Sentences with phrase «other big name directors»

And Affleck doesn't overdo it stylistically, which may cost him some Oscar votes when he goes up against other big name directors like David O. Russell, Tom Hooper, Steven Spielberg, Paul Thomas Anderson, Kathryn Bigelow, and more.

In fact, Nolan not only assembles his casts from the best actors available in the pool of talent from today, he has a knack for remembering venerable performers like Rutger Hauer («Batman Begins»), Tom Berenger («Inception») and Matthew Modine («The Dark Knight Rises») who have otherwise sadly fallen off of other big name directors» radars.

Not exact matches

The others will be more offbeat, prestige fare completely unconnected to the big universe, in which they'll try to get big name directors and Oscar - caliber talent.

With speakers who are some of the industry's biggest names like Jean - Marie Arnaud, General Director OIV; David Richardson; Regulatory & Commercial Affairs Director, The Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA); Andrew Catchpole, Editor, Harpers Wine & Spirit Magazine and The Drinks Wholesaler; Andrew Shaw, Group Wine Buying Director, Conviviality PLC; Florian Ceschi, Director, Ciatti Europe, and many other prominent industry representatives, this is not a conference worth missing.

Other big - name transfers into Westminster include Ros Altmann, the former Saga director general who took a peerage last year to become pensions minister, resigning last month.

Director / writer Joseph Kosinski «s story (the script is credited to Karl Gadjusek and Michael DeBruyn, with William Monahan and Michael Arndt among those who worked on the film too) cribs liberally from other more familiar sci - fi tales, including one recent cult hit which mentioning the name of would likely tip you off to the film's big secrets.

Guillermo del Toro's wondrous film was the recipient of three awards, and the other two were big ones — Sally Hawkins won Best Actress and del Toro himself tied for Best Director with Call Me by Your Name's Luca Guadagnino.

The Big Short marks a tuning point in the career of writer - director Adam McKay who made his name with Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy in 2004, followed by hit Will Ferrell comedies Step Brothers and The Other Guys.

It follows three high school kids throwing a big party, played by Thomas Mann, Jonathan Daniel Brown and Oliver Cooper, but other than that it's full of unknowns, directed by an unknown, the only other big name is Todd Phillips (director of The Hangover, Due Date) as the producer of the whole thing.

The director is John Lafia, a TV guy with only one or two other big screen credits to his name.

The Shape of Water, Universal's Get Out and Lady Bird were joined on the Best Picture list by Sony Classics» Call Me By Your Name; Focus Features» Darkest Hour, home to Best Actor frontrunner Gary Oldman, nommed today; Warner Bros» Dunkirk, with Christopher Nolan's stunning war movie scoring eight noms; Focus» Phantom Thread, with Daniel Day - Lewis back in the Actor race; Fox's The Post, along with it the 21st nomination for Meryl Streep (though not for director Stephen Spielberg); and Searchlight's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, probably the other frontrunner coming into today noms and which had seven nominations, with Martin McDonagh nominated for writing but not directing, and the film's big three — Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell — all nominated.

While they're still searching for a lead actor, Seth Gordon is currently attached as director with Mark Boal as the writer (a team that appeared after a host of other big names came and went).