Sentences with phrase «best woman directors»

«Lady Bird» filmmaker Greta Gerwig was named Best Women Director and Screenwriter, while «Mudbound» casting directors Billy Hopkins and Ashley Ingram won the Best Ensemble award.

Alliance of Women Film Journalist: Best Woman Director, Best Breakthrough Performance, and Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry.

Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird» also was honored with three awards that included Best Supporting Actress for Laurie Metcalf and two awards for Gerwig for Best Woman Director and Best Woman Screenwriter.

BEST DOCUMENTARIES: GROUNDBREAKER: A Walk To Beautiful: Mary Olive Smith ABOVE AND BEYOND: Wings Of Defeat: Risa Morimoto COURAGE IN FILMMAKING: Traces Of The Trade: Katrina Browne MOST OFFENSIVE MALE CHARACTERS Aaron Eckhart: Towelhead Sam Rockwell: Choke Larry Bishop: Hell Ride Paul Rudd, Sean William Scott: Role Models Jason Mewes: Zack And Miri Make a Porno TOP TEN HALL OF SHAME Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired House Of The Sleeping Beauties The Women The Life Before Her Eyes The Hottie and the No ttie Savage Grace Made Of Honor The Family That Preys Hounddog Zack And Miri Make A Porno Alliance of Women Film Journalists Best Film Slumdog Millionaire Best Direction Danny Boyle — Slumdog Millionaire Best Screenplay Original Wall - E — Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Jim Reardon Best Screenplay Adapted Frost / Nixon — Peter Morgan Best Documentary (Tie) Man On Wire — James Marsh Trouble The Water — Tia Lessen, Carl Deal Best Actress (Tie) Sally Hawkins — Happy - Go - Lucky Kate Winslet — The Reader and Revolutionary Road Best Actress In Supporting Role Viola Davis — Doubt Best Actor Sean Penn — Milk Best Actor in Supporting Role Heath Ledger — Dark Knight Best Ensemble Cast Rachel Getting Married Best Editing The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall Best Foreign Film Tell No One EDA FEMALE FOCUS AWARDS Best Woman Director Courtney Hunt — Frozen River Best Woman Screenwriter Jenny Lumet — Rachel Getting Married Best Breakthrough Performance Sally Hawkins — Happy - Go - Lucky Best Newcomer Misty Upham — Frozen River Women's Image Award Kristin Scott Thomas Hanging in There Award for Persistence Melissa Leo — Frozen River Actress Defying Age and Ageism Catherine Deneuve — A Christmas Tale 2008 Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Film Industry Sheila Nevins, Producing / Programming at HBO Lifetime Achievement Award Catherine Deneuve AWFJ Award For Humanitarian Activism All of the Women in Pray The Devil Back To Hell EDA SPECIAL MENTION AWARDS AWFJ Hall Of Shame Award 27 Dresses Actress Most in Need Of A New Agent Kate Hudson Movie You Wanted To Love But Just Couldn't (Tie) Mamma Mia!

Best Actress for Bel Powley — Gotham Awards Best New Filmmaker — Boston Society of Film Critics Best Woman Director — Alliance of Women Film Journalists

Not exact matches

«This has enormous promise in changing the way we do mental health care as well as medical care,» says David Ahern, director of behavioral informatics and e-health at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital.

We even know that, if there is even one woman on a company's board of directors, attendance is better at board meetings.

Income tax is likely the last thing on your mind as the holiday season kicks in, but now is perhaps the best time to start strategizing for your 2015 return, said Manisha Thakor, CFA, director of Wealth Strategies for Women at Buckingham and The BAM Alliance.

The best part about this particular ceremony was that Cameron's ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow beat him for best director (becoming the first woman to win the honor) and best picture for «The Hurt Locker.»

Kirstine Stewart was the first woman to hold the position of Executive Vice-President of CBC's English services — often called the most powerful job in Canadian broadcasting — and was the first Managing Director of Twitter Canada, leading Canadian operations as well as advertising business and partnerships.

However, Columbia University's Katherine W. Phillips and others mentioned in the HBR story on women directors point out that while diverse boards that are not properly managed may «create distrust and dissatisfaction,» homogeneous groups don't come to any better solutions.

Chapman said she thinks «S — t People Say to Women Directors» will be a force for good in the entertainment business.

«Things are so bad right now, there are so many women just desperately trying to figure out how to be empowered by me, and the best they can say is I'm a female director,» she said, and Jost asked if she also directed porn.

