Sentences with phrase «for dramatic acting»

Most of the positivity surrounding that film was slightly overshadowed by Matthew McConaughey's renewed invigoration for dramatic acting (or the start of the McConaussance as it came to be known) while the likes of Cranston and Leguizamo filled in as support.

The co-stars shared the Special Jury Prize for Dramatic Acting at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013.

Not exact matches

«SIFMA's proposed departure from the Advisers Act is dramatic,» added Knut A. Rostad, president of the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard.

Driver and company also interpreted worship in dramatic terms, noting that Christian worship arises out of an impulse to act together, «to do something which either changes the relationship to the Divine or express it» Finally, there was a need, again arising out of the religious drama movement, for material that was appropriate for production in church.

What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing.

A very interesting paper by Bowman L. Clarke, «Whitehead's Cosmology and the Christian Drama,» Journal of Religion 39 (1959), 162 - 69, begins with an analysis of St. Peter's Sermon in Acts 2 and uses it to show a Christian dramatic pattern in four acts to illustrate what Whitehead may have been generalizing in four stages of creativity, to which he applies the term «the particular providence for particular occasions» (PR 532).

Which is where I attended The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts - The School for Film and Television for 2 years, studying on camera acting.

Veteran Mark Crossley decided to get in on the act and give Sheffield Wednesday fans an earlier Christmas present when he scored a dramatic late equaliser for Sheffield Wednesday in a 3 - 3 draw with Southampton at Hillsborough in 2006.

Alexander Van der Bellen has been sworn in as Austria's president, the last act of a dramatic race for the position won by the left - leaning economics professor after a repeat vote.

The flyby also put Cassini on course for its dramatic last act, known as the Grand Finale.

Interestingly, dramatic acts in the name of religion, such as being pierced by hooks and swung from a crane didn't send the strongest messages — instead, the connection was strongest for the simple act of regular worship.

Lister - Jones is also generous enough an auteur to allow for memorable moments from others, whether it's hilarious bits from the likes of Retta (as Anna and Ben's unlucky marriage counselor), Brooklyn Decker, and Jamie Chung; the escalating weirdness of Armisen (who was, of course, a seasoned indie - band drummer before he turned to acting and comedy); or a knockout dramatic scene between Pally and the great comedian Susie Essman as Ben's mother, who provides some invaluable advice.

Farrell moved into television with ease, appearing on virtually every major dramatic weekly series and ultimately winning an Emmy for her work on the two - part Ben Casey episode of 1963, «A Cardinal Act of Mercy.»

Synopsis: Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic and World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting Vicky Hernandéz and Manolo Cruz Sun.

Utterly convincing as a woman choosing between the life she knows and the one she wants, she and Márdila duly shared the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award For Acting at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

Dissatisfied with a mere taste of the theatrical arts and eager to extend acting into a full - time passion, Eigenberg subsequently moved to New York and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, working odd jobs on the side (construction et al.) to put himself through school.Scattered roles followed, including a guest appearance on The Cosby Show and a bit part in the awful 1989 generation - gap comedy Rude Awakening (co-starring Cheech Marin and Eric Roberts), but Sex and the City (which Eigenberg auditioned for out of innumerable hopefuls) represented the actor's first huge break.

Yeah, it's well made and well acted, but everything about it is forced and not really edge - of - seat dramatic for me.

Kemp launched into print modeling as well, appearing in a widely seen campaign for The Gap, then segued into acting with parts in Stephen Sommers» Victorian - era supernatural thriller Van Helsing (2004) and Renny Harlin's lurid psychological thriller Mindhunters (2005), opposite Val Kilmer and LL Cool J. Kemp deftly merged his ballroom finesse and his dramatic evocations with prominent billing in Jon M. Chu's dance - themed urban drama Step Up 2 the Streets (2008); he played Blake Collins, the proprietor of a dance school who finds his chief proclivity — an utter contempt for street dancing — upstaged by the arrival of a brash and talented young newcomer at his school.

A U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Achievement in Acting was presented to: Benjamin Dickey, for Blaze (Director: Ethan Hawke, Screenwriters: Ethan Hawke, Sybil Rosen, Producers: Jake Seal, John Sloss, Ryan Hawke, Ethan Hawke)-- A reimagining of the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas Outlaw Music movement; he gave up paradise for the sake of a song.

For example, in «Before Sunrise» and «Before Sunset,» every conversation was made dramatic by our wondering if the two characters were going to fall in love, and admit it, and act on that.

John Logan, screenwriter for Gladiator, provides some good moments of dramatic tension, even if Shinzon looks and acts a bit too much like Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus to think he wasn't borrowing ideas from himself.

Yan caught Warner Bros. / DC's attention with her first feature film, Dead Pigs, which won the World Cinema Dramatic Award For Ensemble Acting at Sundance.

Unlike their more recent roles, in which she played a delightful weirdo and he played a taciturn weirdo who also was capable of murdering you, Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves will have to stretch their dramatic chops a bit for their next acting gigs, venturing into territory less in line with their actual personas.

We tend to want to remember our greatest actors for their «big» moments — ones ripened with dramatic stakes and acted out with a heightened, sometimes histrionic, intensity.

Nichols» script draws inspiration from Nancy Buirski's celebrated 2011 documentary the Loving Story and invents some peripheral characters for the sake of dramatic expediency, without weakening the emotional wallop of the film's understated final act.

