundation «Genius Award» in 2017.
A 2009 MacArthur Foundation «genius» award recipient, Bradford (b. 1961), based in Los Angeles, is best - known for large - scale abstract paintings made from a variety of collaged materials, including billboard paper, permanent - wave end papers, newsprint, carbon paper, and other papers layered together (or stripped apart) and then manipulated with nylon string, caulking, and sanding.
Both have received other awards: Ms. Smith won the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts for $ 75,000, and Mr. Ossorio received about $ 300,000 from a MacArthur Fellowship, also known as a «genius grant.»
Among Mehretu's awards are the Berlin Prize (2007) from the American Academy in Berlin; a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation «Genius» Award (2005); and the American Art Award from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2005).
Lovell has received a number of awards, including a 2007 Fellowship Award from the MacArthur Foundation, sometimes referred to as the «genius grant.»
As the 73 - year - old from Memphis is honoured by the Sony World Photography Awards, and Tate Modern open a permanent exhibition of his work, Michael Glover pays tribute to his genius plus fans, critics and fellow artists put questions to him.
She is a recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, two Artist Trust Fellowships, the Stranger Genius Award, and numerous commissions from 4Culture, the City of Seattle, Seattle Department of Transportation, Seattle Public Utilities, and the King County Parks Department.
Celebrated for the virtuosity with which she draws from both high and popular culture to explore contemporary social issues, the New York based artist was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Foundation «Genius Grant» in 2015 and the Carnegie Prize in 2013.
A 2009 MacArthur Foundation «genius» award recipient, Bradford (b. 1961) is best - known for large - scale abstract paintings made from a variety of collaged materials, including billboard paper, permanent - wave end papers, newsprint, carbon paper, and other papers layered together (or stripped apart) and then manipulated with nylon string, caulking, and sanding.
His many accolades include the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's «Genius» Grant (1999); the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture (2006); the Alain Locke Award from The Friends of African and African American Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts (2013); and a Lifetime Achievement Award, Howard University, Washington, D.C. (2017).
The film, not surprisingly, got a seal of approval from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which also gave an award to the director, Rupert Wyatt, for insisting that no real apes be used during filming (something possible thanks to the geniuses assembled by Peter Jackson in New Zealand.
The Good Food Revolution tells the story of MacArthur «Genius Award» recipient Will Allen, who went from a professional career in sports to supporting one of the country's most prominent urban farms that now feeds a community and produces food for thousands of people.