There's good reason for their efforts: Nearly three quarters of the startups surveyed have no women on their board of directors.

Daniels — an Oscar - nominated writer and director, as well as the co-creator of Empire, a hit series that airs on Fox — reportedly accused Penn of domestic violence while discussing Empire star Terrence Howard's history of physical abuse toward women.

Director Jonathan Levine («The Wackness,» «The Night Before») and screenwriter Katie Dippold (2016's «Ghostbusters») were obviously going for an edgy «mom - com,» in which the men are idiots and a story of self - discovery is at the core (Emily helps Ecuadorian women form a human chain to take water from a well, which brings her to an aha moment).

Participants included CEOs Jonathan Bush of Athenahealth, Ron Gutman of HealthTap, Dr. Clifford Hudis of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Dr. Vivian Lee of University of Utah Health Care, VitalConnect CEO Nersi Nazari, James Park of Fitbit, and Andrew Witty of GSK, as well as President of Flex Health Solutions John Carlson, Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Founder Kathy Giusti, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Arianna Huffington, Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Vijay Pande, Parker Foundation President Sean Parker, Women's Alzheimer's Movement Founder Maria Shriver, and White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force Executive Director Greg Simon.

On November 9, 2015, 10 of the best women - led startups in the Northeast pitched and showcased their innovative and disruptive ventures at Microsoft in Times Square to a panel of investors including Joanne Wilson, Susan Lyne — President of BBG Ventures, Kathryn Finney — Founder and Managing Director of digitalundivided (DID), and Victoria Song — VC at Flybridge.

As for the well - known «medicine men and women» who travel with their groupies and for - profit organizations, Ramona Soto Rank, Klamath tribal member and director for the Affiliated Tribes of the Northwest, likes to remind seekers after authentic Native healers and spiritual teachers that these individuals seldom speak of themselves in such terms.

They have youth directors that tell the youth they have to drop out of school activities to do more work for the church, kick an 86 year old woman from the choir because she doesn't sing well enough any more... and the list goes on and on.

I was starting film school, and my biggest dream was to be the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Director.

As a third year director of the Stanford Track and Cross Country programs, Coach Miltenberg brings a wealth of experience to The Farm including having coached 39 All - Americans, multiple NCAA champions, as well as having been named the 2011 Coaches» Association Women's National Coach of the Year.

The founders of API, Lisa & Barbara, as well as the president of API's Board of Directors, Janet, are women that I have admired for decades.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

The Executive Director of UNICEF, James Grant, perhaps summed it up best: «The promotion of breastfeeding must not be seen as an excuse to exclude women from the labor force.

To better understand symptoms of PPD and what can cause them, I spoke with Katherine Stone, founder and director of Postpartum Progress, a nonprofit organization that raises awareness about PPD while offering a safe place for women to find support.

«The best time for analgesia is when a woman is in active labor,» says OB - GYN Laura Riley, M.D., medical director of labor and delivery at Massachusetts General Hospital.

«I don't think there's any difference between a male midwife taking care of a woman than a female nurse taking care of a man,» said Marion McCartney, a certified nurse midwife and director of professional services at the American College of Nurse - Midwives, in Silver Spring, Md. «Well over half of obstetricians are men, and nobody thinks that's unusual.»

Cuomo's new emphasis on ethics has been met with cheers from good - government advocates like Barbara Bartoletti, League of Women Voters legislative director.

State Assemblyman Ron Kim (D - Flushing) stood with Emily Kadar of the Committee for a Pro-Choice New York PAC and Eleanor's Legacy Executive Director Brette McSweeeney Tuesday to endorse state Sen. Toby Stavisky (D - Flushing) for re-election, as well as to denounce her rival in the Democratic primary, S.J. Jung for recent remarks against a woman's right -LSB-...]

«It might come as a surprise to some that Palin does better than Huckabee among GOP men but that Huckabee beats Palin among Republican women,» says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

«Judged purely as a piece of political management, Osborne deserves plaudits, as does his deputy, Danny Alexander, chief secretary to the Treasury.But credit will also go to a less well - known figure — potentially the most powerful black woman in public life, Sharon White, the Treasury's director general of public spending.

