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1 The latest winners of the Nobel Prize — the big kahuna of genius awards — will be announced this month.
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Journalist Ta - Nehisi Coates, a frequent contributor to The Atlantic, is the recipient of a MacArthur «genius» grant and a National Book Award for his memoir.
But the forces around us constantly encourage us to downplay its importance, so much so that when I began a project interviewing MacArthur Fellows (recipients of the so - called creative «Genius Award») about creativity, I inadvertently and subconsciously chose not to emphasize play in my interview questions.
In honor of the comedic genius and award - winning actor's birthday, we look back at 10 of his most poignant statements in life and film.
2014.06.24 Celebrity entrepreneur, ballet director, women's activist, boy genius and an everyday hero among the winners of the 2014 RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant awards
Toronto, May 21, 2009 — Toronto's MaRS Discovery District has combined the creative genius of science and technology with the drive of entrepreneurs and capital to create a marriage that will see more Canadian ideas commercialized in this country and for those efforts it has won the Canadian Urban Institute's 2009 Creative City Award to be granted to MaRS on June 5 at the Urban Leadership Awards in Toronto.
We love the Patemm pad because of its genius, award - winning round design that accommodates squirmy infants.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, who received a master of fine arts degree from SU in 2007, was named one of 24 MacArthur Foundation «genius grant» award winners for 2015.
Cuomo told the MTA to hold a «Genius Award» contest to find the best ideas on how to overcome the seemingly unfixable subway problems of the ancient signal system, the aging fleet of cars, and the lack of cellular and wi - fi connections on trains and in tunnels.
Partly in recognition of his skill at bridging disciplines, Prum was awarded a MacArthur Foundation genius grant in 2009.
On 17 September he was named a MacArthur «genius» Fellow — only one of several prestigious awards and honors he has received since publishing his article, including membership in the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS).
Half a century later most of the wall space in the Earth Policy Institute's small suite of offices is covered with honorary degrees from 23 universities and numerous plaques recording other awards, including a MacArthur Foundation «genius grant,» Italy's Presidential Medal of Honor and a U.N. Environment Prize.
He is a professor and curator of paleontology at the MSU Museum of the Rockies and an author, he was a technical adviser on the three Jurassic Park movies, and he won a MacArthur genius award for his work on dinosaur behavior.
You were just awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant of $ 650,000.
As this feature went to press, the winners of the latest MacArthur Foundation «genius awards» had just been announced.
Kauffman, a MacArthur «genius award» winner, pioneered the application of complexity theory to the life sciences.
MCB is pleased to announce that Kevin Eggan, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology is a recipient of this year's MacArthur «genius» award in recognition of his stellar contribution to stem cell research.
Since 2002, she has been on the Physics faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she is now the Marble Professor of Physics and recipient of a 2010 MacArthur «genius» award.
Since then, White has brought her genius to an incomparable variety of dramas and comedies, in both television and film, published books, and received eight Emmy Awards, three American Comedy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Grammy.
The developers of SeniorNext deserve an award for their genius contribution to the senior dating site world.
Award - winning documentary on the life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.
GENIUS, starring Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush and produced by Academy Award winners Brian Grazer and Ron Howard is a 10 episode journey of the greatest scientific mind of the 20th century Albert Einstein.
Other special presentations of note include Rian Johnson's «The Brothers Bloom,» Richard Linklater's «Me and Orson Welles,» Danny Boyle's «Slumdog Millionaire,» Kevin Smith's controversial «Zack and Miri Make a Porno,» Guillermo Arriaga's «The Burning Plain» (could be Oscar bait for actress Charlize Theron), Charlie Kaufman's «Synecdoche, New York» and Marc Abraham's «Flash of Genius» (which could be an awards vehicle for Greg Kinnear).
It's Martin Scorsese who deserves this award, though, for putting us into the mindset of a manic genius and having the guts to make a three - hour long character study and make it utterly fascinating.
The encroachment of the forest animals and the efforts of the Verminator in «Over the Hedge» don't approach the wit and genius of a similar situation in the Academy Award - winning «Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were - Rabbit» (2005), but then how could they?
McCarthy became the first female recipient of the Comedic Genius Award, crowd - surfing her way to the stage and name - checking a slew of female comedians that inspired her — as well as her mother.
Redmayne received an Academy Award earlier this year for his demanding lead performance in «The Theory of Everything» as the scientific genius Stephen Hawking, who suffered from motor neuron disease.
