Sentences with phrase «of female leads including»

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The District of Columbia was ranked fourth on that list, with 11 female - led companies in the area, including the cyber security and IT government services firm A Prentice Ray & Associates (ranked No. 86 on the 2017 Inc. 5000 list).

After the success of the first season, all of the lead female actors reportedly received «sizeable» raises, including a reported $ 1 million per episode for Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, who also serve as executive producers on the series.

Of the dozen companies Fortune included in that ranking, Indiegogo led the way with female employees comprising 43 % of its leadership, while Cisco and Pinterest were at the bottom with 19 % eacOf the dozen companies Fortune included in that ranking, Indiegogo led the way with female employees comprising 43 % of its leadership, while Cisco and Pinterest were at the bottom with 19 % eacof its leadership, while Cisco and Pinterest were at the bottom with 19 % each.

Julie Hembrock Daum, who leads the North American Board Practice, highlights key findings from the 2017 Spencer Stuart U.S. Board Index, including increases in the number of first - time and female directors and changes in director skills and backgrounds.

So though my ideal church would permit questioning, * real * questioning that leads to conversations, discussions and inquiry, rather than pat answers — include teachers of all sexes (female, male, intersex) and of all gender expressions and sexual orientations, it would by definition exclude a bunch of people.

Just a few of the chef's area partners include Sapidus Farms, the one - man sustainable oyster harvesting operation led by Michael Manyak; Goot Essa, the Amish dairy farm that cave - ages its cheese; and Prosperity Acres, the female - owned farm humanely raising goats.

The alleged ban on these practices, including female ejaculation, spanking and face - sitting, led directly to one of the year's more unusual direct action protests, featuring a media scrum and dozens of protesters graphically demonstrating the latter practice outside parliament.

The election led to an increase in the number of female MPs, to 191 (29 % of the total, including 99 Labour; 68 Conservative; 20 SNP; 4 other) from 147 (23 % of the total, including 87 Labour; 47 Conservative; 7 Liberal Democrat; 1 SNP; 5 other).

WHEREAS, Santa Clara County was at one point known as the Feminist Capital of the World, with Janet Gray Hayes serving as the first woman elected Mayor of a major US city as part of a San Jose City Council with seven women, (including a female vice-mayor) at the same time as the San Jose Chamber of Commerce was led by a woman; as of August, only two women serve on the eleven member San Jose City Council and only one woman serves on the five member County Board of Supervisors; and

The population likely peaked in 2010 at 483, including 200 females, according to a recent reanalysis of data from 1990 to 2015 done by a team led by Richard Pace of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

«There is good reason to suspect that increasing chemical production and use is related to the growing incidence of endocrine - associated disorders over the past 20 years, including male reproductive problems, early female puberty, cancers and neurobehavioral disorders,» said Endocrine Society member Andrea C. Gore, PhD, the guide's lead author.

These women are just a few of the beautiful models included in the project that was led by an all - female team from Sports Illustrated.

Other members of the case include Erin Bethea, who notably portrayed female lead Catherine Holt in the film «Fireproof,» Stephen Tobolowsky («Groundhog Day»), and John O'Hurley («Seinfeld»).

And you're choosing to ignore all the female - centered dramas and comedies that have been SUCCESSFUL compared to budget: Lady Bird, Winter's Bone, Wild, Girls Trip, Trainwreck, Bridesmaids, Mean Girls, Clueless, Pitch Perfect, and on and on (not including the huge box office of the female - led action / sci - fi / Disney films like Frozen, Hunger Games, Gravity, Wonder Woman, etc).

T'Challa relies consistently on the women around him, including his general Okoye, who leads the female royal guard Dora Milaje; his much younger sister, the brilliant Shuri (Letitia Wright), who designs his suit (and most of Wakanda's futuristic technologies — nod to production designer Hannah Beachler); and his mother, Ramonda (Angela Bassett), whose encouragement he seeks during the first ritual combat.

For starters, I count at least seven headliners in the upper echelons of the cast, and that doesn't include Vera Farmiga holding her own quite well as the token female lead.