Week of January 8th Recognizes Importance of Dietary Folic Acid Vitamin B Critical in Reducing Neural Tube Defects in Fetal Development Everyone needs folic Acid, an essential B - vitamin, in order to maintain good health, but it's particularly important to woman during their childbearing years, according to Dr. Gayle D. Jones, Director of the Oneida County Health Department in recognizing January 8th - 14th as National Folic Acid Awareness Week.

«Public Awareness Initiatives Include Open House» Oneida County's Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program, in conjunction with Cornell Cooperative Extension's Eat Smart New York (ESNY), has planned a variety of initiatives designed to raise public awareness of the role of proper nutrition in maintaining good health, Dr. Gayle Jones, Director of Health announced today.

In a statement on behalf of the Cuomo campaign, Basil Smikle, executive director of the New York State Democratic Party, said that the allegations against Weinstein were «disturbing» and «horrid» and that the debate should center on how to «best root out this reprehensible behavior and protect women from harassment.»

It said, «On the 10th of January, 2017 men and women of good conscience around the world should come and watch the court proceedings between the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Director, Radio Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, against Justice Binta Nyako and her brother, the President of Nigeria, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.

Antonia Clemente, executive director and co-founder of the Healing Center NY, said that it is alarming that the Trump administration would refer to funding VAWA as «government waste» given that one in three women are sexual assault or domestic violence victims as well as one in four men.

Barbara Bartoletti, legislative director for the League of Women Voters of New York State, who was a special adviser to the anti-corruption Moreland Commission, told the New York Times she hopes Silver's arrest will change Albany for good.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the new Director will also report quarterly on the current status of women both in Santa Clara County public jurisdictions and within the Santa Clara County Democratic Party and lead the compilation and publication of an annual report of the current number and percentage of women in elected office in Santa Clara County and post the report on the Party website and in an electronic communication to all members; and that the new Director will lead this effort by recruiting, training and supporting democratic women seeking public leadership positions in collaboration with the Director of Endorsements and Candidate Recruitment, the Director of Issues, the Director of Political Engagement and DAWN as well as any other interested Party Directors and clubs.

On the 10th of January 2017 men and women of good conscience around the world should come and watch the court proceedings between the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Director Radio and Biafra Television Mazi Nnamdi Kanu against Justice Binta Nyako and her fellow Fulani brother the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari.

Following a review of the available evidence and a public discussion involving the program's faculty, staff, and trainees, the exam's ability to predict student performance seems «weak at best» while it significantly disadvantages women, minorities, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, writes Scott Barolo, director of the Program in Biomedical Sciences (PIBS), in the announcement.

The patients, all doing well, are a teacher, a judge, an executive director, a grandmother and an extraordinary young woman who beat very long odds to undergo a second lung transplant in three years.

«We know that older women who are socially engaged have better cognitive function and a lower risk of developing dementia later, but too much of a good thing just might be bad,» said NAMS Executive Director Margery Gass, MD..

«This was an opportunity to learn about our program and better serve the needs of area women,» says Brookings Health System Director of Obstetrics Mary Schwaegerl.

Clinicians need to understand the impact of perimenopausal hormonal fluctuations and the degree of stressful events that a woman is experiencing to determine the best treatment options when a middle - aged woman complains of depression or exaggerated irritability,» says NAMS Executive Director JoAnn Pinkerton, MD, NCMP.

«We have assembled a great team of transplant surgeons and researchers here so we can offer patients in critical need of a lung transplant the highest level of care, with the expectation of the best possible outcomes for them,» said Paul Noble, MD, director of the Women's Guild Lung Institute at Cedars - Sinai and chair of the Department of Medicine.

He was previously an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, as well as the Director of the Molecular Aging & Development Laboratory and Center for Biometals & Metallomics at the Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston.

Her combined leadership, advocacy, and liaison experience at NPA, NSF, and non-profit organizations like the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) has well - equipped her for a second term as a member of NPA's Board of Directors, in which she would like to work towards strengthening the voice of NPA and helping the postdoctoral community.

«Not only are African American women at twice the risk, but in this study we found they also took twice as long to recover, they were twice as likely to worsen before getting better after diagnosis, and they were twice as likely to fail to recover altogether, meaning their heart failure persisted for months following delivery,» said senior author Zoltan Arany, MD, PhD, an associate professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and director of the Cardiovascular Metabolism Program.

Before joining the National Academies, Didion was Vice President of the Didion Group, a public affairs and communications firm, as well as the director of the International Network of Women in Engineering and Science (INWES).