Sentences with phrase «directing awards season»

As always, the wide selection allows the NBR to technically have a say in directing awards season, and their picks remain solid.

Not exact matches

But since the early»90s, Eastwood has focused less on acting and more on directing, crafting films that frequently make a big splash during awards season.

Now they're objects of ironic reverence and award - season biopics like The Disaster Artist, directed by and starring James Franco.

You're likely to see more of her in this awards season, and more of Margot Robbie, who plays Harding herself in the film, directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Steven Rogers.

Other theatre credits include Vanya in UNCLE VANYA and Malvolio in TWELFTH NIGHT at the Donmar Warehouse production at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), which won him Best Actor at the 2002 Olivier and Evening Standard Awards as well as a Village Voice Obie; Monty Python's SPAMALOT in New York and London; Leontes in THE WINTER»S TALE and Lopakhin in THE CHERRY ORCHARD, both directed by Sam Mendes at BAM, on a European tour and at the Old Vic; THE HOTHOUSE by Harold Pinter at the Trafalgar Studios; DEATH TRAP at the Noel Coward Theatre; and PRIVATES ON PARADE as part of the Michael Grandage West End Season.

It's so rare to see a film about a woman, written by a woman and directed by a woman do so well during the awards season.

Denzel Washington directs and stars in the new awards season contender based on August Wilson's award - winning play, featuring an astonishing performance from Viola Davis.

In addition to presenting year end awards during the annual movie awards season, AWFJ partners with select film festivals throughout the year to present EDA Awards for best female directed films in the documentary, narrative feature, and short categawards during the annual movie awards season, AWFJ partners with select film festivals throughout the year to present EDA Awards for best female directed films in the documentary, narrative feature, and short categawards season, AWFJ partners with select film festivals throughout the year to present EDA Awards for best female directed films in the documentary, narrative feature, and short categAwards for best female directed films in the documentary, narrative feature, and short categories.

Hawke is coming off of a busy year with awards season contender Boyhood; documentary Seymour: An Introduction, which he produced and directed; Michael and Peter Spierig's Predestination; Andrew Niccol's Good Kill; and Shakespeare update Cymbeline.

In award season, prizes and nominations flow like Champagne — usually directed merely at talented actors, directors, writers, producers and a slew of below - the - line experts.

Needless to say, a historical drama directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep is pretty much the Platonic ideal of awards season wild cards, even before you factor in the extent to which a movie about the journalists who declassified the Pentagon Papers might dovetail with current events (every vote is a vote against «fake news»).

Russell's award season biography includes being passed over thrice in four years for top directing honors; he's also a two - time screenwriting nominee.

This season's favorite to «Blind Side» the Academy Awards with a sentimentalized tale of race relations and a feisty white woman leading the charge is The Help (Touchstone), based on the bestselling novel by Kathryn Stockett and directed by her childhood buddy Tate Taylor.

HBO wanted another Big Little Lies, but it didn't need to order another season of the acclaimed miniseries to get it — the premium - cable outlet already had a second Jean - Marc Vallée - directed whodunit waiting in the wings, with a bestseller pedigree, powerhouse producer, and Academy Award winner all its own.

Earlier in the season, especially after Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig were not nominated for best - director Golden Globe awards, it looked as if the directors» race might be tinged with injustice, a distillation of creaky prejudices about women and people of color directing movies.

One film that could slip up on the awards season with an endearing, personal journey is «50/50,» from an original screenplay by Will Reiser (it's fully his story) and directed by «The Wackness» helmer Jonathan Levine.

Mimi Leder is directing the Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic «On the Basis of Sex» with Felicity Jones, Kathy Bates, and Armie Hammer which Focus Features may opt for an awards season push.

Lionsgate's Wonder in third place made $ 8.75 M on Friday which now puts the Stephen Chbosky - directed title at $ 22.4 M over FSS, -19 %, and $ 32.3 M over five with a 10 - day run of $ 69.5 M. Pete Hammond reports that Lionsgate will give Wonder an awards season push even though the distributor's original intention was to make the movie a commercial success over the holiday.

But if, say, Amy Adams was in a movie that fell apart in development, would she get to step in to direct and thus save it, and would her finished film then be given a serious award season push?

The film is written by Noah Haidle and directed by Fisher Stevens and is due for release early next year, ready for awards season.

Call Me, directed by Luca Guadagnino, has been on a lot of awards - season shortlists since even before its world premiere at Sundance.

The lack of female nominees at the Globes and BAFTAs has largely focused on the lack of support for Greta Gerwig's direction of «Lady Bird,» and questions about the validity of the directing category in awards season as a whole.

Oliver Stone, no stranger to government controversies and criticisms, is directing and co-writing Snowden, a movie that will open on Christmas Day 2015, undoubtedly armed with some award season ambitions.

The film is likely to be directed by Morten Tyldum, who is behind this year's award - season contender «The Imitation Game», said the Hollywood Reporter.

Meanwhile, in the Directing race, del Toro, Peele, Gerwig and Nolan were joined by Paul Thomas Anderson for Phantom Thread, the latest of the awards - season films to hit the marketplace (December 24).

by Walter Chaw A movie that will make no one uncomfortable while reassuring the most blinkered that they've given at the office, Battle of the Sexes could be directed by anyone, star anyone, and it would still be exactly the same edgeless, meaningless, obsequious, instantly - obsolete artifact, desperate to be loved, expecting to be feted come awards season.

If this teaser trailer for the new Lenny Abrahamson - directed drama is anything to go by, Brie Larson has just launched herself into the awards season race.

In our season 8 premiere episode, Academy Award ® - nominated filmmaker and actress Greta Gerwig talks about her theatrical beginnings, what she learned working with filmmakers Noah Baumbach, Mike Mills, and others in such films as Frances Ha and 20th Century Women, and taking the leap to write and direct her own film, the critically acclaimed Lady Bird.

Throughout awards season, Gerwig has frequently been nominated for her directing efforts, most notably at the Critics» Choice Awards and Directors Guild Aawards season, Gerwig has frequently been nominated for her directing efforts, most notably at the Critics» Choice Awards and Directors Guild AAwards and Directors Guild AwardsAwards.