Sentences with phrase «acting award even»

Apparently Scarjo's work in this film is so wonderful, there are those who believe she should be nominated for an acting award even though she doesn't actually appear onscreen.

Not exact matches

He told them he's disappointed that they failed to act on measures to change the way billions of dollars in state contracts are solicited and awarded, even though several of Cuomo's former associates are facing federal trials on corruption charges next year.

He told them he's disappointed that they failed to act on measures to change the way billions of dollars in state contracts are solicited and awarded, even though several of Governor Cuomo's former associates are facing federal trials on corruption charges next year.

Last year, NIH even eliminated its tiny Office of Science Education, and it took an act of Congress to preserve the Science Education Partnership Awards (SEPA), NIH's sole program aimed at precollege students.

The man of the evening, who bagged two awards for his amazing acting and did an exhilarating performance along with Kubra Khan, was also noted for his classic outfit.

The BAFTAs have always been an important bellwether for predicting Oscar, but they may be even more in tune with the Academy this year as a rule change allowed the entire BAFTA voting body to vote on every award (like the Oscars), instead of writers only voting for screenplay, actors only voting for acting, etc..

For the top acting awards, Moore doesn't even have to run for best actress.

Even more disappointing is the fact that not one person of color was nominated for an acting award.

Saoirse Ronan is up for an award for her acting at the BAFTA Awards but she also deserves one for her fashion choice for the evening.

The fact that the only black acting winner that year was Octavia Spencer, who took the award for playing a sassy maid in a movie called «The Help», is an irony we don't even want to touch.

Many of the actors said they weren't getting offers thrown at them, even after winning top acting awards.

I love the SAG awards because they don't pretend to be about anything except the acting, and even then, only 50 % of the time.

John Mahoney became known to the world for playing Martin Crane for eleven seasons on the hit sitcom Frasier (1993 - 2004), for which he won a Screen Actor's Guild award and two Emmy nominations, but he had an impressive career on stage and screen, even more impressive considering he came late to acting.

It's been said often, but it is worth saying again: comic actors never seem to get awards or even nominations for the work that they do, but it seems clear to me that O'Hara, Lynch and Poehler are all working at as high a level of technique and creativity as, say, Cate Blanchett or Kate Winslet without signaling that they are Acting.

There has been some consternation this year, possibly more so than I can personally remember for some time, about studios pushing for «category fraud,» or the act of angling for an award that does not necessarily fit the category in which it is being angled for, usually due to the other category leading to a higher likelihood of winning even if it may not be entirely accurate or moral to do so.

The issue is probably too complex to resolve, though: Bringing issues like billing order or screen time into what is supposedly an artistic judgment of people's acting work would be too crass an acknowledgement of the awards industry, even by Oscar standards.

Based on the number of contenders waiting in the wings, February's Oscar telecast could feature more acting nominees over the age of 65 than those under 40 — consider these notable contenders and their ages at the time of the awards: Jane Fonda, 78, («Youth»); Sylvester Stallone, 69, («Creed»), Lily Tomlin, 76, («Grandma»); Maggie Smith, 81, («The Lady in the Van»); Robert De Niro, 72, («Joy»), «45 Years»» costars Charlotte Rampling, 70, and Tom Courtenay, 79; and even the ageless Samuel L. Jackson, 67, («The Hateful Eight»).

Washington — who this year lost in the best actor category to Manchester by the Sea «s Casey Affleck — previously made Oscars history in 2002, when he and Halle Berry became the first black performers to win both of the Academy's lead acting awards on the same evening.

His touching, effortless performance — his first screen role since suffering a stroke — is the reason why Miramax is giving the film a one - week awards qualifying engagement, and indeed it is great to see the former Spartacus back where he belongs; his acting skills are in tip - top shape even if his body isn't.

As the story skips days, months and sometimes even years, the film feels a lot like it's been divided into separate acts like a theater production, but it's not incredibly surprising considering that «Closer» was indeed an award - winning play before being adapted for the screen by the original play's scribe Patrick Marber.

Instead, the evening will belong to Slumdog Millionaire which I predict will win Best Picture and Best director, netting an impressive 7 Academy Awards overall, despite the fact that it isn't up for anything in the acting categories.

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Don't get me wrong, it's certainly not going to win any awards for storytelling and the voice acting is really quite laughable, but, even though the series has made great strides in its sense of humour since this game was first released in 2001, it's amusing enough.

However even if you think she didn't deserve that much money as compensation, it is entirely possible that the court awarded her the amount as «punishment» to the offenders, to dissuade them from committing the act again.

If the initial complaint or other earlier filings had contained a claim for punitive damages, or even an allegation that the defendants acted maliciously, willfully, recklessly, wantonly, fraudulently, or in bad faith, the Court would have likely allowed the punitive damages issue to be heard by the jury, and the plaintiff may have received a larger award at the conclusion of the case.

A lot of worrisome «smaller» federal sentencing issues that could benefit most from congressional oversight and legislative reform — the application of the Armed Career Criminal Act, child porn victim restitution awards, fast - track departures, the persistent growth of the federal criminal docket — did not even get mentioned.

However, even where statutory enforcement regimes like Alberta's Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act ensure procedural certainty for a certain delineated sub-set of international arbitral awards, the unclear procedural status of international arbitral awards, in general, continues to affect international arbitral awards not covered by the respective enforcement regime.

[139] It is important to remember that, even if section 44 (2) is repealed and the parties choose not to agree to an appeal under section 44 (1), a party can still apply to court in appropriate circumstances to set aside an arbitral award under section 45 of the Alberta Act.

In B.C. the scope of appellate intervention in commercial arbitration is narrow: there is limited jurisdiction for appellate review of arbitration awards because B.C. is statutorily limited to questions of law (Arbitration Act, s. 31); even where such jurisdiction exists, the S.C.C. held that a deferential standard of review — reasonableness — «almost always» applies to arbitration awards (Sattva Capital v. Creston Moly Corp., [2014] 2 S.C.R. 633, at paras. 75, 104 and 106).

Given the massive nature of the litigation hitting the council at the time, the fact that there was very little chance of settlement (particularly in the light of the conditional fee arrangements agreed with the solicitor, which drew some adverse comment) and the possible effects on council business of arranging so many meetings, the tribunal had operated the Employment Act 2002, s 31 (4) to award only a 5 % uplift, but the court agreed with the EAT that the sheer pointlessness of grievance meetings in these circumstances meant that even 5 % was an error of law and so the zero uplift in the EAT was approved.

Learned senior counsel submits that if such finding of forgery rendered by the learned arbitrator which amounts to a serious criminal::: Downloaded on - 13/05/2014 23:52:28::: Kvm 42/107 ARBP259.13 charge is not set aside, such award would be a decree of this Court and would be executed by the claimant by filing criminal proceedings against the respondent based on such perverse finding which are without jurisdiction, such award would be thus in conflict with public policy under Section 34 of the Act and even under the narrower ground of public policy while considering the objection to the enforcement of a foreign award as held by the SC in case of Shri Lal Mahal Ltd..

[FN156] The case was tried prior to the Act's passage, but the Court of Appeals referred to the new law specifying its application to unmarried parents as bolstering its conclusion that even prior to the passage of the Act, joint custody could be awarded to unmarried parents, «particularly in a case such as this, where both parents -LSB--RSB- actively participated in the upbringing of the child.»