Sentences with phrase «jury made him this year»

Bringing together the film industry's «crème de la crème,» Pedro Almodóvar and his jury made this year's celebration somewhat unconventional, awarding a tie for best screenplay and an unprecedented special 70th anniversary award for Nicole Kidman, who appeared in an unrivaled four projects in the 2017 festival.

Raphael Gygax said: «Kiluanji Kia Henda is a vital voice of his generation and I'm very pleased that the jury made him this year's Frieze Artist Award winner.

Not exact matches

The 67 - year - old lawyer served in the Bush administration from 2001 to 2005, but resigned after he was indicted by a grand jury on five counts for perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements to the FBI.

After a highly publicized five - week jury trial that was the most closely watched of a wave of corporate fraud trials, Stewart was found guilty in March 2004 of conspiracy, obstruction of an agency proceeding, and making false statements to federal investigators, and was sentenced in July 2004 to serve a five - month term in a federal correctional facility and a two - year period of supervised release (to include five months of electronic monitoring).

At the conclusion of the regatta, a jury of acclaimed chefs, each of whose restaurants has made The World's 50 Best Restaurants list, and Chef Paul Qui, winner of last year's competition, will score each dish.

After the governor's proposals to elevate the threshold of adult criminality to 18 years and to create a special monitor to review cases where a grand jury decides not to indict a police officer for killing a potentially unarmed civilian failed to make headway in the State Senate, Mr. Cuomo rolled out a pair of executive orders.

The Times Union reported last year that Abelove didn't require French to sign an immunity - from - prosecution waiver when he testified before the grand jury — a decision that made it impossible to bring charges against French after his testimony.

Cuomo and leaders cite a new anti sexual assault program on college campuses as an achievement, but say they will have to try again in the next year to agree on a number of other criminal justice reforms, including making grand juries more transparent.

Make no mistake — on Tuesday's primary you have a choice — to vote for a current / five - term Dutchess County Legislator who has fought fracking tooth and nail for four years (1,100 signed on to the www.PetitionOnline.com/NoDrill effort I launched in 2008); I believe fracking should be banned and criminalized — or my primary opponent, who actually said this of fracking to Alan Chartock on WAMC April 17: «In terms of the impact I think the jury is still out.»

The Times Union reported last year that Abelove, who personally presented the case to the grand jury that cleared French, did not require the officer to sign an immunity - from - prosecution waiver when the officer testified before the grand jury that cleared him — a highly unusual move that makes it virtually impossible for any prosecutor to pursue potential future charges against French for conduct surrounding Thevenin's death.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about thousands of teamsters avoiding a pension cut, the jury selection process in the trial of UAlbany students accused of making up allegations of being the targets of a racist attack on a CDTA bus, and the tragic story of a boat and the death of an eight - year - old girl.

Alpert, who teaches filmmaking to 13,000 low - income kids a year with wife Keiko Tsuno, helped two of his students make «Bullets in the Hood,» which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.

Among his claims, the father says the golden retriever made the 15 - year - old unduly sympathetic to the jury.

But today a jury found him guilty today of accusations leveled last year that he had knowingly made false statements to Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and had threatened to «take out» witnesses who had threatened to testify against him.

Only eight of them will make the cut to go through to the next round, where they'll show their collections to H&M's Creative Head of Design, Ann - Sofie Johansson, and a jury made up of yet - to - be-announced fashion insiders (last year's included Erdem and actress Michelle Dockery).

Release Date: This has been in the can for a good amount of time now, and when Berlin Film Fest didn't announce it as part of there line - up, the next logical guess is Cannes — which sort of makes sense as she was president of the Un Certain Regard jury the year after her success.

(That said, in a year that has seen a record number of women both on the jury and in the competition, a win for a female auteur would make a neat narrative.)

Other highlights are ADAMA a deeply moving animation about the life of a young boy in West Africa in 1914; Mamoru Hosoda's THE BOY AND THE BEAST, an exquisitely animated fable about a boy who has run away from home and is alone in the human world following the passing of his mother; Jury Feting's CELESTIAL CAMEL, a fascinating and thrilling tale about a 12 year old herder whose father has sold a young colt who may be the fabled «celestial camel»; Academy Award ® winner Gabriele Salvatores» THE INVISIBLE BOY, a charming coming of age tale about a shy boy, picked on by his peers, who gets his wish to hide from the world when he discovers a Halloween outfit that makes him invisible; Alexandre Heboyan and Benoît Philippon's hugely enjoyable CGI animated adventure MUNE, about a faun who lives in a faraway world; Studio Ghibli's beautiful drama WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi; and the World Premiere of Tim Clague and Danny Stark's WHO KILLED NELSON NUTMEG?

«This movie took six years to get made, so after six years this is the beginning of getting there and feeling the reward and the love of an audience — in this case the love of a jury and of a festival.»

It remains to be seen what this year's Steven Spielberg - led jury makes of the latest Refn - Gosling joint, «Only God Forgives,» but the critical reception is in, and -LSB-...]

It remains to be seen what this year's Steven Spielberg - led jury makes of the latest Refn - Gosling joint, «Only God Forgives,» but the critical reception is in, and so far it ain't pretty.

