Sentences with phrase «performance of the year behind»

Mullan is great, and Colman gives the best female performance of the year behind Juliette Binoche in Certified Copy.

From there, we're probably also looking at at least one acting nomination — Jesse Eisenberg may very well give the second best male performance of the year behind Colin Firth — with Leonardo Dicaprio still hanging in for Shutter Island.

Not exact matches

«The company's performance over the three - and five - year time periods has languished behind peers, and the board's response for this underwhelming performance was to give Ms. Rometty 1.5 million options on top of her regular pay,» wrote Mastagni.

Instead, the MacBook Air will stick with Intel's years - old «Broadwell» chips, which are well behind the latest generation in terms of overall performance and battery efficiency.

Before exposing how a given broker's stock performance relates to its price competitiveness, let's see what other metrics lie behind the current pricing of brokerage shares and what justified their stock price rally in the past five years.

After almost a year of work behind the scenes, the tech giant at a price recently on 7.5 billion dollars, has introduced a tool designed to test the performance of the main Blockchainów, which are currently being prepared for formal submission to the Hyperledger consortium, whose leader is the Linux Foundation.

A defining performance from one of the game's best ballstrikers — the type that makes one look at the quality names just behind the 27 - year - old Englishman and go, «Hmm, we might have ourselves a star in the making here.»

Embracing the challenge, the 39 - year - old Brodeur seemed to shake off the previous losses and his recent history of playoff failures to deliver a vintage performance, as the Devils coasted to a 4 - 0 victory behind Brodeur's shutout performance.

Graham will run behind an offensive line that lost just one starter, which can be interpreted as good news or bad, given its performance of a year ago.

Sir David Tanner CBE, the man behind British Rowing's unprecedented years of success, is to step down as performance director after 21 years at the helm.

... Sir David Tanner CBE, the man behind British Rowing's unprecedented years of success, is to step down as performance directo...

The 19 - year - old midfielder was part of an improved Toffees performance following the break against Claude Puel's team, albeit the visitors could not find a way back into the match after falling behind to first - half goals from Jamie Vardy and Demarai Gray.

At the most recent general election in 2017, Labour won 7 seats in Scotland — improving on its performance two years previously — with 27.1 % of the vote, and was the third - largest party behind the SNP and the Conservatives.

The governor said the change is needed because less than one percent of teachers were rated ineffective (the lowest category on the rating system) last year but students continued to «lag behind in performance.»

Actually, rather than «falling behind,» what has happened over the last 20 years is that the performance of U.S. students in math and science has stayed the same (rather than improved) while the performance of students in many other nations has grown exponentially, outdistancing our students.

Directors Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal weave never before seen video, candid interviews and behind the scenes performances into an intimate portrait of Whitney Houston, who died suddenly after years of struggling with addiction.

A strong contender is emerging in the shape of Eran Creevy, who made a storming debut with the microbudget «Shifty» a few years ago, a low - key drama that featured top - notch performances from Daniel Mays and Riz Ahmed, and oodles of filmmaking talent behind the camera.

Pirates of the Caribbean is the first film ever released under the Walt Disney Pictures brand to receive higher than a PG rating (the film is rated PG - 13), and the team assembled to make the film is a virtual Who's who of hot properties: Director Gore Verbinski had a huge hit last year with the spook fest The Ring, Writers Terry Rossio & Ted Elliott were the writing team behind Shrek, Actor Johnny Depp is so extremely selective in his roles no one would ever imagine he'd do a Disney film, Orlando Bloom is fresh off the Lord of The Rings Trilogy, Geoffrey Rush has at least one Academy Award under his belt, and Keira Knightley has become a hot property after her performance in the run away indie hit Bend It Like Beckham.

To mark the occasion, and to acknowledge that more than half of 2013 is behind us, I've compiled a list of the finest film performances delivered by actors this year, at least until this point.

Like last year's subpar «The Conjuring» spinoff «Annabelle,» this direly routine ghost story marks a huge comedown in production values and performance quality from the series» previous entries (which earned a combined $ 258 million worldwide), despite the presence of longtime Wan collaborator Leigh Whannell behind the camera and always game - faced elder scream queen Lin Shaye in front of it.

The overall box office is running nearly 20 percent behind last summer's record season, and while this weekend was still about 13 percent behind the same frame last year, the strong performances of the top films is an encouraging sign.

But despite two terrifically nuanced performances by its male leads and a good try by its somewhat miscast female star, the simmering dramatics behind «Denial» never quite reach a satisfying boil of righteous indignation and justice served that was felt in last year's similar «Spotlight,» the expose about the uncovering of the Catholic Church's pedophile priest scandal.

You know Sundance has thrown its weight behind a film when it debuts on the huge screen in the Eccles Theatre, but this year many of these selections were thin or safe, among them Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship, which is ill - served by a one - note performance by Kate Beckinsale and has the larger problem of its lack of clarity about whether it's satirizing Jane Austen novels or their film adaptations.

