Sentences with phrase «first won acclaim»

David Diao, who first won acclaim and public attention with an exhibition at Paula Cooper gallery in 1969, has dedicated two decades to making his famous works riffing on famous Modernist paintings.

He has been composing movie soundtracks since the mid -»70s, and first won acclaim and recognition for his Oscar - winning score of Chariots of Fire (1981).

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Rapper Kendrick Lamar won the Pulitzer Prize for Music on Monday for his critically acclaimed 2017 album «DAMN.,» making him the first non-classical or jazz artist to ever win the award.

Alex Campbell — Buzzfeed: One of the first members of Buzzfeed's investigative unit, Campbell's reporting on domestic violence has won him wide acclaim.

In 2014 she published her first cookbook «A Boat, a Whale and a Walrus» to critical acclaim, finding itself on top reading lists while winning a 2015 PNBA book award - the first for a cookbook.

No pope in history had been so universally acclaimed by Jewish leaders throughout the world: the renowned Nobel Prize - winning physicist Albert Einstein; Chaim Weizmann, who would become Israel's first President; Moshe Sharett, who would become Israel's first Foreign Minister and second Prime Minister; Rabbi Isaac Herzog, the Chief Rabbi of Israel» all of these figures showered Pius with praise for his actions in defense of the Jews.

The books join the first imprint title, the acclaimed Journey to the Exoplanets iPad app created by former longtime Scientific American art director Edward Bell and Hugo Award — winning artist Ron Miller.

Saskia Nelson is the talent behind the multi award - winning and internationally acclaimed Hey Saturday, the UK's first and coolest dating and matchmaking photography business.

Moreover, Rickman remains clear about his first love being the theater, so he won a Tony in Noel Coward's Private Lives, he has directed several plays, he starred opposite Helen Mirren in Antony and Cleopatra at London's National Theatre, and, in recent years, he has brought acclaimed productions of Strindberg's Creditors and Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman to America.

He gained particular acclaim for his portrayal of Valmont in a West End production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, eventually reprising his role for the Broadway production and winning a Tony nomination.In 1988, Rickman got his first dose of big - screen recognition with Die Hard.

The Oscar - winning director Peter Jackson returns to the Middle Earth of his deservedly acclaimed The Lord of the Rings movies for this cinematic adaptation of Tolkein's first visit to that mythical land.

Only the third film that the acclaimed actor has made as a director (after 2002's Antwone Fisher and his last, 2007's The Great Debaters), Washington certainly had familiarity with August Wilson's beloved Pulitzer Prize - winning material when he decided to bring it to the big screen; the actor won a Tony Award of his own for starring in the 2010 revival of the production, to go along with the play's Tony for Best Revival (and the many that it won during its first run on stage in 1987).

Joseph was nominated for Best First Screenplay for his work on Don Jon, which was won by Bob Nelson for the highly acclaimed film Nebraska.

The Canadian - born, ex-New Zealand and now New York - based director first made her presence felt with her internationally acclaimed, award - winning short Kitchen Sink (1989).

Although his serious work has attracted applause and acclaim (including a BAFTA best actor nomination for Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, and Golden Globe wins for Man On The Moon and The Truman Show), audience acceptance of his silly side, first glimpsed in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, has grown to dizzying heights.

Even with their individual impressive resumes before their first collaboration, «Clouds of Sils Maria,» it became one of Assayas» most acclaimed films to date and Stewart's performance received raves around the world, earning her the honor of being the first American actress to win the Cesar, France's equivalent of the Oscar.

The dinner is just the first layer of an onion of secrets, regrets, revelations and accusations that are yet to come, and while we have no doubt Letts» original material won awards and critical acclaim for good reason, the translation to the big screen leaves much to be desired.

Since then, LeBlanc rebounded with «Episodes», Showtime's critically acclaimed comedy which sees him playing a version of himself, a role for which he won his first Golden Globe.

Academy Award winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, writer of such films as the excellent Steve Jobs, The Social Network, Moneyball, and the acclaimed television series The West Wing tries his hand for the first time at directing a script he adapted titled Molly's Game.

Aside from earning plenty of acclaim for its director, Malik Bendjelloul, the film also became a technological milestone as the first movie partially shot with an iPhone to win an Oscar.

Natalie Portman received her second Academy Award ® nomination and first Best Actress win for her performance in Darren Aronofsky's critically acclaimed film, BLACK SWAN.

This was an acclaimed 2014 novel that won an Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author.

Acclaimed by critics when he first started directing in the 80s, he met public success with Marius and Jeannette, which won the Prix Louis - Delluc in 1997.

The Dark Knight became the first superhero movie to win an Oscar for acting (Health Ledger for Best Supporting Actor), and many were surprised that the film didn't receive a Best Picture nomination despite its massive success and widespread acclaim.

