Sentences with phrase «at the drama academy»

Born: December 8, 1977 in Antwerp Occupation: actor Education: Studied at the Drama Academy Antwerp Status: Look into my eyes

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Recently, Christian attended the British American Drama Academy, in connection with the Yale School of Drama, at Magdalen College in Oxford, England where he studied classical Shakespeare acting.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has canceled a trip to the state's most controversial and politically connected charter network, Success Academy, as she seeks to tamp down a recent drama around her appearance at a charter school rally.

Robert Englund began his acting training at age 12, taking drama courses at the University of Oakland, U.C.L.A., California State - Northridge, the Michigan Academy of Dramatic Arts, and the Rochester, NY, branch of R.A.D.A. Englund made his first professional appearance in a Cleveland production of Godspell.

Malkovich met with near - universal critical praise and garnered an Academy Award nomination for the neophyte feature director — as well as supporting actress Catherine Keener and writer Charlie Kaufman — though Stipe and the film itself were passed over for a Best Picture nod.Despite Single Cell's increasing prominence in the industry, Stipe continued to support C - Hundred for smaller - budgeted niche features such as writer - director Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward and McKay's coming - of - age drama Our Song, both of which were featured at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

During her training at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, she was cast as the lead in the television drama series, MOES.

Cumberbatch studied Drama at Manchester University before training at The London Academy of Dramatic Art (LAMDA).

Chandor's debut feature, which earned him a Best Original Screenplay nomination at the Academy Awards, was a claustrophobic ensemble drama that related the bankruptcy of a Lehman Brothers analogue with elaborate, yet somewhat clunky, dialogue.

It took Hollywood stars to get the Academy to notice the plight of AIDS (Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Philadephia), yet Bill Sherwood's 1986 drama, while ragged around the edges, offered the world a first glimpse at Steve Buscemi, both funny and heartbreaking as the dying Nick.

I was the president of the drama club in high school and I studied at the Los Angeles Theater Academy and got my degree from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television I like to think I know actors.

These models are the same cars featured in Universal Pictures» upcoming Rush, an epic action - drama directed by Academy Award ® winner Ron Howard, and will be available as a free download to all «Forza Motorsport 5» players at launch.

The drama about the last chapter of a long marriage, which stars two veteran French actors (Jean - Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva) and premiered at May's Cannes Film Festival (where it won the Palme d'Or), was claimed by Austria because the Academy's rules dictate that a film's nationality is dependent not on the language that is primarily spoken in the film or the origins of the stars, but rather on the origins of the majority of the film's principal behind - the - scenes talent — the writer, director, and producer.

It won best film at the British Academy Film Awards, best drama at the Golden Globes and best ensemble at the Screen...

Roadside Attractions» third weekend of «Forever My Girl» finished 12th with $ 2.6 million at 1,427 venues, leaving it in a tie with two other titles — the Neon / 30West's «I, Tonya,» which received three Academy Awards nods, at 1,450 locations, up 490, for a $ 22.6 million total; and Viva Pictures Distribution's second weekend of Bollywood drama «Padmaavat» at 354 screens.

OddLot also produced The Way, Way Back, a comedic drama from Academy Award ® - winning writers Jim Rash and Nat Faxon, which was acquired by Fox Searchlight at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was released in theatres on July 5, 2013.

A Little Chaos Gala Presentations Commissioned to construct King Louis XIV's garden at Versailles, a landscape designer (Academy Award winner Kate Winslet) battles professionally and romantically with the king's chief architect (Matthias Schoenaerts, Rust and Bone), in this sumptuous historical drama from actor - director Alan Rickman.

A24's Yiddish - language father - son drama Menashe was strong out of the gate, taking in $ 61,409 from three runs, while Annapurna's first roll - out, Detroit from Academy Award - winner Kathryn Bigelow bowed at over $ 365K in 20 theaters.

Winner of Best Picture Awards at numerous international film festivals including Sydney, Berlin and Fajr in its native Iran, as well as the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, the film is an intimate drama about conflict within and between two families of vastly different social and economic standings.

Shot by Academy Award - winning cinematographer Robert Elswit, who has worked with Anderson ever since Hard Eight, scored by singer - songwriter Michael Penn, edited by the great Dylan Tichenor, who started as an apprentice on Robert Altman's movies and went on to do great films such as Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, Brokeback Mountain and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Paul Thomas Anderson's epic drama went on to garner three Academy Award nominations, did reasonably well at the box office by tripling its initial investment and, more importantly, showcased the surprising talent and determination of one of the few brilliant filmmakers of American contemporary cinema.

Space drama Gravity scooped a handful of top honours at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) Awards on Sunday (16Feb14), including...

At best, it describes a very particular kind of middlebrow drama that seems to have been created from the ground up with the sole purpose of appealing to the Academy — think «The Iron Lady» or «Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,» to name two recent examples.

Praised by audiences and critics alike, Moneyball is set to contest the Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture — Drama, Best Actor — Drama (Pitt), Best Supporting Actor (Jonah Hill) and Best Screenplay (Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin), and could prove to be a big player at the Academy Awards.

Lee Daniels» drama was nominated for six Oscars at the 82nd Academy Awards, and is a harrowing and unforgettable film.

Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche lead this 1996 Best Picture winner at the Academy Awards, a war drama following a nurse who takes in, and cares for, a badly injured plane crash victim.

Favored to win Best Foreign Language Film at next month's Academy Awards, the wistful drama follows the journey of a heroine who's rarely been positioned as a screen protagonist: a transgender woman named Marina, played with fire and vulnerability by Chilean transgender actress Daniela Vega.

It was no shock that Jonze won in the category of Best Original Screenplay with his romantic drama HER and film critics the world over are predicting the same outcome at this year's Academy Awards.

She garnered further critical acclaim for her performance in Todd Haynes» romantic drama Carol (2015), for which she won the Best Actress Award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama and the SAG, BAFTA, and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actdrama Carol (2015), for which she won the Best Actress Award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama and the SAG, BAFTA, and Academy Award for Best Supporting ActDrama and the SAG, BAFTA, and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Janney pursued acting partially due to Newman's encouragement, going on to study drama at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Sunday night, the acclaimed historical drama «12 Years a Slave» finally landed in Los Angeles, screening for members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the 1,000 - seat Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Best Actress (Larson) at the 2016 Academy Awards and BAFTA Awards; Best Actress, Drama (Larson) at the 2016 Golden Globes

Her comedy / drama music pic Ricki and the Flash also comes out in August but with 19 nominations and 3 wins under her belt, pretending the Academy is ever «over» Streep is at your own peril.

Here's she reflects on being a member of the ensemble of Fame, a music - driven drama revolving around the aspirations of students at the New York Academy of Performing Arts.

He was nominated for the Prime - time Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special; the Royal Television Society Award for Breakout Performance Behind the Scenes; and, the BAFTA Award for Best Direction for his work on Bleak House, which was the Best Drama Serial winner at the British Academy Television Awards 2006.

The impact of that win on the Academy was minimal (though the film at least earned two Oscar nods it wouldn't otherwise have received), but the same can't be said of last year's choice: shrugged off by audiences and boasting no heavyweight industry names, «The Hurt Locker» became the most critic - steered Best Picture winner in Oscar history, as every major critics» group in America lined up behind the indie Iraq drama to raise its profile in the face of the threatening populist shadow cast by «Avatar.»

Head honchos at London's foremost dance and drama school the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts have moved to distance themselves from suggestions from Hollywood star Julianne Hough that she was mentally and physically abused as a student there.

A Fantastic Woman (Blu - ray) Details: 2017, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rated: R, language, sexual content, nudity, a violent assault The lowdown: This Chilean feature, honored as best foreign - language film at the 90th Academy Awards, is a stunning and well - crafted drama about an individual's right to live her life as she sees fit, despite the prejudice and scorn of others.

Whilst at school, James McAvoy was a member of the PACE Youth Theatre and then graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

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The 23 - year - old actress stars as teenager Christine in the new movie by Greta Gerwig, and the coming - of - age drama has been nominated for Best Picture at this year's Academy Awards.

It's set at a martial - arts academy, but, oddly, there isn't a whole lot of fighting in the new David Mamet drama «Redbelt» — unless, that is, you count the film's struggle within itself to make something compelling out of a disappointingly scattered story.

I review the DVD release of the Swedish drama As It Is In Heaven, one of the five nominees for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2005 Academy Award, for the Turner Classic Movies website.

We've already covered the waterfront on «Hustle's» late - arriving momentum, and the rousing response at last night's academy screening further confirms the notion that it has emerged as the clear alternative to Steve McQueen's serious - minded historical drama «12 Years a Slave.»

Moonlight, a $ 1.5 m budget drama about the life of a gay black man, was named best picture at the Oscars — beating out frontrunner La La Land and proving that the Academy might not be so irrelevant after all.

WHY: It's a shame that «Mustang» had to compete with Best Foreign Language juggernaut «Son of Saul» at this year's Academy Awards, because the Turkish drama (although it was technically France's official submission) is a beautiful but tragic movie about a group of free - spirited young women pushing back against the oppressive, misogynistic older generations set in their ways.

The Chilean drama, featuring transgender actor Daniela Vega, prevailed at the Academy Awards over Swedish entry The Square and Russian drama Loveless

At the Academy Awards, dramas usually claim not only the top prize, but all major categories and most of the minor ones too.

Looking at the follow - ups of some recent Academy Award winners, so you can see a near - three - hour erotic drama (Ang Lee), a one - man show about a man cutting off his own arm (Danny Boyle), a near - three - hour drama about the search for Osama Bin Laden (Kathryn Bigelow) and a near - three - hour musical sung live on set (Tom Hooper), films that for the most part, would have had a trickier time getting a green light without the ability to put «From Academy Award Winning Director...» on the poster.

There's virtually nothing funny about «For Your Consideration» — which pokes fun at Hollywood and the Academy Awards — and is in fact so mellow that it could have easily passed for a drama.

Academy Award winner William Hurt trained at Tufts University and The Juilliard School of Music and Drama.

This compelling drama landed both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and had emerged as the prohibitive Best Picture Academy Award favorite until buzz about Mr. Parker's having been accused of rape while in college went viral across the blogosphere.