In fact, eight of the ten movies I included in my top ten of the festival were led by a female performance, five of the ten films were directed by women.

The film includes a number of deaf actors, including the female child lead Millicent Simmonds, who said she was given a number of films to watch.

The young female cast of supporting actors — led by Gordon and including Gillian Jacobs, Adria Arjona, Jessie Ennis and Debby Ryan — is up to the task of playing opposite McCarthy.

A pale imitation of the first film that boasts some terrible acting and even worse writing — and that doesn't even include the laughably misogynistic undertones that crop up once Katee Sackhoff's lone female character is introduced — «Riddick» doesn't really progress the overall story any further, leading one to question why another movie was necessary at all.

The film features a fierce group of Wakandan women, including Nakia (Academy Award ® winner Lupita Nyong» o), a War Dog and Wakandan spy; Shuri (Letitia Wright), T'Challa's little sister and tech wizard; and the Dora Milaje, the all - female Wakandan Special Forces led by Okoye (Danai Gurira).

The Spirit Awards were founded in 1984 and this list of nominees included three for Blue Jasmine — Woody Allen for Best Screenplay, Cate Blanchett for Best Female Lead and Sally Hawkins for Best Supporting Female.

At tonight's awards reception, in addition to several prominent, award - winning female filmmakers being honored, including the amazing Amma Asante, J.J. Abrams, will receive the Leading Man award for for his ongoing support and advocacy of women in film.

Other winners of the night included Daniel Day - Lewis (Outstanding Male Actor in a leading role), Julie Christie (Outstanding Female Actor in a leading role), Javier Bardem (Outstanding Male Actor in a supporting role), Ruby Dee (Outstanding Female Actor in a supporting role), and the cast of No Country For Old Men, who won Outstanding Cast in a motion picture.

A shortlist of actresses for a female role in Star Wars: Episode VIII reportedly included Olivia Cooke, Tatiana Maslany, Gina Rodriguez, and Gugu Mbatha - Raw, they were said to have tested alongside Force Awakens lead John Boyega for chemistry.

Co-directors Mike Mitchell and Walt Dohrn have assembled quite the cast of talented voice actors, including Anna Kendrick as female lead Princess Poppy, joined by Justin Timberlake as Branch, the one Troll who eschews all the singing, dancing and hugging, thanks to his fear of being captured and eaten by the Bergens.

Behind The Screens: Panels Master Classes Conversations MVFF38 hosted a total of six panels, which included such luminaries as Ed Arentz, Managing Director Music Box Films; Ira Deutchmann, Founder Fine Line Features; production designer Judy Becker; director Valerie Weiss; Russ CollinsFounder / Director Art House Convergence; producer / writer Komal Minhas; and director Christopher Coppola as well as three master classes, including Bobby Roth: A Director Prepares, a Conversation with Catherine Hardwicke and The Heroine's Journey: Writing and Selling the Female - Driven Screenplay, led by screenwriter Pamela Gray and story consultant Tom Schlesinger.

But, as we know from many things, including the entertainment industry's persistent neglect of black and Latino audiences and its slowness to greenlight superhero movies with female leads, Hollywood is not the purely rational business it likes to make itself out to be.

Led by Lionsgate and Pantelion's massive Spanish - language hit «Instructions Not Included,» this year's biggest hits were a refreshingly diverse mix (certainly compared to the studios), with the top 10 including four films with female leads (two of whom were over 75 years old!)

I knew it had a stellar cast including Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling and Chris Pine... and a story of a strong female lead.

Thivisol's best actress prize at Venice occasioned a series of articles in Variety and elsewhere about whether or not what she did was acting (one of the jurors at Venice, Anjelica Huston, pointed out to me in an interview that there were only four female lead performances, including Thivisol's, among the 20 or so competition films).

Angelina Jolie played the lead character of Lara Croft and was nominated for two MTV Movie Awards, including Best Female Performance and Best Fight scene.

