Sentences with phrase «musical director for»

Most recently, he served as musical director for Steffani Jemison's Promise Machine (MoMA 2015).

From 1985 to 1994 he was the musical director for the theater company of Pascal Rambert, a writer, choreographer, and director.

KCRW Music Director Jason Bentley will act as the music supervisor and musical director for the documentary and the film's soundtrack.

From the AMPAS press release: Michael Giacchino will serve as the musical director for the 81st Academy Awards ®, telecast producer Laurence Mark and executive producer Bill Condon announced today.

Dan Kanter is the lead guitarist and musical director for Justin Bieber.

Not exact matches

Last night, the 31 - year - old won the prize for Best Screenplay and Best Director, with his film winning Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, and its stars, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, winning Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

TGI Fridays is launching the Red Hot Summer of Music, a summer - long celebration featuring an online contest in search of the best undiscovered musical artists, with three - time Grammy Award - winning artist and Creative Director for Malibu Red NE - YO, and some of YouTube's top artists.

«Since 1998, VH1 Save The Music Foundation has raised $ 2.14 million for new musical instruments so that Chicago Public School students in over 82 schools could gain the tools to pursue their passion for music,» said Paul Cothran, Foundation Vice President and Executive Director.

The awards ceremony honored Jerry Mitchell, Tony Award - winning choreographer and director of the musical Kinky Boots; Paul Kelterborn and Christopher Tepper, the founders of the New York City AIDS Memorial; Thomas Roberts, an anchor for MSNBC; and Glennda Testone, the Executive Director of the New York City Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Communitydirector of the musical Kinky Boots; Paul Kelterborn and Christopher Tepper, the founders of the New York City AIDS Memorial; Thomas Roberts, an anchor for MSNBC; and Glennda Testone, the Executive Director of the New York City Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) CommunityDirector of the New York City Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Community Center.

«This was the opportunity for them to show we're not just involved in a game of musical chairs,» said Citizens Union executive director Dick Dadey.

James Hudziak, M.D., professor of psychiatry and director of the Vermont Center for Children, Youth and Families, and colleagues including Matthew Albaugh, Ph.D., and graduate student research assistant Eileen Crehan, call their study «the largest investigation of the association between playing a musical instrument and brain development.»

After the service, I was taken to meet the choir director, who was wonderful, and he said they were having auditions for a musical that night!

I have choreographed for musicals as the Dance Director for a local Performing Arts Camps for a few summers.

Functioning in this capacity and as composer and musical director, Previn was honored several times by the Academy Awards folks, earning nominations for Kiss Me Kate (1953), Two for the Show (1955), It's Always Fair Weather (1955), Bells are Ringing (1960), Pepe (1960) and Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), and winning Oscars for Gigi (1958) and Porgy and Bess (1959).

The movie was nominated for an impressive 13 Oscar Nominations including Best Picture, Best Director (Steven Spielburg), Best Actor (Danny Glover), Best Actress (Whoopi Goldberg), Best Supporting Actress Nominations for Oprah Winfrey and Margaret Avery, along with Best Supporting Actor (Adolph Caesar), and Best Original Musical Score for a Motion Picture (Quincy Jones) which was the first time in any Spielburg produced film that composer John Williams did not compose a film score for a Spielburg movie.

But for a first time director he did a brilliant job with this warm - hearted circus filled musical.

For the majority, Lowden feels restrained by a director who has a very specific, flat vision of a musical legend.

His star quickly rising, Luna was soon noticed by casting directors, and in 1996, he took the lead for the musical drama El Cometa and the thriller Un Dulce Olor a Muerte (both 1999).

Adapting hit stage musicals for film is always a risky business, with far more getting it wrong than right (witness Evita, The Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Nine, etc.), so give Mackintosh (the producer here), director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech) and the cast full credit for commitment to the cause.

Among the more notable recognition: winning the Golden Globe for Best Picture (Comedy or Musical), picking up BAFTA and Writers Guild nominations for Jon Lucas and Scott Moore's original screenplay, winning a comedy / musical editing award from American Cinema Editors, and having its production design nominated by the Art DirectorsMusical), picking up BAFTA and Writers Guild nominations for Jon Lucas and Scott Moore's original screenplay, winning a comedy / musical editing award from American Cinema Editors, and having its production design nominated by the Art Directorsmusical editing award from American Cinema Editors, and having its production design nominated by the Art Directors Guild.

A largely self - congratulatory promotion for the musical, the video features interviews with film screenwriter Herlihy, Broadway director John Rando, choreographer Rob Ashford and stage star Stephen Lynch.

There's a trailer out there that people seem to like, it has pedigree (writer - director Bill Condon adapted the screenplay for Chicago, another musical turned undeserved Best Picture winner), and it's been promoted with a certain amount of swagger.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

Danna comments, «[Director] Michael Basset was clear that he wanted the score to be more musical for this film than for the first Silent Hill movie.

Writer / director Oren Moverman (The Messenger) go - to guy for biopics about musical icons.

Other movies up for Best Picture include director Tom Hopper's take on the hit musical Les Misérable (one of its 11 nominations), Silver Linings Playbook (one of 10 nominations), Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Life of Pi, The Master, Moonrise Kingdom, and Zero Dark Thirty, which the New York Film Critics Circle voted Best Picture.

Chiwetel Ejiofor won for Best Actor, Steve McQueen won in the Best Director category and Hans Zimmer took the prize for Best Musical Score.

Voting is open until December 12 at 11:59 p.m. Categories include Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Documentary, Best Animated Film, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent film).

George Miller was named Best Director for «Mad Max: Fury Road,» which also won for Best Musical Score.

For fans of the earlier movies, not all is lost: Sie's background as a music video director and «Step Up» series helmer is readily apparent, and what «Pitch Perfect 3» lacks in catchy tunes, it more than makes up for in genuinely creative and rousing musical sequencFor fans of the earlier movies, not all is lost: Sie's background as a music video director and «Step Up» series helmer is readily apparent, and what «Pitch Perfect 3» lacks in catchy tunes, it more than makes up for in genuinely creative and rousing musical sequencfor in genuinely creative and rousing musical sequences.

Anyone who has seen the lavish stage musical and also loved it (and that two - part distinction is essential) will find much to be thankful for in director Tom Hooper's lavish film adaptation.

One other movie that barely was finished in time — «Wolf of Wall Street,» which had to postpone its release for more than a month from Nov. 15 because director Martin Scorsese was behind schedule — collected a nomination for star Leonardo DiCaprio in the comedy or musical actor race.

Champions: The film - a musical set in modern day Tinseltown - landed 12 nominations, and took home gongs for Best Director for Damien Chazelle, Best Screenplay, Best Production, Best Score, Best Editing and Best Song

Les Misérables certainly looks strikingly different than most of the other Broadway musical - turned films released in recent years, thanks to some picturesque visuals and unusual camera angles conjured up by director of photography Danny Cohen (who received an Oscar nod for his similar work on King's Speech).

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11 Paul Giamatti as Kryptonite for Musicians It was bad enough the first time casting directors did this to us on the ill fated musical Rock of Ages.

La La Land won all seven awards it was nominated for, with the retro musical earning Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy; Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for Emma Stone; Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for Ryan Gosling; Best Director, Motion Picture, and Best Screenplay, Motion Picture, for Damien Chazelle; Best Original Score, Motion Picture for Justin Hurwitz; and Best Original Song, Motion Picture for Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's «City of Stars.musical earning Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy; Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for Emma Stone; Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for Ryan Gosling; Best Director, Motion Picture, and Best Screenplay, Motion Picture, for Damien Chazelle; Best Original Score, Motion Picture for Justin Hurwitz; and Best Original Song, Motion Picture for Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's «City of Stars.Musical or Comedy; Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for Emma Stone; Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for Ryan Gosling; Best Director, Motion Picture, and Best Screenplay, Motion Picture, for Damien Chazelle; Best Original Score, Motion Picture for Justin Hurwitz; and Best Original Song, Motion Picture for Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's «City of Stars.Musical or Comedy for Emma Stone; Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for Ryan Gosling; Best Director, Motion Picture, and Best Screenplay, Motion Picture, for Damien Chazelle; Best Original Score, Motion Picture for Justin Hurwitz; and Best Original Song, Motion Picture for Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's «City of Stars.Musical or Comedy for Ryan Gosling; Best Director, Motion Picture, and Best Screenplay, Motion Picture, for Damien Chazelle; Best Original Score, Motion Picture for Justin Hurwitz; and Best Original Song, Motion Picture for Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's «City of Stars.»