As with the Golden Globe nominations, Eddie Redmayne and Benedict Cumberbatch vie for the best actor award with competing portrayals of scientific geniuses: Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything and Alan Turing in The Imitation Game.
While he has picked up awards at the Golden Globes, Critics» Choice and Emmy's, he was up against Benedict Cumberbatch for Sherlock: The Lying Detective, Jeff Daniels for Godless, Robert De Niro for The Wizard of Lies and Geoffrey Rush for Genius for the SAG.
«Big Hero 6 The Series,» based on the Walt Disney Animation Studios» Academy Award ® - winning feature film, continues the adventures and friendship of 14 - year - old tech genius Hiro, his compassionate, cutting - edge robot Baymax and their friends Wasabi, Honey Lemon, Go Go and Fred as they form the legendary superhero team Big Hero 6 and embark on high - tech adventures as they protect their city from an array of scientifically enhanced villains.
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Specifically, he was a genius whose scripts won multiple Academy Awards, and whose talent was so profound that Hollywood types came skulking to him, hoping for hits, even once he was blacklisted during the Red Scare of the 1940s and»50s.
Specifically, he was a genius whose scripts won multiple Academy Awards, and whose talent was so profound that Hollywood types came skulking to him, hoping for hits, even once he was blacklisted during the Red Scare of the...
Brad Bird, the Academy Award - winning director of such animated classics as «Ratatouille» and «The Incredibles,» has fashioned with Tomorrowland, a clever, but muddled story of a scrappy teen, Casey Newton (Britt Robertson, «The Longest Ride») and a cockeyed former boy genius, Frank Walker (George Clooney, «The Monuments Men») who join forces in an attempt to save the world from itself.
Acclaimed Irish director Lenny Abrahamson follows up his award - winning films Adam & Paul, Garage and What Richard Did with an offbeat comedy about a young wannabe musician, Jon, played by Gleeson, who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant - garde pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank, (Michael Fassbender) a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head, and his terrifying bandmate Clara, played by Maggie Gyllenhaal.
A producer, manager, and marketing genius, Carr built his bombastic reputation amid a series of successes including the mega-hit musical film «Grease» and the Broadway hit «La Cage Aux Folles» until it all came crashing down after he produced the 1989 Academy Awards, a notorious debacle.
Brad Bird, the Academy Award - winning director of such animated classics as «Ratatouille» and «The Incredibles,» has fashioned with Tomorrowland, a clever, but muddled story of a scrappy teen, Casey Newton (Britt Robertson, «The Longest Ride») and a cockeyed former boy genius, Frank Walker (George Clooney, «The Monuments Men») who join forces in an attempt to...
The cast is everything you could ever want featuring the talented performances of Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence in yet another Academy Award worthy performance, Robert De Niro, and even comedian genius, Louis C.K.
Elle, which was not eligible last year at BAFTA, hit the foreign film category BUT the great Isabelle Huppert's highly successful awards campaign last season is now «old news» so notice that she doesn't show up in the Best Actress list... though you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who thinks the film isn't brilliant that doesn't credit her as the defining genius of the film.
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Banker White is the director and producer of award winning documentaries The Genius of Marian and Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars.
Will Ferrell wore a three - piece suit covered in dollar bills to accept the Comedic Genius Award from «Game of Thrones» star Peter Dinklage.
Anna co-directed with Banker White the award - winning The Genius of Marian (POV 2014).
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«There is no achievement gap at birth,» MacArthur «genius» award recipient Lisa Delpit affirms at the outset of her new book, «Multiplication Is for White People»: Raising Expectations for Other People's Children.
For the first time in its eight - year history, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago has awarded three of its «genius» awards to people who work with children.
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Fryer won the MacArthur «genius» award for «illuminating the causes and consequences of economic disparity due to race and inequality in American society... through innovative empirical and theoretical investigations.»
Harvard University Professor Roland Fryer, a recent MacArthur Foundation Genius Award Winner; Terry Grier, Superintendent of the Houston Independent School District; Dennis Van Roekel, President of the National Education Association; Karen Cator, Director of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology, and LearnZillion Founder Eric Westendorf are among the participants in the panel discussions.
Harvard University Professor Roland Fryer, a recent MacArthur Foundation Genius Award Winner; Terry Grier, Superintendent of the Houston Independent School District; Dennis Van Roekel, President of the National Education Association; and Democracy Prep Schools Founder and Superintendent Seth Andrew were among the panelists to discuss the new proposals.