Sentences with phrase «black director nominated»

#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.

The D.G.A. Awards, however, unlike the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs, nominated Lady Bird filmmaker Greta Gerwig (the ninth woman nominated in the category by the guild) and Get Out mastermind Jordan Peele (the fourth black director nominated).

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.

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.»

Not exact matches

«Noah» had Academy Award - nominated director Darren Aronofsky («Black Swan») and a massive $ 125 million budget, but was a bust with Christian audiences domestically.

Despite the backstage turmoil, Brubaker was an acclaimed release and an Oscar - nominated, career - finale triumph for co-screenwriter Arthur A. Ross, creator of Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954) and father of successful writer / director Gary Ross.

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 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 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.

Craig Brewer is the director of the Oscar - nominated «Hustle & Flow» and the new drama «Black Snake Moan.»

Beyond Braff at the helm, Going in Style is scripted by Theodore Melfi, the recently Oscar - nominated writer / director behind Hidden Figures, which similarly followed a trio of undervalued people — in that case, three brilliant - but - overlooked black female NASA scientists — and found a way to make its dramatic hamminess (mostly) work to its own advantage.

Black transgender director Yance Ford just made history by becoming the first trans filmmaker ever to be nominated for an Academy Award.

After making a striking debut with 2013's based - on - fact, tragically devastating drama Fruitvale Station and following that up with the stunning, Oscar - nominated Rocky spin - off Creed in 2015, the young writer / director was seemingly given the keys to the kingdom by Marvel as it pertained to Black Panther, the studio apparently feeling comfortable to let him do whatever he wanted with this story of an African superhero from the secluded fictionalized nation of Wakanda.

Greta Gerwig is only the fifth woman nominated in the best director category for bringing «Lady Bird,» a tender coming - of - age story, to the screen, while «Get Out» s» Jordan Peele became the fifth black man nominated in the best director category.

Notable examples of people of color representation in the nominations pool come in the documentary category where the black male director of «Strong Island,» Yance Ford, is the first openly trans person to have a film nominated, and in foreign - language film where «A Fantastic Woman,» starring Chilean trans actress Daniela Vega, is a possible winner.

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.

And «Mudbound» director Dee Rees shares a nomination with Virgil Williams for adapted screenplay, making her the first black woman to be nominated for the award.

«Up until Obama, it was basically Urkel and the black guy from Revenge of the Nerds,» self - professed nerd, Obama impersonator, and Oscar - nominated director Jordan Peele told NPR in 2012.

SAT: Jordan Peele is the fifth Black director to be nominated for best director, while Greta Gerwig is the fifth woman.

He became the fifth black filmmaker nominated for best director, and third to helm a best - picture nominee, following Barry Jenkins last year for Moonlight.

Oscar - nominated director Ridley Scott (BLADE RUNNER, ALIEN, THELMA & LOUISE, GLADIATOR, BLACK HAWK DOWN) who hasn't made a really great film in awhile, knows just where to place the camera in Drew Goddard's taut screen adaptation of Andy Weir's best - seller.

So says writer - director Jordan Peele in Get Out, a horror / comedy hybrid about a black man (Golden Globe - nominated Daniel Kaluuya) who visits the posh, apparently liberal family home of his white girlfriend (Allison Williams) and ends up (spoiler alert) walking into a racist ambush.

Can she become the first black woman nominated for Best Director Oscar?

Had its director been nominated, it would have made her the first black woman to be so.

There are also a number of younger directors still making plenty of films that have yet to get a best directing award — Ridley Scott has been nominated 3 times (Thelma and Louise, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down), Terrence Malick has been nominated 2 times (Tree of Life, The Thin Red Line, Paul Thomas Anderson has been nominated once (There Will Be Blood) and Tim Burton has never received a directing nomination.

Jordan Peele is now the fifth black man to be nominated for the Best Director Oscar, following Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, 2017), Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave, 2013), Lee Daniels (Precious, 2009), and John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood, 1991).

Ava DuVernay became the first black woman with a film nominated for Best PIcture with Selma in 2014, but she was not nominated for Best Director — though she absolutely should have been.

«Spellbound» (1945) Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture: Miklós Rózsa * Also nominated for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Michael Chekhov), Best Director (Alfred Hitchcock), Best Black - and White Cinematography (George Barnes), and Best Special Effects (Jack Cosgrove).

«Lensed again by Oscar - nominated cinematographer Lukasz Zal in black and white, COLD WAR is a visual feast start to finish...» while «Spanish director Jaime Rosales» dramatic thriller PETRA wows with its disturbing depiction of a family...