Previous trailers for the Les Misérables musical — from Oscar - winning director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)-- featured Anne Hathaway's rendition of «I Dream a Dream,» but kept a lid on the rest of the cast's singing performances (which were recorded live during filming).

X-Men actor reportedly in talks for lead role in King's Speech director's take on long - running musical

DVD Review: The new Razzle - Dazzle Edition of «Chicago» is mostly likely more about promoting director Rob Marshall's latest film («Memoirs of a Geisha») than honoring the Academy Award - winning musical, but it's a pleasant holiday surprise for fans of the film.

Guest director Joshua Oppenheimer, whose wrenching «The Act of Killing» debuted at TFF in 2012, has put together an eclectic program that includes Werner Herzog's 1970 «Even Dwarfs Started Small» (with Herzog in attendance), Jon Bang Carlsen's intriguing and obscure «Hotel of the Stars» (1981), an hour - long Danish documentary about extras who live in a shabby apartment hotel in Hollywood; the only movie directed by Charles Laughton, 1955's exquisitely - shot «The Night of the Hunter,» starring a brilliant, terrifying Robert Mitchum, and fortuitously playing in his centenary year; «Salam Cinema,» Mohsen Makmalbaf's 1995 record of auditions by aspiring actors; a new print of Frederick Wiseman's long - banned, corrosive «Titicut Follies» (1967), filmed in a notorious Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane; and Jacques Demy's glorious, gorgeous musical, «The Umbrellas of Cherbourg» (1967), starring the glorious, gorgeous Catherine Deneuve.

Versatile and prolific, Canadian Norman Jewison was thrice nominated for Best Director in three different decades: for still - timely racial drama «In the Heat of the Night,» heartfelt musical «Fiddler on the Roof,» and romantic comedy «Moonstruck.»

Though Reed received Oscar nominations for «The Fallen Idol» (1948) and «The Third Man» (1949), other two films in that trio, he finally won best director Oscar honors for the musical «Oliver!»

The movie ends on an ironic musical number, briefly running back to the 80s homages it has been doing so well at avoiding for the rest of the movie, and I personally could have done without the indulgent turn from director Gluck.

(It's like when producers say «we couldn't find someone who can sing and dance for this musical»... it's just code for: «we didn't really try because we liked Star A even though they were wrong for it» The Retro Set a look at Fred Astaire defying gravity in Royal Wedding for director Stanley Donen's birthday

But after that, the trophies came at a steady pace for the candy - colored musical set in the world of showbiz: production design, score, song for «City of Stars,» Emma Stone for lead actress and Damien Chazelle for director.

One of the more exciting musical collaboration's for film in recent years has been Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and director Paul Thomas Anderson.

«Hairspray» director Adam Shankman appears to have done a good job of retaining the theatricality of the musical numbers while still making them cinematic, and 80s rock music was tailor - made for the genre, but if you're expecting «Rock of Ages» to be the next great movie musical, prepare be disappointed.

Universal Pictures has unveiled yet another featurette for Les Miserables, director Tom Hooper's highly - anticipated musical adaptation.

The film — which also features the likes of Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Carla Bruni, Tom Hiddleston, Kathy Bates, Marion Cotillard and Adrien Brody — provided Allen with his biggest hit, banking over $ 145m at the global box office, and it will also contest the Golden Globe awards for Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor — Musical or Comedy (Wilson).