Sentences with phrase «jury president»
"Jury president" is a term used to describe the person who leads and presides over a jury in a court of law. They are responsible for managing the jury, ensuring fair and unbiased deliberations, and sometimes have a higher authority to make important decisions during a trial. Full definition
For him to become jury president, is a wish come true.
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Spielberg was previously at Cannes as jury president in 2013 and presented «Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull» in 2008.
But if Cannes jury president Pedro Almodóvar softens his anti-Netflix stance when it comes to doling out the silverware, hopefully Ahn will at least be in with a shot of bringing home the bacon.
(Wong is also jury president of this year's festival.
The awards this year are in the hands of Jury President Pedro Almodovar along with a fantastic group of jury members: Maren Ade, director of last year's hit «Toni Erdmann»; Radiant actress and festival favorite, Jessica Chastain; Chinese actress and producer, Fan Bingbing; French actress and director, Agnes Jaoui; Korean director, Park Chan - wook; Italian director Paolo Sorrentino; French composer Gabriel Yared; and superstar American actor, Will Smith.
A surprise award was announced by jury president Cate Blanchett in the form of a «Special Palme» Jean - Luc Godard for The Image Book after a special dispensation was given by Thierry Fremuax.
George Miller, who was at Cannes last year with «Mad Max: Fury Road,» will serve as jury president for the main competition.
(thanks to Paddy at screenonscreen) Jane Campion -(Sweetie, The Piano, Bright Star) 9th female jury president in Cannes» 67 year history.
Led by jury president Massimiliano Gioni, the 2015 Absolut Art Award jury have announced the finalists as follows:
Making the occasion of Haneke's victory all the sweeter was the fact that he received the award from jury president Isabelle Huppert, his leading lady in two of his previous films, «The Piano Teacher» and «Time of the Wolf.»
The Berlin Film Festival came to a close this weekend when jury president Meryl Streep announced the winners...
Some critics, including our very own Damon Wise, thought that French director Abdellatif Kechiche's three - hour coming of age love story would be too sexually graphic for jury president Steven Spielberg to put his name to, but Blue Is The Warmest Colour — also known as La Vie D'Adèle Chapitre 1 et 2 — has won out, taking home the coveted Palme d'Or.
Stay tuned for Jury President George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road) to announce his jury but we do know that Kristen Dunst, Valeria Golino and Mads Mikkelsen are on it.
The Berlin Film Festival came to a close this weekend when jury president Meryl Streep announced the winners with her fellow jury members.
Elkabetz, a mother of four year - old twins to husband Avner Yashar, had served the Cannes Film Festival with honour in 2015 as Jury President at the Critic's Week sidebar.
The Cannes Jury President wore black - framed glasses over her make - up free face and her blonde bob was a bit messy from the flight from France.
The festival shamelessly served up the latter, a state - of - the - art helping of Extreme Asian hyperpulp, for the personal delectation of jury president Quentin Tarantino, and it was no big surprise when the runner - up Grand Prize went to Park.
Female directors should fight film - industry sexism by making movies that appeal to as wide an audience as possible, Venice Film Festival jury president Annette Bening said Wednesday, the first day of a festival that has been criticized for a lack of...
Palme d'Or jury president tells international media that the three female Palme d'Or contenders are «not there because of their gender.»
Blanchett takes over as the Cannes Jury President from Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar («Volver»), who lead the Cannes jury last summer and gave the coveted Palme d'Or to Ruben Ostlund's «The Square.»
She is only the tenth woman to be assigned this coveted role in the festival's history, a fact that dismayed the festival's first - ever female jury president, Olivia de Havilland.
Last year, Jury President Massimiliano Gioni awarded the Absolut Art Award for art work to LA - based artist Frances Stark, and to Tate curator, Mark Godfrey, for art writing.
A shortlist of five finalists from both the Art Work and Art Writing category will be revealed in January 2017, selected by the 2017 Jury — led by Jury President Daniel Birnbaum.
Renata Lucas and Coco Fusco have been announced as the winners of the 2013 Absolut Art Award, in Stockholm, by Absolut Art Award Jury President Carolyn Christov - Bakargiev.
