Sentences with phrase «smaller academy directors»
Typically, it's the 16,000 - plus DGA voters rewarding the helmers behind big, commercial movies («The Martian,» «American Sniper,» «Captain Phillips») while the much smaller academy directors branch (512 active members this year) go for artier dramas («Room,» «Foxcatcher,» «Nebraska»).
http://www.latimes.com/ Not exact matches
Malkovich met with near - universal critical praise and garnered an Academy Award nomination for the neophyte feature director — as well as supporting actress Catherine Keener and writer Charlie Kaufman — though Stipe and the film itself were passed over for a Best Picture nod.Despite Single Cell's increasing prominence in the industry, Stipe continued to support C - Hundred for smaller - budgeted niche features such as writer - director Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward and McKay's coming - of - age drama Our Song, both of which were featured at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.
Academy Award - winning director Boyle (last seen directing the opening ceremonies at the London Olympics) bounces around from genre to genre, but his upcoming art heist thriller Trance probably hews closest to his first feature, the small - scale modern noir Shallow Grave (which was also written by John Hodge).
The good news for Christopher Nolan is that he finally got nominated for best director, after nearly two decades of lauded and commercially successful filmmaking that for various reasons — too small at first, then too genre — hadn't caught the Academy's attention.
The way the top - slice arrangement works is that an academy chain sponsor will provide its academies with additional services, such as hiring executive directors, developing staff terms and conditions and managing procurement, in return for a small percentage of each schools revenue, known as its general annual grant (GAG).
Dr. Jemison is a member of the National Academy of Sciences» Institute of Medicine and is: on the Board of Directors of Kimberly - Clark Corp., Scholastic, Inc. and Valspar Corp.; a Trustee of Morehouse College; Board of Texas Medical Center; and served as Chair, Texas State Product Development and Small Business Incubator Board; Chair, Greater Houston Partnership Disaster Planning and Recovery Task Force; a member Board of National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.
Cheyenne Batista São Roque serves as founding superintendent, managing director at East Harlem Scholars Academies (a small network of Pre-K to 12th grade community - based public charter schools founded by East Harlem Tutorial Program, EHTP).
Anticipated to be a small art house film, the story of Benjamin Braddock — just out of college and facing an uncertain future — became a box office hit, made Dustin Hoffman a star and earned an Academy Award for director Mike Nichols.
He is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, the North Carolina Veterinary Medical Association, the North Carolina Academy of Small Animal Medicine, and currently is a member and serves on the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Companion Animal Academy.
She is also board member for the Academy of Internal Medicine Veterinary Technicians, as Small Animal Director at Large.
My job as Director of Studies at a small language school meant working from 2:30 to 9:30 pm, though I made time for a coffee down the block from the academy before settling into work.