While I do think, from a story standpoint, it's a shame that Garrigan wasn't limited to being a mere witness to the events of the Amin era, as he was portrayed more in the book, instead of a constant catalyst for Amin's rage, considering he is a fictional character, we'll just chalk up his constant missteps as dramatic license taken by the screenwriters in drawing out Amin to commit some of the most heinous acts of torture shown in film this side of a Mel Gibson directorial effort.

It's a dramatic, accurate and harrowing film, effectively photographed and brilliantly acted, and it's also instructive, for the way it depicts the specific nature of institutional fanaticism.

Jim Carrey's Dark Crimes has been panned for «vulgarity» while critics calls it «the worst dramatic acting of his career»

As with many of the dramatic acting categories, last year's winner, Aaron Paul isn't around (neither is Josh Charles for «The Good Wife»), but there are plenty waiting in the wings: Ben Mendelsohn, Kit Harington, «Scandal» star Joe Morton, even a potentially returning John Slattery.

Not only does it begin with an account of how bits of movie dialogue (from «Rio Bravo,» «His Girl Friday») have entered her life, and the lives of her friends and colleagues, but it then segues into a great quotation from Steve Roman on SCTV (playing Juan Cortez, the first Puerto Rican Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court in the dramatic television series, «There's Justice for Everybody»): «It's got good actors, and that spells good acting.»

This team also singled out Benjamin Dickey in Ethan Hawke's latest directorial effort, «BLAZE,» to receive the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Achievement in Acting.

And on the television front, Bob Odenkirk won best actor in a dramatic series for Better Call Saul, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story won four times, including acting prizes for Sarah Paulson and Courtney B. Vance, and Atlanta «s Donald Glover, showing off the very authentic mustache he'll be wearing in the upcoming Han Solo film, won for best actor in a comedy series.

World Cinema Dramatic Competition: Special Jury Award for Acting: Vicky Hernandez and Manolo Cruz in «Between Sea and Land»

Strongly acted by a cast top - lined by Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey and David Oyelowo, «The Butler» has its share of strong dramatic moments in a story inspired by the real - life career of a White House employee who served eight presidential administrations for a total of 34 years from 1952 to 1986.

A US Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting was presented to The Surrogate, written and directed by Ben Lewin, starring John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood and Annika Marks.

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting Vicky Hernandéz & Manolo Cruz, «Between Sea and Land»

The comedic actor hasn't had many opportunities to show off his dramatic acting chops until the release of Colossal, so it's a relief to see that he's more than just an SNL alumnus with a knack for making people laugh.

All three are at their most movie star charismatic here, with their formidable dramatic chops lending real gravitas and palpable emotional stakes as they continue their struggles and conflicts with each other and within in order to act for the greater benefit of their kind.

Ensemble drama BABEL leads the nominations at next year's (07) Golden Globe Awards, boasting seven nods including Best Dramatic Picture and an acting accolade for star BRAD PITT.

Gertrud renounces external eventfulness in order to cultivate internal or imaginative eventfulness» — and using the (constant - and - never - moving as a way to allow viewers to focus on acting and the body rather than on technical formalist tricks, in fact, the shots are the longest technically allowable before the invention of digital shooting) camera merely as a functional recording - device rather than as an originator of instant meaning and knowledge as in Hollywood, this film remains the best summation of the truism that a longwinded presentation of several actors merely speaking for ten - minutes - a-scene while the camera does not move and no artificial and manipulative «cinematic language» is involved, in other words, the dreaded «merely filmed non-cinematic literature and theatre,» not only has a much greater capacity to teach than any Hollywood mode of filmmaking but is more dramatic than any car chase.

It is the worst kind imaginable and the movie plays it for all its great dramatic worth in its final act.

This turns out to be an appropriate fit for the material, however, as the movie is often genuinely hilarious; it's also worth noting that the expectedly dramatic third - act developments (including that darned fake break - up) are subsequently not as jarring as they could've been.

Release: Christmas Day 2013 [Theater] By the seem of things, Mr. Stiller has been secretly getting all the little memos we, the patient viewers, have continued to slip underneath his door over the years, beseeching, imploring the actor to put his dormant dramatic sensibilities to good use for once — actually act in a movie instead... Continue reading The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Bonus points to former «SNL» cast member Will Forte for flexing some impressive dramatic acting chops.

The most dramatic alteration is the central act of theft pulled off by bored billionaire Thomas Crown (Brosnan) is an art heist, not a bank robbery, and the film is better for it.

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic — Fruitvale U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic — Jill Soloway, Afternoon Delight Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award — Lake Bell, In A World Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic — Bradford Young, Ain't Them Bodies Saints and Mother of George Special Jury Award for Acting — Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley, The Spectacular Now Special Jury Award for Sound Design — Upstream Color

In light of that, you'd think that he would take his acting seriously (as his dramatic weight loss for All Things Fall Apart suggested) or at least the producing side and make something with even slight commercial prospects.

For those in the mood for this kind of tale, it's a well - acted and absorbing piece of dramatic fiction, which is the least you would expect from an Irving adaptatiFor those in the mood for this kind of tale, it's a well - acted and absorbing piece of dramatic fiction, which is the least you would expect from an Irving adaptatifor this kind of tale, it's a well - acted and absorbing piece of dramatic fiction, which is the least you would expect from an Irving adaptation.

Bale and Lawrence are already slated to act together (alongside Bradley Cooper) in Russell's untitled Abscam drama written by Eric Singer, but whereas that tale of con artists and FBI agents seems more of the frenzied, lighthearted type, «Earth» appears a proper dramatic challenge for all three main parties involved.

Acting for Wong Kar - wai is a totalizing experience — since there's no script, the actors and the director are creating characters, a dramatic arc, and a new expressive vocabulary all at the same time.