Sentences with phrase «first black filmmaker»

Get Out's Jordan Peele is the first black filmmaker ever nominated for directing, writing, and producing in the same year.

McQueen is nominated for best director and if he wins he would be the first black filmmaker to win that award.

His script for Get Out, a movie he said he stopped writing about 20 times because he thought it «wasn't going to work,» won the award for Best Original Screenplay, making Peele the first black filmmaker to receive that honor.

After earning Best Picture and Best Director accolades at the Spirit Awards, Jordan Peele became the first black filmmaker to earn a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for his phenomenally successful debut feature, «Get Out.»

It's perhaps a pity that Steve McQueen didn't get to be the first black filmmaker to win a Best Director award, but given his competition came in the form of Mexican master Alfonso Cuarón and his remarkable «Gravity», it's hard to complain.

«Woman, Thou Art Loosed,» which opens today nationwide, is the first theatrical film in 13 years from Mr. Schultz, one of the first black filmmakers to penetrate mainstream Hollywood in the heady 1970's.

Not exact matches

Probably more than any other filmmaker, his name evokes instant expectations on the part of audiences: at least two or three great chills (and a few more good ones), some striking black comedy, and an eccentric characterization or two in every one of the director's movies.Originally trained at a technical school, Hitchcock gravitated to movies through art courses and advertising, and by the mid -»20s he was making his first films.

There's a natural apprehension anytime an up - and - coming filmmaker steps in to take on a blockbuster project, but Black Panther, Coogler's first endeavor into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, defiantly puts any doubts to rest.

Black transgender director Yance Ford just made history by becoming the first trans filmmaker ever to be nominated for an Academy Award.

In its first weekend alone, Black Panther slashed its way through records worldwide, becoming both the highest rated superhero film ever made and the top grossing movie directed by a black filmmBlack Panther slashed its way through records worldwide, becoming both the highest rated superhero film ever made and the top grossing movie directed by a black filmmblack filmmaker.

The filmmaker took to Instagram to share that Black Panther was one of the first films to shoot on one of is many stages.

Running time: 78 minutes Studio: First Run Features DVD Extras: Black Bear family album and history, extended Peter Coyote interview, secret FBI file on Black Bear Ranch, filmmakers» biography, original theatrical trailer, trailer gallery and «Uncensored — The Bare Truth of Communal Living» featurette.

And the first film led by a black cast, directed by a black filmmaker, expected to become a global blockbuster before it even opens.

After his first feature, River, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2015, filmmaker Jamie Dagg signed with WME which passed along Sweet Virginia, a Black List thriller from Benjamin and Paul China.

4 — Pioneers of African - American Cinema (Kino Lorber, Blu - ray, DVD) is the first comprehensive effort devoted to collecting and preserving feature films and shorts produced between 1915 and 1946 for black audiences, most of them made by African - American filmmakers.

As soon as the film started, it was clear that July's voice as a filmmaker hasn't changed that much in the past five years — the same irreverence, black humour and playful charm abounds — but the film lacks the bounce of her first feature.

Canadian filmmakers were also honoured in the TFCA's other awards, with Stories We Tell winning the Allan King Documentary Award and Panos Cosmatos sharing the Best First Feature prize for Beyond the Black Rainbow with Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild.

Four of five films vying for Best Documentary were made by black filmmakers, including the poignant 13th from Ava DuVernay, the first black woman to be nominated in this category.

The first trailer has finally arrived for «The Predator,» beloved filmmaker Shane Black («Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,» «The Nice Guys,» «Iron Man 3») offering his take on the «Predator» franchise — something he's familiar with having a small role in the 1987 John McTiernan - directed original.

McGarry, a first - time filmmaker, spent five years in production on Code Black while simultaneously working the hectic schedule of a young doctor in training.

Filmmaker Antoine Fuqua has signed a new first look deal with Sony Pictures, which will get underway with the Denzel Washington sequel The Equalizer 2, followed by an adaptation of Jeffrey Haas» book The Assassination Of Fred Hampton: How The FBI And The Chicago Police Murdered A Black Panther.

The first movie from a black filmmaker, Ryan Coogler, to boast a budget in the reported range of $ 200 million.

The film is Black's first directorial, done alongside Emmy and Grammy Award - winning documentary filmmaker Karen Bernstein.

Filmmaker Rob Meyer first received the script for what was then titled Black Kid — and became Little Boxes — by writer Annie Howell in March, 2014 from producers Jared Goldman and Jordan Horowitz.

Get Out's Jordan Peele became the fifth black filmmaker to be nominated for Best Director, and the first to score the Directing - Writing - Producing nomination hat trick.