Join Oli and Luke for a run down of the week's biggest superhero news — including the rumoured titles for DC's two - part Justice League movie, which Academy Award winner is in talks to play Marvel's first ever female - led superhero film with -LSB-...]

Posts include «Feminism is funny: Writing team inspires a generation with female - led comedies, «Robin Schiff's «Romy and Michele» marks platinum anniversary», «A Walk to Remember» screenwriter reflects on adaptation, Hollywood's gender bias», as well as film reviews of Their Finest, To the Bone.

Due to date of the audition being from July 6th, 2016, it's likely from the Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow, American Made) incarnation of the film (2015 - 2017), as Liman was hellbent on recasting certain roles, including French actress Lea Seydoux (Spectre, Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, Inglorious Basterds) as female lead Bella Donna Boudreaux.

Oddly enough, where Ava is assumed to be childlike, Brad Bird's own female robot, Athena (Raffey Cassidy) from Tomorrowland, actually is a child, a trait that leads to a wealth of complications, including what many have termed a «creepy» relationship with George Clooney's Frank.

And, as it turned out, they'd outdone themselves with «The Lego Movie,» a meta - tastic, beautiful looking, uproariously funny blockbuster that pits Chris Pratt «s everyman Emmett and his various helpers (including Elizabeth Banks «kick - ass female lead, Morgan Freeman «s senile wizard and best of all, Will Arnett's total dick take on Batman) against Will Ferrell «s Lord Business.

But just as lead actors in Woody Allen films frequently mimic the tics of their director, so female writers working with him, including Schumer, invariably create typical Apatow characters — the stunted adolescent who can't grow up — just with added oestrogen.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Warner Bros. film is expected to be based on DC's «Birds of Prey» property, which centers on a female - led team that debuted in the comics in 1995 and has included characters over the years such as Barbara Gordon / Batgirl, Poison Ivy, Catwoman and Katana (who was played by Karen Fukuhara in the 2016 movie «Suicide Squad»).

Elizabeth says there are less obvious tags used for kids» shows, including «perilous situations» and «strong female lead» — the latter one of her favorites.

Or are you unaware that Sarah Hoyt is a female Latino science fiction writer who has written stories including homosexual romances on the part of protagonists which have led to happy endings?

Thus some of last year's largest blockbusters included female leads.

Apparently, Activision execs may have called for culling of female leads from upcoming projects (including a nifty spy thriller starring a Lucy Liu - wannabe that's transmogrified into True Crime: Hong Kong) just because they didn't test well in focus groups.

E3 recently passed and featured a decent showing of games with either exclusively female leads, or games that included the option to choose between a man and a woman.

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

Frequently regarded as Asia's leading female artist, Lee talks to Time Out ahead of the inaugural exhibition of Lehmann Maupin's Hong Kong gallery, which showcases a selection of pieces she's made over the past few years, including several sculptural works, a number of drawings and two new «painted sculptures».

And it led her to form an organization of female artists, known as the Fight Censorship Group, whose membership would include Louise Bourgeois and Hannah Wilke.

At Life on Mars, David continues to play backup for such female leads, as several expressionistic women have been part of recent group and solo shows, including Katherine Bradford, Joyce Pensato, Amy Sillman, Brenda Goodman, and Fran O'Neill, whose exhibition I wrote about earlier this year.

Specialist still life artists included: Frans Snyders (1579 - 1657), who is noted for still lifes of dead game and meat, crammed with religious allusions and moral pointers; Harmen van Steenwyck (1612 - 56), the leading vanitas painter; Willem Claesz Heda (1594 - 1681), an exponent of monochrome banketje; Pieter Claesz (1597 - 1660), a specialist in ontbijtjes (breakfast still lifes); Jan Davidsz de Heem (1606 - 83) and Willem Kalf (1619 - 93), who specialized in decorative still lifes; Samuel Van Hoogstraten (1627 - 78), whose speciality was interiors with deep linear perspective; and Rachel Ruysch (1664 - 1750), arguably the greatest ever female flower painter.

These groups pressurized leading New York museums - including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art - to increase the proportion of exhibits by female artists.