Sentences with phrase «group of actresses»

The actor category for this year is merely OK, but this might be the strongest group of actresses ever.

Brent Hodge (A Brony Tale, TFF 2014) and Morgan Spurlock (Mansome, TFF 2012) introduce us to an eclectic group of women who play in an LA recreational basketball league, focusing on the Pistol Shrimps, a rag - tag group of actresses (including Aubrey Plaza, Parks and Recreation), comedians, musicians, and mothers who brought nationwide attention to the league that could.

Philip Seymour Hoffman is brilliant in an uncharacteristically subdued turn, with what is likely the best female ensemble group of actresses seen since Volver.

Briefly: Last week we got wind of a small group of actresses who were under consideration to play the lead female role opposite Tom Cruise in Christopher McQuarrie «s adaptation of the Lee Child novel One Shot.

The decision to wear black was orchestrated by powerful British women in film and yesterday, a group of actresses from the UK and Ireland, including Saoirse Ronan, who pledged their support for the new UK Justice and Equality Fund in an open letter published in The Observer.

PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE: 2oth Century Fox has made test deals with a small group of actresses for the female lead opposite Ryan Reynolds on Deadpool, based on the character he originated in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Not exact matches

The actress and wife of President Ronald Reagan worked with numerous charitable groups, spent hours visiting veterans, the elderly and the disabled.

In 2003, she sued the organizers of California Coastal Records Project, a group documenting coastal erosion in the state using aerial photographs, because one of their helicopter snaps included views of the singer - songwriter - actress - filmmaker's Malibu home.

Although the films Alibaba Pictures Group has invested in like So Young (by actress - turned director Zhao Wei, who is also a major shareholder of the company) and Tiny Times (by popular writer Guo Jingming) have recorded remarkable box - office revenues, the company has yet to turn a profit, with a net loss of HK$ 443.54 million for the first half of last year.

A smiling group of beloved actors, actresses, and performers has the ability to touch the lives of the more than 3,400,000 people who retweeted it and the millions more that saw it.

Coca - Cola Amatil's SPC unit has finalised a master distribution agreement with China State Farm Agribusiness Shanghai, a wholly owned subsidiary of China Agriculture Development Group Corp, and hired popular Chinese singer and actress Yiqian Ye as its brand ambassador.

What's cool about FabKids is that it was started by a group of parents including mom and actress Christina Applegate who wanted to kids to be able to express their own style through fashion.

Several labor groups, including CWA and 32BJ SEIU, left the WFP ahead of its vote on Saturday to back Nixon, an actress and public education advocate, over Cuomo, a two - term incumbent running for re-election.

A group of 16 actresses — including Sarah Jessica Parker, Jane Fonda and Natalie Portman — has sent a letter to Cuomo in support of a higher minimum wage for workers who rely on tips in New York.

A number of organized labor groups have lined up to provide early endorsements to Gov. Andrew Cuomo as he seeks a third term this fall and faces a new primary challenge from actress Cynthia Nixon, with the latest nod coming from the United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1500, New York's largest supermarket workers union.

National political strategist L. Joy Williams, who was recently appointed as a senior adviser for education activist and actress Cynthia Nixon's gubernatorial campaign, weighed in on what made her join the Nixon campaign and her thoughts on Nixon's advocacy toward people of color and other marginalized groups, on Tuesday night.

Other members of the newly established board include: Cindy Abbott - Letro (community volunteer), Erin Bahn (Kavinoky Cook LLP), Anthony Chase (Assistant Dean of Arts and Humanities at Buffalo State College), Karla Gadley (First Niagara Bank), Thomas Hayes (M&T Bank), Tod Kniazuk (Executive Director of Arts Services Initiative of WNY), Jennifer Persico (Mosey Persico LLP), Lisa Ludwig (actress and owner of Free Fall Productions), Jonathan Rivera (Key Bank), Sandy White (President, Mustard Seed Consulting Group), and Kevin Zanner (Hurwitz & Fine PC).

While in the Shadow Cabinet Maude was accused of hypocrisy by promoting a «family - friendly» image while being the non-executive chairman of Jubilee Investment Trust plc, which held 21 % of American pornographic actress Jill Kelly's adult DVD business, [25] and chairman of the Mission Marketing Group, which has advertised for WKD drinks and Playboy.

The governor outpaces the actress and education activist among both men and women, in every region of the state and across every age group.

Breast cancer advocacy groups have prasied the actress for informing millions of women about the risks of cancer

Originally a private retreat for a group of close friends like interior designer, Celerie Kemble, actress, Mariska Hargitay, designer Lela Rose, and others, the utopian vacation spot has transitioned from an exclusive destination to a boutique hotel.

A host of actresses joined Priyanka Chopra and Kerry Washington on the red carpet for the Disney ABC Television Group's 2015 TCA Summer Press Tour on Tuesday (August 4) in Beverly Hills, California.

Well, there's a new group of fashion - forward actresses, musicians, designers and models offering truly captivating and addictive feeds.

And Edie Falco, as the leader of a volunteer group that helps locate missing children, gives a grave, supremely controlled performance — a fine example of an actress» cutting into deep emotional territory without «showing» emotion at all.

