Sentences with phrase «few lead roles»

Because there are few lead roles for women of colour.

It's an amusing portrait of frustration that inadvertently epitomizes The Hero, a film that generously gives Elliott one of the few lead roles of his lengthy career, but mostly asks him to embody clichés, without providing any sense of how he might improve upon them.

As the final film for beloved actor Harry Dean Stanton — and one of his very few leading roles — Lucky could not be more perfect.

I've had a few leading roles and a lot of chorus.

Not exact matches

It's also one of the few C - suite roles that almost never leads to the chief executive officer position.

In her accomplished career (which has included executive roles at the CBC, Twitter and, currently, Diply) she has come to appreciate like few others what it takes to effectively lead teams through big changes — including exponential growth.

Here are just a few: Jordan Peele became the first African American to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out, and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won for Best Picture — a film featuring a female actor in the lead role hasn't won the category since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.

Few details are offered, however the BEIS has taken up one specific idea from the Executive Remuneration Working Group, which proposed that committee chairs should have at least 12 months experience on a remuneration committee before taking up the lead role.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- With few details about Gina Haspel's undercover career, debate over President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the CIA descended into verbal spatting between those who praise her experience and others who want her disqualified because of her role in the spy agency's harsh...

After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her wild - eyed turn as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, she attempted a few other serious acting roles but only seemed to find blockbuster success when she took on the lead role in the feature - film adaptation of the video game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

With egalitarian relationships, there are fewer prescribed roles, and taking leadership or initiative does not necessarily imply authority or supremacy, it can often just mean someone has a great idea, or a passion to see a movie, and decides to takes the lead.

Martha Nussbaum, one of America's leading public intellectuals, has devoted considerable attention in the last few years to the role that disgust and shame play in our individual and collective lives, particularly in the law.The book that got it all started was Hiding from Humanity: Disgust,....

Martha Nussbaum, one of America's leading public intellectuals, has devoted considerable attention in the last few years to the role that disgust and shame play in our individual and collective lives, particularly in the law.

However, a few major companies, including natural food distributors are playing a leading role, in particular for processed and packaged foods.

When we were asking Wenger to spend big to buy Lacazette some few seasons back people said he is not proven on the big stage yet and that he was in the French League.Today, we are in a similar situation and we are going to bid a whooping # 50 for a player who'll probably be benched if Sanchez stays and take up the leading role if he leaves.Whrre's the sense in all this?Probably, long term he might be worth it but as of now he ain't.

To his credit, Sampaoli was professional in general when speaking about Sanchez by insisting that he hopes he can play a leading role in helping Arsenal turn their season around after a disastrous few months have seen them crash out of the Champions League and face a real battle to finish in the top four in the Premier League.

It took a few days of our kid crying himself to sleep before he started singing or chatting or happily role - playing himself to sleep - and now, the routine leading up to bedtime is so much fun (a few books on the potty, brush the teeth, read another book, a final trip to the potty, turn out the lights, start twinkle twinkle, ok another trip to the potty if you must but no piggy back this time, restart «TTLS» and he's tucked in for the night).

Her many years of stellar work in Saint Paul speaks volumes, and we need to support her as she tries to meet the needs of her association's members while seeking to lead the organization out of the destructive role it has occupied in the last few years.

I'm so glad you believe Ronnei's election «represents a real turn at SNA» and that you feel she's the person to «lead the organization out of the destructive role it has occupied in the last few years.»

I would love to see Ms Ronnei «lead the organization out of the destructive role it has occupied in the last few years,» as Janet suggests.

We are standing on the shoulders of giants — work that helped identify the role of the chaperones led to the Lasker Award a few years ago, and those researchers, too, stood on the shoulders of others.

Although there is very little research on fascia as we're just beginning to understand its role in the body, there are a few leading philosophies that guide much of the bodywork that's done today.

The production is slick, the Maine scenery is bracing, the characters are well - acted, and in a mumbo - jumbo movie with a few loose ends, the makeup central to the plot and applied by Greg Cannom and Bob Laden to Robert John Burke in the leading role is most admirable.

Over the past few years Monaghan has shot lead roles in back - to - back films for The Weinstein Company, including Phillip Noyce's THE GIVER, opposite Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges, and the 2017 release AMITYVILLE: THE AWAKENING, directed by Franck Khalfoun.

After a scant few supporting turns, Purcell's first major starring role arrived with his lead portrayal in the series John Doe (2002), a kind of cross between Coronet Blue and The Bourne Identity about a supremely intelligent fellow with knowledge about everything in the world except for his own identity.