Without a single dormant moment, the volatility of the camera is countered by a set of unsettling performances we spent years divorcing the actors from, particularly Ellen Burstyn, now forever huddled behind the couch, watching for that refrigerator.

Three years later, he was back behind the camera again with another Boston - set crime thriller, «The Town,» in which he also gives one of his best performances.

The follow - up to one of the most charming family films of the last ten years is almost equally charming, featuring the return of everyone's favorite bear in an adventure that takes him behind bars and includes a wonderfully villainous performance from Hugh Grant.

While the ever - lessening dollar and Hollywood's ever - escalating tentpole ambitions will continue to rob Titanic's performance of meaning, it really was a thing of beauty: opening pre-Christmas with an unextraordinary $ 28.6 M (8th for the year, behind such films as Liar Liar and Scream 2) and then just staying strong, maintaining $ 20 + M weekends through the end of February and hanging onto first place through the first weekend of April (when Lost in Space earned its only claim to fame).

TV Performance of the Year — Actor Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad (AMC) Michael Douglas, Behind the Candelabra (HBO) Jon Hamm, Mad Men (AMC) Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory (CBS) Kevin Spacey, House of Cards (Netflix)

Mamet's skill as a director is still light years behind his skill as a writer, and like his other film House of Games, the performances tend to be somewhat lifeless.

Sandy Kress played a major role in fashioning the federal accountability law, No Child Left Behind, a landmark piece of legislation that has lifted the test performance of minority and disadvantaged students in the years since its passage.

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Students continue to fall behind through the middle school years, and the outcome is even worse for those students who began middle school at the lower end of the performance spectrum.

Although the philosophy behind Balanced Assessment certainly is not new to education, the call for a system that uses multiple and varied measures of student performance has grown louder in recent years.

The efforts of the group are likely to be included in an application the state may make to receive a waiver from federal No Child Left Behind requirements for next year, which punish schools unable to meet rising national performance benchmarks.

For many years, most states» measures of school performance began with third grade, in accordance with the requirements of No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

Additionally, the 34 states — plus the District of Columbia — that received a waiver last year from certain outdated and overly prescriptive requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act by the U.S. Department of Education were directed to design and implement an evaluation system for teachers and principals and to indicate how that information would be used to improve educator performance and student learning.

After failing to meet performance targets for five consecutive years, Gompers was forced to convert to a charter school in 2005 under a provision of the No Child Left Behind Act.

-LRB-...) Among the first two schools to express an interest in the Charter Institute at Erskine are S.C. Virtual Charter School and Cyber Academy of South Carolina, a pair of online schools that received a warning this spring that their current sponsor might revoke their charters due to years of poor performance that lagged far behind state averages.

The following year former Superintendent John Deasy argued that the district was exempt, for one year, from the parent trigger by a federal waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law that allowed LA Unified and seven other California school districts to create their own metrics for academic performance in the temporary absence of statewide standards.

Richard Whitmire of «The Seventy Four» profiles Linda Brown, founder and executive director of Building Excellent Schools and a driving force behind Excel's many years of success and top performance.

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is a federal law that requires states to evaluate the performance of every school every year.

Two years ago, the Obama administration and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan raised eyebrows and garnered criticism from school reformers when it allowed Virginia's state education officials to retroactively set the proficiency targets it had to meet under the No Child Left Behind Act — and make the performance of its schools look better than reality.

In this meeting, the Utah State Board of Education moved Public Education Online forward by giving preliminary approval to a rule governing the program that reimburses online education providers for up to two classes per year per student; provided guidance to school districts and charter schools in evaluating educators for classroom performance; and announced that the U.S. Department of Education has given approval to revisions in Utah's No Child Left Behind plan.

A very bad screenwriter must have written the mystery behind this year's Balance of Performance (BoP) fiasco for the GTE - Pro class at Le Mans.

It's a constant reference point for LaFerrari engineers, so I ask Matteo Lanzavecchia, who's in charge of vehicle performance and who once spent a year working for Newman / Haas Racing's IndyCar program, what an Enzo owner might experience if he or she gets behind the wheel of a LaFerrari.

The Ford Transit Connect, top of the small / midsize van segment is also behind its performance to date for the year, though Ford recently revealed an ace up its sleeve as part of a raft of updates for 2019 model year: a 1.5 - litre turbodiesel engine, the only van in its class to offer diesel power as an option.

MX - 5's lighter weight, enhanced technologies and greater performance should help ensure that the 26th year of the MX - 5 will be just as exciting from behind the wheel as the first 25 have been.

This year, MRT Performance is back at SEMA, except that this time, they're trading chops and leaving the Mustang behind in favor of another vehicle from the Blue Oval: the 2013 Ford Fusion.

Over the past couple of years, Hyundai has been working feverishly behind the scenes in preparation to launch its new performance sub-brand, N.

Unfortunately, my week behind the wheel didn't coincide with any on - track time, but we've already done a few laps in the Shelby GT350R — the slightly lighter and more hardcore version of this car — and expect performance to be similar, especially with the 2017 model's upgrades closing the gap since last year.