Sentences with phrase «oil barons»
The phrase "oil barons" refers to wealthy individuals or companies who have a lot of power and influence in the oil industry. They often own or control large amounts of oil reserves and have significant control over the production, pricing, and distribution of oil. Full definition
Danny Boyle's series Trust, like Ridley Scott's 2017 film All the Money in the World, recounts the strange family saga of oil baron John Paul Getty and his grandson's kidnapping
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More streaming TV: the first season of the AMC historical drama The Son, starring Pierce Brosnan as a ruthless oil baron in 19th century Texas, debuts on Hulu.
The other is a SuperPAC funded heating oil baron from Long Island.»
Ahead of its season premiere on FX next month, a second trailer has arrived online for Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy's upcoming anthology series Trust which is based on the story of the real life kidnapping of John Paul Getty III (Harris Dickinson) and stars Donald Sutherland as oil baron J. Paul Getty alongside Hilary Swank, Brendan -LSB-...]
Hey, how do I get to put together a failed cable network, and sell it to Islamist middle eastern oil barons for a hundred million so I can keep on being a man of the people?
God gives these corporate oil baron war exploitative bankers tons of money because he wants them to have it.
A short animation detailing the effort of billionaires oil barons Charles & David Koch to undermine belief in climate change and prevent legislation that threatens their profits.
Christopher Plummer was nominated for best supporting actor after he became a last - minute replacement for Spacey in «All the Money in the World,» filming his part as oil baron J. Paul Getty in a matter of weeks after principal photography had been completed.
Among those culpable industrialists, if Thomas's theory is true, is the family of the man who now signs his paychecks — Chiefs founder and owner Lamar Hunt, son of Texas oil baron H.L. Hunt.
also earned eight Oscar nods and was capped by a bitter I - hate - everyone speech by Daniel Day - Lewis's ruthless oil baron.
The film centers on an unhinged oil baron who gets in a bruising standoff with a stubborn farmer after the water on his farm was poisoned by her company.
Billionaire oil baron Charles Koch is now waging war against another entity that was created with Koch seed money decades ago: the Cato Institute.
The Englishman has won best actor Oscars for his roles as paraplegic Irish writer Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989), a greedy early 20th century oil baron in There Will Be Blood (2007) and US president Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln (2013).
Polite Canadians are easy prey for U.S. oil barons I've learned a lot about compromise over the last few decades.
One other development Canadian oil barons are enthusiastic about is the appointment of Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State.
So we blame the Arab oil barons, Ronald Reagan, or American companies growing rich from scarcity.
Oil baron sells the club which he just bought from Ghirardi to an Italian and Russian group.
On the other hand though, I curse the day those Sheikhs and oil barons arrived.
Chelsea are also accused of having «plastic fans» that magically appeared in the early noughties, weirdly coinciding with the arrival of Oil baron extraordinaire, Roman Abramovich.
After all, it was a game where we matched the northern oil barons stride for stride, and shot for shot only to fall short in the end.
Since then he's been hanging on to the table while oil barons have thrown around their bottomless stacks, slowly building back to a position of strength while avoiding going bust.
Russian oil baron and tycoon ex-wife in courtroom battle over their # London riverside home Alexei Golubovich and Olga Mirimskaya divorced in Let's talk about sex after divorce.
A rich oil baron, Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) has discovered that a rich deposit of black gold lies under the Muppet Theatre, and unless the Muppets can raise $ 10 million in two days, the whole thing will be razed and the Muppet brand will be sold off to morally bankrupt corporate forces.
Paul's divorced mother, Abigail Harris Getty (Michelle Williams), is frantic when she receives the call from her son's kidnappers but doesn't have that kind of money, so she hopes that her wealthy father - in - law, painting - collecting oil baron J. Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer), would without question pay the kidnappers to have his grandson set free.
Considering Rockstar's well documented obsession with stuffing movie references into its works, would you really be surprised if Red Dead 3 went all Daniel Plainview on us and centred on competing oil barons who are violently vying for petroleum deposits?
The villainous oil baron is as throwback a character as they come («There Will Be Blood» excepted), and the soundtrack doesn't contain a single song released after 1985.
Walter is walking through the old office of Kermit the Frog when he overhears a conversation between oil baron Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) and his Muppet goons, where Tex reveals his plans to take over the property and tap into the oil reserve underneath.
Day - Lewis, an Oscar winner for «My Left Foot,» grabbed another best - actor nomination as a flamboyant oil baron in «There Will Be Blood,» for which he could emerge as the favorite.
Which was, of course, a major treat for Mark Bridges, who's done the wardrobes for all of director Paul Thomas Anderson's movies, among them the disco porn business epic «Boogie Nights,» turn - of - the - last - century psycho oil baron drama «There Will Be Blood» and psychedelic era mystery «Inherent Vice.»
He's more rigid and less self - aware than Daniel Plainview, the wily oil baron Day - Lewis played in There Will Be Blood, his previous PTA joint.
When he discovers an evil oil baron's plan to destroy the studio in order to drill for oil, he works with Kermit and the rest of The Muppets to put on a show to save their property.
Before Gray found fame playing the wife of oil baron J.R. Ewing on Dallas, it was her leg that was photographed for a film poster to promote the original 1967 film version of The Graduate starring Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson.
There Will Be Blood charted the strange obsession between a monomaniacal oil baron and a Christian pastor which climaxed in an act of phallic battery with a bowling pin.
He shows the dark side of Johnson's ambition: how he proved his loyalty to the great oil barons who had financed his rise to power by ruthlessly destroying the career of the New Dealer who was in charge of regulating them, Federal Power Commission Chairman Leland Olds.
As he tracks down the pieces of Lev Nussimbaum's deliberately obscured life, Reiss discovers a series of shadowy worlds — of European pan-Islamists, nihilist assassins, anti-Nazi book smugglers, Baku oil barons, Jewish Orientalists — that have also been forgotten.
Whether you choose the Leon Russell Room, Tulsa Art Deco Room, Route 66 Suite, Oil Barons Suite, or any of our other elegant rooms, you will find opportunities to experience a piece of history during your stay.
From its origins as a residence for well - heeled oil barons in the late 20's to its current standing as the city's best address, the Ambassador Hotel Tulsa has always offered the best of both worlds: convenience to, and an escape from, the energy and exuberance of downtown Tulsa, OK.
This includes a voodoo priestess, a kung - fu master carved out of jade and appropriately named The Beardmaster, a balloon - busted brothel madam, a literally pot - bellied oil baron, and the barely justified Wavy Tube Man.
America's oil baron T. Boone Pickens is promoting his own plan to wean the U.S. from foreign oil by shifting to wind power.
The setting was the verdant grounds of an arts - and - science foundation started half a century ago by Armenian oil baron Calouste Gulbenkian.
I'm going to COP23 as part of the People's Delegation to show that the American people are still in, that we're ready to fight back against Trump and his regressive policies, and that we refuse to let wealthy CEOs and oil barons lead us down the path of destruction.»
Flying cars can be very expensive to produce, and so far many of the projects in the works seem geared more toward oil barons than gas station attendants.
I felt weird wearing jeans and a t - shirt while using this phone, though I suppose oil barons wear t - shirts at points too.
She also has sponsored the Canadian Slow Pitch Championship that was held in Fort McMurray, the Fort McMurray Oil Barons Hockey Team, and other minor hockey teams and adult slow pitch recreational league teams.