Meanwhile, Laika's «Coraline» and Disney's hand - drawn film «The Princess and the Frog»
led feature wins with three each, while Wes Anderson's stop - motion toon «Fantastic Mr. Fox» picked up writing kudos for Anderson and Noah Baumbach.
Not exact matches
Here are just a few: Jordan Peele became the first African American to
win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out, and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water
won for Best Picture — a film
featuring a female actor in the
lead role hasn't
won the category since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.
A press release from Cambridge celebrating its Ogilvy Award
win featured a statement from then - senior vice president Emily Cornell: «Our team was able to identify a key group of undecided women voters in the final months
leading up to the Election Day,» she said, «which ultimately
led to «Can't Run Her House» — one of the most successful ads of the cycle.»
After
winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her wild - eyed turn as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, she attempted a few other serious acting roles but only seemed to find blockbuster success when she took on the
lead role in the
feature - film adaptation of the video game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
This new component of SFWSC, the most respected and influential international spirits competition of its kind,
features an all - star panel of judges,
led by SFWSC's Director of Judging and
leading bar professional, Tony Abou - Ganim, and including the likes of best - selling author and whiskey expert Fred Minnick and Ziggy Eschliman, award -
winning radio and television personality and educator, who will blind taste cocktail recipes submitted by some of the industry's most respected leaders including author and beverage consultant Kimberly Haasarud and James Beard - honored cocktail historian, David Wondrich.
Nearly 20 years and 65 restaurants later, Yard House still
leads the way with great food, classic rock and a vast selection of draft beer while evolving into an award -
winning dining destination known for its menu of American favorites, crafted cocktails and endless fleet of tap handles
featuring the best American craft beer and imports.
Nearly 20 years and 59 restaurants later, Yard House still
leads the way with great food, classic rock and a vast selection of draft beer while evolving into an award -
winning dining destination known for its menu of American favorites, crafted cocktails and endless fleet of tap handles
featuring the best American craft beers and imports.
In a game that
featured six
lead changes and both teams holding double - digit
leads (A&M went up 14 - 0 early, and Wake
led 38 - 21 late in the second quarter), Matt Colburn's one - yard run gave the Deacs a 55 - 52
lead, and what we'll call some physical pass defense (A&M fans might call it penalty - worthy) forced a late turnover on downs to seal the
win.
We know anything can happen in a single game or series — again, Game 1
featured Aroldis Chapman blowing a
lead in the same game we got a pinch - hit grand slam to
win it — but the Dodgers have to be feeling pretty good on Monday morning.
The Formula 2
feature race at Spa - Francorchamps was
won in dominant style by Charles Leclerc, who finished the race with a staggering 26 second
lead over his nearest challenger.
Despite a strong nonleague schedule
leading up to the Stampede «'' including a Queen of the Mountain Tournament title that
featured a
win over Sacramento - powerhouse Sheldon «'' it was clear that Marshall had the first weekend of April marked as the time when she would get at true gauge of her team's mettle.
Wenger's changed outfit,
featuring the likes of Wilshere, Olivier Giroud and Theo Walcott, had
won their three Group H games
leading into this tie.
The Cherries» success was founded on the vision and stewardship of a young, likeable manager in Eddie Howe; the second meanest defence in the division; a dynamic and creative midfield
featuring Matt Ritchie, voted the best player in the Football League by the readers of FourFourTwo; and an attack
led by Callum Wilson that top - scored with 98 goals, including eight without reply in an extraordinary away
win at Birmingham.
Anything Facebook draws news coverage, and this particular Facebook
feature figured in a lot of post-election coverage of Obama 2012,
leading some to over-estimate its actual importance to the campaign (it was a useful way to reach voters difficult to find otherwise, particualrly younger ones who move around a lot, but not a war -
winning technology on its own).
The Interpreter, Šulík's latest
feature effort, stars in the
leading roles Peter Simonischek of Toni Erdmann fame and Czech Oscar -
winning director Jiří Menzel.
As comedies
featuring raunchy female
leads go the Bronze is a real
win.
In 2007, she
won her first
leading role in the
feature film LEFT, in which she played five different characters.
«Elephant» (Fine Line
Features / HBO) The only Cannes entry to
win both Palme d'Or and best director awards, Gus Van Sant's «Elephant» follows a day in the life of 10 normal American high school students, which eventually
leads to inexplicable tragedy.
