Sentences with phrase «female director»

A female director — Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)-- and a black man — Jordan Peele (Get Out)-- find themselves breaking barriers in categories in which they are usually sidelined.

While an exact number could not be unveiled, Variety reports that sources say Jenkins» «Wonder Woman 2» payday is in the $ 8 million range to write, direct and produce the follow - up, making her the highest paid female director of all time.

The one - time mumblecore mainstay is, admittedly, the only female director in the lineup, which also includes Guillermo Del Toro for The Shape Of Water, Christopher Nolan for Dunkirk, Jordan Peele for Get Out, and Martin McDonaugh for the divisive love - hate lightning rod of the season, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

«Wadjda» Given that it was made by a female director in an environment as hostile to both women and film as Saudi Arabia (where women can't drive, and cinemas have been closed for decades), it's genuinely staggering that «Wadjda» — which made its U.S. debut at Tribeca on its way to a full release from Sony Pictures Classics — turned out as brilliantly as it did.

While it's invidious to compare a female director's work to that of her spouse, it's plausible that two filmmakers who live and have worked together (she has acted in his films) may find styles and preoccupations rubbing off on each other, or separately making films that would be a dream double - bill; this is certainly the only MHL film that feels remotely like an Assayas one, and it's certainly different from the pared - down precision of her other, more vignette - like works.

In her honor, the inaugural Bonnie Award will recognize a mid-career female director with a $ 50,000 unrestricted grant, sponsored by American Airlines.

When he introduced the film at its world premiere, he called it a «miracle of independent filmmaking» because of its female - led story, female producing team, and female director.

«There is something really relaxing about a female director,» Rush explains.

Naomi Kawase) Cast: Makiko Watanabe, Hideo Sakaki, Jun Murakami, Tetta Sugimoto, Miyuki Matsuda The sole female director to have won the Palme d'Or, Jane Campion might be heading the jury this year, but once again, the festival looks like it could be very thin on the ground when it comes to films directed by women.

A much more intriguing follow - up from a female director is We Need to Talk About Kevin, starring the ever - so - divine Tilda Swinton as a woman dealing with the guilt of her son committing a mass murder and recounting how their fractured relationship played a part.

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Lynne isn't in the festival because she's a female director.

And in the only language that Hollywood understands, she's now a female director whose second film, off a budget of $ 40m, has made well over half a billion dollars ($ 570m) worldwide.

It's also, not coincidentally, the first Pixar film to boast a female director in Chapman, who also wrote the screenplay.

Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Paramount is deep in the hunt for a female director, a mandate that comes from the top, including producer J.J. Abrams, to helm Star Trek 4, the new installment of the rebooted film series that stars Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto.

Cheryl suspects the entertainer romanced a white female director named Martha Page.

In fact, with an impressive $ 375,612 debut and a $ 93,903 per theater average, A24's Lady Bird just earned Greta Gerwig the record for the highest - per - theater average intake for a female director in history.

Yet, in the capable hands of female director Rama Burshtein, this is The Wedding Plan, an Israeli - set subtitled drama whose message is much more altruistic than any of those assembly line efforts Hollywood has a predilection for green lighting.

CAPTAIN MARVEL Will Be The MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE's «Strongest» Character, Still Seeking Female Director

There were just three female director nominees that preceded Bigelow's win: Sofia Coppola for Lost In Translation (2003), Jane Campion for The Piano (1993) and Lina Wertmuller for Seven Beauties (1975).

Though Unbroken made it in, the NBR threw a polite but very insulting bone to the other film by a female director who is on the rise, Ava DuVernay's powerful film Selma.

Leading up to Captain Marvel's official confirmation, it was believed that Marvel would try to find a female director for the film, just as Warner Bros. hired Patty Jenkins for Wonder Woman.

«Daisies»: Vera Chytilová was the only female director of the esteemed Czech New Wave of the 1960s, a movement that produced Oscar - winners (Jirí Menzel's «Closely Watched Trains» in the foreign film category, two directing awards for Milos Forman).

The film was developed, written, and initially directed by Brenda Chapman, the first female director of a Pixar feature, but she was removed and replaced by Pixar with Mark Andrews.

A report released this month by USC Annenberg's Inclusion Initiative, however, is less encouraging — women made up only 4.3 % of all directors of the 1,100 top films released from 2007 - 17, a ratio of 22 males to each female director.

Jacob also said it was a «shame» that only one female director, Jane Campion, had ever won the festival's top prize.

And when you add to THAT the fact that this is a debut film from a female director about a female protagonist?

Next step, hire a female director!

While Marvel's Kevin Feige has said they didn't have a strict edict for the film having a female director, it seemed as if those were the only names mentioned in public.

I'm a bit disappointed Marvel didn't give a solo female director this gig but I don't know this duo's work at all.

Barbra Streisand scoffed at the bleak fact that she remains the only female director to win a Golden Globe — and that was 34 years ago.

Can a female director make a cheap and tacky piece of exploitation perv - bait without actually knowing it?

A year after Patty Jenkins broke records with «Wonder Woman,» only two of this summer's major films have a female director.

In the last few years we've seen quite a few films that center around a coming of age story with a female character, directed by a female director.

Among the 2013 winners are Nicole Holofcener, who received the Best Female Director and Best Woman Screenwriter Awards for «Enough Said.»

S.J. Clarkson is about to boldly go where no female director has ever gone before, to take the helm of a Star Trek movie.

Star Wars just hired its first female director — kind of.

The concept will consist of seven short films, each of which will be led by a female director and a prominent female actor.

Jenkins will be the first female director to ever receive the honor, and the award will celebrate her career, from her award - winning first feature, «Monster,» to her most recent work directing Warner Bros..

(Note that Greta Gerwig — nominated for Lady Bird — is only the fifth female director to be nominated for Best Director in Oscar's 90 year history.)

Refreshing is the independent spirit of the production, along with a mostly female perspective on the events (a female director (Jeffs, Sylvia), screenwriter (Holley), and main stars solidify that).

Saoirse, on working on a female - led set: «Don't take this the wrong way [turns to Greta] but I don't see you, like, as a female director.

BONNIE AWARD — The inaugural Bonnie Award will recognize a mid-career female director with a $ 50,000 unrestricted grant, sponsored by American Airlines.

(He joins Greta Gerwig, who is only the fifth female director ever nominated.)

For the first time in the history of the Festival de Cannes, a female director will open the Festival.

Chastain said she makes a point of working with a female director at least once a year — even if it's only a short film.

The film became the top - grossing superhero origin movie of all time, along with the most profitable superhero movie to be helmed by a female director.

The streaming giant has been barred, the female director quotient is low, but the lineup, from Asghar Farhadi's opener onwards, is undeniably smart - looking

During an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian actor made a pledge to work with a female director every 18 months in a bid to help increase the number of women working in the film industry.

«I'm very grateful that I've never been made to feel like a female director, but that my job was to be a good director,» Jolie said.