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Jason Birnbaum, an instructor of Golf Channel Academy and director of instruction for Manhattan Woods Golf Club, says the cost of RoboGolfPro will need to come down for it to become more mainstream.
It's a must, or if Arsene would like to become our director of football that would be cool, he can also oversee the academy.
And as he quickly became the manager of the first team, I was promoted to the position of Director at the academy at the age of 30.
Dutchman Andries Jonker has left his job as director of Arsenal's youth academy to become the new head coach of Bundesliga strugglers Wolfsburg.
Garde became director of the training academy, before becoming manager of the club in June 2011 after serving his eight year apprenticeship.
«It is very encouraging that science diplomacy is becoming increasingly well known and now is widely considered indispensable both in science and diplomacy,» said Mohamed Hassan, interim executive director of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).
«As marijuana continues to become more common in society, it is critical that we understand how it works in the human body,» said Liu, who is professor and deputy director of the iHuman Institute of Shanghai Tech and is also affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The second film's success was perhaps even more staggering than the first: The Godfather, Pt. 2 garnered six more Oscars, including a win for Coppola in the Best Director category; Robert DeNiro won his first Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor field; and the movie itself became the first and only sequel ever to win Best Picture honors.Next, Coppola began adapting the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness, transferring its story to the heart of the Cambodian jungle at the height of the conflict in Vietnam.
Ford became best known for his Westerns, of which he made dozens through the 1920s, but he didn't achieve status as a major director until the mid -»30s, when his films for RKO (The Lost Patrol [1934], The Informer [1935]-RRB-, 20th Century Fox (Young Mr. Lincoln [1939], The Grapes of Wrath [1940]-RRB-, and Walter Wanger (Stagecoach [1939]-RRB-, won over the public, the critics, and earned various Oscars and Academy nominations.
The Sting became one of the biggest hits of the early»70s; grossing 68.5 million dollars during its first run, the film also picked up seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Adapted Score for Marvin Hamlisch's unforgettable setting of Scott Joplin's ragtime music.
It was in 1992, however, when he wrote and directed THE CRYING GAME, which was nominated for six academy awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Stephen Rea), Best Supporting Actor (Jaye Davidson) and for which Neil won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay that the wider public became aware of him as a once in a lifetime directing talent.
Black transgender director Yance Ford just made history by becoming the first trans filmmaker ever to be nominated for an Academy Award.
In 1992, the USC film school alumnus became both the youngest person and the first African - American ever to land an Academy Award nomination in the Best Director category for Boyz N the Hood.
Pirates of the Caribbean is the first film ever released under the Walt Disney Pictures brand to receive higher than a PG rating (the film is rated PG - 13), and the team assembled to make the film is a virtual Who's who of hot properties: Director Gore Verbinski had a huge hit last year with the spook fest The Ring, Writers Terry Rossio & Ted Elliott were the writing team behind Shrek, Actor Johnny Depp is so extremely selective in his roles no one would ever imagine he'd do a Disney film, Orlando Bloom is fresh off the Lord of The Rings Trilogy, Geoffrey Rush has at least one Academy Award under his belt, and Keira Knightley has become a hot property after her performance in the run away indie hit Bend It Like Beckham.
And it's captured by Coogler's Fruitvale Station director of photography, Rachel Morrison, who just made history by becoming the first woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for her work on Dee Rees's Mudbound.
Burbank, CA, April 5 — See the unique story of three friends who became heroes when «The 15:17 to Paris» arrives From Academy Award winning director it * Clint Eastwood which tells the real - life story of three men whose brave act turned them into heroes during a high - speed railway ride.
In the last 12 months, French director Agnès Varda became the oldest Oscar nominee in history for Faces Places, as well as the winner of an Honorary Academy Award — a long - overdue recognition of the director's work.
When the Academy moved Barry Jenkins» script for «Moonlight» to the Adapted Screenplay category, the Oscar race for Original Screenplay became a battle between two writer - directors.
Academy Award winning director Danny Boyle's new film, 127 Hours, is a gripping account of mountain climber Aron Ralston's harrowing ordeal after he becomes pinned under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and must take desperate measures in...
Peele could become the first black director to win the Academy Award.
With his Oscar nomination for Best Director, Get Out's Jordan Peele became only the fifth black director to ever be nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and SDirector, Get Out's Jordan Peele became only the fifth black director to ever be nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sdirector to ever be nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has become the first repeat winner in 65 years at the Academy Awards by taking home the best director Oscar for «The Revenant».
Jordan Peele, the mastermind of «Get Out,» a social thriller about American racism, became the first African American to earn producer, director and writer nominations for a single film; the academy nominated a female cinematographer, «Mudbound's» Rachel Morrison, for the first time in its 90 - year history; and Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman recognized as a director, feted for her wry, observational coming - of - age story «Lady Bird.»
