Sentences with phrase «powerful actors for»

Of course, corporations have been powerful actors for a long time.

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Our joint hearing will be a public conversation with the CEO of this powerful and influential company about his vision for addressing problems that have generated significant concern about Facebook's role in our democracy, bad actors using the platform, and user privacy.

Duke became a powerful advocate for those suffering mental health issues, and became so admired in Hollywood for her body of work that she was elected President of the Screen Actors Guild.

Actor and activist George Clooney has penned a brief, powerful and poignant prayer for the United States, which has been published by The Daily Beast.

She exemplifies the path to power preferred by the global technocratic elite — rooted in a rigorous control of one's image and calculated disregard for norms that restrain less powerful actors.

The film marks a transition for actor Andrew Garfield, from blockbuster superhero, to critical darling, in a starring role that is already being called one of the year's most powerful.

Belvedere Vodka and award - winning musician - actor - activist, Janelle Monáe, have come together for a two - year collaborative partnership to bring to life powerful co-created content and experiences.

That social mobilization for human rights can have an impact even where such powerful actors are concerned is exemplified by the adoption of a resolution by the Human Rights Council in June 2014 to move towards the elaboration of a binding treaty to prevent human rights violations by transnational corporations Click here for full WABA Press Release See Right To Food and Nutrition Watch 2014 Press Release Download the Watch 2014 report For more information also see: rtfn - watfor human rights can have an impact even where such powerful actors are concerned is exemplified by the adoption of a resolution by the Human Rights Council in June 2014 to move towards the elaboration of a binding treaty to prevent human rights violations by transnational corporations Click here for full WABA Press Release See Right To Food and Nutrition Watch 2014 Press Release Download the Watch 2014 report For more information also see: rtfn - watfor full WABA Press Release See Right To Food and Nutrition Watch 2014 Press Release Download the Watch 2014 report For more information also see: rtfn - watFor more information also see: rtfn - watch.

These campaign ‐ style battles are being waged through an increasing number of «veiled actors» third ‐ party coalitions with misleading names that ask voters to «Save New York» or fight for «Fiscal Fairness» without revealing the powerful interest groups behind these messages.

It is quite likely that political factors, for example the influence of powerful economic actors on legislative bodies, played a role in causing, or exacerbating, this crisis, as Daron Acemoglou, for example, has recently argued.

In a letter to the Observer today, a powerful alliance of public figures ranging from the author Philip Pullman and actor Jonathan Pryce to the musician Brian Eno launch a fresh campaign for a referendum on PR on the same day as the next general election.

Ardren has «brought together studies from throughout the ancient Maya world to show that women were not sidebars in Maya society, but significant actors in their own right,» says Reese - Taylor, who is now building on Ardren's work as she looks for clues about powerful queens who were also fierce warriors.

As they build up steam, two powerful actors keep us wondering whether this train is bound for war or peace.

Award winning actor F. Murray Abraham has also established a reputation for his powerful and sensitive work in the genre of spoken word with music.

(Ian Holm was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor in his role as Abrahams» coach), and this powerful film ended up with four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Costume Design, and Best Original Score.

In 1987, he starred as anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom alongside Kevin Kline, and though the film itself alienated some critics (Pauline Kael called it «dumbfounding»), Washington's powerful performance earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.Two years later, Washington netted another Best Supporting Actor nod — and won the award — for his turn as an embittered yet courageous runaway slave in the Civil War drama Glory.

Internationally acclaimed actor and musician, WES STUDI credits his passion and multi-faceted background for his powerful character portrayals that forever changed a Hollywood stereotype.

Michael is a powerful actor who can project both the intelligence and the malice of the character, making him perfect for the role.

The raw material of this story is so powerful that even a mediocre dramatization would command our interest, but director James Marsh (who won an Oscar for his unconventional documentary Man on Wire), screenwriter McCarten, and the actors go above and beyond the norm.

Mikkelsen is a powerful actor especially known for tough guy roles.

A fitting send - off for one of cinema's great character actors, it's a quiet, powerful tale of life, death, friendship, love, togetherness, and the unseen forces that govern our behavior — and bind us together.

For more than 30 years, Hollywood actor Blair Underwood has been a powerful staple in Black Hollywood.

In addition to Isaac, Chastain and Oyelow, other actors deserve recognition for their work here: Albert Brooks is Abel's consigliore, in a style reminiscent of his Drive character; Alessandro Nivola is the most frightening type of gangster — the quiet, powerful kind; Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace) is outstanding in her only scene; Elyes Gabel captures the frustrated driver looking for hope; Peter Gerety is spot on as the Teamsters lead; and Jerry Adler is a most unusual Jewish business man.

