Sentences with phrase «promising young director»

Plenty of promising young directors have crumbled under that weight, and there are moments in Black Panther where you can spot Coogler's growing pains.

WHY: Derek Cianfrance was hailed as one of the most promising young directors in Hollywood after 2010's «Blue Valentine,» and while he continued to build on that potential with «The Place Beyond the Pines,» his latest movie represents a major step back.

Duncan Jones was once considered among the most promising young directors in Hollywood, but his career has stalled slightly due to recent flops like «Warcraft» and «Mute.»

In addition to an excellent star - making performance by Ellen Page, the movie marked the arrival of writer Diablo Cody onto the scene and cemented Jason Reitman's status as one of Hollywood's most promising young directors.

Not exact matches

«There are very few opportunities for promising young scientists to pursue SETI research in graduate school and beyond,» saysAndrew Siemion, director of Berkeley's SETI Research Center.

As a former Whitley Award winner, Dr. Charudutt Mishra, the Snow Leopard Trust's Science & Conservation Director has the privilege of nominating promising young scientists for this honor.

It doesn't all work and indeed doesn't quite seem finished, but it's an intriguing early - summer change of pace from a young director with loads of promise.

Not to be confused with Samuel L. Jackson's other snake movie, «Black Snake Moan» is the sophomore effort from writer / director Craig Brewer, whose debut film «Hustle & Flow» (another movie about a Southern musician battling his inner demons) earned the director critical acclaim in 2005 as one of the generation's most promising young talents.

the focus of this program is on the shared multi-cultural talent of promising young actors,» says Lina Todd, Rising Stars Program director.

Victor Frankenstein might not have fulfilled the promise of its subject material but it's interesting enough to keep audiences captivated by two young actors and a young director who offer a unique retelling of this well - known story.

Plenty of directors had their eyes on the promising Hollywood newcomer, with John Sayles first in line to sign McConaughey to play a rising young Texas sheriff in the highly acclaimed drama, «Lone Star» (1996).

«Reeder remains one of the most promising young American horror directors.

Like most of the director's work, it's a road movie: Fooled by one of those «you may have already won» mail scams, elderly drunk Woody (Dern) badgers his youngest son, David (Forte), into driving him from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska, to collect the million dollars he's been promised.

The idea of students trapped in an auditorium after dark and chased by vengeful spirits isn't without promise, but rookie directors Travis Cluff and Chris Lofing show no facility for the kind of plausibly claustrophobic camera setups that make Paranormal Activity (or its sequels) so visually compelling; it also doesn't help that their cast of fresh - faced young actors (all playing characters under their real names) never quite inhabit the supposedly pants - wetting terror of their situation.

It's worth watching, and shows promise for Coogler as a young director (and a little less as a young writer), but the recommendation comes with many caveats.

The first (and only) feature directed by a promising young writer - director named Steve Gordon, who died the following year of a heart attack at age 44, the first Arthur was hardly a masterpiece, but it was a highly enjoyable comedy of manners done in a style that, even at the time, seemed quaintly old - fashioned.

Writer - director Koepp establishes the scene rather well, setting up a promising psychodrama: the young married couple of Matt (Kyle MacLachlan) and Annie (Elisabeth Shue) find their life thrown off balance when a massive power outage paralyzes the city and Matt's best friend Joey (Dermot Mulroney) comes to stay in their home.

Back in 1972, Ron Howard starred in American Graffiti for director George Lucas, a promising young filmmaker who had just come off his acclaimed sci - fi project THX - 1138.

After many years of abandoned American projects, Scottish director Lynne Ramsey comes with You Were Never Really Here, a tale promising to revisit Ramsey's dark edginess, in which Joaquin Phoenix plays a war veteran who gets involved in saving a young girl from a sex - trafficking ring and where things get radically out of hand.

The prize for most promising newcomer went to director Sally El Hosaini for her Sundance and Berlin award winner My Brother the Devil, which centres on two young boys of Egyptian descent who become embroiled in east London's gang culture.

