Sentences with phrase «films atonement»

Joe Wright, the director of Oscar - winning films Atonement and Anna Karenina, is currently in negotiations to helm Warner Bros..

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 7, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Atonement (R for profanity, sexuality and disturbing war images) Decades - spanning romance drama, opening in England in 1935, about the budding relationship between a rich girl (Keira Knightley) and the son (James McAvoy) of her family's maid aborted when he is falsely accused of a crime by her jealous younger sister (Saoirse Ronan).

from the film Atonement.

Keira was not able to get out her party dress British film Atonement was named best film at a toned - down Golden Globes ceremony in Los Angeles this weekend.

As in his 2007 film Atonement, Wright can't help but over-decorate with self - conscious tracking shots and CGI aerial views, though you can understand his determination to make something which looks more like cinema than Sunday evening TV.

She began her career as a child and came to international prominence in 2007 after co-starring with Keira Knightley in the film Atonement, which gained her nominations for a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the youngest actress ever to have this kind of recognition.

British film Atonement was named best film at a toned - down Golden Globes ceremony in Los Angeles this weekend.

Keira in Hollywood snub Keira Knightley's Oscar hopes were left in tatters after she was snubbed by the Screen Actors Guild Award for her role in hit film Atonement.

The 19 - year - old burst on to the scene in 2007 starring alongside James McAvoy and Keira Knightley in the critically acclaimed film Atonement.

The award, which was exstablished in 1984, and which earns the winner PS25, 000, was given by young Irish actress Saoirse Ronan, who received Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award nominations for her role in the 2007 film Atonement.

Not exact matches

This is also the case on the North East coast where the growing creative industries benefit from the beautiful natural environment which has already attracted a number of film productions to the area including Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Elizabeth, Atonement and the Harry Potter series.

After a change of pace with the action film Hanna 65, director Joe Wright returns to the world of literary adaptations starring Keira Knightley (they previously collaborated on Pride & Prejudice 82 and Atonement 85) with this highly stylized take on Leo Tolstoy's classic novel.

Other film work includes Major Stewart in Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of WARHORSE and Peter Guillam alongside Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy and Colin Firth in Tomas Alfredson's TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, STARTER FOR 10, AMAZING GRACE, STUART: A LIFE BACKWARD, THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL and the role of Paul Marshall in Joe Wright's Oscar nominated ATONEMENT.

If A Single Man has the brains to match its good looks, and somehow fails to make the final ten, then I'll wonder what happened to the Academy members who annually select Best Picture nominees like Atonement, Brokeback Mountain, Sideways, Lost in Translation, The Hours, Gosford Park, and other films that play to literate stylish taste.

This is her 3rd nomination by the group, the other two having been for the films «Atonement» and «Brooklyn».

Deadline reports that Javier Barden has been offered the role of the infamous pirate in the new film directed by Joe Wright (Hanna, Atonement), written by Jason Fuchs (Ice Age: Continental Drift) and produced by Greg Berlanti (Arrow).

The film follows Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan, Atonement, City of Ember) who is murdered at the beginning of the film and becomes stuck in an «in - between» world that is her own distinctive purgatory.

Directed by Joe Wright («Atonement») and written by Anthony McCarten («The Theory of Everything»), the film covers four weeks in 1940.

His ATONEMENT (interview with Wright and James McAvoy here) is as near perfect a film as can be imagined, from its score that referenced the clacking of -LSB-...]

CoF: Lastly, I notice Jacqueline Durran (Atonement) is listed as co-costume designer in the film's end credits...

Joe Wright won our hearts with his past films Pride and Prejudice and Atonement.

The film is directed by Joe Wright, who has also provided Pride and Prejudice, Atonement, and The Soloist.

But «Atonement» is hardly an art film in which Brechtian moments and self - referential touches are old hat.

2017 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Adapted from an acclaimed Ian McEwan novel («Atonement»), set in 1960s Britain, and starring the luminous Saoirse Ronan, «On Chesil Beach» has all the makings of a classic «prestige» period fFILM FESTIVAL: Adapted from an acclaimed Ian McEwan novel («Atonement»), set in 1960s Britain, and starring the luminous Saoirse Ronan, «On Chesil Beach» has all the makings of a classic «prestige» period filmfilm.

One of Hollywood's favourite Scotsmen James McAvoy is set to play a key role in the upcoming Wikileaks film alongside his «Atonement» cast - mate.

The 24 - year - old actress received the first of her three Academy Award nominations 11 years ago: for director Joe Wright's film of Ian McEwan's novel Atonement, in which she played 13 - year - old Briony Tallis, who tells a lie about a rape which destroys two people's lives.

The film came in right behind Best Picture nominees «Atonement» (7), «Michael Clayton» (7), «No Country for Old Men» (8) and «There Will Be Blood» (8) for total nominations.

One of Hollywood's favourite Scotsmen James McAvoy is set to play a key role in the upcoming Wikileaks film alongside his «Atonement»...

