Sentences with phrase «major motion pictures such»

The award was inaugurated in 1983 after the untimely death of the iconic science fiction author, Philip K. Dick, whose work has been adapted into major motion pictures such as Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report.

Not exact matches

I raise this issue because movies, especially Hollywood major motion picture films, have the power to affect, on a mass scale, the audience perception on reality — especially a movie that bases its entire plot on a real historical event such as we can see in Argo.

That goes some distance toward explaining how a gifted director (he also helmed 2011's masterful «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy») could have marshaled such a stellar ensemble, including Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Toby Jones, enlisted gifted collaborators like the cinematographer Dion Beebe, and still managed to emerge with one of the more disturbingly inept motion pictures released by a major studio this year.

Berry, who was the first black woman to win the best actress Oscar, noted that Boone Isaacs had scored two such firsts: She was the first black woman to run a major studio publicity department and the first African - American to serve as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Often collaborating with other artists, or enlisting large groups to create «reality directed» performances and video works, Althamer has traveled around the world, staging major performative events that range from obviously constructed spectacles to more subtle interventions like Motion Pictures, in which he hired actors to perform everyday acts, such as greeting a friend, in a public square.

Sponsored video game tournaments are nothing new, but the backing from a major motion picture company such as Lionsgate highlights a new level of recognition and influence for eSports.