Sentences with phrase «language performance in»

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

Whether it's mastering a new coding language or learning to play the violin, employees who are are engaged and thriving in ways that matter to them personally, are more likely to maintain a strong work performance.

Providers and regulators can also use social media data to monitor performance in real time, using natural language processing and machine learning to scan consumers» text reviews for keywords of interest related to patient safety.

That is, as an aesthetic object which finds completeness in performance but which is brought into the liturgical frame in order to be broken by a different, but related «language of actions, a language of sounds».

As a Communication Act: The Birth of a Performance, by Richard F. Ward Performance is a resource for homiletics because it addresses this problem of integrating language, sound and movement in an oral, interpretive act in human communication.

Morale is down, toxicity in the stands is spreading to the dressing room, pay attention to Ozil and Sanchez and even Bellerins body language, the playing for a lost cause... If I'm Ozil there is no way I'm putting in a similar level of performance I did last season if the «main striker» goes missing for 14 games despite creating 141 chances and breaking the premier league record

When Bellerin first came into the side he not only defended well but was always so dangerous going forward.His pace and ability to go outside his marker gave us an attacking outlet that allowed us to play without a recognised right sided attacker which coincided with Walcott getting less and less game time.We all thought this boy was going to turn into someone very special and so obviously did the management who apparently renewed his contract on a reputed # 100k per week.What have we seen since then?A player that seems as indecisive and under coached as the rest of the defenders at the club.A player that has rarely delivered a performance that reflected his initial early form.A player whose body language seems to display his displeasure at being at our club when Barcelona reputedly offered # 40m for him in the close season.

«Bullshit» was the Italian's word of choice, but he may well have found himself using more industrial language to his players after their performance in Rome on Tuesday did nothing to alleviate the mounting pressure on their manager.

According to Robert Hall, professor of pediatrics at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Kansas City, there was no statistical difference in growth, language development, vision or cognitive development among the children studied, although in most categories the breast - fed infants did show slightly better performance.

Similarly, in prior TLT posts you can read all about how my daughter, now in middle school, was last year regularly handed 12 oz cans of Coke and full - sized packages of gummi bears for good performance in a language class, and how my son was given a jumbo sized Hershey bar for winning a school lottery.

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

In 2015, the New Jersey Speech and Hearing Association awarded Jaime the Marni Reisberg Award for her dedication and outstanding performance within the field of medical speech - language pathology as a graduate student.

Under the budget language, the department would be required to develop a new evaluation system based on a «matrix» model, which would include student performance on state exams as well as observations but differs from the current model in that it is not based on percentages.

«Staff and prisoners still speak a moral language of making a difference but there is a general shift in the Prison Service towards a security - and - efficiency driven management style that risks stifling professional enthusiasm by its process and performance - oriented culture.»

However, the continuing decline of modern foreign languages and the growing divide in performance between boys and girls at the top grades are worrying trends.»

Teather also gave a firm defence of the «ebacc» - the new performance measure pupils achieve if they get grade C or above in English, maths, a foreign language, two sciences and history or geography.

The study examined test results for more than 33,000 students in grades 4 through 12 and found that student performance varied across testing formats by grade band, students» primary language, and the specific features of the computer - based system used.

Detmar Meurers, professor for computational linguistics at the University of Tübingen, summarizes: «Authors of textbooks should consider much more systematically what makes texts suitable for students of different age groups and performance levels in order to advance students in terms of language and content.

Despite a few bugs in its language processing, the computer's performance was an impressive demonstration of the increasing speed and power of ai.

Older age, lower education, psychotic illness, being a visible minority and having a native language other than English or French were associated with poorer cognitive performance; however these indicators could explain only part of the neurocognitive difficulties observed in this study.

David Robson's fascinating exploration of sound symbolism in language (16 July, p 30) reminded me of a performance in Australia...