Guillermo del Toro's lavish monster romance The Shape of Water fished out a leading 13 nominations, Greta Gerwig became the fifth woman nominated for best director and Mudbound cinematographer Rachel Morrison made history as the first woman to earn a nod in that category in nominations announced Tuesday for the 90th annual Academy Awards.
Ben Affleck has just become the third director in DGA / Academy history to win the DGA without a corresponding Oscar nomination.
Peele could become the first black man in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences» 90 - year history to win a directing Oscar, while «Lady Bird» director Greta Gerwig could be only the second female to take home that prize.
Academy Award winning director Danny Boyle's new film, 127 Hours, is a gripping account of mountain climber Aron Ralston's harrowing ordeal after he becomes pinned under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and must take desperate measures in order to survive.
was released 20 years ago, it became a global phenomenon, winning 11 Academy Awards ®, including Best Picture and Best Director.
«Lady Bird» writer - director becomes only the fifth woman nominated by the Academy in the directing category
Not only were both films critically acclaimed, but Iñárritu became only the third director to win back - to - back Best Director Academy Awards (Birdman also won Iñárritu Best Picture and Best Original Scredirector to win back - to - back Best Director Academy Awards (Birdman also won Iñárritu Best Picture and Best Original ScreDirector Academy Awards (Birdman also won Iñárritu Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay).
When Titanic was released 20 years ago, it became a global phenomenon, winning 11 Academy Awards ®, including Best Picture and Best Director.
Yesterday, Greta Gerwig became the fifth woman ever to be nominated for Best Director at the Academy Awards.
But really, who could've known that inviting the Academy Award - winning actor / director / New Englander on to talk about Boston sports could've become what it did.
Gerwig has also made history by becoming only the fifth woman ever to have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, where she was also nominated in the Best Original Screenplay category.
The Departed (2006), Martin Scorsese's return to American urban crime cinema, became the biggest hit of his career and earned him his very first Academy Award for Best Director.
While there were no director nominations for other leading female contenders, as some had hoped, including Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman) and Dee Rees (Mudbound), with these nominations, Gerwig becomes the fifth woman to be nominated for best director since the Academy Awards began in 1929.
More than 80 years after the first Academy Awards ceremony and nearly 35 years after the first woman was ever nominated for Best Director, director Kathryn Bigelow became the first ever woman to win the Academy Award for Best DDirector, director Kathryn Bigelow became the first ever woman to win the Academy Award for Best Ddirector Kathryn Bigelow became the first ever woman to win the Academy Award for Best DirectorDirector.
Ten years after Campion was nominated, Sofia Coppola, the daughter of Academy Award - winning director Francis Ford Coppola, became the first American woman to ever be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for her 2003 film «Lost in Translationdirector Francis Ford Coppola, became the first American woman to ever be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for her 2003 film «Lost in TranslationDirector for her 2003 film «Lost in Translation.»
Four months after becoming the first female Best Director winner in Oscar history, Kathryn Bigelow has been named one of three first - time electees to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and -LSB-...]
Before Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director, she was either known as James Cameron's ex wife...
Precious Images, made for the Directors Guild of America, won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short and has become the most widely shown short in film history.
At age 31, she would become the third and youngest female director to compete for an Academy Award with 2003's «Lost in Translation,» a tender travelogue about homesick strangers who meet in Tokyo starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johannson.
He would then adapt the book for the screen for director William Friedkin, who would stay fairly faithful to the book and create an enormous hit out of the story himself — it would become one of the most popular films ever made and earned Blatty an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
The festival world is far ahead of the industry (only 8 of last year's top 100 films at the box office were directed by women) and the Academy Awards (where Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman ever nominated for best director this year).
The DGA's best director award is almost invariably an accurate predictor of the winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture, and on that basis, the favorite for this year's Oscar becomes «Slumdog Millionaire,» by Danny Boyle.
The film became one of the most successful documentaries of all time and picked up numerous prestigious awards including the Grand Jury Prize at Miami Film Festival, the Golden Eye in Zurich and the Filmmakers» Award at Hotdocs, before winning two British Independent Film Awards, the BAFTA for best debut director and being shortlisted for the 2013 Academy Awards.
On March 7, Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win Best Director at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards ®, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA, for her film The Hurt Locker.
Chazelle swept through awards season, taking the Best Director award at the Academy Awards, but it never became synonymous with a pretty film.
In October 2001, Henry became the new executive director of the Academy for Urban School Leadership, working with Chicago Academy's principal, Donald Feinstein, then in his 18th year in the Chicago school system.
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