Ronan, who is no stranger to the awards circuit after starring in films like 2015's Brooklyn and 2007's Atonement, is earning praise for her latest role in Lady Bird, while Chalamet, who acts alongside Ronan in the Greta Gerwig - directed film, has been the subject of awards buzz for his part in Call Me by Your Name.

It may not be Wright's best film (that honor likely goes to Atonement) nor is it his most exciting (I'm a huge Hannah stan personally) and it's very far from his lower - tier material (The Soloist, Pan) but Darkest Hour sees the English auteur flexing his muscles in new and exciting ways, turning historical nonfiction into a calculated character study, an intoxicating courtroom drama and an electrifying thriller in its own right.

It does fit a conventional awards mold, inviting comparison to films like Atonement and The English Patient.

More recently we've had the astonishingly choreographed beach scene of Joe Wright's Atonement (2007), and the larkiness of Bill Nighy bumbling through a wartime film shoot («Can someone please get Mr Hilliard out of Dunkirk!»)

... Because Joe Wright, who directed Ronan in «Atonement» and «Hanna», has emerged as the frontrunner to direct the film adaptation of the E.L James book, according to THR.

His ambition has sometimes exceeded his grasp on the material, but his best films (Atonement, Hanna) and most interesting efforts (Anna Karenina) have had more than enough going on to project his take of cinema out to an audience.

Wright, who has made several handsome movies in the past — including another World War II film in Atonement — does not bring many of his considerable visual talents to bear on screen.

Writer Jason Fuchs and director Joe Wright (Atonement, Hanna) have created a Peter Pan «origin» story that lacks any touch of whimsy or enchantment from the original books or the numerous film adaptations: the 1953 Disney animated classic, the 1991 Steven Spielberg / Robin Williams / Dustin Hoffman vehicle, the underrated 2003 live action version from director P.J. Hogan, or even last year's Live TV broadcast featuring Allison Williams as Peter.

Because the other selections where two films that I absolutely loathe (Atonement and Michael Clayton.)

Along the way, his films have notched up an impressive 15 nominations in total, with Atonement and Anna Karenina winning for Best Original Score and Best Costume Design respectively.

Aside from ’07 and» 08, they haven't had more than two films per year to receive Oscar nominations in the top eight categories: 2004 (Vera Drake), 2005 (Good Night, and Good Luck, Brokeback Mountain), 2006 (The Queen, Children of Men), 2007 (Assassination of Jesse James, Michael Clayton, In the Valley of Elah, I'm Not There, Atonement), 2008 (The Hurt Locker, Rachel Getting Married, The Wrestler), 2009 (A Single Man), 2010 (Black Swan), 2011 (The Ides of March, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), 2012 (The Master), 2013 (Gravity, Philomena).

The film's beating heart is 21 - year - old Saoirse Ronan, once the bright - eyed teen from «Atonement», now on her way to becoming the most quietly expressive actress of her generation.

Director Gracey, choreographer Ashley Wallen, songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (of «La - La Land») and cinematographer Seamus McGarvey («Atonement,» «The Avengers») think about each number as a self - contained short film, with its own «story» and little marks that the major characters have to hit in order to progress.

She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2008 for her role in Atonement opposite James McAvoy and Keira Knightley, and again for Best Actress in 2016 for her role in the coming - of - age film Brooklyn.

If they didn't go to her rescue for «Atonement,» a film that she single - handily made a masterpiece, I don't see it happening for Ralph Fiennes» debut directorial work.

The Atonement star appears in the new video for his hit Galway Girl, which was filmed in Galway last week, and he asked her to write the title of the song on him in her handwriting.

Directed by Joe Wright (Atonement), the film features Jamie Foxx who does a magnificent job in his most challenging outing since Ray.

This is his second movie with Ronan; at age 13, she received her first Oscar nomination for playing the troublemaking Briony Tallis in the film adaptation of his novel Atonement.

Its films have won 12 Academy Awards (for Tom Hooper's Les Misérables and The Danish Girl; James Marsh's The Theory of Everything; Tim Robbins» Dead Man Walking; Joel and Ethan Coen's Fargo; Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age; and Joe Wright's Atonement and Anna Karenina), 39 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards, and prizes at the Cannes and Berlin International Film Festivals.

Ronan, who's amassing a very impressive resume in diverse and extolled films such as Atonement (2007), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Brooklyn (2015), here presents what may be her career - best performance as the titular rebellious heroine.

The lead players in «Atonement,» Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, were shut out on nominations, however, with teenager Saoirse Ronin the only performer nominated for that film, for supporting actress.

Another film about atonement, its very existence and execution betray the idea that the past must be dealt with, the better to face the future; you compare the whole of it to the five minutes Tommy Lee Jones commands the screen at the end of No Country For Old Men, or how no more than sketches animated in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis convey the painful humanity of time's labour's lost, and you realize there's no one authentic chord in The Kite Runner.