Some have positioned Penn as a Best Actor favorite, thanks in part to his friendship with jury president Robert De Niro — though it bears repeating, whenever pundits make such projections, that it's a jury of nine, not one.
Herzog, the first German jury president since Roland Emmerich in 2005, is inarguably deserving of the -LSB-...]
Berlin Jury President Paul Verhoeven said that the entire jury «fell in love with this movie,» which is largely about fears, inhibitions and opening up to others.
The awards were presented, briskly and with little preamble, by this year's Un Certain Regard jury president Benicio Del Toro — himself an award winner at Cannes 10 years ago, when he won Best Actor in Competition for Steven Soderbergh's «Che.»
Award - winning actors, filmmakers and musicians will join jury president for the 71st Cannes Film Festival, among them Ava DuVernay, Kristen Stewart and Denis Villeneuve.
«We chose our winner last night,» London Film Festival jury president Patricia Clarkson told me yesterday, an evasive smile on our face, as we eased into our lunchtime interview.
Besides jury president Ann Hui, the Horizons jury comprises: Israeli actress Moran Atias; Swedish actress and director Pernilla August; American writer - director David Chase; Chadian director Mahamat - Saleh Haroun; Italian director Roberto Minervini; and Turkish critic Alin Tasciyan.
The Cannes jury often rewards persistence, and many are saying that the appointment of Isabelle Huppert (twice a Haneke leading lady) as jury president works in his favor.
And here's director (and festival jury president) Wong Kar - Wai's.
As you might recall, he's been named jury president for the Berlin Film Festival in February, so maybe it is just final touch - ups he's working on.
«Women are not a minority in the world, and yet our industry says the opposite,» said jury president Cate Blanchett and, in French, Agnes Varda, from the top of the Palais steps.
And how much impact will the dual votes of jury president Joel and Ethan Coen factor in?
The jury is also the festival's most diverse, featuring jury president Pedro Almodovar, Will Smith, Jessica Chastain, Park Chan - wook, Maren Ade, Fan Bingbing, Agnes Jaoui, Paolo Sorrentino, and Gabriel Yared.
I'm sipping an Orangina on the «Terrasse des Journalistes» atop the Cannes Film Festival Palais after an especially rollicking press conference, where jury president Pedro Almodóvar and Cannes newcomer Will Smith took opposing sides in the festival's roiling Netflix controversy.
Led by newly - appointed Jury President Daniel Birnbaum (director of the Moderna Museet, Stockholm), his A-team for the 2017 awards is comprised of four additional distinguished art world figures: Simon Castets, Director and Curator of Swiss Institute, New York; Elena Filipovic, Director and Chief Curator of Kunsthalle Basel; Polly Staple, Director of Chisenhale Gallery, London and finally, Jack Bankowsky, critic, curator and Editor - at - large at Artforum.
Haneke's Palme d'Or chances could face a bigger obstacle in jury president Isabelle Huppert who, as a two - time collaborator with the filmmaker, might not want to risk accusations of bias.
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Still, with no shortage of perpetual Palme bridesmaids (Pedro Almodovar, Bruno Dumont, Andrea Arnold, Park Chan - wook, Nicolas Winding Refn) and first - time competitors in the mix, it seems safe to assume that jury president George Miller will be welcoming a newcomer into the winners» circle come Mary 23.
Globetrotter: The Cannes Jury President wore black - framed glasses over her make - up free face and her blonde bob was a bit messy from the flight from France
Park Chan - wook's grand prize - winner at Cannes — probably thanks to jury president Quentin Tarantino — is about a man, inexplicably imprisoned in a room for 15 years, who is suddenly released and has five days to find his captor.
From Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The scene in Cannes; an interview with Palme d'Or jury member Denis Villeneuve; Ryan Coogler's onstage interview; Rafiki, embraced by Cannes, banned by Kenya; and Cate Blanchett, Palme d'Or jury president, says #TimesUp needs more time
With Pedro Almodovar announced as jury president, it will be interesting to see if he continues the trend of ambivalent Cannes juries who seem to be more interested in making political statements.
This year's festival saw its first big cinephile debate Wednesday, when jury president Pedro Almodóvar and festival newcomer Will Smith offered sharply opposing views on the festival's Netflix controversy during the jury press conference.