As with «The Crucible,» Day - Lewis» big explosion — this time into outright stark - raving, animalistic rage, drooling and towering over Eli while pushing at him to tease him — wouldn't count for much if not for the slow - burn of the rest of the performance, with the actor's gradual shift from at least somewhat human to All - Powerful American Businessman as a Monster shown by his body going from upright to crooked, his face from quietly hateful to anything but.

But as a star vehicle, for both himself and the incomparable Vanessa Redgrave, it's a powerful match between actor and character.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

It's becoming commonplace to hear actors, writers and directors claiming that TV is now the place to be for powerful drama with...

Some of the recognisable actors voicing the characters work well — Sir Ben Kingsley is the perfect voice for the level - headed and powerful panther and the late, great Garry Shandling brings to life my favourite character of all, Ikky the porcupine who claims one stone, rock & twig after another in a genius turn.

It's becoming commonplace to hear actors, writers and directors claiming that TV is now the place to be for powerful drama with narrative scope and rounded characters.

Black Panther has more women and black actors than any MCU movie and A Wrinkle in Time has an amazingly diverse cast, promising a shift in genres that have traditionally neglected people of color (a fact that's very frustrating, considering what a fruitful and powerful genre it is for talking about oppression).

«Creed» isn't award worthy material like «Fruitvale Station», however if the supporting actor race doesn't get any stronger, a powerful Thanksgiving box office turnout for this film could make way for Stallone to snag a nomination.

Lupita Nyong» o and Daniel Kaluuya's powerful delivery of Southern - Eastern African accent should also help ease any concerns that the accents may not work, while seasoned actors Angela Bassett and Forest Whitaker easily serve as the voice of reason for the younger characters.

Clooney gets less from his actors, but he has an eye for casting, using his powerful friends from past films to help fill roles.

The highlight of the movie is a powerful scene between the two actors, that will resonate with anyone who ever looked for parental advice and approval.

The occasion was a 1960 showing of William Wellman's 1931 The Public Enemy, which Macdonald defined as «James Cagney's picture,» adding, «Wellman uses Cagney with subtlety, keeping him in the background much of the time while secondary characters occupy the foreground... So it is all the more powerful when Cagney moves into the foreground at the big moments; our taste for this extraordinary actor has not been blunted by seeing too much of him.»

The exceptional Viola Davis, perhaps the best actor in this cast, has one or two moments of powerful confrontation, but for the most part, she's a «waiting, worrying» character, the same as Bello.

Lest we forget that the original Declaration of Independence was not meant for everyone, here actor James Earl Jones reads a powerful piece by Frederick Douglass, «Fourth of July Speech, 1852.»

While I wouldn't usually say a change of voice - actor could ruin a game, when it's done so well, sometimes a voice can be the most powerful element that really makes a character who they are — Kain of Legacy of Kain, and Snake of Metal Gear Solid are two of the few characters that spring to mind for me.

As expected for a Gagosian opening night, there were plenty of fashionable people and celebrities in attendance, including the namesake of the gallery, one of the most powerful men in the art world, Larry Gagosian, actor Adrien Brody, filmmaker and artist John Waters, fashion designer Vera Wang, comedian Molly Shannon, and plenty of others who arrived for the private invite - only dinner.

The real news coming out of these talks is what happened outside the negotiating halls: massive protests at Germany's open pit coal mines with Pacific islanders standing in solidarity, governments joining a new initiative to power past coal, Norway's push to ditch oil and gas investments, and the emergence of non-state actors as a powerful force for change.

Furthermore, powerful actors with vested interests in fossil fuels are working to remove the incentives for wind power that has made it competitive with the dirty energy sector that enjoys billions of dollars in subsidies.

Therefore, those working to improve government and individual responses to climate change should adjust their tactics to respond to the insights of sociologists that have concluded that citizens need to understand how the cultural understanding of climate change has been shaped by powerful actors who have used sophisticated tactics to achieve support for their position that climate change policies should be opposed on the basis of scientific uncertainty and unacceptable costs to the economy.

Gregory Peck won the Best Actor Oscar and Golden Globe for his quiet, powerful portrayal in the screen adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel.

John Houseman deservedly won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the pompous, prickish and powerful Professor Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr..

Our joint hearing will be a public conversation with the CEO of this powerful and influential company about his vision for addressing problems that have generated significant concern about Facebook's role in our democracy, bad actors using the platform, and user privacy.

As we have seen, the low cost of reaching these users equips hostile foreign actors with a powerful new tool for disruption of our democratic process.

Android TV stands out because of a powerful voice search function, which lets you search for your favorite shows and actors across a variety of Android apps.

«Our joint hearing will be a public conversation with the CEO of this powerful and influential company about his vision for addressing problems that have generated significant concern about Facebook's role in our democracy, bad actors using the platform, and user privacy,» Commerce Chairman John Thune said in a statement.