Sentences with phrase «in a leading role»

The movie is led by great performances by Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough («The Girlfriend Experience»), and newcomer Sasha Lane in the lead role.

Performance by an actress in a leading role Amy Adams in «American Hustle» Cate Blanchett in «Blue Jasmine» * WINNER Sandra Bullock in «Gravity» Judi Dench in «Philomena» Meryl Streep in «August: Osage County»

It's an odyssey that led actor Leonardo DiCaprio to obtain the film rights to Bushnell's life for a possible movie starring DiCaprio in the lead role.

Here are just a few: Jordan Peele became the first African American to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out, and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won for Best Picture — a film featuring a female actor in the lead role hasn't won the category since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.

It was nominated for 11 other Oscars, winning Best Director and Best Cinematography, in addition to Best Actor in a Leading Role.

One way for amateur Angel investors to improve their prospects is to get in the sidecar of a professional Angel investor, which can be accomplished through syndicates with a professional venture capital investor in the lead role.

Our two groups have been in the midst of a reconciliation in the time period that he has been in a leading role of Mission and Revitalization of the CofC (beginning around 2003).

shipwreck73, Jesus warned us (Matthew 23:1 - 39) about who sat in the lead roles in the churches, synagogues, any / all false religions in the world... and specifically told us to read and study His truth (the Bible) so that we can sharpen our knowledge with those that profess to know him whether they are teaching His truth or the lies of man.

installment of the sci - fi franchise which began in 1968 with Charlton Heston in the lead role shares much in common with another Heston epic — the 1958 The 10 Commandments, which racked up seven Oscars.

He delivers a knockout performance in the lead role as Caesar that should cause critics to give pause and ponder the possibility of an actor playing a GC character being in contention this awards season.

Sir Andrew has also composed new music for a film version of Evita which, against his better judgment, starred Madonna in the lead role, and has produced his own version of Jesus Christ Superstar on stage and home video that he feels finally, at long last, captures his true vision of the piece.

Carrots get so little «press» — nice to see them in a leading role!

I've cast sesame seeds in a lead role here because I'm tired of seeing one of my favorite ingredients marginalized atop hamburger buns and everything bagels — they have a terrific earthy - nutty flavor and a delicate crunch that goes well with so many dishes.

At Duke in 2015 - 16, in a lead role, she scored 19 points and grabbed nine boards per game in 31 minutes as the team's centerpiece.

The casting was sublime: Ryan Anderson as the jive - talking front man in an ill - fitting toupee, Tyreke Evans as the Special Man's sidekick (with nooooooo problem) and Anthony Davis in the lead role.

Here's the caption @nascarcasm claims goes with this photo: Oscar winners (from left) Christian Bale (Best Actor In A Supporting Role, «The Fighter»), Natalie Portman (Actress In A Leading Role, «Black Swan»), Melissa Leo (Actress In A Supporting Role, «The Fighter»), Colin Firth (Actor In A Leading Role, «The King's Speech») and Kurt Busch (Best Directing, Cinematography, Costume Design and Short - Subject Documentary, «A Positive Step For Me»), celebrate backstage following the Academy Awards, which honor achievement in filmmaking.

If the show sounds vaguely familiar, it was originally developed as a Ricki Lake vehicle back in the 2006 - 07 development cycle, only to get resurrected this summer with an eye toward casting Heaton in the lead role.

Another actor name boosted by El Señor de los Cielos is that of Rafael Amaya (in the lead role of the Lord of the Skies).

The Anglo - French production involves mostly English actors in the lead roles, including Tom Wilkinson's remarkable portrayal of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

However, it is inconceivable that there would have been an identical result had different individuals been cast in the lead roles.

With Olivier award - winner David Haig (Four Weddings and a Funeral) in the lead role, expect a powerful depiction of Hanoverian lunacy.

Best Actress in Leading Role (Yoruba) Ronke Odusanya — Ailatunse Aisha Lawal in False Flag Mercy Aigbe — Ojo Meta Jumoke Odetola — Somewhere in the Dark Adeola Ayoade in Okun

Best Actor in a Leading Role (English) Sambasa Nzeribe in Slow Country Alexx Ekubo in Inikpi Joseph Benjamin in Dance to my Beat Bolanle Ninalowo in Picture Perfect Gabriel Afolayan in Tatu Paul Utomi in What lies Within

A new play focussed on the controversial MP Enoch Powell will star Star Wars actor Ian McDiarmid in the lead role.

