Sentences with phrase «despite various awards»

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Despite being up for the Academy Award, Farhadi, who was previously nominated in 2012 for A Separation, has said he will not be attending the ceremony in protest at President Trump's executive order preventing people from various majority muslim countries from travelling into the States.

Despite its usual and expected slate of critical flops (yet, box office successes) as well as miscalculated projects that couldn't surpass the initial excitement they generated (see: Prometheus, and even Les Miserables), Hollywood came back soaring in with an attractive, polished fare — ranging from political thrillers and procedurals to action flicks — managing to consistently make it in to most major critics» top tens and to score awards / nominations from various critics groups and Guilds.