«'' The Lucky One» (2012) Official Premise: Zac Efron (17 Again) stars with Taylor Schilling (TV's «Orange is the New Black») and Blythe Danner (Meet the Parents franchise) in this romantic drama directed by Academy Award ® - nominated writer / director Scott Hicks (Shine, 1996).

McQueen is nominated for best director and if he wins he would be the first black filmmaker to win that award.

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Powell discusses her Oscars predictions and shared her thoughts about Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele as they make history by being the fifth woman and the fifth Black director to be nominated for Best Ddirector to be nominated for Best DirectorDirector.

This ambitious black comedy is the first English - language film from Marjane Satrapi, the French - Iranian director of 2007's Oscar - nominated animation Persepolis.

Mudbound writer - director Dee Rees is the second black woman screenwriter to be nominated for screenwriting, and the film's cinematographer, Rachel Morrison, is the first woman to be nominated in the Best Cinematography category.

Another was Get Out's Jordan Peele, who became the first black director to be nominated for Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture in one year, and the first black director to have his debut film nominated in all three of those catdirector to be nominated for Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture in one year, and the first black director to have his debut film nominated in all three of those catDirector, and Best Picture in one year, and the first black director to have his debut film nominated in all three of those catdirector to have his debut film nominated in all three of those categories.

Get Out's Jordan Peele became the fifth black filmmaker to be nominated for Best Director, and the first to score the Directing - Writing - Producing nomination hat trick.

Director: Ciro Guerra With his fourth feature «Birds of Passage,» Colombian director Ciro Guerra moves beyond the black - and - white mystical elegance of Oscar - nominated «Embrace of the Serpent» and into a wide - screen color genre movie about a man who turns to marijuana farming in order to impress his would - be bride's demanding matriarch from a northern ColombiaDirector: Ciro Guerra With his fourth feature «Birds of Passage,» Colombian director Ciro Guerra moves beyond the black - and - white mystical elegance of Oscar - nominated «Embrace of the Serpent» and into a wide - screen color genre movie about a man who turns to marijuana farming in order to impress his would - be bride's demanding matriarch from a northern Colombiadirector Ciro Guerra moves beyond the black - and - white mystical elegance of Oscar - nominated «Embrace of the Serpent» and into a wide - screen color genre movie about a man who turns to marijuana farming in order to impress his would - be bride's demanding matriarch from a northern Colombian tribe.

He becomes the fifth black filmmaker nominated for best director, and third to helm a best - picture nominee, following Barry Jenkins last year for Moonlight.

The film could break another glass ceiling: Rees, the indie darling behind 2011's «Pariah» and 2015's «Bessie» for HBO, could become the first black woman ever nominated for best director.

Moonlight, about the three stages of the life a queer, black boy to teenager to man, is the second film from Jenkins and this week was nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor (Ali).

Another first came in the cinematography category, where Rachel Morrison («Mudbound» and soon «Black Panther») became the first female director of photography to be nominated for Best Cinematography.

Aronofsky, who was nominated for a Best Director Oscar for 2010's Black Swan, praised his girlfriend's performance, hailing her as «a remarkable talent».

It needs that — Get Out is already eight months old and few films released in February are ever nominated for Academy Awards, let alone those made by black first - time writer - directors like Jordan Peele, and in the horror genre no less.

Black Panther cowriter / director Ryan Coogler has already shown he's capable of retaining his auteur sensibilities while working on a franchise movie, with his Oscar - nominated Rocky sequel / spinoff Creed.

Kimmel noted that Get Out writer - director Jordan Peele is one of only three people to be nominated for three major categories in his directorial debut, and Peele also became the first black writer to win the award for Best Original Screenplay.

Also, Jordan Peele is only the fifth black director to be nominated for best director.

(A woman of color has never been nominated for Best Director, although Dee Rees made history this year as the first black woman nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.)

So it was indeed a welcomed surprise when the Oscar nominated indie director of Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler and Black Swan announced he would be tackling the biblical epic, NOAH as his next project.

Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele's Best Director nominations for Lady Bird and Get Out are also significant, not only because they're both debut films, but because this marks only the fifth time a (white) woman and a black man have been nominated for the award, respectively.

«Mudbound» director Dee Rees, though not recognized in that category, became the first black woman in 45 years - and the second ever - to be nominated for an original screenplay Oscar.

Dee Rees» Mudbound should make history with the first black woman nominated for Best Director, but that may not happen, partly because the cool kids so far aren't hot for it, and partly because there seems to be stubborn resistance to the Netflix brand.