A humorous bit - part as a conservative 12 - year - old facing the wrath of a group of lethal liberals in 1995's The Last Supper dropped a dollop of humor in the mix before Moss returned to more dramatic roles in Separate Lives (1995) and A Thousand Acres (1997), and the talented young actress continued her winning streak with roles in such diverse films as The Joy Riders and Mumford (both 1999).

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Because the few set - pieces soak up the majority of the budget, it is never apparent that Predestination is put together by a group of unknown directors, using a relatively new yet promising actress in Sarah Snook and two veterans to the acting profession that often take a cut in pay if the story is there (Hawke and Tayor).

Piñeiro's own troupe of actresses are never less than a pleasure to watch — after seeing her here, in Piñeiro's Viola (2012), and in Santiago Mitre's The Student (2011), I now look forward especially to every new appearance by Romina Paula — but Piñeiro is at his best when he's observing groups of people, their faces falling into and out of frame at various depths of field.

(On top of the Golden Globe and a wealth of critics» group wins, the Los Angeles Film Critics» Association were sufficiently impressed to promote her to Best Actress.)

Others on tap include L.A. - centric doc City Of Gold, about Pulitzer Prize - winning food critic Jonathan Gold from Sundance Selects as well as Cohen Media Group's Marguerite, starring Catherine Frot who took Best Actress for the role at this year's Césars.

Director Martin Scorsese was voted by the group as Best Director for his smash hit movie The Departed, while Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) was named Best Actor, and Helen Mirren (The Queen) continued her march to the Oscars as she was named Best Actress as both actors brought characters to real, and even sympathetic, life.

Stand together: A video shared on multiple social media platforms on Sunday, which included Reese alongside actresses; Brie Larson, Kerry Washington, Tessa Thompson, Rashida Jones, and Tracee Ellis Ross, showed the group of prominent stars standing together in hopes of change

A video shared on multiple social media platforms on Sunday, which included Reese alongside actresses; Brie Larson, Kerry Washington, Tessa Thompson, Rashida Jones, and Tracee Ellis Ross, showed the group of prominent stars standing together in hopes of change.

Best Actress winner Frances McDormand said: «I appreciate a well organised act of civil disobedience... Happily, the feminist protest and direct action group Sisters Uncut had been on hand to provide some.»

This 1980s - set Los Angeles comedy series stars Alison Brie (Mad Men, Community) as Ruth Wilder, an out - of - work actress who finds herself with the unexpected role of a lifetime after being invited to audition with a group of eccentric women for the first - ever women's wrestling TV show — GLOW.

All three of the critics» groups named her Best Actress (though the L.A. critics ended up with a tie; see below), and she won the dramatic Golden Globe as well, with Tandy taking Comedy / Musical.

Do you have an idea or sense of what you've learned through this particular film and working with this group of actors, and with DJ, that you will take back to Glee with you as an actress?

The film looks to be in danger of frontrunner fatigue as the critics groups announcements thus far have mostly neglected to recognize the film (though NYFCC named Steve McQueen Best Director), but Nyong» o still seems like a lock to land a Supporting Actress nomination.

In Chicago, he makes friends with a group of kids, including a 14 - year - old girl named Izabella, played by a talented young actress, Isabela Moner, whose emotions are close to the surface.

And while the actress is looking to make The East, about «an FBI agent who infiltrates an ecoterrorist group,» which she co-wrote with The Sound of My Voice director Zal Batmanglij, there is a queue of big - time directors reportedly courting Marling for their upcoming projects.

Actors and actresses were moved between the rooms in pairs, to be set upon by groups of up to 12 eager journalists.

The Into The Woods actress has spoken out after it was claimed a group of women wearing rhinestone - embellished flat shoes were turned away from a film screening for not wearing heels.

Hugs: Daniel was presented with the award by 2015 Rising Star nominee Margot Robbie, who is nominated in this year's Best Actress category for I, Tonya and Octavia Spencer, who received a nod in the Best Supporting Actress group for The Shape of Water

The performances are quite solid all around but the true standouts Lili Taylor as Carolyn Perron and the group of gifted young actresses playing the Perron girls.

I didn't mean to become the «age» guy but I salivate at the prospect of digging into Oscar statistics each year so I couldn't pass up the chance to write about the Best Actress shortlist, when Vanity Fair asked me to write about the relatively advanced age of the group.

However, a group of hackers have said to have discovered several leaked documents which infer Harry Potter actress Emma Watson is currently attached as the female lead.

«Cheer Camp» (5 minutes) is a short featurette which shows the film's five main actresses learning the cheerleading ropes from a group of professional trainers.

Julianne Moore in Still Alice was the group's pick for Film Performance of the Year — Actress, while Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) took Film Performance of the Year — Actor.

Jennifer Lawrence adds her name to group of A-list actresses fighting for gender pay equality in Hollywood including Emma Watson, Meryl Streep, Geena Davis, Cate Blanchett, Patricia Arquette, and Lena Dunham.

The 90th Academy Awards was filled with light and humorous moments as second - time host Jimmy Kimmel took a group of actors and actresses across the street to surprise movie - goers.