Sentences with phrase «black director since»

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.

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Director Ava DuVernay «s adaptation of the popular young - adult novel of the same name has been highly - anticipated since Disney made her the first - ever black woman to direct a movie with a budget over $ 100 million.

«Cynthia has been going after the black vote aggressively since the start of her campaign,» said George Arzt, who was the communications director for former New York City mayor Ed Koch.

The New York education sector has had its own controversy over race in the past week: Daniel Loeb, a political donor and chairman of the board of directors of Success Academy, the state's largest charter school network, said in a since - deleted Facebook post that state Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is black, was worse for racial minorities than «anyone who has ever donned a hood,» because of her support of teachers» unions.

«Historically, when we developed areas we used gutters and storm drains as our way of channeling that stormwater,» said Al Steinman, director of Grand Valley State University's Annis Water Resources Institute in Muskegon, who has been studying Little Black Creek's stormwater problem since 2007.

It's been nearly a decade since release of the last film in the Predator franchise — Predators, starring Adrien Brody and Alice Braga — but that's about to change with The Predator, a revival from The Other Guys and Iron Man 3 director Shane Black.

It's not every director who can show three kids (including an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes) perforated by bullets without so much as flinching, but that's Cooper's M.O., refined over the three films since his relatively marshmallowy «Crazy Heart»: As in «Black Mass» before this, violence packs more punch if depicted matter - of - factly, which somehow registers as «realistic» these days (although one suspects that it would be far more horrifying if his victims suffered slow, agonizing deaths after being shot).

On how the film came about, director Black said he had always wanted to bring back the «private - eye» film: «There's a bone - deep DNA to this ever since I raided my Dad's bookshelf when I was a kid.

To date, Frankenweenie has earned under $ 35 million domestically, Burton's lowest gross as director since his last black and white Disney film, the highly regarded 1994 Touchstone Pictures limited release Ed Wood.

Perhaps Weinstein was tickled by director Daniel Lee's pedigree — he's been an internationally known quantity since his 1996 Jet Li vehicle, Black Mask — or compelled by the cartoonish exoticism of his recent historical epics.

Brian Truitt of USA Today: «Director Ryan Coogler's spectacular new film (★ ★ ★ ★ out of four; rated PG - 13) features the most high - profile black movie superhero yet, and also happens to be the best origin vehicle for the mighty Marvel brand since «Guardians of the Galaxy.»

This would also make a lot of sense since they don't even have a director for Black Panther, and it's a bit odd Marvel would be casting for a film that doesn't even go into production until 2017.

Outstanding TV Doc or Special Beyonce: Lemonade Beyonce Knowles & Khalil Joseph; directors (HBO) Black America Since MLK: Still I Rise Talleah Bridges; director (PBS) Hamilton's America Alex Horowitz; director (PBS) «Jackie Robinson» Ken Burns; director (PBS) «Streets of Compton» Mark Ford; director (A&E)

Director Darren Aronofsky returns to the big screen for the first time since 2010's Black Swan with his most ambitious project yet, the Biblical adventure Noah.

Pearce broke out as the producer / writer of the British superhero comedy «No Heroics» and has since landed a couple of high profile gigs, co-writing «Iron Man 3» with director Shane Black and penning the DC Comic «The Mighty» for Paramount.

#BlackPantherSoLIT is the hashtag that has been dominating Black Twitter since news broke that Michael B Jordan is reuniting with Creed director Ryan Coogler and joining the cast of Marvel's upcoming Black Panther.

She has been fighting the system ever since, and leading the way for a new generation of black female directors.

We couldn't wait until tomorrow's episode to show you our talk about Shane Black, especially since he was just announced as the director for Iron...

Aussie director Bruce Beresford hasn't made a genuinely good film since 1991's Black Robe, and his avalanche of mediocre to bad films continues with Evelyn.

Since the 2014 announcement, eager fans have waited with great anticipation for director Ryan Coogler's Black Panther.

In fact, he knew about this since 2015, when Black Panther director, Ryan Coogler, was still working on Creed.

When: April 4th Why: It's been nine years since writer / director Richard Shepherd burst onto the scene with the hugely entertaining black comedy «The Madator,» and with the exception of his underseen 2007 follow - up («The Hunting Party»), he's spent most of that time as a hired gun for various TV series.

With his portrayal of ruthless gangster Jimmy «Whitey» Bulger in director Scott Cooper's «Black Mass», Depp is generating the most positive buzz since he played Sweeney Todd on screen back in 2007.

A super-concentrated packet whose features have the precision of an X-Acto knife, Natalie Portman literally and figuratively blasted out of the box as a pubescent punkette assassin in The Professional (1994) and hasn't taken a breather since, working with the top stratum of directors in a carousel of genres ranging from costume drama (The Other Boleyn Girl) to space opera (the Star Wars prequel trilogy), to mirror - splintering psychodrama (Black Swan, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role).

Since then, they've made three more films together and along the way won plenty of awards for their 2011 silent black - and - white The Artist — including Oscars for Best Feature and Best Director for Michel.

Director Paul Verhoeven hasn't made a feature length film since 2006's World War II thriller «Black Book,» and you can tell the Dutch provocateur spent the past decade itching to get back to work.

Christine Black, Coca - Cola Australia's Public Affairs Director and a MyRoad mentor, said Coca - Cola Australia and its bottling partner Amatil had provided more than 60 mentors to the MyRoad program since its launch.

It is the first time Waterstones has been in the black since the chain was bought by Mamut for # 53m from previous owner the HMV Group in 2011, when Daunt Books owner James Daunt took up the helm as managing director.

Many of those years were spent at Black Rock Studio as the game director on Split / Second, working alongside other colleagues who have since joined Hangar 13, including Novato - based Vice President of Development, Andy Wilson.

It certainly doesn't seem like two years has elapsed since Nigerian - born Okwui Enwezor's historic turn as artistic director of the 2015 Venice Biennale and «All the World's Futures» featured more than 35 black artists, including Glenn Ligon who graced the entrance to the 56th International Exhibition with a neon work.

««Mickalene Thomas: Mentors, Muses, and Celebrities» exemplifies the commitment that the Museum has had to championing the aesthetic and technological innovation made by Black women artists since it opened in 1996,» noted Museum Director Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Ph.D., C» 93.

Today, he serves as director of the Haus der Kunst museum in Munich, where since last year his global curatorial program has included Canadian artist Stan Douglas and African American artists Ellen Gallagher and Lorna Simpson, «as many major solo shows of black artists as the Museum of Modern Art in New York has in the past 20 years.»

Since teaching in the Perry Preschool, we each have had 50 years of experience in education — Evelyn as founder and longtime executive director of the National Black Child Development Institute, and Louise as author, teacher of, and consultant on anti-bias education with children and adults.

Since becoming involved in real estate in 1978, Black has been a director of Halifax / Dartmouth Real Estate Board, past president of the Home Builders» Association, past president of the Mortgage Loans Association of Nova Scotia, a director of the Atlantic Provinces Real Estate Council and past chairman of the Nova Scotia Real Estate Commission.