Sentences with phrase «former film academy»

Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the former film academy president who spearheaded the organization's radical inclusivity efforts after #OscarsSoWhite, was celebrated Tuesday at Icon Mann's sixth annual pre-Oscar dinner.

Cheryl, the former film academy president who spearheaded the organization's radical inclusivity efforts after #OscarsSoWhite, was at the sixth annual dinner.

Not exact matches

Adam Christ - Assistant Coach for the Minnesota State University Mavericks baseball team and former General Manager of the Ripken Baseball Academy during the filming of this video.

He's the former chairman and chief executive of 20th Century Fox Filmed Entertainment, he oversaw the video release of «Fantasia» and other animated classics for Disney, he co-produced «Coraline» (2005) and Terrence Malick's «The New World» (2005), and in 2010 he co-produced the Academy Awards show.

In 1987 she won a Golden Globe and earned an Academy Award nomination for her role as a former Czech - star trying to make it in New York City in the film, «Anna.»

Farrell and McDonagh didn't really know each other before the latter cast the former in In Bruges, which went on to land an Academy Award nomination (for best original screenplay) and is widely perceived as the film that turned Farrell's career around - in a good way, that is.

The film stars MVFF Spotlight Awardee and Academy Award ® - nominated actress Carey Mulligan, former MVFF Tributee Academy Award ® - nominated actress Helena Bonham Carter and three - time Academy Award ® - winner actress Meryl Streep.

Former television director Zwick, who would go on to make Academy Award nominated epics like Glory and The Last Samurai, directs his first feature film with this one, and the result is uneven for the most part, but when it works, it works well.

Former NBA star Kobe Bryant has become an unlikely Oscar winner after Dear Basketball, which he wrote and narrated, won the Academy award for best animated short film.

Those who were introduced to Matthew Quick through the Academy Award - winning film adaptation of The Silver Linings Playbook may not be aware that he is a former high school teacher with three YA novels under his belt.

She received an Academy Award nomination for the former, as well as a nomination for producing the Steven Soderbergh film Erin Brockovich.

Some of our notable entertainment and media attorneys are: John Quinn, General Counsel of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who has also represented entertainment and media clients in a number of high profile cases; Kathleen Sullivan, the former Dean of Stanford Law School, First Amendment scholar, and nationally renowned appellate advocate, who heads the firm's appellate practice group; Bob Raskopf, an expert in the sports, entertainment and media bars in New York, who is perhaps best known for his work on behalf of professional sports leagues and teams, newspapers and publishers; Claude Stern, who has represented a broad array of leading software developers, videogame manufacturers, online publishers and other media clients in all forms of intellectual property litigation, including copyright, patent, trade secret, trademark, and licensing disputes; Bruce Van Dalsem, who has tried and resolved disputes for studios, producers and performing artists in the film, television, music and finance businesses, securing a top five verdict in California based on the misappropriation of a film library; Gary Gans, an expert litigator in motion picture financing, production and distribution disputes, as well as copyright and idea theft cases, who has been named in 2012 by The Hollywood Reporter as one of America's «Top Entertainment Attorneys;» Jeff McFarland, who has litigated entertainment related cases for more than 20 years, including cases involving motion picture and television series profits, video game licenses, idea theft and the «seven year rule;» and Michael Williams, who represents a satellite exhibitor and other media clients in trademark, copyright, patent, antitrust and other commercial litigation.