Behind the camera is director Ryan Coogler, a black filmmaker who first burst onto the scene with Fruitvale Station, a film about the day in the life of a victim of a police shooting.

The first American film by acclaimed French filmmaker Jean Renoir («The Grand Illusion» / «The Human Beast» / «Madame Bovary») is shot in black and white and on location in Georgia's Okefenokee swamp.

The film The first American feature by an African - American lesbian, Dunye's «The Watermelon Woman» stars its director as a video - store clerk and aspiring filmmaker working on a project about a long - forgotten black actress of the 1930s.

The first trailer has finally arrived for «The Predator,» beloved filmmaker Shane Black («Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,» «The Nice Guys,» «Iron Man 3») offering his take on the «Predator» franchise - something he's familiar with having a small role...

With the strange and magical details coming into play in Derrickson's Doctor Strange, and now introducing the rich and vivid world of Black Panther's home of Wakanda, maybe Marvel realized it should let filmmakers prove why they were hired in the first place.

Earlier this month we got our first look at The Predator with the release of a trailer for the Shane Black - directed reboot [watch it here], and now the filmmaker has been chatting to Collider about reinventing the sci - fi action franchise, whilst ensuring that he honours the legacy of the original movies.

Coogler rode this acclaim to his first franchise gig, writing and directing the Rocky spin - off-esque Creed, and he has since signed on to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe family of filmmakers as the man behind Black Panther.

Along with a director's cut of the film (which contains 14 minutes of additional footage), the first disc also includes two audio commentaries: a filmmaker track with director Ben Stiller, co-writer Justin Theroux and other various crew members, and a cast track with Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. — the latter of which records the entire commentary in character.

This is the first major exhibition in the United States for John Akomfrah, a British artist, filmmaker and a founder of the Black Audio Film Collective.

This acclaimed film was the first wide release by a black female filmmaker.

12 Years a Slave became the first film directed and produced by a black filmmaker — Steve McQueen, and also the first to be written by an African - American — John Ridley, to win the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture of the Year.

He is a three - time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts» individual artist fellowship and was awarded the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame first place award in the experimental video category in 1990 and 1992.

As these laws were repealed, the area evolved into one of the most affluent African American communities in the country, home to Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald, as well as the first (and only) black mayor of Los Angeles, Tom Bradley (who stayed in Leimert Park for the first few years of his record twenty - year term), and filmmaker John Singleton, who inadvertently created the neighborhood's tagline when he dubbed it «the black Greenwich Village.»

The exhibition brings together four works: «Looking for Alfred» (2004), an homage to Hitchcock's cameo appearances in his films, with a cast of look - alikes; «Hitchcock didn't have a Belly Button: Interview with Karen Black» (2010), a recorded interview of the actress recounting her experiences with the legendary filmmaker; «You Tube Me and I Tube You,» a two - channel interaction installation and web project initiated in 2010; and «I may have forever lost my umbrella» (2011), a color short with a narration based on Fernando Pessoa's Book of Disquiet underneath the images of YouTube videos of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, which will be shown in New York for the first time in this exhibition.

The exhibition brings together four works: Looking for Alfred (2005), an homage to Hitchcock's cameo appearances in his films, with a cast of look - alikes; Hitchcock didn't have a Belly Button: Interview with Karen Black (2010), a recorded interview of the actress recounting her experiences with the legendary filmmaker; You Tube Me and I Tube You, a two - channel interaction installation and web project initiated in 2010; and I may have forever lost my umbrella (2011), a color short with a narration based on Fernando Pessoa's Book of Disquiet underneath the images of YouTube videos of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, which is shown in New York for the first time in this exhibition.

Much greater roles are played by lesser known blacks such as Ray Hulen, operations manager of First Harlem Securities, Janet Carter of the New York School Council for the Studio Museum and James Hinton, filmmaker and co-director of the Hinton and Garrett Film Company.

Seductive Subversion includes Marisol's John Wayne sculpture, commissioned by Life magazine for an issue on movies; the French sculptor, painter, and filmmaker Niki de Saint Phalle's eight - foot - tall Black Rosy, one of her «Nana» sculptures exploring the role of women; Rosalyn Drexler's oil and acrylic work Chubby Checker, inspired by the poster for the movie Twist around the Clock, and Home Movies, based on frames from old gangster movies; the Times Square — inspired Ampersand, a multilayered, stylized, and illuminated neon ampersand in a Plexiglas cube by Chryssa, one of the first artists to utilize neon in her work; and a seventeen - foot - long triptych by Idelle Weber.