Within a few years, the younger Stevens was one of the most sought - after beefcake leads in Hollywood, starring in such films as Massacre at Central High (1976), The Fury (1978) and The Boys in Company C (1978), and appearing in the regular role of Andrew Thorpe on the 1977 TV western The Oregon Trail.

Before landing the role of Don's doomed love interest, Spencer had starred on «All My Children,» had a few guest spots on television shows, and even led a short - lived Lifetime series.

There's also Ejiofor, whose fewer years of clout were cemented by his lead role in 2013 Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave.

And while there are admittedly a few nifty twists within the third act - all of which, naturally, were present within the original film - Shutter's place as an absolutely redundant piece of work is undeniable virtually from start to finish (which is a shame, really, given how infrequently Jackson is afforded the opportunity to take on leading man roles within theatrical releases).

That was just turned in by Harry Potter screenwriter Steve Kloves, and has reportedly been delivered to a handful of actors, with a few in mind as possible choices for the two lead roles of Kaneda and Tetsuo.

Denzel Washington eyed the starring role a few years ago, but now Willis is looking to take on the lead as the project has gained new life.

Though the casting of funnyman Jason Sudeikis as Owens» coach will no doubt raise a few eyebrows, it's nice to see up - and - comer Stephan James getting a chance to showcase his talents in a leading role after his breakthrough performance in «Selma.»

He was nearly 20 years younger than his leading lady, and the same age then as Michael Cera is today, but in a film where few of the actors were playing their actual age, he was clearly the man for the role.

The film hits theaters on March 16 and is one of the few major studio films to ever feature a gay character in the lead role.

expands on the last chapter of the previous featurette by recounting, in Godardian fashion, the events leading up to and the aftermath of the real - life student riots that play such a pivotal role in the final few minutes of The Dreamers.

I can think of a few other examples where an actor in a clearly leading role was placed in supporting and won, like Jim Broadbent in Iris, but it really doesn't make much of a difference.

Along with Brie, who after her roles in Community and Mad Men has long deserved a chance to take the wheel as the ostensible lead, GLOW welcomes another Nurse Jackie alum in Betty Gilpin, who lent Starz's American Gods a few memorable moments in season 1.

Over the past few years, the stellar British - born actress Sally Hawkins has been working steadily, but it's been quite a while since she's gotten a role that allowed her to steer a whole movie the way her critical - breakthrough lead in Mike Leigh's 2008 «Happy Go Lucky» did.

Though a missed opportunity to give an amputated actor the juiciest role since Harold Russell's Oscar - winning turn in The Best Years of Our Lives, casting AnnaSophia Robb in the lead allows her to add another impressive performance to her strong filmography, this one raising clout and familiarity as her last few projects did not.

Sometimes these movies offer up a few nifty supporting roles to go along with the lead, such as June Carter Cash (Reese Witherspoon) in Walk the Line, Bela Lugosi (Martin Landau) in Ed Wood or Harper Lee (Catherine Keener) in Capote, but La Vie en rose wastes its supporting cast.

This then led to a few quiet years away from film, but with the actress busier than ever on TV in the UK and Ireland, with major roles in «Criminal Justice,» «Misfits» and «Five Daughters,» while also taking lead roles at the National Theatre in London, in «Phedre,» opposite Dominic Cooper and Helen Mirren, and in «Hamlet,» as Ophelia.

Casting directors caught on early as the actor has got no fewer than four lead roles on the way.

They also go through a few older leading role actors who have now slipped into obscurity and are now taking more interesting and eccentric roles.

Creating the older man - younger woman relationships is leading to fewer and fewer leading men in their 20s landing major roles.

She also elevated a microscopic role in «Black Mass.» Her contractual obligations to the «Fifty Shades» franchise mean we won't want for Johnson in a leading role over the next few years, but we're pretty sure her work elsewhere will soon eclipse it.

A few significant movie roles followed, including Richard Gere «s ill - fated partner in «Brooklyn's Finest» and one of the leads in M. Night Shyamalan - produced horror «Devil,» but his part in «Prometheus» is easily his biggest endeavor yet.

Michael Fassbender (Frank) is the new lead to take on the role of Jobs, as filming begun in the last few days.

Almost nothing outside of commercials and videos, as Glazer has spent much of the last decade developing this adaptation of Michel Faber «s sci - fi novel, which finally went before cameras with Scarlett Johansson in the lead role a few years back.

On the basis that there are so few substantial lead roles for women

A new clip has arrived along with a few more images, and once again they highlight James McAvoy, who in the lead role tries to keep things together and find a way out of the mess he's in.