The filmmakers have assembled a stellar cast, including Felicity Jones, nominated for an Academy Award for her
leading role in The Theory of Everything; Diego Luna, who was
featured in 2008's Oscar -
winning Milk and 2013's Elysium; Ben Mendelsohn, recently nominated for an Emmy for his
leading role in Bloodline and co-starring in the upcoming Mississippi Grind; Donnie Yen, Hong Kong action star and martial artist who starred in Ip Man and Blade II; Jiang Wen, who co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in the award -
winning Let the Bullets Fly and Devils on the Doorstep; Forest Whitaker, recently
featured in the critically - acclaimed Lee Daniels» The Butler and winner of an Academy Award for his
leading role in 2006's The Last King of Scotland; Mads Mikkelsen, who starred in The Hunt and was the memorable villain from 2006's Casino Royale; Alan Tudyk, who plays a performance - capture character in Rogue One, stars in the soon - to - be-released Con Man series and Trumbo, which releases this November; and Riz Ahmed, who was recently
featured in Nightcrawler and starred in the BAFTA -
winning film Four Lions.
It also
features two superbly
winning actors in the
lead roles, and the chemistry between them is...
If A Fantastic Woman
wins Foreign Language Film it will be the first ever to
feature a trans storyline with a trans actress as its
lead.
That film
won two Academy Awards and while Frankenweenie isn't expected to match that total, it is considered one of the
leading candidates in this year's Best Animated
Feature Oscar race.
The last time director Thomas Carter made a
feature film, it was the inspiring true story of high school coach Ken Carter who, though
leading an undefeated team, believed there was something more important to the future of his players than
winning.
Although The Boxtrolls
lead the nomination tally going into the awards, How to Train Your Dragon 2
won six awards at the 42nd ANNIE Awards this weekend, including Directing, Editing, Music, Storyboarding, Character Animation in an Animated
Feature as well as the big one itself, Best Animated
Feature.
Academy Award — nominated director Jason Reitman returns to the Sundance Film Festival for the sixth time, having previously debuted four shorts and one
feature at the Festival, while Academy Award —
winning screenwriter Diablo Cody makes her Sundance Film Festival debut with Tully, a funny, moving, and insightful look at motherhood that
features captivating performances by its two female
leads.
Carrey has
won two Golden Globes as a
lead actor, for
features The Truman Show and Man on the Moon.
The Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) announced its 2014 awards today, with Austin filmmaker Richard Linklater's
feature «Boyhood»
winning Best Film, Best Director, and two other awards, as well as
leading the group's Top Ten list.
Monsters Inc. is another animated movie
featuring a
lead character that has
won «Employee of the Month.»
The big winner this year was David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook, hardly an indie
feature if I might say, which ended up taking home the Best Feature, Director, Screenplay and Female Lead / Actres
feature if I might say, which ended up taking home the Best
Feature, Director, Screenplay and Female Lead / Actres
Feature, Director, Screenplay and Female
Lead / Actress
wins.
Capturing the horror of the camps like few filmmakers before and displaying a gift for camerawork both realistic and with a heightened terror that Inarritu and Lubezki would be jealous of, it's sure to
win him a Foreign Language Oscar nod and could
lead to Best Picture and Best Director nominations as well, while he's currently developing his second
feature «Sunset,» a thriller set in Budapest in 1910.
Wong was originally scheduled to shoot «The Lady From Shanghai»,
featuring Oscar -
winning actress Nicole Kidman, but has delayed the project until 2007 because they have not found a strong male
lead actor, a source attending the ongoing Berlin Film Festival said.»
That said, «Lady Bird» is racking up nominations and awards, including four Independent Spirit nods (for
feature, female
lead, supporting female and screenplay) and three Gotham noms (
winning for Saoirse Ronan's
lead performance).
2013 was a good year for African - American filmmakers with many
features with Black
leads such as 42, After Earth, Black Nativity, Mandela, Fruitvale Station, The Butler and 12 Years A Slave, which went on to
win Best Picture at this year's Academy Awards.
