Sentences with phrase «acclaimed dramas as»

In the film, the writer of such acclaimed dramas as After the Wedding, In a Better World, Red Road, and Brothers, investigates the knotty and perverse family tree that two troubled, dysfunctional, eccentric brothers living on a remote Danish island belong to.

An international furor has erupted over the Oscar - bound docudrama «Hilary and Jackie,» with friends and musical colleagues of the late cellist Jacqueline du Pre condemning the highly acclaimed drama as...

Not exact matches

In 2016, critics cited the Oscars» snub of Netflix's critically acclaimed drama «Beasts of No Nation» as evidence that the industry was «turned off» by Netflix's business model, which debuts films on the streaming service simultaneously with theatrical releases.

Additionally, Janelle took her talent to the silver screen, wherein she starred as a lead actor in the critically acclaimed drama, Hidden Figures and Best Picture winner, Moonlight.

Following it's critical acclaim as a short play in the Tricycle's Women, Power & Politics season (2010), the feature length version of Moira Buffini's satirical drama, is now staged at the Tricycle Theatre until 9 November.

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Danish director Thomas Vinterberg has been on a bit of a losing streak since his acclaimed 1998 film The Celebration, but The Hunt landed on several best - of - 2012 lists a year ago, and this summer's U.S. release found many critics hailing the drama as a return to form.

Based on a true story, Chariots of Fire is the internationally acclaimed Oscar - winning drama of two very different men who compete as runners in the 1924 Paris Olympics.

She appeared in a number of series, including the popular crime drama Cracker and such costume extravaganzas as Jane Eyre and Emma.Morton became known to an international film audience in 1997, when she won wide acclaim for her wrenching, fearless portrayal of a young woman driven to promiscuous behavior by the death of her mother in Carine Adler's Under the Skin.

the actor starred in the critically acclaimed drama Milwaukee, Minnesota that same year as mentally disabled ice fisherman Albert Burroughs.

About a year later, Morton would see the release of In America, Jim Sheridan's acclaimed slice - of - life tale of an Irish family immigrating to New York City's Hell's Kitchen, for which she would receive her second Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Actress.Morton continued to take on challenging assignments such as the futuristic Code 46 opposite Tim Robbins and directed by British helmer Michael Winterbottom, and appearing opposite Johnny Depp in the little - seen The Libertine, and the period drama River Queen.

First stepping behind the camera as cinematographer for the 1977 drama Homeward in the Night, August took the helm for Honeymoon the following year, to great critical acclaim.

Egan won critical acclaim on Broadway as «Sally Bowles» in «Cabaret,» in «Triumph of Love» and «State Fair,» and most notably, as the original «Belle» in Disney's «Beauty and the Beast,» garnering Tony and Drama Desk nominations for «Best Actress.»

More recently, Tierney was seen on the CBS Drama, THE GOOD WIFE, as well as the critically acclaimed RESCUE ME as the love interest of Dennis Leary's character, and reprised that role for the show's last season.

Though his breakout success could only be hinted at when he appeared in director Julian Schnabel's critically acclaimed drama Before Night Falls the previous year, it was his turn as a naïve, sex - starved teen in Cuarón's coming - of - age comedy drama that catapulted him to international stardom.

Jackson starred in Universal Pictures» THE SKULLS, and more recently in Rose Troche's acclaimed drama THE SAFETY OF OBJECTS, the HBO Films version of Moises Kaufman's groundbreaking play THE LARAMIE PROJECT, and in Regent Films» AURORA BOREALIS, as a troubled young man opposite Donald Sutherland.

As if vampires, werewolves, werepanthers and shapeshifters weren't enough, Sookie Stackhouse and her allies in Bon Temps must face another round of otherworldly threats, including a vampire - slaying witch, in Season 4 of this acclaimed HBO drama series.

Enough Said is a romantic comedy - drama from Nicole Holofcener, the writer - director of other critically acclaimed films exploring the daily travails of mostly upper middle - class affluent women (and men) in such as Lovely & Amazing and Friends with Money — something that invites comparisons to the works of Woody Allen often.

