Sentences with phrase «early motion pictures»

The text in this series includes both the names of African American screen stars and the titles of the early motion pictures in which they appeared.

There is also a famous racehorse in the late 1930s named pit bull, as well as a number of pit bull stars of early motion pictures.

They reminded him of the first early motion pictures.

In 1908, Tolstoy and his family appeared in an early motion picture, and if you saw The Last Station (2009) you may want to compare your memories with the real thing.

Beginning in the 1930s, pit bulls starred in a variety of the earliest motion pictures.

Not exact matches

The controversy erupted after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced this year's Oscar nominations earlier this month, revealing a list that included no non-white acting nominees for the second year in a row.

Early in the days of motion pictures, church people were extremely wary of the motion picture.

LSST will even mine data on its own: By scanning images automatically and comparing them with pictures of the same region taken earlier, it will recognize the sudden brightening of a star or an object in motion from frame to frame.

The light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera were all game - changing twentieth century creations of the inventor Thomas Edison, a man who was told very early on that he would never amount to anything.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for their 87th Academy Awards early Thursday morning, recognizing the best films, filmmakers, and on - and off - screen talent of 2014.

As old as the century, Ruth Clifford was one of the last remaining leading ladies of the early, silent era when she died at the Motion Picture Country Hospital in Woodland Hills on December 1, 1998.

A great deal of the impact in The Piano Teacher comes from Isabelle Huppert's performance, which comes as her finest career moment, as well as one of the year's early choices for 2002's Best Actress (personal list, of course: I highly doubt that the conservative Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be able to make it through the film).

As of the early 90s, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had nominated Spielberg a few times for Oscars but had snubbed him just as often.

BROTHERS *** / **** starring Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Mare Winningham screenplay by David Benioff, based on the motion picture Brødre by Susanne Bier directed by Jim Sheridan EVERYBODY»S FINE * / **** starring Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell screenplay by Kirk Jones, based on an earlier screenplay by Massimo De Rita & Tonio Guerra & Giuseppe Tornatore directed by Kirk Jones

Best supporting actor in a motion picture Willem Dafoe, «The Florida Project» Armie Hammer, «Call Me By Your Name» Richard Jenkins, «The Shape of Water» Christopher Plummer, «All the Money in the World» Sam Rockwell, «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» IMMEDIATE REACTION: Plummer just shot his scenes earlier this month, days after being cast to replace Kevin Spacey.

The «Lady Bird» writer and director, who was snubbed in the directing category at the Golden Globes earlier this year, but was later nominated for a DGA Award when they were announced a few days later, was recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday in the directing and writing categories.

Despite an early snub at the Golden Globes, Peele won Best Directorial Debut from the National Board of Review and is up for both Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures and Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First - Time Feature Film Director at the Directors Guild Awards.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 88th Academy Awards early this morning in Los Angeles.

It was announced earlier this year that Emperor Motion Picture had restored and revived Ichi the Killer (2001), one of the most...

: The Motion Picture, and if it doesn't quite deliver on every level — Mitchell does very little with the idea, floated early, that the thing sometimes takes on the form of people you love, just to torment you — it nonetheless demonstrates anew that true horror requires neither gore nor jump scares, just vulnerability.

The good people of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences informed us earlier this week that 12 Years a Slave was the greatest movie of 2013.

In The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory and the Digital Dark Age, Paolo Cherchi Usai noted that the Zapruder tape sold in August 1999 for $ 16 million, at that time making it «the largest amount ever paid for a motion picture artefact» 2 Eight years earlier, Oliver Stone made this material the centrepiece of his Oscar - winning blockbuster JFK.

As promised earlier this year, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has added three new members to their board of governors, all non-white, as well as six new members to existing board committees.

On top of that, this «spiritual sequel» seems almost perversely at odds with the expectations it inflates: What comes packaged as a major motion - picture event quickly reveals itself to be something more modest — a pressurized chamber thriller, not an early prelude to the clang - and - bang summer season.

Earlier this year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences responded to the #OscarsSoWhite campaign with a series of wide - sweeping promises, intended to improve the representation of minority actors, writers, and directors in its future nominations, as well as the makeup of the committee that determines those nods.

Earlier this year, we began to get word of the developing motion picture adaptation of Marvel's Black Panther.

During an analyst call earlier today (via THR), Lionsage's Motion Picture Group co-chairman Rob Friedman revealed that the upcoming graphic novel adaptation I, Frankenstein will be...

Using the history of Dawson City as a backbone for his story — and including clips from the lost footage itself — Morrison builds a hypnotic interrogation of early 20th century life and the pioneer days of motion pictures.

Which brings me to a concluding thought and my own shameless awards - season plug: Frederick Wiseman received an honorary award earlier this year from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, an organization that has never seen fit to nominate one of his films for an Oscar for documentary feature.

Key early kudos: Golden Globes for Best Actress and Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy; TFCA Best Director and Best Supporting Actress.

All things said, the text of «Beowulf» would prove nearly impossible to craft into a commercial motion picture if it were to adhere to complete slavish adaptation, as those great early epic stories, born from oral tradition, weren't exactly rife with depth of characters or motivations.

Earlier this month, she was excluded from the directing race at the Golden Globes, despite her film going on to win Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy, prompting Natalie Portman's iconic «all - male nominees» swipe.

Early on in the week LG announced they've sold one million LG One phones, Research In Motion produced a video of the BlackBerry PlayBook vs Apple iPad and we published pictures of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 being unboxed.

We've been gathering info on what exactly Research In Motion is planning to release over the next year and even into early 2013, and we now have a solid picture to share with you.

The early work of these men demonstrated the practicality of motion picture budgeting and scheduling on small computers.»

Architect George P. Turner designed many of the new homes in the Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, which had become fashionably linked with the glamour of Hollywood, California in the early days of the motion picture industry there.

Earlier in the year Ubisoft Motion Pictures and Television Division of Ubisoft announced they were working on an Assassin's Creed film, -LSB-...]

Back in the late 80's and early 90's, «Mario Mania» was running wild — enough that Nintendo thought it might even be a good idea to license the rights for a major motion picture.

George Lucas made six Star Wars motion pictures earlier than handing the reins over to Disney in 2012, however he had loads of concepts for extra.

Milwaukee Art Museum (2009, traveled to Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art); «Motion Pictures,» Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010); and «The Early Sixties,» Kunstmuseum Basel (2010).

Of particular interest for cinema history is Thirty Years of Motion Pictures (1927), Terry Ramsaye's film adaptation of his classic A Million and One Nights (1926) about the early years of the motion picture indMotion Pictures (1927), Terry Ramsaye's film adaptation of his classic A Million and One Nights (1926) about the early years of the motion picture indmotion picture industry.

We had posted some sneak peaks earlier, but these pictures courtesy of arrested motion and Carlos Gonzalez give us the first glimpse of the finished work.

CAAM curator Naima J. Keith says, «Fade to Black provides a nuanced history of black representation in motion pictures from the early to mid-20th century.

The early work of these men demonstrated the practicality of motion picture budgeting and scheduling on small computers.»

Steven Fabrizio, the Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA) senior executive vice president and global general counsel, said in a statement earlier this year: