Sentences with phrase «many black directors»

At Sunday's Oscars, actor, screenwriter and director Jordan Peele made cinematic history, becoming the first black director to win an Oscar for best screenplay.

The movie has generated record proceeds of more than $ 400 million worldwide so far, making it the highest - grossing opening for a film with a black director.

He added, «I'm so proud to be a part of a time at the beginning of a movement where I feel like the best films in every genre are being brought to me by my fellow black directors.»

Barry Jenkins, who directed Moonlight, is also the first black director since Steve McQueen (2013's Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave) to be recognized for Best Director, a category that's only nominated four black men — John Singleton, Lee Daniels, McQueen and Jenkins — since the award was first handed out in 1929.

But is the real story about black directors working in television?

Director Ava DuVernay called it a «gamechanger» for putting Netflix's power behind a diverse cast, a black director, and a «straight to the people» release.

Here's the Marvel movie even non-Marvel fans are prepared to root for, the rare black superhero film, one boasting not only an almost all - black cast but helmed by a black director as well.

It has a black director in Ryan «Creed» Coogler; black screenwriters in Coogler and Joe Robert Cole, and an almost entirely black cast.

A Wrinkle In Time director Ava DuVernay is the first woman of color to direct a film with a $ 100 million - plus budget, and alongside her «little brother,» Black Panther's Ryan Coogler, she crossed another milestone this past weekend, which marked the «first time films by black directors with $ 100 million plus budgets have ever placed in the first two box office spots,» as CNN puts it.

He's the first black director of a Marvel movie.

As Black directors behind two of the most anticipated movies of the year, Coogler honors DuVernay calling her a «pioneer.»

I left my dream of being a director behind long ago, and I think that was because, while I have a great respect for film, I didn't really believe there was a place for very many black directors.

Peele could become the first black director to win the Academy Award.

The honor makes the «Get Out» filmmaker just the fifth black director nominated for the award, a distinguished group that includes John Singleton for 1991's «Boyz n the Hood,» Lee Daniels for 2009's «Precious,» Steve McQueen for 2013's «12 Years a Slave» and Barry Jenkins for last year's best - picture winner, «Moonlight.»

With his Oscar nomination for Best Director, Get Out's Jordan Peele became only the fifth black director to ever be nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

It isn't a film that necessarily needs to be pushed because he's a black director or because it teaches us white folks about racism.

Skimming further down their list of winners shows Steve McQueen taking Best Director for his work on «12 Years a Slave»; the first black director chosen in their 79 - year history.

Independently produced by David Susskind and Philip Rose and directed by Daniel Petri (who replaced Lloyd Richards, the black director who had brought the play to Broadway), A Raisin in the Sun introduced many white moviegoers to black family drama.

No, it's not the first blockbuster with a black director.

So far, no black director has ever won in the directing category — 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight both won Best Picture without winning director.

It also shows that a movie with an all - black cast and a black director can break records.

Armond White tossed from the New York Film Critics The story goes that contrarian film critic Armond White was heckling Steve McQueen as he took the stage for the New York Film Critics - this, being the first time any black director has...

And it's not just the first superhero movie with a predominantly black cast — it's the first with a black director, black writers, black costume and production designers, and a black executive producer.

SAT: Jordan Peele is the fifth Black director to be nominated for best director, while Greta Gerwig is the fifth woman.

You know, like Ava DuVernay last year, Spike Lee many years, or [insert Black director's name here] in your year of choosing.

Then there's the fact that an independent movie by a black director — a black queer story filtered through something other than the white gaze — rose to win the industry's most coveted prize (not to mention the adapted screenplay Oscar won by the film's writers, Tarell Alvin McCraney and director Barry Jenkins).

I'm so proud to be part of the beginning of a movement, where the best films in every genre are being brought to me by my fellow black directors.

However the night ended, Oscars 2014 was set up to be a big year for Black films, Black directors and Black actors.

The black directors of hip hop biopic Straight Outta Compton (F. Gary Gray) and sports drama Creed (Ryan Coogler) were also left out.

Co-written and directed by Ryan Coogler, «Black Panther» is already the highest grossing movie by a black director.

If he wins, he'll become the first black director to ever win the Best Director Oscar — yes, you read that right.

This is a Marvel superhero movie about colonialism, and it has a black director and a mostly black cast, with music by Kendrick Lamar, and it's dropping during Black History Month.

This only makes sense for a movie titled Black Panther, with a majorly black cast and a black director, arriving during Black History Month.

Highest grossing film by a Black Director: It has been a watershed year for black filmmakers, with Barry Jenkins» «Moonlight» winning Best Picture, Jordan Peele getting a Best Director Oscar nomination for «Get Out» and F. Gary Gray directing a billion - dollar hit with «The Fate of the Furious.»

Now there are two black directors ranked in the top 15 highest grossing films of all - time, with Ryan Coogler and «BP» passing Gray's $ 1.23 billion worldwide cume for the eighth «Fast & Furious» film

With just a few more days until it hits theaters, the hype around Black Panther is reaching a fever pitch as everyone prepares to see Marvel's first film with a predominantly black cast and a black director.

This year's list included seven actors of color, three African American writers (including the late August Wilson, who wrote the screenplay for Fences), and a Best Director nomination for Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), who becomes only the fourth black director nominated in the Oscars» history after John Singleton, Lee Daniels, and Steve McQueen.

as they make history by being the fifth woman and the fifth Black director to be nominated for Best Director.

Powell discusses her Oscars predictions and shared her thoughts about Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele as they make history by being the fifth woman and the fifth Black director to be nominated for Best Director.

Nonetheless, this is a more diverse field than usual; the inclusion of Peele, whose only the fourth black director ever to nab a nod, and the Mexican genre visionary Del Toro, makes this the first time ever that white men don't make up the majority of the DGA lineup.

The Academy still has time for a few more historic moments; Jordan Peele could be the first black director to take home the Best Director prize, or Greta Gerwig could be the second woman ever to win the same distinction.

Another was Get Out's Jordan Peele, who became the first black director to be nominated for Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture in one year, and the first black director to have his debut film nominated in all three of those categories.

The film, helmed by a black director, can not be faulted for this approach, as it taps into a current, honest sense of disenfranchisement.

Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya will be starring in another film by a black director that is probably going to break a sh-t ton of box office records: Black Panther.

Independence Day box office king Will Smith and another consistently entertaining star, Kevin Kline, team up as 19th century U.S. government agents James West and Artemus Gordon, respectively, for Smith's Men in Black director, Barry Sonnenfeld.

I actually don't think I ever dreamed this big — that a film about an African nation, with an all - black cast and helmed by a black director would get this much of a celebration.

(Last year, Gray became the first black director to make a $ 1 billion hit with «The Fate of the Furious.»)

Cast: Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sydney Poitier, Diane Venora, Mathilda May, J.K. Simmons, Jack Black Director: Michael Caton - Jones Screenplay: Chuck Pfarrer (based on the Kenneth Ross screenplay for The Day of the Jackal) Review published December 3, 1997

It's a beloved hit across the board, and if Jordan Peele somehow won Best Director he would make history as the first ever black director to win.

While, with Moonlight, the young Black director Barry Jenkins describes, through the eyes of his community, the life of a young man during three stages of his life.