Sentences with phrase «language performance»

But no, the HFPA really went out on a limb with this win as they haven't awarded a foreign language performance in this category since Liv Ullman in 1972's The Emigrants.

• Javier Bardem's best actor nomination for «Biutiful,» set in Barcelona, marked a rare appearance for a non-English language performance in the category.

The benefits continued years later; researchers ran cognitive tests in the older children and found «increased language performance, visual reception and motor control performance.»

There's been an awful lot of online sniping at the Los Angeles Film Critics» Association for having the audacity to look beyond the obvious Oscar fodder and reward deserving foreign - language performances by Kim Hye - ja and Niels Arestrup (not to mention Olivier Assayas for Best Director).

He's as good as you'd expect, but it's a foreign - language performance from a recently - awarded actor in a divisive, tough - sit arthouse pic.

I can see why this casting decision might have been made, however, especially since it aligns well with the Japanese language performance — but should the English language voice performance match the Japanese?

Agentes & Activos (Agents & Assets): Spanish - language performance with English Supratitles February 28, at 7 pm: Queens Museum March 1, at 2:30 pm: Langston Hughes Library, 10001 Northern Blvd, Corona, NY 11368 March 2, at 2:30 pm: Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center, Flamboyán Theatre, 107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002

On the other it also aimed to enquire the question of subjectivity outside the internal [psychological] as well as the social external [collectivism], in the grey realm of language performance [artistic].

Coco Fusco draws in her interdisciplinary work on her Cuban heritage, using language performance and multimedia to explore issues of difference and cultural politics.

At age two infants of disturbed parents displayed significantly poorer language performance and had higher scores of behaviour problems as compared to infants of healthy parents.

And the last foreign language performance to win was Cotillard herself in 2007, and whether we like it or not, to win an Oscar for a non-English-speaking role is not common.

If you're stunned by the win, you shouldn't be: it's hardly first time the LAFCA has opted for a left - field foreign - language performance in recent years.

Life Is a Dream is composed of a patchwork of episodes organized around two narrative threads: Ignacio's return to his hometown (spy thriller) and the French - language performance (ostensibly as recalled by Ignacio) of Calderón's play.

Both Riva and Cotillard are equally worthy of nominations, but the Academy is notoriously xenophobic, and it's unlikely they'll honor two foreign - language performances.

Overlooked: Speaking of brittle foreign - language performances, Sandra Hüller is quietly magnificent as a depressed corporate climber, struggling against institutional sexism and her incorrigible prankster father, in Toni Erdmann.

Thank God, this year is excellent for Best Actress: Annette Bening (X2), Natalie Portman, Jennifer Lawrence, Carey Mulligan, Michelle Williams (X2), Lesley Manville and possible foreign language performances and Noomi Rappace and another possibilities like Naomi Watts, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Connelly and Sibel Kekilli - I hope so, because she's excellent in «Die Fremde» - 2.

Achievement in English / language arts and math; growth in E / LA and math; four - year graduation rate; English - language performance

It is likely that bilingual samples are inherently more heterogeneous, compared to monolingual samples, particularly in language performance.