Sentences with phrase «actors of color in»

The movie, directed by Ryan Coogler, boasts a stellar cast, mostly made up of prolific actors of color in line with how the nation appears in the Marvel Universe comics.

* The problem wasn't their fine performances, but the fact those were a few of the handful of major roles for actors of color in prestige - ish films this year (and you can argue «Straight Outta» never really found that prestige clout).

Not exact matches

Viola Davis and Mahershala Ali won their first Oscars for their supporting roles in African - American stories «Fences» and «Moonlight,» in stark contrast to the 2016 Academy Awards when no actors of color were even nominated.

The facial features of the President and the actor in The Bible are quite different — once you get past the skin color.

In 2014, Cowern won the Flame Challenge, the annual competition in which actor Alan Alda invites scientists to try to answer a basic question to the satisfaction of school children across the nation, answering the question «What is color?&raquIn 2014, Cowern won the Flame Challenge, the annual competition in which actor Alan Alda invites scientists to try to answer a basic question to the satisfaction of school children across the nation, answering the question «What is color?&raquin which actor Alan Alda invites scientists to try to answer a basic question to the satisfaction of school children across the nation, answering the question «What is color?»

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Riva and Trintignant are veterans of European cinema — she was in «Hiroshima, mon amour» and «Three Colors: Blue»; he was in «Z» and «A Man and a Woman» — and their natural, unaffected performances are so realistically endearing that we're liable to overlook how difficult they are for an actor to achieve.

The common problem of Solondz's characters is an inability to see the world in shades of grey, which is fitting in a film where color - garish, boring or just plain ugly - is so important, and the actors are working off palettes of such extreme emotions.

The series is awash in bursts of expressionist color, on - screen text, the breaking of the fourth wall, and riffs that allow Lee to revel in the actors» chemistry and in the intuitive power of his own imagination, leading to tones that daringly crash into one another.

Also to note, no women of color were nominated in the Best Actress category, as well as no men of color in the Best Supporting Actor category.

The Oscars were also criticized in the past for including a vast majority more white nominees than people of color, which gave rise to the social media hashtag #OscarsSoWhite in 2015, when all the actor nominees were white.

McQuarrie layers the action over several planes and drapes his actors in shadows, using darkness and flashes of color (like the billowing yellow dress that Ferguson wears or the blue lighting of the opera's set) to bring clarity to a logistically complicated series of fights and chases, measures and counter-measures.

All the role of Tadek provides for the actor is the chance to commit to a nondescript Eastern European accent and give him a chance to shave his head and grow out a beard in order to disappear into a character (something he's done since the «In Living Color» daysin order to disappear into a character (something he's done since the «In Living Color» daysIn Living Color» days).

Notable among the many other supporting players are quite a few actors of color who, anachronistic as their appearance may be in 18th - century France, still offer up a pleasantly diverse set of faces that nod in the direction of an «It's a small world, after all» ethos that Disney all - too - often has ignored in the past.

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Animated feature «The Croods» «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Frozen» «Monsters University» «The Wind Rises» Action movie «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Iron Man 3» WINNER: «Lone Survivor» «Rush» «Star Trek Into Darkness» Actor in an action movie Henry Cavill — «Man of Steel» Robert Downey Jr. — «Iron Man 3» Brad Pitt — «World War Z» WINNER: Mark Wahlberg — «Lone Survivor» Actress in an action movie WINNER: Sandra Bullock — «Gravity» Jennifer Lawrence — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Evangeline Lilly — «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» Gwyneth Paltrow — «Iron Man 3» Comedy WINNER: «American Hustle» «Enough Said» «The Heat» «This Is the End» «The Way Way Back» «The World's End» Actor in a comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave»

Come on, the lead actress could've been a multicultural set of nominees with both Constance Wu and Tracee Ellis Ross in the mix besides Rodriguez, just as Randall Park and Anthony Anderson in lead actor, because there's no way that's happening at the Emmys, Also, instead of Niecy Nash in supporting you've got a white woman portraying a woman of color in whiteface.

Hall brings a worried, intelligent gravity to the central role, and if the drama doesn't stretch the actor's range in its opening hours, we know he's capable of much more, should later installments of «Safe» require a wider variety of emotional colors from him.

Director Alex Garland's Annihilation recently came under fire for being the latest example of a movie casting white actors as characters who were people of color in the source material.

Also on this podcast you'll also hear Karina Longworth talking about the Golden Age of Hollywood, Slate culture writer Aisha Harris (host of the show Represent) on the importance of representation of women and people of color in Hollywood and film awards, actor Paul Scheer on some of the worst movies ever made (which he talks about on his own podcast that he co-hosts with his wife, actress June Diane Raphael, and their pal and fellow actor, Jason Mantzoukas.

Drama Series Game of Thrones (1st win in this category) Lead Actress, Drama Viola Davis How To Get Away With Murder (1st win, also the 1st woman of color to win in this category Lead Actor, Drama Jon Hamm, Mad Men (1st win in this category) Supporting Actress, Drama Uzo Aduba Orange is the New Black (2nd consecutive win for this character) Supporting Actor, Drama Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones (2nd win this category) Writing / Directing Game of Thrones

Blu - ray extras: Director's intro; «From Page to Screen: A Roundtable Discussion» delves into the film's making; «Crowning of a New King» explores the world of «Black Panther» in all its color and complexity; «The Warriors Within»: the Wakanda's women and the actors who portray them; «The Hidden Kingdom Revealed»; «Wakanda Revealed: Exploring the Technology»; deleted scenes; gag reel»; exclusive sneak peek at «Ant - Man and The Wasp»; «Marvel Studios the First Ten Years: Connecting the Universe»; director's commentary.