Never before has this quote been so true as in Denial, a powerful courtroom drama recounting the trial based on the acclaimed book Denial: Holocaust History on Trial written by Dr. Deborah Lipstadt.

He also had recurring roles on the television series Mad About You and Friends and starred in the drama Huff (2004 - 2006), playing the titular character, to critical acclaim, as well as appearing in the popular stage musical Spamalot.

He is also known for his role as Roland Burton on the drama series Army Wives and currently stars as Randall Pearson on the critically acclaimed drama, This is Us.

As many expected, Gary Oldman is the big winner here for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in Joe Wright's acclaimed drama.

Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig's highly acclaimed comedic drama, won three awards, including Saoirse Ronan for Best Actress, Laurie Metcalf as Best Supporting Actress, and Gerwig's script winning Best Screenplay.

Based on the 1993 murders of three eight - year - old boys who, late one afternoon, biked into a densely wooded park, this true - life crime drama covers a lot of the same ground as «Paradise Lost,» the acclaimed three - part documentary by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky.

Three years later, he earned widespread acclaim for his leading role in Patrice Leconte's Ridicule, in which he starred as an 18th century nobleman who learns to play a delicate and deadly game of wit at the court of Versailles.Born on Tahiti in 1958, Berling studied acting at a Parisian drama school located on la rue Blanche and made his stage debut in 1982.

We've seen variations on this before but acclaimed film - maker Cate Shortland, who gained plaudits for less genre - influenced dramas such as Somersault and Lore, manages to combine artful direction with seat - edge suspense, elevating the material to something quite special.

Oscar ® nominee Queen Latifah («Chicago») stars as legendary blues singer Bessie Smith in the HBO Films drama BESSIE, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Dee Rees («Pariah») from a screenplay by Dee Rees and Christopher Cleveland & Bettina Gilois.

Lionsgate currently has 15 shows on more than 10 networks spanning its prime time production, distribution and syndication businesses, including such critically - acclaimed hits as «Mad Men», «Weeds» and «Nurse Jackie» along with the comedy «Blue Mountain State,» the upcoming drama «Boss» and the syndication successes «Tyler Perry's House Of Payne», its spinoff «Meet The Browns», the upcoming «For Better or Worse,» «The Wendy Williams Show» and «Are We There Yet?».

From the Greek filmmakers behind the acclaimed anti-thriller Dogtooth, this fiendishly inventive drama is just as complex and telling.

From his attention - grabbing debut with «Reservoir Dogs» (1992), a deviously clever heist film where the heist is never seen and the drama is all in the conversation and the ingenious structure, to his acclaimed «Inglourious Basterds» (2009), his thrilling rewrite of World War II history as a magnificent movie fantasy, Tarantino has gone his own way, snatching up ideas strewn through decades of film history and hundreds of genre movies like a magpie, rethinking them completely, and weaving them into entirely new stories that unfold at a leisurely pace so he can enjoy every word and gesture along the journey.

His 2013 drama «Gloria,» which starred Paulina Garcia in as another unorthodox female lead — in this case, a middle - aged divorcee who finds new love — followed a similar trajectory to «A Fantastic Woman»: Both movies premiered to great acclaim at the Berlin International Film Festival and landed rave reviews.

«The Social Network,» the acclaimed drama about how Harvard computer nerds created the social networking site Facebook, had been the front - runner during the awards season, winning countless critics honors, including the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn., New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics awards as well as the Golden Globe for dramatic film.

Cementing itself as a major buyer of Sundance movies with its third purchase from this year's festival, Amplify has acquired all U.S. rights to Sara Colangelo's acclaimed Sundance drama «Little Accidents,» TheWrap has learned.

The first two acts of The Maze Runner play out exactly as you'd expect them to, with all of the various details and requisite dynamics sketched in through the thin characterizations of the group's leader Alby (Aml Ameen, who along with Sangster are the only actors who manage to escape this unscathed), the rote and relentlessly irritating (for no reason other than drama) group villain Gally (Will Poulter, whose acclaim and popularity continues to baffle me as he turns in another dreadful performance), the trite cliche of the young innocent Chuck (Blake Cooper) and so on.

