Sentences with phrase «early critical favorite»

No less expected was the awarding of Best Actor to Timothy Spall, whose emphatic grunts as landscape painter J.M.W. Turner made Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner an early critical favorite of the fest.

Not exact matches

Surprisingly missing from the list is the box office and critical favorite from earlier last year, «Lee Daniels The Butler,» which was shut out of every category it was eligible for.

Earlier this year as I was preparing for a series of presentations at annual school leaders and administrators events, several of my fellow EdLeader21 members suggested that I compile a list of my favorite 21st century resources — tools and practices that introduce and encourage the 4Cs (critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity) in our schools.

That unabashed bombast has made Wiley a walking superlative: the most successful black artist since Basquiat, possibly the wealthiest painter of his generation, certainly the one who made his name earliest (he was 26 for his first major solo show), a gay man who has become the great painter of machismo for the swag era, a bootstrapper from South Central who talks like a Yale professor (much of the time), a genius self - promoter who's managed to have it both ways in an art world that loves having its critical cake and eating the spectacle of it, too, and a crossover phenomenon who is at once the hip - hop world's favorite fine artist (Spike Lee and LL Cool J own pieces) and the gallery world's most popular hip - hop ambassador.