In a year when the Cannes Film Festival jury could so easily have made a decision influenced by the times, the Palme d'Or winner was a pleasing surprise.

And, indeed, most years the festival world's supreme accolade is bestowed upon a worthy recipient — this in spite of the haphazard nature of the decision - making process, with the competition's fate held in the hands of a nine - person jury whose members are plucked from various branches of the cinema tree.

Nine years ago, autodidact filmmaker Shane Carruth burst onto the indie scene with the abstruse and complex sci - fi thriller «Primer,» which made him a Sundance darling in 2004 when it won the Grand Jury Prize and went on to become a cult hit.

«Things are changing, this year the jury is predominantly made of women and that's why it's a wonderful year,» said Moore.

The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Director: Alfonso Gomez - Rejon, Screenwriter: Jesse Andrews)-- Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend.

Special Jury Prizes To Be Heard, directed by Roland Legiardi - Laura, Amy Sultan, Deborah Shaffer and Edwin Martinez (USA, 2010) Jury Statement: «By filmically living with and sharing the dramas of a remarkably affecting group of young people over a period of years, To Be Heard wins the hearts of viewers with a roller coaster emotional ride... it's immediacy and poignancy make it a film that truly lives beyond the frame.»

(Full disclosure: I served on a festival jury with Barry a couple of years ago and liked him enormously, which makes this more painful.)

Emirati filmmaker Abdullah Hassan Ahmed, who has over 12 years of experience in the cinema industry, said: «The jury was challenged by the large number of movies and impressive quality of many of the submissions that made the judging process somewhat complicated.

The winners in each category and overall are decided by an international jury, made up this year of 84 motoring journalists from 35 countries.

The Car of the Year jury has made the announcement: the Peugeot 3008 is 2017 European Car of the Year.

The second annual North American Concept Vehicle of the Year awards, selected by a jury of 35 automotive journalists, went to four winners picked from 32 concept vehicles and six production preview vehicles that made their U.S. debut at one of the major auto shows.

For the jury, made up of automotive journalists from the United States and Canada, picking the year's best utility may be the toughest task.

Though I was a jury member this year, I can't make it to the reception, but the least I can do is feature Rosalyn here at 7 - Imp right before her big night.

The jury is still out on whether retiring at the age of 54 years, 364 days was the smartest financial move I ever made.

Cut off from Earth for 120 years, Mars is a world in conflict, with many different cultures and communities — and the games weapons and clothing reflect this quality, with jury rigged and make - shift weapons and armor, designed for survival, or militaristic rule!

«In this year's «Made in L.A.,» Adam Linder's Kein Paradiso stood out as a tour de force,» Mika Yoshitake, an associate curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and a member of the Mohn Award jury, said.

I've used FAA for over a year (my premium membership just expired), Tumblr, Facebook (finally killed my public page because it was useless), Google Plus, Deviantart (even got a couple «Daily Deviations»), Twitter, Zazzle, Printerest, entered and ranked among the winners in 3 juried contests, but haven't made enough in «quick wins» (outside of a handful of small sales to immediate family) to buy a sandwich and coffee.

THE MOHN AWARD │ Jury award honoring artistic excellence Created in conjunction with the inaugural Made in L.A. exhibition in 2012, the $ 100,000 Mohn Award will be granted over two years to an artist from the exhibition and will be accompanied by the publication of a monograph on the artist's work, including essays and interviews, that will be distributed to key influential international curators, critics, gallerists, museums, and collectors.

They have no faith in the administrators and international impresarios who, year after year, make up the Prize's juries.

James Casebere says about the process of jurying this year's competition: «There was so much great work, it was difficult to make a decision.

The jurors — painter Rocio Rodriguez, actor and mixed - media artist Masud Olufani and photographer Jerry Siegel — elected to show more work by fewer artists for this year's biennial juried exhibition, a laudable decision that makes for a richer experience.

There will, of course, be no Salons this year, as nearly all the men available for juries are at the front, and it is doubtful whether there would be sufficient output of paintings and sculptures to justify, or make possible the holding of even the New Salon.

If the defense had gone forward, whether the jury ruled in their favor or not, it would have made settling the other cases impossible — they would have spent the next five years in court.

A new jury convenes every year, so we urge artists who didn't make the cut in previous years to try again in 2014.

If someone with common sense had been on the jury this year, they would have looked at Assemble, the London collective that encourages community architecture, and they would have said: «That is a London collective that encourages community architecture, not a young British artist who made a notable contribution to 2015.»

Concluding each years» exhibition season, Zilberman Gallery curates Young Fresh Different, a group show with a selection of works chosen by an independent jury from applications made to a nationwide open call.

This year the exhibition was limited in geographical distribution and it turned out to be, in effect, a Chicago - and - vicinity show to which artists were admitted on the basis of groups of three to five works -LSB-...] The jury was made up of Philip Guston, Sam Hunter and Franz Kline, and obviously it was in many respects a harmonious group.

«It makes the galleries nervous when someone walks into a booth with black fingernails,» said newly manicured artist Kendall Geers, on this year's jury for best stand.

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