Sentences with phrase «of black performers»

A surprisingly large number of black performers helped pave the way with Oscar - winning and - nominated performances from McDaniel through Diahann Carroll, who earned her lead actress nomination in the 1974 comedy «Claudine.»

Hallelujah demonstrated the talents of black performers and showed the artistic possibilities of stories focused on black life.

demonstrated the talents of black performers and showed the artistic possibilities of stories focused on black life.

Not exact matches

Shane Black understands Robert Downey Jr.'s charm better than almost anyone and deployed it with military precision here, striking the fine balance between arrogant jerk, insecure bully and determined hero with all the finesse of a circus performer.

«Top performers get comfortable with the gray areas and think broadly and deeply about which questions must be resolved and when, yet have a sense of urgency to get the answers and drive decisions to the black and white of actions and results,» Duerksen wrote in the white paper.

The younger the stars, the smaller the black hole — the astronomical equivalent of noticing a correlation between the age of concert attendees to determine whether the performer is more like Taylor Swift or a Journey cover band.

It's a black - and - white issue for the Veep, who attends the Television Academy's Performers Peer Group celebration of the Emmys in Beverly Hills wearing a simple color - block Narciso Rodriguez sheath.

Black Girls Rock held its annual awards show on Saturday evening, celebrating women of color who are killing it as entrepreneurs, performers and philanthropists.

Jarmusch's eye for blighted landscape (he films in a grainy black and white) is hilariously sharp, and he sends his performers on their zomboid rounds with a keen sense of rhythm and interplay.

Many of the performers who walked this year's red carpet made it a point to wear black in solidarity with the brave victims who've come forth with allegations of sexual misconduct.

But, if there was an award for animal performers, the two horses that handled the bulk of Black's onscreen time deserved it: one of The Black Stallion's most famous scenes — where Alec befriends the wild horse in a long, single take — is an incredible exchange that probably would have been lauded were it between two adult, human actors, let alone a little boy and an animal.

Bolstering things are strong supporting actors like Sean Be (ee) an (Game of Thrones), Nikki Amuka - Bird (Luther), Maria Doyle Kennedy (Orphan Black), James D'Arcy (Agent Carter), Kick Gurry (Edge of Tomorrow) and Gugu Mbatha - Raw (Belle)- plus a host of other performers hidden behind makeup and / or CGI to create the strange alien characters.

And in a twist on the sorts of freewheeling montages in which Billy Crystal once specialised, a droll film montage showed what various Oscar hopefuls might have looked like with black performers added to the mix.

In addition to Rooney Mara, the festival has also announced that it will honor Johnny Depp (Black Mass) with its Maltin Modern Master Award, Brie Larson (Room) and Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn) with its Outstanding Performers Of The Year Award and Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams (Spotlight) as an ensemble with its American Riviera Award.

Rendering characters they developed in tandem with their Spanish writer - director, these non-professional but astoundingly gifted performers convey so much of what matters in so many working - class black lives: the solidarity but also the standoff between parent and child; the series of low - ceiling jobs; the alienation from what few social services still exist; the yearning but also the wariness awakened by new romantic prospects; and the suddenness with which poor choices, ambient prejudice, or adolescent disaffection lead to intractable enmeshments in the penal apparatus.

Black Panther continues to be one of the strongest performers in the MCU after just a few days, and among the most successful films of this still - young year.

This feature chronicles a young Philadelphia lesbian named Cheryl (Cheyl Dunye) in the midst of researching a film project about a bygone black performer known as the Watermelon Woman.

This highly underrated movie was something of a flop when first released; you can kind of see why, as its story of a young girl infatuated with tales of the pirate Mack the Black and a circus performer who gets mistaken for said pirate is a bit all over the place, and the musical numbers fall toward the overly frenzied.

The organization honors excellence in cinema by creating awareness for films with universal appeal to black communities, while emphasizing film about the black experience and those produced, written, directed and starring performers of African descent.

One of the most consistent performers in cinema, Washington has won the Black Reel as a Producer for Outstanding Motion Picture for Antwone Fisher (2002), Outstanding Director, Antwone Fisher (2002), and four times for Outstanding Actor in Flight (2012), Training Day (2001), Remember the Titans (2000), and The Hurricane (1999).

Alice Lowe (Prevenge) Veteran writer and comedy performer Alice Lowe - you know her from Sightseers - made her feature directing debut with pitch black and blood drenched comedy Prevenge, the tale of an expectant mother driven to murder by her unborn child.

Actor, singer, songwriter and comedian and three - time Black Reel Award winner Jamie Foxx has solidified his stature as one of the industry's most multi-faceted performers.

Both freshmen shows scored impressive wins — Outstanding Writing, Drama Series for showrunner / show creator Cheo Hodari Coker and Mahershala Ali's second Black Reel Award in a matter of months, this time for Outstanding Guest Performer, Drama Series.

Costar Deon Cole of «black - ish,» «The New Girl» cast member Lamorne Morris, musicians Common, Tyga and Nicki Minaj, and actors Gina Hall and J.B. Smoove all join the cast for the first time, alongside returning performers such as Cedric the Entertainer, Eve, Anthony Anderson, Troy Garity and Sean Patrick Thomas.

Black Panther also scored a $ 40.1 million domestically its first week, the biggest Monday performer of all time, and racked up an even bigger second weekend with $ 111.6 million, placing it at number two of all time — behind, that's right, The Force Awakens.