Directed by Joe Johnston (Jumanji), Captain America proves to be a riveting roller coaster ride from beginning to end, basically because it relies on a
winning recipe
featuring all the fixins needed to hold an audience's undivided attention, from a compelling plot which ratchets up the tension all the way to the final showdown, to eye - popping action and special effects, to a sweet romance between likable
leads exhibiting screen chemistry, to lots of unexpected moments of levity (with much of the hilarious comic relief arriving courtesy of Tommy Lee Jones).
The Artist
won big at the 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards by taking home most of the major awards such as Best
Feature, Best Director, Best Male
Lead and Best
Last year Focus
Features» parent Universal Pictures sneaked the Blumhouse title Get Out at midnight Tuesday last year, which kicked off a roaring box office whirlwind of $ 255M worldwide for the socially - conscious horror title and a year long - plus awards season march which hasn't stopped including two Golden Globe noms (comedy,
lead actor), two SAG noms (ensemble cast and
lead actor Daniel Kaluuya), Critics Choice
wins for best horror film and Jordan Peele's screenplay, two DGA nominations for best picture and first time
feature by Peele, as well as the Stanley Kramer honor at last night's PGAs.
In this award -
winning debut
feature, Israel delivers a precious take on the classic romantic comedy, casting a pair of autistic characters as its lovestruck
leads.
Director Anders Walter
won an Oscar in 2014 for his live - action short, «Helium,» and his
feature debut «Giants» is assured, compelling filmmaking, with a complex performance by Madison Wolfe in the
leading role as the killer of said giants.
Academy Award ® nominated and Golden Globe ®
winning actress Rachel Griffiths (Six Feet Under, Muriel's Wedding) is now confirmed to star in the
lead role of new
feature film Mammal.
A super-concentrated packet whose
features have the precision of an X-Acto knife, Natalie Portman literally and figuratively blasted out of the box as a pubescent punkette assassin in The Professional (1994) and hasn't taken a breather since, working with the top stratum of directors in a carousel of genres ranging from costume drama (The Other Boleyn Girl) to space opera (the Star Wars prequel trilogy), to mirror - splintering psychodrama (Black Swan, for which she
won the Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a
Leading Role).
WHY: Director Jay Roach has reinvigorated his career making political movies for HBO, and his latest
feature for the network is a conventional but solid adaptation of Robert Schenkkan's Tony -
winning play that
features a superb performance by Bryan Cranston, who originated the
lead role on Broadway.
Allison Janney of Neon's «I, Tonya» earned the supporting actress statue, while Gary Oldman of Focus
Features» «Darkest Hour» and James Franco of A24's «The Disaster Artist»
won for
leading drama and comedy actor, respectively.
Facing History and Ourselves and The Allstate Foundation, in partnership with The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, present a Youth
Lead Community Conversation
featuring award
winning and Emmy nominated photojournalist, Ron Haviv, on Wednesday, March 1 at The Maltz Museum.
Polaris Charter Academy,
led by New Leaders Michelle Navarre and Roel Vivet, is
featured in an Education Week article about developing character after Polaris students
win first - ever «Think it Up» Innovation Award.
In his time as managing editor of Education Week Teacher and assistant managing editor of Education Week, he guided and helped expand coverage of the teaching profession, with an emphasis on practitioner voice;
led a significant increase in traffic for the Education Week Teacher website; managed and edited several award -
winning blogs; oversaw web design and analytics as well as social media outreach; coordinated webinars, virtual roundtables, and other interactive
features and events; and expanded editorial partnerships to broaden the publication's content.
Painted to match an incredibly rare McLaren F1 XP GT «Longtail» that was built to homologate the Le Mans
winning F1 GTR, the special 570GT
features unique «XP Green» paintwork with contrasting tan pin - stripes on the
leading edges of the splitter, side skirts and rear diffuser.
Inside, the concept is packed with Evoque's award
winning technology including Terrain Response, surround cameras, Park Assist and class
leading infotainment
featuring an 8 - inch dual view touch screen and a sound system from British audio experts, Meridian.
Earlier this year, Canyon
won Cars.com Midsize Pickup Challenge for its segment -
leading capabilities and efficiency, including the latest in safety
features, cargo - hauling and trailering versatility.
Python
leads the industry in award -
winning security and remote start systems with innovative
features.
BERLIN — Sept. 1, 2011 — Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a
leading provider and innovator of award -
winning consumer electronics, today announced the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, the world's first tablet to
feature the brilliant Super AMOLED Plus display.