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ABOUT JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE In addition to Justin Timberlake's (Sean Parker) multi-platinum album FutureSex / LoveSounds, which produced four consecutive # 1 singles, and his critically acclaimed 2007 FutureSex / LoveShow tour, along with multiple Grammy Awards, he has recently garnered acclaim as an actor for a variety of work in both comedy and drama.

Todd Haynes» Carol is a film about love and longing, the latter of which is a feeling Chicago cinephiles know all too well, as they've been looking forward to seeing the acclaimed director's latest drama for quite some time.

As you know, Colin Farrell, Jessica Chastain and Samantha Morton lead the drama, based on the acclaimed play about a torrid love affair that spans a forbidden class divide.

Durkin's first film since the critically - acclaimed drama Martha Marcy May Marlene will feature Law as a businessman who brings his American wife and kids home to Britain to pursue new business opportunities, only to be plunged into the despair as their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.

If you've never seen any of Haynes's films before, you're missing out, especially if you like twentieth century American history and Critically Acclaimed Dramas With Strong Female Leads, as Netflix might phrase it.

Besides «Marshall» director Hudlin, stars Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad and Sterling K. Brown and producer Paula Wagner, high - profile guests expected at various screenings and events during the festival include Patrick Stewart (subject of an Oct. 25 career retrospective tribute and a conversation with yours truly); Vanessa Redgrave (Oct. 16, presenting her documentary «Sea Sorrow» and represented elsewhere in the festival by a revival screening of «Blow - Up»); Alfre Woodard (subject of an Oct. 21 career retrospective tribute); Michael Shannon (Chicago's own, as the locals like to call him, representing «The Shape of Water» on Oct. 26); Tracy Letts (Chicago's own, as the locals also like to call him, participating Oct. 18 on behalf of Greta Gerwig's acclaimed directorial debut «Lady Bird»); Michael Stuhlbarg (arriving Oct. 25; he gives a beautiful supporting turn in the coming - of - age drama «Call Me by Your Name»); Jon Lovitz (part of the Chicago - sprung comedy «Chasing the Blues,» appearing Oct. 14); and, in an Oct. 23 addition announced after the program went to press, Bill Pullman (getting good notices for the western «The Ballad of Lefty Brown»).

He next stars as Casey Affleck «s nephew in Kenneth Lonergan's acclaimed drama «Manchester by the Sea,» which Amazon acquired out of Sundance.

After impressing as a traumatised girl alongside Sam Claflin in last year's horror flick The Quiet Ones, she now plays the female lead in highly acclaimed new comedy drama Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.

This Zambian drama garnered strong reviews on the festival circuit, with first - time feature director Rungano Nyoni acclaimed as an important new voice in African cinema.

David Oyelowo can currently be seen as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Paramount's acclaimed drama, SELMA.

It is a pity that the movie sags in the middle and it takes the appearance of Jordan, who was in acclaimed football drama Friday Night Lights from 2009 to 2011, to liven things up as the villain with a tragic past.

His acclaimed performance as a widowed psychologist seemed to signal a career redirection, turning him to more drama - skewed dramadies.

While writer - director Ramin Bahrani has continued to explore the dark underbelly of the American dream, he didn't quite nail the shift from his acclaimed, gritty early films («Man Push Cart,» «Chop Shop»), known for their casts of unknowns and shot - on - the - streets aesthetic, to 2012's «At Any Price,» which suffered from the miscasting of Zac Efron as a hard - drinking stock - car racer in a glossy drama about failing farms.

British actor Timothy Spall studied painting for two years to prepare for his role as JMW Turner in Mike Leigh's critically acclaimed drama Mr Turner.

The 70 - year - old actress received not one, but two nominations this year — one for her leading role in «Woman in Gold,» and the other for a supporting role in «Trumbo» — which is a rare accomplishment, especially surprising because «Woman in Gold» wasn't critically acclaimed and awards darling Jennifer Lawrence has a new drama in theaters this year, as well.