Sentences with phrase «academy president»

«We are thrilled to have Kristen and Michael join us as hosts for this year's Sci - Tech Awards,» said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs.

«It's gratifying to acknowledge the extraordinary range of talent in our industry,» said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs.

Former Academy president Hawk Koch and «The Imitation Game» director Morten Tyldum came for the early look.

New Academy president John Bailey made the rounds.

«Districts across the country are grappling with the fact that some students, particularly students of color, do not have access to the learning opportunities they need to excel,» said Leadership Academy President & CEO Irma Zardoya.

«We had to produce [a document] that contained neither over-specific recommendations nor a compromise that was so general we would have looked ridiculous,» said Brézin, who will take over as Academy president from endocrinologist Etienne - Emile Baulieu next January.

But the events of the last week still had an impact in the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland, beginning with the opening remarks from Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs.

Cheryl, the former film academy president who spearheaded the organization's radical inclusivity efforts after #OscarsSoWhite, was at the sixth annual dinner.

They are forced to kind of reach a middle ground and put out movies that have more of a popular appeal,» academy President Sid Ganis says, explaining why the fare at multiplexes around the country is less likely to become Oscar bait.

In early 2016, when the diversity initiatives were announced, former Academy president Hawk Koch said the targets were «impossible ``: «There aren't that many qualified people, period, of any race or gender, to invite each year.

In his opening remarks, new Academy president John Bailey opted not to mention the elephant in the room.

The nominees were announced by Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, actor Chris Pine and directors Alfonso Cuaron (who took the best director award last year for Gravity) and JJ Abrams, whose Star Wars film is among the most anticipated movies of the year.

Highlights include several pieces by Frederic Leighton — the Victorian artist, Pre-Raphaelite champion and Royal Academy president who lived at the property and decorated the house in its stunning Arabic style.

When Recording Academy president Neil Portnow said female musicians needed to «step up» to compete, women in the music industry rebuked him.

Recording Academy President Neil Portnow called on Congress to update music laws and renew «America's commitment to the arts.»

Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the former film academy president who spearheaded the organization's radical inclusivity efforts after #OscarsSoWhite, was celebrated Tuesday at Icon Mann's sixth annual pre-Oscar dinner.

Chris «Thor» Hemsworth helped hammer home the 86th Oscar nominations with Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and the results are pretty much as I expected: AMERICAN HUSTLE and GRAVITY tied for most nominations — 10 each, followed by 12 YEARS A SLAVE with 9!

At the end of outgoing Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs's tenure, AMPAS created a slick, animated landing page to track its progress.

Director Spike Lee and actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are opting to skip next month's Oscars ceremony, and even Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs expressed disappointment with the lack of diversity among this year's nominees.

Governors who are losing their seats on the board include Academy president Tom Sherak, as well as Caleb Deschanel, cinematographers; Edward Zwick, directors; Mark Johnson, producers; Bruce Broughton, music; James L. Brooks, writers; Kevin O'Connell, sound; and Bill Taylor, visual effects.

New Pontifical Academy President Says he is Agnostic on Natural Theology but that the Pope is not

Said Peter Smith, US Performance Academy President.

From founder Robert Kennicott to former Academy president Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, one of the first scientists to highlight carbon dioxide's role in regulating the planet's temperature, to the work of our scientists in the field and our educators in the classroom — this is who we are and what we do.

After a recent reform of its charter, the Polish Academy of Sciences is in the process of «deeply restructuring» some of its 80 institutes and is closing down a few of them altogether, says academy president Andrzej Legocki, a plant chemist.

In a statement the day after the «Brexit» vote, British Academy President Nicholas Stern echoed Reid's sentiments, saying U.K. researchers will need to search out new ways to continue to collaborate with the EU's scientific community.

«Our newly elected members represent the brightest, most influential, and passionate people in health, science, and medicine in our nation and internationally,» said Academy President Victor J. Dzau in a press release announcing the election.

The second list was handled by redoubtable Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs and John Krasinski.

«Wow, what a difference a year makes,» said African - American Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs upon greeting the crowd at the Oscar contenders lunch this year.

With a black Academy president, Oscar host and Oscar producer in Cheryl Boone Isaacs, Chris Rock and Reginald Hudlin, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences seems to be pushing for greater diversity.

The major casualty in the supporting actor ranks was surely Daniel Bruhl for Rush, whose co-star, Chris Hemsworth, was on hand to read the nominations alongside Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs.

Oscar fans will never forget the time Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs accidentally said «Dick Poop» instead of «Dick Pope.»

In response, then Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs launched an initiative to invite over 400 new, younger, and more diverse members into the Academy to counterbalance the historically old, white, and male voting bloc.

Sitting behind the Rock is motion picture academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs.

Another highlight will be a chance to see Academy President Cheryl Boone Issacs who headlines this year's keynote event.

Oscar ® - nominated director and former Academy president Arthur Hiller died today in Los Angeles of natural causes.

The In Memoriam sequence will likely include actors Maureen O'Hara, Alan Rickman, Christopher Lee, Robert Loggia, Leonard Nimoy and Omar Sharif, directors Wes Craven and Bud Yorkin, producers Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., Robert Chartoff and Jerry Weintraub, documentary director Albert Mayses, cinematographers Haskell Wexler, Andrew Lesnie and Vilmos Zsigmond, composer James Horner, costume designer Patricia Norris, publicist Murray Weissman and former Academy president Gene Allen.

«Election to the academy is both an honor for extraordinary accomplishment and a call to serve,» said Academy President Leslie C. Berlowitz.

«Charter schools have traditionally been the only public schools that have been held accountable for their performance,» said Michigan Association of Public School Academies President Dan Quisenberry.

Royal Academy president Christopher Le Brun has produced 33 new canvases for his solo show at Friedm...

Prizes include The Young Artist Prize, Portrait Prize, Printmaking Prize and the Royal Ulster Academy President's Prize for a full - time student.

Academy President Drell indicates Back to Project Future which will explore as to what child psychiatry can and should plan in years to come.

«Each of these honorees has touched movie audiences worldwide and influenced the motion picture industry through their work,» said Academy President Tom Sherak.

«Principals need particular skills to lead effective teams, and those skills are not necessarily intuitive, but with good coaching, they can be learned,» said NYC Leadership Academy President & CEO Irma Zardoya.

This summer, the New York Academy of Art will present «About Face» at the Southampton Arts Center, co-curated by artist and musician Scott Avett and Academy President David Kratz.

On July 31, the newly constituted board will meet to elect a successor to Sherak as Academy president.

LOS ANGELES, CA — Casting director and producer David Rubin will return to produce the 9th Annual Governors Awards for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy President John Bailey announced today.