Complete List of NAACP Image Award Winners Film Categories Best Picture - «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Director - Gina Prince - Bythewood, «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Actor - Will Smith, «Seven Pounds» Best Actress - Rosario Dawson, «Seven Pounds Supporting Actor - Columbus Short, «Cadillac Records» Supporting Actress - Taraji P. Henson, «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Independent Film - «Slumdog Millionaire» Documentary - «The Black List» Foreign Film - «The Class» Best Screenplay - Jenny Lumet, «Rachel Getting Married» Television Categories Best Comedy Series - «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actor in a Comedy Series - LaVan Davis, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Tracee Ellis Ross, «Girlfriends» Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - Lance Gross, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Keshia Knight Pulliam, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Dramatic Series - «Grey's Anatomy» Best Actor in a Dramatic Series - Hill Harper, «CSI: NY» Best Actress in a Dramatic Series - Chandra Wilson, «Grey's Anatomy» Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Series - Taye Diggs, «Private Practice» Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series - Angela Bassett, «ER» Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - «A Raisin in The Sun» Best Actor in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Sean Combs, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actress in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Phylicia Rashad, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actor in a Sopa Opera - Bryton McClure, «The Young and the Restless» Best Actress in a Sopa Opera - Debbi Morgan, «All My Children» Best Director in a Dramatic Series - Ernest Dickerson, «Lincoln Heights - The Day Before Tomorrow» Best Director in a Comedy Series - Kevin Sullivan, «30 Rock - MILF Island» Best Screenplay for a Dramatic Series - Shonda Rhimes, «Grey's Anatomy: Freedom Part 1 & 2» Best Screenplay for a Comedy Series - Erica D. Montolfo, «The Game: White Coats and White Lies» News / Information Series or Special - «In Conversation: Michelle Obama Interview» Talk Series - «The View» Reality Series - «American Idol 7» Variety Series or Special - «An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Smokey Robinson» Children's Program - «Dora The Explorer» Best Performance in a Children's Series or Special - Keke Palmer, «True Jackson» Music Categories Best Male Artist - Jamie Foxx Best Female Artist - Beyonce» Best New Artist - Jennifer Hudson Best Duo, Group or Collaboration - Jennifer Hudson, featuring Fantasia - «I'm His Only Woman» Best Jazz Artist - Natalie Cole - «Still Unforgettable» Best Gospel Artist - Mary Mary Best World Music Album - Cheryl Keyes - «Let Me Take You There» Best Music Video - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Song - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Album - Jennifer Hudson - «Jennifer Hudson» Literary Categories Fiction - «In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel,» Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes Nonfiction - «Letter to My Daughter,» Maya Angelou Debut Author - «Barack, Race, and the Media: Drawing My Own Conclusion,» David Glenn Brown Biography / Autobiography - «The Legs are the Last to Go,» Diahann Carroll Instructional - «32 Ways to Be a Champion in Business,» Earvin «Magic» Johnson Poetry - «Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of «Poetry With a Beat»» Nikki Giovanni Children - «Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope,» Nikki Grimes (illustrator - Bryan Collier) Youth / Teens - «Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny,» Hill Harper

Presenters: Marci Young, Vice President U.S. Network Impact, United Way Worldwide; William Carpluk, Manager, Alliance Engagement, America's Promise Alliance; Serah S. Fatani, Director of Program Evaluation & Assessment, Office of Early Childhood Education, Chicago Public Schools; Leslie McKinily, Director of Preschool Programs, Chicago Public Schools; Bobbi MacDonald, Executive Director, City Neighbors Foundation; Kate Seidl, Reading Specialist & Librarian, City Neighbors Charter School; and from Attendance Works, Hedy Chang, Director; and Cecelia Leong, Associate Director.

Joan Franklin Smutny is Director, The Center for Gifted, National - Louis University, Evanston IL, coauthor of Teaching Young Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom, and editor of The Young Gifted Child: Potential and Promise, An Anthology.

Mazda USA design director Derek Jenkins promises us that the next Mazda MX - 5 Miata will look younger, more masculine, and more expensive — and nothing at all like an Alfa Romeo.

For those of us in the youth and student tourism industry, we see how vital young people are to the tourism sector, and how vital tourism is to young people,» said WYSE Travel Confederation Director General Espen Falkenhaug, «Tourism is one of the world's most promising drivers of economic growth, and considering the numbers, youth tourism is even more so.

Also showing, the beautiful Duo 505 (Morr Music) clip directed by promising young Italian director LORENZO FONDA, featuring more trendy puppetry.

Victoria Siddall, director of Frieze Fairs, has said, «This year's exhibitor list combines the strongest galleries in the world with the most interesting young galleries from New York and beyond, so Frieze New York promises a diverse range of work from the blue - chip to new discoveries.»

A jury that includes the biennale director also typically awards Golden Lions for the best national pavilion in the show and the best artist in the main international show, as well a Silver Lion for a «promising young artist.»

«It's like 2007 again in some ways,» said Alex Logsdail, associate director of the Lisson Gallery, who had sold 15 pieces within the first four hours -LSB-...] a black wall sculpture by Anish Kapoor for 550,000 pounds and a stereogram by Haroon Mirza — who won the Silver Lion for the most promising young artist at this year's Venice Biennale — for 16,000 pounds.