Wong has been widely acclaimed: the visionary auteur who helped catapult Maggie CHEUNG and Tony LEUNG Chiu - wai to international stardom; the first Asian to win Best Director at Cannes Film Festival (for his 1997 work Happy Together); one of the top three in Sight & Sound's list of Top Ten Directors of Modern Times; and the meticulous perfectionist behind this year's Berlinale opener The Grandmaster.

Wolfenstein ® II: The New Colossus ™ is the highly anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed first - person shooter, Wolfenstein ®: The New Order ™ developed by the award - winning studio MachineGames.

After winning acclaim at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Call My By Your Name, which stars Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, has its first trailer online.

The precision rocket - thrusts, and occasional first - person viewpoints of the Oscar - winning «Gravity» had console origins, while the final set - piece of «Thor: The Dark World» riffed on acclaimed game «Portal.»

Shanley mostly stayed away from Hollywood in the years since, scripting the occasional»90s film (including Alive and Congo) but never matching the acclaim of his Oscar - winning first screenplay, Moonstruck.

«The Deer Hunter» won five Oscars including Best Picture for its depiction of traumatized Vietnam War soldiers, while «Heaven's Gate» got panned upon first release but later received critical acclaim when Cimino's uncut version was released in 2012.

He supervised the production of films including George Clooney's 2005 Best Picture nominee Good Night, and Good Luck; the critically acclaimed family film and 2006 NAACP Image Award nominee Akeelah and the Bee, starring Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett; dark thriller Turistas, for which domestic rights were sold to Fox Atomic in a pre-emptive bid within hours of the film's first screening; James Gray's crime thriller We Own the Night, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Duvall and Eva Mendes, which ranked as the largest - ever domestic sale at Cannes; and The Road, an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize - winning novel starring Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron and Robert Duvall, which pre-sold to The Weinstein Company in a multi-party bidding war.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

The Nissan GT - R, first introduced in the United States in July 2008, has earned near universal acclaim, including being named Motor Trend «2009 Car of the Year,» Automobile magazine's 2009 «Automobile of the Year» and winning a «2009 Best Resale Value Award» from Kelley Blue Book's kbb.com.

This futuristic and imposing concept wagon is the shooting brake version of the 2013 Concept Coupe, the first concept car in this widely acclaimed and award - winning series.

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award — winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.

Whaley's Where Things Come Back might just be the most acclaimed YA novel that was published in 2011: It won the 2012 Printz Award, the 2012 William C. Morris Debut Fiction Award and Whaley was the first - ever YA author to be selected as a «Top 5 Under 35 Author» by the National Book Foundation.

This is not the first time Indies Unlimited has won critical acclaim.

The first African American chemist inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, scientific inventor Percy Lavon Julian won acclaim for his landmark work synthesizing human hormones — and his civil rights contributions.

Cold Mountain, his highly acclaimed first novel, was an international bestseller, and won the National Book Award in 1997.

The Pulitzer Prize - winning author — «an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist» (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)-- offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as his acclaimed, award - winning fiction.

In 1990, Postmortem was published to huge critical acclaim, winning a plethora of awards including the Edgar (US) and John Creasey (UK) Awards for Best First Novel.

She published her first novel, Bittersweet, in 1984, but it was during her tour of duty in Guadalupe Mountains in Texas, that Barr conceived of the Anna Pigeon character and began the series with her critically acclaimed, award - winning debut, Track of the Cat in 1993.

Prey is the highly - anticipated first - person sci - fi action game from Arkane Studios — creators of the award - winning Dishonored series which includes the 2012 «Game of the Year» and the critically - acclaimed follow - up, Dishonored 2.

Wargame AirLand Battle, the successor to Wargame European Escalation and the new real - time strategy hit from developers Eugen Systems that won enthusiastic acclaim from gamers and critics alike, has produced its first DLC, Vox Populi!

Developed for Wii U by WB Games Montréal, the game builds upon the critically acclaimed, award - winning action game of 2011 created by Rocksteady Studios and makes its first appearance on any Nintendo platform as a launch title for the revolutionary new home console that hits Australian stores today.

The game is a mobile version of the critically acclaimed highly successful award winning role playing game, the first chapter is free for download.

Host Andrea Rene of What's Good Games will be joined by the key creative minds behind the latest addition to the award - winning and critically - acclaimed LIFE IS STRANGE series who will reveal brand new information and insights about their game for the first time.

It was first released on PC to broad critical acclaim, winning several awards for its rich story and deep, original world.

Square Enix and DONTDOD Entertainment have just announced that the first episode of the award - winning and critically - acclaimed narrative driven game Life is Strange will be available to download for free on PS4 and PS3, starting indefinitely from July 21.