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Washington — who this year lost in the best actor category to Manchester by the Sea «s Casey Affleck — previously made Oscars history in 2002, when he and Halle Berry became the first black performers to win both of the Academy's lead acting awards on the same evening.

Overlooked and stereotyped, black performers of the silent era today stand out for their talents

Jack Black gives a funny, dynamic performance, even if it isn't his best, with his energy contrasting with the deadpan approach given to most of the rest of the performers.

In fact, Black Swan shares a lot of similarities with The Wrestler in that both films feature performers that love their craft above all else, willing to sacrifice their own health or happiness in the hopes of achieving artistic integrity.

Yet the record - breaking hit of «Black Panther» has been followed by a string of lackluster performers, including «Tomb Raider,» «A Wrinkle in Time» and «Red Sparrow.»

The 49th NAACP Image Awards Feb. 15 celebrated actors from «Get Out,» «Power,» and host Anthony Anderson's own «Black - ish» while also honoring the activism of performers Danny Glover and Charlie Wilson.

It hurts even more because of the 95 minutes preceding it: a nasty, clever murder scheme drenched in black humor and bolstered by a fine bevvy of performers.

Rendering characters they developed in tandem with their director, these non-professional but astoundingly gifted performers convey so much of what matters in so many working - class black lives.»

According to data from the 2013 - 2014 school year, SFUSD's black students are among the lowest performers on standardized tests and have one of the highest dropout rates.

This predominantly black - and - white collection of images includes many of Avedon's best - known photos, notably the stunning nude of dancer Rudolf Nureyev and the sexy - vampy headshot of Marilyn Monroe, but also features lesser - known photo galleries of theatrical performers, musicians and dancers exuberantly engaged in their art.

Blackoustic, promoted by headliner / producer Vixen Noir as a night of entertainment by queer black female performers, made its debut last Saturday night at the Align Gallery, situated in the heart of York Avenue's small but thriving nightlife in Highland Park.

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Nominated in the Performer category are Abubakar Salim (Bayek) in Assassin's Creed Origins, Ashly Burch (Aloy) in Horizon Zero Dawn, Melina Juergens (Senua) in Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Valerie Rose Lohman (Edith Finch) in What Remains of Edith Finch and Claudia Black (Chloe Frazer) and Laura Bailey (Nadine Ross) in Uncharted: The Lost Legacy.

In Sounds Like Her, Boyce is presenting a new development of her ongoing Devotional series with the names of 200 black British female performers inscribed on a wallpaper, overlaid with placards especially created for the exhibition, featuring images of these women, plucked from Boyce's own archive of concert announcements, fashion magazines and other materials documenting popular culture.

Performances on view included a recreation of Bag Piece (1964), with a live performer stretching and squirming on a small stage in a black bag, and a screening of Cut Piece (1964), where Ono sat still, solemnly, as audience members took scissors to her outfit.

Saint Phalle chose prominent and inspiring members of the African American community related to sports or music to highlight in the Black Heroes series, such as jazz musicians Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong, performer Josephine Baker, and athletes Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Tony Gwynn.

Within the connecting spaces between the galleries are multiple iterations of Swedish composer, writer, performer and conceptual artist Leif Elggren's ongoing project, for which he reappropriates the colour combination of yellow and black, traditionally used to express danger or to demarcate a border.

interdisciplinary artist / writer / performer Kenyatta AC Hinkle's makes loose energetic drawings with handmade brushes while dancing, and from these works she creates poignant un-portraits of black women who have gone missing via erasure.

In 2007, film critic Jonathan Romney described Starr's new silent film Theda: «In a 40 - minute black - and - white film Theda British artist Georgina Starr, best known for her series of works inspired by the 1965 thriller Bunny Lake is Missing, pays tribute to this stormiest of divas and undertakes an archeology of gestural art of the silent - era actress (Theda Bara), drawing on the styles of several other now forgotten grande - dames, such as Barbara La Marr and Maud Allan... the film is divided into three parts «prelude», «act» and «epilogue»... but «prelude» is the real coup: in a long single take, Starr runs through the codified expressive repertoire of the Theda - era performer with such precision that any ironic distance evaporate.

In this video, a monstrous artworlder walks around an exhibition of black monochromes by Alan McCollum, the performer suggesting, in a script sewn together from auction catalogue texts, museum guides and press interviews with dealers, artists and collectors, that contemporary geometric abstraction merely fulfils the role of taste signifier and investment opportunity.

Much of his work provides artistic affirmation of the Black Is Beautiful movement, enlarging images of black models and performers while also building on Pop Art and»60s psychedelia and presaging 1980s appropriation art, as well as the patterned collage paintings of the British artist Chris OfBlack Is Beautiful movement, enlarging images of black models and performers while also building on Pop Art and»60s psychedelia and presaging 1980s appropriation art, as well as the patterned collage paintings of the British artist Chris Ofblack models and performers while also building on Pop Art and»60s psychedelia and presaging 1980s appropriation art, as well as the patterned collage paintings of the British artist Chris Ofili.)

, a collective of 38 mostly black and queer artists, writers, composers, academics, filmmakers and performers participated and withdrew from the 2014 Biennial [15] as a protest of the Whitney Museum's policies.

While the use of ultra-referential props — Dobermans, black mattresses, cages, and so on — seems all too expected, the performers in Anne Imhof's «Faust» at the German Pavilion manage a

While the use of ultra-referential props — Dobermans, black mattresses, cages, and so on — seems all too expected, the performers in Anne Imhof's «Faust» at the German Pavilion manage a tour de force many will be discussing for a long time.