Sentences with phrase «breakthrough for director»

Blood on the Moon Robert Wise, USA, 1948, 35 mm, 88m Robert Wise's synthesis of western and film noir was a breakthrough for the director and further solidified Robert Mitchum as one of Hollywood's most intriguing leading men.

It marked the first critical breakthrough for director Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs, The Truth About Charlie), and two Oscars, one for the screenplay by Bo Goldman (Meet Joe Black, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) and one for Best Supporting Actress for Mary Steenburgen (Hope Springs, Elf).

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• Eric Toone and David Danielson have joined Breakthrough Energy Ventures as executive managing director and managing director for science, respectively.

In a rare appearance Dr. Chandan Sen, Director, OSU Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell - Based Therapies will explain how this breakthrough came about and how the technology is leading to other medical discoveries and how the principle can be used to generate any tissue out of skin or fat which is abundant in human body.

Brian became Provincial Secretary in 2010 and was deputy director for our growth campaign in 2012 (a campaign on which we co-chaired the Election Planning Committee) leading into our party's historic breakthrough in 2015.

Chris Brown, Commercial Director of James Cropper added: «The production of the Cocoa Paper is a breakthrough which we are extremely proud of, not only for the pioneering methods of production, but also because it came in response to a new, challenging brief from a valued customer.

If there's a singular face for diversity breakthroughs in the group, it doubtless belongs to Lisa Blunt Rochester, a former Delaware labor secretary and personnel director, who is going to become the first woman and first African - American to represent the state at the Capitol.

Erie County Health Department Director Gale Burstein says part of the recent decreases have been due to breakthroughs in contraception and comprehensive education for teens of all genders.

«Hillary's nomination is a psychological breakthrough, and it will also be a symbolic breakthrough for women,» said Dina Refki, director of the Center for Women in Government & Civil Society at the University at Albany.

According to Mark Clampin, a Webb project scientist and director of astrophysics at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Breakthrough Starshot might have better odds than any search for ozone on Proxima b using Webb.

«Cardiac arrest survival rates are unacceptably low,» said Robert Graham, chair of the study committee and director of the national program office for Aligning Forces for Quality at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. «Although breakthroughs in understanding and treating cardiac arrest are promising, the ability to deliver timely interventions and high - quality care is inconsistent.

«In the history of synchrotron radiation research, which is only about 45 years old, you can count the true breakthroughs on the fingers of one hand,» says David Moncton, Argonne's Associate Laboratory Director for the Advanced Photon Source.

«This is another great example of how using a synthetic «bottom - up» engineering approach and leveraging the power of biological design — this time at the scale of individual molecules interacting on cell membranes — can lead to breakthrough technologies for medicine that overcome limitations that hold back more conventional approaches,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

According to Alan S. Wayne, MD, director of the Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases, «This is a breakthrough for individuals with hemophilia A who no longer respond to conventional clotting therapies.

«We are confident that NHGRI grantees will continue to make major breakthroughs in the development of technologies that will eventually lead to the ability to sequence a human genome for $ 1,000 or less,» NHGRI Director Eric D. Green said.

Charting the activity of entire networks of neurons «is the major thing to be done to make a breakthrough in our understanding of how the brain works,» says John Donoghue, Director of the Institute for Brain Science at Brown University and a neuroscientist who studies how the brain encodes information and develops prosthetic devices for patients with paralysis.

Currently The Class of 1942 Associate Professor in Materials Science and Engineering and associate director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics at Massachusetts Institute for Technology, Anikeeva has devised breakthrough solutions to formidable challenges in bioengineering.

Recently, Emoryâ $ ™ s Jeff Koplan, MD, vice president for global health and past CDC director, participated in a Breakthroughs panel sponsored by Big Think, Pfizer and Discover to discuss the latest issues in pandemic and genomic science, fields that have not only made big headlines recently but also promise to be two of the most pressing topics in global science and medicine in coming years.

Jill O'Donnell - Tormey, Ph.D., CRI chief executive officer and director of scientific affairs, was on hand to speak to the more than 250 attendees about breakthroughs in immunotherapy and CRI's role in bringing these new treatments to more patients sooner, and to thank the organizers and all in attendance for supporting this important work.

Our talented team of scientists, scientific advisors, and board directors is working to accelerate breakthrough treatments for patients with significant unmet medical needs.

Dr. Siemion is the founding director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center, and serves as Principal Investigator for the Breakthrough Listen Initiative.

Napoleone Ferrara, senior deputy director for basic sciences at the University of California, San Diego Moores Cancer Center, has been chosen as one of the recipients of the $ 3 million Breakthrough Prize, a newly created award, and the richest honor of its kind in the history of scientific research.

Jim Koenig, a program director at the U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), said that the «study could pave the way for a potential breakthrough in how we treat people who have experienced a stroke.»

An erotic, lyrical depiction of a young girl's sexual awakening, «Somersault» is a breakthrough debut for both its director and its star.

The director: Radu Mihăileanu (France) The talent: Two hotly - tipped young French actresses head up proceedings: Leïla Bekhti, who made an eye - catching breakthrough in «A Prophet,» and Hafsia Herzi, who won a slew of newcomer awards in 2007 for «The Secret of the Grain.»

