Sentences with phrase «in his feature film debut»

Just four years ago, in his feature film debut Crazy Heart, Cooper led Jeff Bridges to his first Oscar, and Maggie Gyllenhaal to her first nomination.

While Christopher Nolan has enlisted a number of A-list stars for his upcoming World War II epic Dunkirk, 19 - year - old newcomer Fionn Whitehead (Him) is set to take on the lead role in his feature film debut, and Entertainment Weekly has released a new image of his character, the young British soldier Collins; check it out here... -LSB-...]

His even more complicated relationship with Patsey (Lupita Nyong» o proving herself to be the film's scene stealer in her feature film debut), the «Queen of his field» demonstrates how McQueen doesn't leave a single character one - dimensional, and their respective demons and qualities are equally fascinating.

Interesting casting sees singer Norah Jones in her feature film debut, and while you certainly won't see anything in her performance to suggest big things in her future from an acting standpoint, she does a decent enough job in a relatively undemanding role.

In his feature film debut, director Todd Field has accomplished something many directors never manage.

In her feature film debut, «American Idol» sensation Jordin Sparks stars as Sparkle, a young woman whose big dreams seem almost impossible.

Directed by Garth Davis (TV's Top of the Lake, in his feature film debut), Lion tells the true story of a five - year - old Indian boy who gets on the wrong train and is taken thousands miles away from home.

Directed by Garth Davis (TV's Top of the Lake, in his feature film debut), Lion tells the...

Inspired by arthouse films of the 1960s, writer - director Lee Eubanks creates a menacing world of dread, isolation, and unease in his feature film debut.

Many of the rules that Jamie Kennedy jokes about in «Scream» came to being here — both Annie (Nancy Loomis, oxford and undies) and Lynda (P.J. Soles, «totally» topless, also in «Carrie») are sexually active and ultimately die, and Lynda's boyfriend Bob may be the first on record to say «I'll be right back» and not make it back — but there are also some classic hair raising quick - take shots of Michael Meyers across a street, in the backyard, and especially the one of him rising in the background after Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis, in her feature film debut) thinks she's killed him once and for all.

From Academy Award - nominated screenwriter JOHN LOGAN (Gladiator, The Aviator, Hugo, Skyfall) and acclaimed, Tony Award - winning director MICHAEL GRANDAGE in his feature film debut, comes Genius, a stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between the world - renowned book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and the larger - than - life literary giant Thomas Wolfe.

When the film opens, best friends Napoleon (Johnny Whitaker, who Disney must have seen as its new child star in 1972) and Samantha (Jodie Foster in her feature film debut) lead simple lives.

Not really a good film by any stretch of the imagination, Corvette Summer has an oddly quaint charm at times, and an interesting cast of recognizable supporting characters, including Annie Potts (of TV's «Designing Women» and Ghostbusters), here in her feature film debut.

Joanna Hogg, the woman who directed Tom Hiddleston in his feature film debut, is helming «The Souvenir: Part One,» which will be executive produced by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert Pattinson, a recent snub for «Good Time.»

A few months later, we are introduced to the film's protagonist, Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya, Sicario, 2014), a photographer in New York City who is packing up for a trip with his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage (played by Allison Williams in her feature film debut).

And in his feature film debut, Sean Durkin takes full advantage of his chosen medium's advantages, making «Martha Marcy May Marlene» one of the most immaculately edited new films we can remember.

«At its core the Sundance film festival is about discovery,» we explained in our statement, «In their feature film debut these filmmakers dare to expose a story that powerful forces would rather keep hidden.»

Written and directed by Ayer based on the characters from DC, the film also stars Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye - Agbaje, Ike Barinholtz, Scott Eastwood, Cara Delevingne, Adam Beach, and Karen Fukuhara in her feature film debut.

As Harry's friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson show promise in their feature film debuts.

First time director Emanuele Della Valle knocks it out - of - the - park in his feature film debut, Wetlands.

The new additions to the cast include Vera Farmiga, Kyle Chandler, Millie Bobby Brown in her feature film debut, Thomas Middleditch, Bradley Whitford, Charles Dance, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Aisha Hinds, and Zhang Ziyi.

They encounter a young girl named Laura (Dafne Keen, in her feature film debut) who has powers similar to Logan's and is being pursued by a mercenary (Boyd Holbrook) and a nefarious scientist (Richard E. Grant).

Adam Egypt Mortimer takes a stand against bullying in his feature film debut.

Not exact matches

She was the editor on the director's 1967 feature debut, «Who's That Knocking at My Door,» and has edited all of his films since «Raging Bull» in 1980.

The TV exposure led to acting roles for Jimmy, as a regular on Daniel Boone, and in feature films, including his debut in the James Bond flick Diamonds are Forever.

