For those of you who have been
following The Awards Circuit for many years now (probably even going back to the days of The Oscar Igloo), this title might be familiar to you.
Not exact matches
Proving that Bafta is not slavishly
following the US
awards circuit's lead, Tinker's 11 nominations were accompanied by four for the Ryan Gosling thriller Drive, another near shut - out at the Globes, which included a best supporting actress for Carey Mulligan.
Her
follow - up film, Eden, won the Audience
Award at SXSW 2012 and was showered with rave reviews on the festival
circuit and its brief theatrical run.
But it was also an unusual kind of Cannes breakout, as
following its very enthusiastic reception at the 2014 festival, the film gathered gentle momentum internationally throughout the year, playing the festival
circuit and sweeping the boards at Argentina's national film
awards, before being shortlisted for the foreign - language Oscar in 2015 and getting a US release in February.
Admittedly, I've been distracted by a busy couple of weeks on the
awards circuit, but the Sundance coverage I did
follow suggested a high - quality if nonetheless rather quiet festival, one with fewer noisy breakout films than usual.
The honorary and distinguished members of the Burton
Awards Board of Directors include the
following leaders in law: Former Chief Judge Richard Posner, 7th
Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; Judge Alex Kozinski, 9th
Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; U.S. Senator John Cornyn; U.S. Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr.; U.S. Senator Mike Crapo; U.S. Senator Michael F. Bennet; Supreme Court Justice Carol Corrigan of California; Yabo Lin, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP; Jane Sullivan Roberts, Partner, Major, Lindsey & Africa; Lisa Rickard, President, U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform; Elissa Lichtenstein, Director, Public Services Division, American Bar Association; Thomas L. Sager, Partner, Ballard Spahr LLP; Les Parrette, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Compliance Officer, Novelis Inc.; James M. Rishwain, Jr., Chairman of Emeritus, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP; Betty Whelchel, Head of Public Policy & Regulatory Affairs, BNP Paribas SA; and Stephen R. Mysliwiec, Partner, DLA Piper LLP (US).