The discovery was a surprise finding for investigators Lori Altmann, an associate professor of speech, language and hearing sciences at the College of Public Health and Health Professions, and Chris Hass, an associate professor of applied physiology and kinesiology in the College of Health and Human Performance.

At the Supercomputing 93 conference in Portland, Oregon, last month the world's major manufacturers set a standard for High Performance Fortran, a programming language used for parallel computing, and published a library of standard instructions called the Message Passing Interface.

This major improvement leverages 8,192 Intel Xeon processors in Berkeley Lab's new Cori supercomputer and Julia, the high - performance, open - source scientific computing language to deliver a 225x increase in the speed of astronomical image analysis.

There was a little group of us that all wanted matching outfits for our sign language club performance - I was in 5th grade.

Sunnyvale, California About Blog Baidu Research brings together global research talent to work on AI technologies in areas such as image recognition, speech recognition, high performance computing, natural language processing and deep learning.

I think this beautiful adaptation gets no justice, the melodic storytelling and dramatic performances don't seem out of place in this tragic film, it keeps to the Shakespearean roots by maintaining the language which in its form sounds poetic, the story has however been updated to suit

I think this beautiful adaptation gets no justice, the melodic storytelling and dramatic performances don't seem out of place in this tragic film, it keeps to the Shakespearean roots by maintaining the language which in its form sounds poetic, the story has however been updated to suit today's audience.

Penelope Cruz provides a career performance in this hauntingly superb, Spanish - language film.

But it is a powerful film, one of the nine shortlisted for the foreign - language Oscar, and it is elevated, as it would need to be, by Diane Kruger's superb performance in the central role.

Acting in her native German language, she delivers a career - high performance as the courageous, emotional and unforgiving survivor Katja that should easily put her in the running for an acting prize at Cannes.

Right from the beginning Sally Hawkins is given fantastic on - screen partners in Richard Jenkins and Octavia Spencer that jive well with her phenomenal performance built solely on hand gestures and body language (Jenkins makes a fine best friend working on his career as a painter, while Spencer's motormouth skills and sassy banter make conversations amusing and easily involving), but as she notices the creature being housed in isolation inside a large rectangular pool (referred to as The Asset) at the laboratory, things get complex and become transfixing.

(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French film and, for that matter, any non-English-language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.

The news just came in that Biutiful, starring Javier Bardem in a career - best performance - co-written and directed Alejandro Gonz √ ° lez I √ ± √ ° rritu, was just chosen as Mexico's official entry to the foreign language Oscar race.

Tony Hale (Arrested Development) voices the character for the English language version of Batman Ninja, giving one of the best performances of the crazed clown since Mark Hamill back in the Batman: The Animated Series days.

Best motion picture of the year «Amour» «Argo» «Beasts of the Southern Wild» «Django Unchained» «Les Misérables» «Life of Pi» «Lincoln» «Silver Linings Playbook» «Zero Dark Thirty» Performance by an actor in a leading role Bradley Cooper in «Silver Linings Playbook» Daniel Day - Lewis in «Lincoln» Hugh Jackman in «Les Misérables» Joaquin Phoenix in «The Master» Denzel Washington in «Flight» Performance by an actress in a leading role Jessica Chastain in «Zero Dark Thirty» Jennifer Lawrence in «Silver Linings Playbook» Emmanuelle Riva in «Amour» Quvenzhané Wallis in «Beasts of the Southern Wild» Naomi Watts in «The Impossible» Performance by an actor in a supporting role Alan Arkin in «Argo» Robert De Niro in «Silver Linings Playbook» Philip Seymour Hoffman in «The Master» Tommy Lee Jones in «Lincoln» Christoph Waltz in «Django Unchained» Performance by an actress in a supporting role Amy Adams in «The Master» Sally Field in «Lincoln» Anne Hathaway in «Les Misérables» Helen Hunt in «The Sessions» Jacki Weaver in «Silver Linings Playbook» Achievement in directing «Amour,» Michael Haneke «Beasts of the Southern Wild,» Benh Zeitlin «Life of Pi,» Ang Lee «Lincoln,» Steven Spielberg «Silver Linings Playbook,» David O. Russell Best foreign language film of the year «Amour,» Austria «Kon - Tiki,» Norway «No,» Chile «A Royal Affair,» Denmark «War Witch,» Canada Best animated feature film of the year «Brave,» Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman «Frankenweenie,» Tim Burton «ParaNorman,» Sam Fell and Chris Butler «The Pirates!

