Sentences with phrase «black director»

3 films are directed by women, 3 films are debut features, 2 films are by black directors and 2 films are by queer filmmakers.

Along with your nominations came a notable statistic — that you're only the fifth black director to be nominated in 90 years.

But is the real story about black directors working in television?

#OscarsSoWhite No More -LRB-- ish) Almost a year to the day after the Sundance sneak - peek premiere of Get Out, Jordan Peele made history this morning, becoming the first black director nominated for Picture, Director and Screenplay for his debut film.

Two Disney pictures with black directors dominated at the box office this week, as newcomer «A Wrinkle in Time» finished second behind the juggernaut that is «Black Panther.»

He's the first black director of a Marvel movie.

Peele, meanwhile, becomes the fourth black director nominated by the DGA for the feature film award, following Lee Daniels («Precious»), Steve McQueen («12 Years a Slave») and, last year, Barry Jenkins («Moonlight»).

Ryan Coogler becomes the first black director in the Marvel Cinematic Universe thanks to «Black Panther.»

Peele is only the fourth black director nominated for the DGA's top award and none have ever won.

Are we finally going to start seeing films from black directors that show a truly diverse view of black — and African - American — voices that stay the course and become part of the fabric of mainstream Hollywood?

And now Coogler, at only 26, has earned a place as part of a new exciting wave of young black directors who are offering up vital, alternative narratives about the black experience.

By the time Jim West (Smith) had disguised himself as a belly dancer to retrieve his captured comrade Artemus Gordon (Kline) from the clutches of evil Dr. Loveless (Kenneth Branagh), I was unequivocally bored with Wild Wild West, the new summer action - comedy from Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld.

I left my dream of being a director behind long ago, and I think that was because, while I have a great respect for film, I didn't really believe there was a place for very many black directors.

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Roger and I sometimes served as buffers and interpreters between the critical white students and the frustrated black director.

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Barry Jenkins, who directed Moonlight, is also the first black director since Steve McQueen (2013's Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave) to be recognized for Best Director, a category that's only nominated four black men — John Singleton, Lee Daniels, McQueen and Jenkins — since the award was first handed out in 1929.

It starts with calling out Marvel for taking 17 prior films to finally get to a film directed by an acclaimed black director, with an accomplished black cast (even calling out Chadwick Boseman for having «dibs» on «black icons» like Jackie Robinson, James Brown, and Thurgood Marshall).

As Black directors behind two of the most anticipated movies of the year, Coogler honors DuVernay calling her a «pioneer.»

Coogler becomes the second black director to join the billion - dollar movie club after F. Gary Gray made the list after The Fate of the Furious earned $ 1.2 billion in 2017.

Skimming further down their list of winners shows Steve McQueen taking Best Director for his work on «12 Years a Slave»; the first black director chosen in their 79 - year history.

You know, like Ava DuVernay last year, Spike Lee many years, or [insert Black director's name here] in your year of choosing.

Even McQueen's loss to a nevertheless richly deserving Cuarón seemed a letdown, for he would have become the Academy's first winning black director.

Cast: Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sydney Poitier, Diane Venora, Mathilda May, J.K. Simmons, Jack Black Director: Michael Caton - Jones Screenplay: Chuck Pfarrer (based on the Kenneth Ross screenplay for The Day of the Jackal) Review published December 3, 1997

I was moved to see this story, which began 39 years ago as a narrative about a white underdog going up against a cocky black overlord, pass into the hands of a breathtakingly talented black director and an equally talented black star (and, by the way, a black co-writer, and women filling the roles of DP, editor, production designer, and costume designer), and honor the original narrative while turning it inside out.

December 30, 2013 • This year's 11 top - grossing films starring black actors and by black directors almost doubles the number of last year's slate of comparable films.

Orange is the New Black director Sian Heder is the writer and director of Talulah, which was based on her 2006 short film Mother, which was also based her own baby - sitting experience in Los Angeles.

«That can take the form of the numerous AAFCA screenings held in various cities to help raise early awareness and bring buzz to films like the reimagined western classic The Magnificent Seven, which trailblazing Black director Antoine Fuqua helmed and Denzel Washington starred.»

Get Out could come along and win and make Oscar history with the first black director taking home a statuette.

The honor makes the «Get Out» filmmaker just the fifth black director nominated for the award, a distinguished group that includes John Singleton for 1991's «Boyz n the Hood,» Lee Daniels for 2009's «Precious,» Steve McQueen for 2013's «12 Years a Slave» and Barry Jenkins for last year's best - picture winner, «Moonlight.»

A Wrinkle In Time director Ava DuVernay is the first woman of color to direct a film with a $ 100 million - plus budget, and alongside her «little brother,» Black Panther's Ryan Coogler, she crossed another milestone this past weekend, which marked the «first time films by black directors with $ 100 million plus budgets have ever placed in the first two box office spots,» as CNN puts it.

He added, «I'm so proud to be a part of a time at the beginning of a movement where I feel like the best films in every genre are being brought to me by my fellow black directors.»

A local reviewer dubbed this new collaborative effort between Men In Black director Barry Sonnenfeld and the very popular Will Smith a «bad, bad mess.»

Nonetheless, this is a more diverse field than usual; the inclusion of Peele, whose only the fourth black director ever to nab a nod, and the Mexican genre visionary Del Toro, makes this the first time ever that white men don't make up the majority of the DGA lineup.

«I left my dream of being a director behind long ago, and I think that was because, while I have a great respect for film, I didn't really believe there was a place for very many black directors,» Peele said.

Cast: Robert Burke, Nancy Allen, John Castle, Jill Hennessy, Remy Ryan Hernandez, Rip Torn, CCH Pounder, Mako, Bradley Whitford Cameo: Jeff Garlin, Shane Black Director: Fred Dekker Screenplay: Frank Miller, Fred Dekker Review published January 19, 2008

It's a film of many firsts: «Black Panther's» protagonist T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), the king of a secretive African nation, is the first black character to lead a Marvel cinematic universe film, while Ryan Coogler is the first black director of a Marvel film.

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.

With The Learning Tree in 1969, he became the first black director of a Hollywood film.

The massive box office haul only adds to the impressive set of records that the film has already shattered: the largest February debut of all time (beating Deadpool), the second largest Marvel debut (after The Avengers), and the highest grossing film by a black director.

It exceeded the hype, making almost $ 250 million across in its first four days and breaking the record for largest opening ever by a black director.

At Sunday's Oscars, actor, screenwriter and director Jordan Peele made cinematic history, becoming the first black director to win an Oscar for best screenplay.

Produced for just $ 5 million (which is shoestring budget by industry standards), it dominated at the box office, making Peele the first black director to make $ 100 million for a debut film.

A narrative about Colonialism, Slavery, Black Oppression, and Black Culture was led by Black Director, and Writer Ryan Coogler (Creed) and the cast almost exclusively Black.

The movie has generated record proceeds of more than $ 400 million worldwide so far, making it the highest - grossing opening for a film with a black director.