Not to mention the imbalance between her career, now basically in the past tense, and his, which skyrocketed with his recent debut feature film, Snow White & the Huntsman, which she is clearly supportive of:

Taye Diggs made his feature film debut in How Stella Got Her Groove Back and plays the role of Dr. Sam Bennett in Private Practice.

Ted is a 2012 American buddy comedy film directed by Seth MacFarlane in his feature film directorial debut.

Written by Being John Malkovich scribe Charlie Kaufman, Human Nature was the feature debut from acclaimed music - video director Michel Gondry and featured Arquette as a woman cursed with a coat of fur covering her body.As the decade progressed, audiences could see Arquette in projects ranging from the star - studded documentary Searching for Debra Winger to the sleeper family film Holes.

It wasn't long after her 1998 graduation that the aspiring actress made her feature debut in the 2000 drama Our Song, with nominations for the film at the Independent Spirit Awards and the Sundance Film Festival serving to increase her exposure among cinephiles, even if the film did go largely unseen by the masses.

You'd expect no less from director Ryan Coogler, who opens the film in 1992 in Oakland, a few stops down the BART line from the site of the tragic climax of his debut feature, Fruitvale Station.

Famke made her feature film debut with Jeff Goldblum in Fathers & Sons (1992).

As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie star.

Phyllida Lloyd makes her feature film directorial debut an uneven one; she's a leading British theatre director who is noted for her work in opera and directed the original stage production.

The film feels a little less amateur than «Pusher», - a cheap debut feature for some underexperienced Dane trying to make abstract art - and it's that which brings the final product closer to decency, because many of the missteps that ruined «Pusher» feel more considerable in this superior, but still misguided effort, which has a good bit to commend, but even more to complain about as questionable «story «telling notes that ultimately send the final product crashing into mediocrity.

Skinny, bug - eyed Steve Buscemi, the twitchy actor du jour of American independent films, makes a striking directorial feature - film debut with «Trees Lounge,» in which he also stars as a twitchy, hyperkinetic loser.

Audiences saw him co-star in Christine Lahti's feature film directorial debut, MY FIRST MISTER, opposite Albert Brooks and Leelee Sobieski, which Paramount Classics premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001.

«Seeking a Friend for the End of the World's screenwriter, Lorene Scafaria, who also made her feature film directorial debut with the romantic dramedy, perfectly captured the essence of people needing to find comfort in each other during dire circumstances with Dodge and Penny.

The feature debut of writer - director Aimee Lagos, the film feels overstuffed and overcooked, as if the filmmaker were trying to get too much out all in one go.

He made his feature - film debut in Lewis» Cinderfella (1960), after having appeared on the early television series Life With Elizabeth (1953 - 1955) starring opposite Betty White.

He made his feature film debut in 1992 with the film Juice and followed it up co-starring with Janet Jackson in Poetic Justice in 1993.

Made his feature - film debut in Laws of Gravity (1992), which starred another Purchase College alum, Edie Falco.

In 1998, she made her feature - film debut in Tango, in which she played an aspiring dancer who becomes entangled in a romance with a film directoIn 1998, she made her feature - film debut in Tango, in which she played an aspiring dancer who becomes entangled in a romance with a film directoin Tango, in which she played an aspiring dancer who becomes entangled in a romance with a film directoin which she played an aspiring dancer who becomes entangled in a romance with a film directoin a romance with a film director.

He made his feature film debut in 1988 as River Phoenix's little brother in A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon.

Made his feature - film debut opposite Halle Berry in the 1991 movie Strictly Business.

His feature film debut was in Michael Bortman's CROOKED HEARTS, which he followed up with THE MIGHTY DUCKS trilogy, DIGGER, and ANDRE THE SEAL.

Following the series» demise in 1991, Helgenberger returned to television guest - star status on ER, where she had a four - episode - long recurring role, and in the miniseries The Tommyknockers.A presence on the big screen since 1989, when she made her feature - film debut in Steven Spielberg's romantic fantasy Always, Helgenberger has played a wide variety of roles in films ranging from Species (1995) to the moody The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) to Steven Soderbergh's widely acclaimed Erin Brockovich (2000).

It's a film that you expect to open in limited release and expand, but after a Sundance premiere, Focus Features is actually debuting it wide today, the Friday that used to launch the summer movie season (which the moving of Avengers: Infinity War kicked off a week early this year).

Born and raised in New Mexico, he headed to California as a young man and made his feature film debut in Larceny (1948).

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore is perhaps most notable as the debut of Macon Blair as a director, who gained notoriety primarily as an actor featured prominently in the films of Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room), to which this film attempts to emulate to some degree.