Ralph Fiennes follows his devilishly comic performance in «The Grand Budapest Hotel» with an equally hilarious turn in this Italian set, mostly English - language playful and highly strung melodrama from Luca Guadagnino («I Am Love»).

Her sensual performance in her English - language debut The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), directed by Philip Kaufman, launched her international career.

One of Farrell's more adventurous performances in recent years is in The Lobster, director Yorgos Lanthimos «English - language debut set in a world where single people are transformed into animals if they don't find a partner.

For that matter, if academy voters took international cinema seriously, they might have spared a thought for Beya, a Congolese woman who had never acted on - screen before giving her mesmerizing performance in «Félicité» (shortlisted as Senegal's entry for the foreign - language film Oscar).

It's the best performance of the lineup, but foreign - language acting wins are very rare for the Oscars — and something tells us that Huppert arching her eyebrows in a demented rape - revenge comedy is no match for Stone belting out a show - stopping ballad.

Jamie Foxx is wonderful as Ray Charles in «Ray,» evoking the man's complexities and perfectly capturing his distinctive body language, but Foxx will win not only because of his performance but because of his speech when he won the Golden Globe.

Definitely one of the year's most beguiling performances came in one of the smallest packages: Günes Sensoy, star of Deniz Gamze Ergüven «s «Mustang,» the Turkish - language film confusingly entered as France's submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

Perhaps it is hard to appreciate the humor given the stiff Elizabethan language, or it might be that (despite early reviews praising his performance in a feat of stunt casting gone awry) it is disconcerting to see Russell Brand playing Russell Brand as drunken dandy Trinculo.

At once mythical and heartbreakingly real, this unique film features astonishing performances by its child stars and was honored with a special foreign language film Academy Award in 1952.

Oscar buzz has surrounded Cotillard yet again for her performance in «Rust and Bone» and if nominated, she would become the fifth woman to receive multiple acting nominations for performances in a foreign language, alongside Penelope Cruz, Sophia Loren, and others.

Daniela Vega's amazing performance as a trans woman dealing with grief after the death of her long - time lover is easily one of the best foreign language films in recent memory.

This weekend, she won Best Actress at Cannes for her devastating performance as a woman who loses everything in a terrorist attack in Fatih Akin's Aus dem Nichts (In the Fade)-- shockingly, Kruger's first German - language production — putting her in prime position for that one Oscar nomination a year that seems to go to a non-American actress (see: Emmanuelle Riva, Charlotte Rampling, Isabelle Huppertin a terrorist attack in Fatih Akin's Aus dem Nichts (In the Fade)-- shockingly, Kruger's first German - language production — putting her in prime position for that one Oscar nomination a year that seems to go to a non-American actress (see: Emmanuelle Riva, Charlotte Rampling, Isabelle Huppertin Fatih Akin's Aus dem Nichts (In the Fade)-- shockingly, Kruger's first German - language production — putting her in prime position for that one Oscar nomination a year that seems to go to a non-American actress (see: Emmanuelle Riva, Charlotte Rampling, Isabelle HuppertIn the Fade)-- shockingly, Kruger's first German - language production — putting her in prime position for that one Oscar nomination a year that seems to go to a non-American actress (see: Emmanuelle Riva, Charlotte Rampling, Isabelle Huppertin prime position for that one Oscar nomination a year that seems to go to a non-American actress (see: Emmanuelle Riva, Charlotte Rampling, Isabelle Huppert).