Sentences with phrase «jury president at»

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Welles was president of the jury and of course had the Palme d'Or,» he said, referring to the prestigious award given at the festival.

Andrew Wright, a professor at Savannah Law School who was an associate in the White House counsel's office under President Barack Obama, said he was «glad to see the Trump administration acknowledging the legitimacy of the findings of our intelligence community and the Mueller grand jury: that Russians illegally interfered with our elections.»

At least some of the politicians like our president made their accusations before the trial which just resulted in tainting the jury pool but was not yet finished.

Thomas Aldrich, a Democratic volunteer, said Thursday that while he was before the grand jury at the county courthouse he was told his testimony was part of the investigation into the actions of City Council President Clement Campana, Councilman John Brown and operative Dan Brown, the councilman's brother.

Federal prosecutors have until Nov. 23 to persuade a grand jury that Joe Percoco, an aide Cuomo once likened to a brother, as well as former SUNY Polytechnic Institute president Alain Kaloyeros should stand trial for extortion and bid - rigging with executives at upstate development firms.

Question topics included the recent rollout of the City's municipal ID program, an internal PBA meeting reported to have degenerated into yelling and shoving over PBA President Pat Lynch's demands for an apology from the mayor and whether that provided «consolation» to the mayor, whether he takes comfort from the low number of PBA members reported to have signed «stay away from my funeral» statements, Bratton's comment that the «well was poisoned» by de Blasio's bring of former Sharpton aide Rachel Noerdlinger, a potential Teamsters strike at Hunts Point market, Governor Cuomo's consideration of legislation allowing public access to grand jury minutes, the mayor's objections to a City Council proposed bill outlawing police use of chokeholds, a reported Cuomo / Lynch meeting and what role the governor should fill in the Lynch / de Blasio dispute, whether the mayor is willing to acknowledge «missteps», the reports of Legionnaire's Disease in Co-op City, de Blasio's reaction to a possible 2016 Mitt Romney candidacy and when he last spoke with the Rev. Al Sharpton.

The News in February reported that many of those who had appeared before a grand jury and obtained immunity now had jobs or contracts at Western Region OTB, where Wojtaszek is president.

Guillermo Del Toro Returning To Venice Film Festival — As Jury President 3 hours ago «Get Out» and Handmaid's Tale Win Big at

The 36 - year - old actor and Audrey, 38, were joined at the event by their fellow Jury members Bong Joon - ho, Martha De Laurentiis, Claudia Llosa, Matthew Weiner, and Jury President, director Darren Aronofsky.

The New York Times is reporting that actress Cate Blanchett has been named president of the jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Spielberg was previously at Cannes as jury president in 2013 and presented «Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull» in 2008.

The awards were presented, briskly and with little preamble, by this year's Un Certain Regard jury president Benicio Del Toro — himself an award winner at Cannes 10 years ago, when he won Best Actor in Competition for Steven Soderbergh's «Che.»

Speaking to an audience at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Schrader (who is also serving as president of the festival jury) said that things have changed for filmmakers in the U.S., and that his next project...

The Caméra d'Or is presented at the Festival's closing ceremony by the president of this jury, Agnès Varda.

Park Chan - wook's grand prize - winner at Cannes — probably thanks to jury president Quentin Tarantino — is about a man, inexplicably imprisoned in a room for 15 years, who is suddenly released and has five days to find his captor.

On Feb. 1, George Miller, the Oscar - nominated director of «Mad Max: Fury Road,» was named president of the jury at the 2016 festival.

Squad: The Cannes Jury President was joined at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by her co-stars (from L - R) Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, Sandra Bullock, Anne Hathaway, and Mindy Kaling

While Barbera has broken an 11 - year run of male Venice jury heads by appointing Annette Bening as this year's president, the number of female film - makers at this year's festival is less impressive, with just one — the Chinese director Vivian Qu — appearing in competition.

Australian actress and President of the Jury Cate Blanchett, Canadian director and member of the Feature Film Jury Denis Villeneuve, Taiwanese actor and member of the Feature Film Jury Chang Chen, US director and screenwriter and member of the Feature Film Jury Ava DuVernay, French actress and member of the Feature Film Jury Lea Seydoux, US actress and member of the Feature Film Jury Kristen Stewart, Burundian singer and member of the Feature Film Jury Khadja Nin, Russian director and member of the Feature Film Jury Andrey Zvyagintsev and French director and member of the Feature Film Jury Robert Guediguian pose as they arrive on May 19, 2018 for the closing ceremony and the screening of the film «The Man Who Killed Don Quixote» at the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France.

She served as the president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival this year.

The president of the jury, director Paul Verhoeven, attends the International Jury press conference during the 67th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin at Grand Hyatt Hotel on February 9, 2017 in Berlin, Germjury, director Paul Verhoeven, attends the International Jury press conference during the 67th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin at Grand Hyatt Hotel on February 9, 2017 in Berlin, GermJury press conference during the 67th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin at Grand Hyatt Hotel on February 9, 2017 in Berlin, Germany.

Chen Kaige, one of China's most influential directors whose Farewell My Concubine won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, will play the role of Jury President.

But if Cannes jury president Pedro Almodóvar softens his anti-Netflix stance when it comes to doling out the silverware, hopefully Ahn will at least be in with a shot of bringing home the bacon.

Robert De Niro has been selected as the president of the competition jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival in May — the third time this most European of festivals has tapped an American for the -LSB-...]

Jury members at the Hotel National des Invalides included architect Jean Michel Wilmotte, stylist Chantal Thomas, designer Anne Asensio and Etienne Gernelle, President and CEO of Le Point magazine.

The exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive book featuring a newly commissioned essay by Angela Vettese, former President of the International Jury of the Venice Biennale and director of the graduate programme at the Università Iuav di Venezia.

This comprehensive catalogue, published to accompany the eponymous exhibition on view at Dominique Lévy London February through March 2016, features a commissioned essay by Angela Vettese, former President of the International Jury of the Venice Biennale and director of the graduate programme at the Università Iuav di Venezia.

We are pleased to announce that before his passing, the late artist Tunga, who was the President of the Jury of the Prix Canson ® for the last two years, established a residency program at his home in Brazil, which will accommodate the winner of this year's Prix, Njideka Akunyili Crosby.

Wilkes was selected by a jury of seven including: MOMA PS1 curator Peter Eleey; Sheikha Hoor Al - Qasimi, president of the Sharjah Art Foundation; Laura Hoptman, painting and sculpture curator at MoMA; artist Zoe Leonard; Matthias Mühling, director of Lenbachhaus; curator Hans Ulrich Obrist; and Peter Pakesch, Maria Lassnig Foundation chairman.

The 2017 - 2018 Jury includes Shumon Basar, writer and curator; Reem Fadda, independent curator and art historian; James Lingwood, Co-director, Artangel; Elvira Dyangani Ose, Senior Curator of Creative Time and Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London; and Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, President, Sharjah Art Foundation; plus Art Jameel's Fady Jameel and Antonia Carver.

«On behalf of my siblings Doug Goldman and Susie Gelman, Prize jury, and staff, I'd like to express my deepest condolences to her family, friends, and colleagues at COPINH and around the world,» said John Goldman, President of the Goldman Environmental Foundation.

By Lester Rosen, Employment Screening Resources (ESR) President In a recent blog on «Background Checks: Trends and Legal Issues» on HR Toolbox by background check expert and Attorney at Law Lester Rosen, the verdict on whether or not the advantages of periodic background checks of current employees outweigh the disadvantages is: «the jury is still out.»