The goal is not only to provide a setting to watch the first African - American superhero lead a film in the Marvel cinematic universe, but also empower children of color to partipate in the arts and help change the fact that of the the 100 highest - grossing films of 2016, roughly a quarter lacked any black characters (stemming from a lack of representation amongst directors, actors and screenwriters).

-- that even with the color - coded cork board I've set up in the office, I can't keep track of the dozens and dozens of name - brand actors and characters appearing in part one of Marvel's curtain - closer saga.

Columbus - area critics recognized these screen performers: Best Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave); Best Actress and Breakthrough Film Artist Adèle Exarchopolous [Blue is the Warmest Color (La vie d'Adèle)-RSB-; Best Supporting Actor James Franco (Spring Breakers); Best Supporting Actress Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle); and Actor of the Year Matthew McConaughey for his exemplary body of work in Dallas Buyers Club, Mud, and The Wolf of Wall Street.

Notably absent from the pool was any actor of color — the second year in a row that the Academy has elected an all - white group of nominees — and Todd Haynes» Carol, the acclaimed 1950s lesbian drama starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.

Notably absent from the pool was any actor of color — the second year in a row that the...

Not since Roots scored nine noms back in 1977 have so many actors and actresses of color been pegged for possible trophies.

(In interviews on the disc, we're told that Altman told the actors and actresses to color outside the lines of the script but that he'd cut away if they bored him.)

When Universal produced a color biopic of the elder Chaney called Man of a Thousand Faces (1956), the final scene showed the dying actor (in the unlikely person of James Cagney) calling for his fabled makeup box and using a stick of greasepaint to scrawl «Jr.» on it under his own name.

Too many cinematographers in Hollywood wash out their black actors with too much light or muddy the richness of their skin color with not enough light.

o you find that opportunities are opening up in Hollywood for actors and actresses of color from outside of America?

This year's list included seven actors of color, three African American writers (including the late August Wilson, who wrote the screenplay for Fences), and a Best Director nomination for Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), who becomes only the fourth black director nominated in the Oscars» history after John Singleton, Lee Daniels, and Steve McQueen.

«Black Panther's» rule at the top of the box office finally came to an end last weekend, but it was dropped into the second place by another movie starring a person of color: the Universal action sequel «Pacific Rim Uprising,» led by «Star Wars» actor John Boyega, opened at $ 28 million in North America.

Black Panther has more women and black actors than any MCU movie and A Wrinkle in Time has an amazingly diverse cast, promising a shift in genres that have traditionally neglected people of color (a fact that's very frustrating, considering what a fruitful and powerful genre it is for talking about oppression).

Zendaya (whose father is African - American) is not the only actor of color who appears in the circus, but she is more or less the only one who gets to speak, and even then it's only in the context of a budding romance with Carlyle.

The Academy's inability to nominate any actors of color (to say nothing of people of color in the vast majority of other categories) led to sweeping changes within the body of the Academy.

Get Out was the only film centering on a person of color to score a Best Picture nomination but it showed up big in the major categories, with three additional nominations: Director, Lead Actor, and Original Screenplay.

Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave Best Animated Feature: The Wind Rises Best Film Not in the English Language: Blue Is the Warmest Color Best Documentary: The Act of Killing Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron — Gravity Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor — 12 Years a Slave Best Actress: Cate Blanchett — Blue Jasmine Best Supporting Actor: Michael Fassbender — 12 Years a Slave Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong» o — 12 Years a Slave Best Original Screenplay: Her Best Adapted Screenplay: 12 Years a Slave Best Editing: Gravity Best Cinematography: Gravity

The CGI is more flagrantly candy - colored and obvious — there are a few points where actors look a tad lost, very obviously in front of a green screen, looking unsure as to where they should be pointing their eyes.

Online movements such as #OscarsSoWhite have become trending debates that discuss the lack of opportunity for actors of color to receive nominations, a phenomenon which is better understood as being indicative of a systemic practice of discrimination in the film industry, which also underemploys women.

But * they will * pay to see white actors play primary roles in films supposedly about people of color.

Without screaming «a Robert Zemeckis film», which might not even be possible given his varied filmography, Flight returns the director to working with actors in publically wearable costumes on sets and locations that aren't gridded or overwhelmingly a bright shade of a primary color.

According to a sweeping industry study, only 31 percent of speaking roles in movies go to women (and 29 percent to actors of color), and only 4.2 percent of women get to sit in the director's chair.

With a red carpet dyed black by actors dressed in a color - coordinated statement, the Golden Globes were transformed into an A-list expression of female empowerment in the post-Harvey Weinstein era.

Plus the wait for a Hamilton movie gives Hollywood time to invest in some actors of color as future stars so that they don't panic when it's time to cast the movie and realize they don't know enough of them to fill this sprawling movie.

We are stereotyped and locked into generic roles in mainstream movies a lot of the times, and what happens is only those independent thinkers and independent filmmakers have that thinking outside the box that they want to use actors no matter who they are and give more opportunities to actors of color.

Deakins showers most of the film's scenes in gold color schemes, which smartly function as a literal visual metaphor to the film's Golden Age Hollywood setting, especially in terms of the grand studio sets that introduce the professional work of several key actor characters.

This is certainly different than the current social media outcry and recent veiled boycott talk from several actors and directors of color, following the second straight year in which Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Emmanuel Lubezki were practically alone among non-white nominees in major categories.

His coterie includes orphans and people of color (including characters played by Robert Ray Wisdom and Q'orianka Kilcher, fine actors with little to do in these opening episodes.)