Sentences with phrase «even academy president»

Director Spike Lee and actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are opting to skip next month's Oscars ceremony, and even Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs expressed disappointment with the lack of diversity among this year's nominees.

Not exact matches

Mikey Weinstein, MRFF's founder and president, said he would sue the academy on behalf of his clients if the words were still left at the end of the oath, even if repeating them was optional.

Still, even President Obama predicted that «this will be tough» during his 20 May commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.

I'm deeply disappointed that the music branch of the Academy did not recognize my score as eligible, even after receiving a detailed cue sheet, a letter from the president of music at Fox studios, and a description of the process from both Alejandro and myself.

I'd like to think he's read our stories on such climate engineering options, including one last year in our Energy Challenge series by Bill Broad (with some help from me) in which the president of the National Academy of Sciences, the atmospheric chemist Ralph Cicerone, endorsed the need to aggressively study such options, even as the world works to limit emissions.

But even this modest boost still puts ARPA - E's budget at a quarter of what the National Academies originally recommended and less than half of President Obama's request.