The National Board of Review's awards celebrate excellence in filmmaking with categories that include Best Picture, Best Director, Best Performances, Best Ensemble, Breakthrough Performances, Directorial Debut and Spotlight Award as well as signature honors such as the William K. Everson Award for Film History, Freedom of Expression, and Special Achievement in Filmmaking.

Director Jean - Marc Vallee accepts the Hollywood breakthrough director award for «Wild» from actress Reese Witherspoon onstage during the 18th Hollywood FilmDirector Jean - Marc Vallee accepts the Hollywood breakthrough director award for «Wild» from actress Reese Witherspoon onstage during the 18th Hollywood Filmdirector award for «Wild» from actress Reese Witherspoon onstage during the 18th Hollywood Film Awards.

Krisha, which took home the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director honor, and The Witch — which won the Breakthrough Actor award for Anya Taylor - Joy's performance — are both streaming on Prime Video.

Hitting different themes while being simultaneously moving and creepy, it features Kevin Spacey at the top of his game and was a breakthrough film for director Sam Mendes, who went on to direct the two most recent Bond films, «Skyfall» and «Spectre.»

Few films in movie history — and maybe no other film by a first - time writer - director — proved to be the breakthrough moment for as many talents as a made - in - Baltimore comedy - drama called «Diner.»

The buzz: Twice - nominated director Sheridan («My Left Foot,» «In the Name of the Father») is working with a top - drawer character actress in what some are calling a breakthrough role for Oscar - nominated actress Samantha Morton («Sweet and Lowdown»).

Get Out had one win for Best Breakthrough for Jordan Peele, the writer and director.

Suffused with the director's masterful blend of melancholy and sardonic wit, Leigh's international breakthrough demonstrates his conviction «that people are infinitely complex, eternally resilient, endlessly fascinating creatures,» a career hallmark that critic David Sterritt examines in his liner notes for our release.

Cuaron's win was a breakthrough milestone for Mexican cinema, though there isn't quite same stigma attached to Latin - American directors, since Babel won, directed by Mexican Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.

And I was thrilled to be part of the Gotham Awards committee that chose Simien as one of the five nominees for the breakthrough director award this year.

Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award Ana Lily Amirpour for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Kino Lorber)

It also marks the breakthrough for Sorkin as a director, and he has done a remarkable job of bringing it to the screen.

Bingham Ray breakthrough director: Ryan Coogler for «Fruitvale Station,» Adam Leon for «Gim me the Loot,» Alexandre Moors for «Blue Caprice,» Stacie Passon for «Concussion» and Amy Seimetz for «Sun Don't Shine.»

She was nominated for a Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Gotham Award and two Independent Spirit Awards for It Felt Like Love, Best Cinematography and the John Cassavetes Award.

The seminal Taxi Driver proved to be a breakthrough for both Schrader and director Martin Scorsese, and the two would collaborate again on Raging Bull, The Last Temptation Of Christ, and Bringing Out The Dead.

Not for nothing did his breakthrough film Blue Ruin (13) turn a revenge thriller into something violent enough for the Fantastic Fest crowd yet critical enough of its bloodlust to attract Directors» Fortnight attention.

An auspicious breakthrough for Mitchell (who scored a Best Director nomination last week from the Independent Spirit Awards), the film excels through harmonious design elements that serve an open metaphor that dynamically allows various interpretations — and also rattle even the toughest of nerves.

A vision of the modern West that ranks up there with No Country For Old Men, the offbeat, entertaining, and elemental Hell Or High Water made for an unlikely breakthrough for the gifted Scottish director David Mackenzie (Young Adam, Starred UFor Old Men, the offbeat, entertaining, and elemental Hell Or High Water made for an unlikely breakthrough for the gifted Scottish director David Mackenzie (Young Adam, Starred Ufor an unlikely breakthrough for the gifted Scottish director David Mackenzie (Young Adam, Starred Ufor the gifted Scottish director David Mackenzie (Young Adam, Starred Up).

This is her first work as director while for her principal actress, this is Steinfeld's breakthrough performance.

Last year, Amazon had a huge breakthrough success in their film division, with Manchester by the Sea becoming an indie hit, followed by a bunch of Oscar nominations (including Best Picture) and wins for star Casey Affleck and writer / director Kenneth Lonergan's screenplay.

Now in 2013, Sundance brought some western heat with Ain't Them Bodies Saints, a breakthrough film for writer and director David Lowery, who also worked as an editor on other Sundance 2013 selections like Upstream Color and wrote Pit Stop.

Writer / director Justin Simien's first film «Dear White People» debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014, where it received the festival's Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent.

Also in attendance were Rachel Brosnahan and John Benjamin Hickey onstage during their Manhattan panel discussion for the WGN America portion, as well as director Angela Bassett for her Breakthrough panel discussion at the National Geographic Channel portion.

What to expect: Bennett Miller («Moneyball») took the best - director prize at Cannes, and the drama may be a breakthrough for Steve Carell as a strange millionaire.

So it was a pleasure to see Ang Lee taking home the Best Director award at the 2006 ceremony for «Brokeback Mountain» — a wonderful film that proved to be a breakthrough in other areas as well, but that's another story.