The movie had majority of the nominations for Ghana but missed out on Best Actress in Lead Role Category.

To minimize the risks, I initiate and accomplish many projects in the lead role, and publish often as lead author.

For decades, atmospheric scientists cast methane in the leading role.

Blair Waldorf, you best watch out, I think someone is going to take your place in the lead role for «Best Dressed» & looking beautiful in black.

Only seeing one specific body type in lead roles on TV and in movies.

Directed by Monika Mitchell and starring Alyson Stoner and Sarah Dugdale in lead roles, the story revolves around a college student who was persuaded by her roommate to make an agreement with an older man who pays for her companionship.

She has performed in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic

The production is slick, the Maine scenery is bracing, the characters are well - acted, and in a mumbo - jumbo movie with a few loose ends, the makeup central to the plot and applied by Greg Cannom and Bob Laden to Robert John Burke in the leading role is most admirable.

Trying hard to play against expectations, writer - director Michael O'Shea casts a black teenager in the lead role of an urban vampire film.

John Cameron Mitchell's rock opera about a transgender East German rocker made a surprisingly strong transition to the big screen — thanks, in no small part, to retaining Stephen Trask's great songs and retaining Mitchell in the lead role — in an adaptation that took advantage of the switch in medium by enlivening some of the musical numbers with quirky animations by Emily Hubley.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes do a excellent job in the lead roles.

In 2002, Oedekerk found himself in the leading role of a feature film again when he cast himself in a pet project, a parody of low - budget martial arts films entitled Kung Pow!

The Interpreter, Šulík's latest feature effort, stars in the leading roles Peter Simonischek of Toni Erdmann fame and Czech Oscar - winning director Jiří Menzel.

Honestly, while Samantha Isler gives a great performance in the lead role, I just didn't find the «modern day» stuff (in quotation marks since the film takes in 1977) to be all that interesting to be honest.

Hugh Jackman's and Liev Schreiber's forceful performances in the lead roles drive the movie; Danny Huston is well cast as William Stryker.

In 1977, Langella was cast in the leading role of a Broadway revival of Dracula, and his con brio performance as the bloodthirsty count earned rave reviews, turning the production into an unexpected hit.

Even behind a distracting wig and hammy Russian - inflected accent, she's fierce and committed in the lead role, while the dependably excellent Edgerton just about elevates the vanilla role of Nash into something more intriguing.

Engaging biopic about the rise of power of Adolf Hitler, Hitler: The Rise of Evil features a brilliant tour de force performance by actor Robert Carlyle in the lead role.

The result is less welcoming than you might expect, considering it's the hotly anticipated second feature from Ex Machina director Alex Garland, adapted loosely (and with some controversy) from the 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer, with a cast full of interesting women and an Oscar winner in the lead role.

In the lead role is Al Pacino, and he delivers one of his finest performances in a long time.

In 1999, Sheen's brother, Emilio Estevez, cast him as real - life adult filmmaker Artie Mitchell in the made - for - cable feature Rated X — a daring role, given Mitchell's drug abuse and sexual promiscuity — and the following year, Sheen became Hollywood's comeback kid when he was cast in the leading role of the popular situation comedy Spin City after the departure of actor Michael J.

It's something of a family affair — only this time, instead of casting his relatives in the leading roles, Ceylan has cast himself and his real - life wife, Ebru, as Isa and Bahar.

Most fans of the novel would probably tell you McConaughey isn't someone they had pictured in the lead role, but he works out just fine, his laid - back, breezy charisma exactly what Mickey requires to do his job.

Kevin Costner is great in the lead role and it's

Critic Consensus: With a slow build to a dramatic conclusion, In Country benefits largely from its strong acting, particularly by Emily Lloyd in the lead role.

And Owen, so robustly present in the lead role in Children of Men, seems curiously disengaged here.