Sentences with phrase «winning black director»

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Naming her director was a part of Trump's strategy to win over the African American community in the U.S., especially after recent polls showed he had 0 % approval among black voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania — key states for the Republican nominee.

At Sunday's Oscars, actor, screenwriter and director Jordan Peele made cinematic history, becoming the first black director to win an Oscar for best screenplay.

Recent and upcoming releases include the romance - horror hybrid Spring; the hotly - anticipated The Look Of Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animals.

Progressive opposition to Diaz was splintered, with Elvin García, who served as de Blasio's Bronx borough director as well as his LGBTQ liaison, winning support from the Stonewall Democrats, while Amanda Farias, who has worked for Queens City Councilmember Elizabeth Crowley, snagged endorsements not only from the Jim Owles Club, but also from Planned Parenthood, Vote Pro Choice, the 504 Democrats, which advocates on disabilities issues, and Black Lives Matter New York.

These recommendations, laid out in a draft report to the NIH Advisory Committee to the Director, are aimed at correcting what the working group calls a «disturbing discrepancy»: Black applicants are less likely to win independent investigator grants than whites.

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

Director Shane Black has covered familiar territory before in the 2005 movie «Kiss Kiss Bang Bang» (a massively underrated film in my opinion), but he has managed to win me over once again here.

Academy Award ® - winning Director Kevin Macdonald (Last King of Scotland, State of Play, Black Sea) directs and executive produces the first two hours.

Rumored to be more commercial than «Elephant,» the drama that won Van Sant the Palme d'Or and Best Director award at Cannes in 2003, «The Sea of Trees» — which boasts a Black List script by «Buried» scribe Chris Sparling — centers on a suicidal American (McConaughey), who travels to the «suicide forest» at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan with the intention to kill himself.

From British / Irish director Martin McDonagh, who'd already had massive transatlantic success with plays like «The Beauty Queen of Leenane» and «The Cripple of Inishmaan» and had already won an Academy Award for his short film «Six Shooter,» the hitman black comedy was not just the arrival of an exciting new director, but also marked a refreshing change of pace for Farrell, whose split personality of rugged charm, soulfulness and hair - trigger volatility found its most perfect vehicle to date.

Moonlight director Barry Jenkins won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay along with playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney who wrote the play upon which the film is based, In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.

After a number of problems in pre-production (Oscar - winning director Barry Levinson dropping out, Johnny Depp exiting over pay), the fact - based organised crime pic BLACK...

Peele could become the first black director to win the Academy Award.

Two new worth watching trailers, the first is for a French film called Our Day Will Come, from director Romain Gavras, starring César winning actor Vincent Cassel, who you'll recognize from Black Swan or Eastern Promises or Ocean's Twelve.

So far, no black director has ever won in the directing category — 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight both won Best Picture without winning director.

If Steve McQueen wins Best Director, he'll be the first black man ever to win that Oscar, and it's about time.

It was under the radar, but it is a wonderful little film from Finland from first time director on 16 mm black and white — and it won Un Certain Regard.»

His best - known plays include Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1984), the Pulitzer Prize - winning The Piano Lesson (1990) and the Tony Award - and Pulitzer - winning Fences (1987), now on the screen courtesy of actor - turned - director Denzel Washington, whose third outing in that role this is, after Antwone Fisher (2002) and The Great Debaters (2007).

Rafelson edged out Federico Fellini for best director; Black overwhelmingly won best supporting actress, garnering more than twice the votes of her nearest rival, French actress Françoise Fabian (star of My Night at Maud's).

Genre played a welcome role in the Competition, represented by a black - and - white neonoir (F.J. Ossang's 9 Fingers, winner of the Best Director prize), an allegorical werewolf film from Brazil (Good Manners, from the team of Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas, winner of a Special Jury Prize), and a comic reimagining of a popular gothic parable (Serge Bozon's Madame Hyde, which won the Best Actress award for its star, Isabelle Huppert).

The writer and director of «Get Out» on Sunday, March 4, won an Oscar for his first film, taking a best original screenplay statue for the sociological thriller about a black man who meets his white girlfriend's family and finds a house of racial horrors.

It's perhaps a pity that Steve McQueen didn't get to be the first black filmmaker to win a Best Director award, but given his competition came in the form of Mexican master Alfonso Cuarón and his remarkable «Gravity», it's hard to complain.

Peele could become the first black man in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences» 90 - year history to win a directing Oscar, while «Lady Bird» director Greta Gerwig could be only the second female to take home that prize.

«Black Sea» was helmed by Academy Award - winning director, Kevin Macdonald, who's best known for making «The Last King of Scotland.»

Inspired by the 1954 Universal Studios monster movie classic Creature from the Black Lagoon, del Toro's take on the unique relationship between a mute woman (Sally Hawkins) and an amphibian man (Doug Jones) held captive in a research facility has dominated this awards season with a Best Picture win at the Critics» Choice Movie Awards, and a Best Director win for del Toro at the Golden Globes.

Then there's the fact that an independent movie by a black director — a black queer story filtered through something other than the white gaze — rose to win the industry's most coveted prize (not to mention the adapted screenplay Oscar won by the film's writers, Tarell Alvin McCraney and director Barry Jenkins).

The Linklater segment, entitled «Dream Is Destiny,» will feature conversations with the director's favorite actors like Jack Black and Matthew McConaughey, talking about Linklater's extensive cinematic history that now includes films like School Of Rock, the animated Waking Life, and the award - winning Boyhood.

The black comedy crime film directed, written and produced by the siblings won Joel the Best Director Award for the festival.

If he wins, he'll become the first black director to ever win the Best Director Oscar — yes, you read thadirector to ever win the Best Director Oscar — yes, you read thaDirector Oscar — yes, you read that right.

Highest grossing film by a Black Director: It has been a watershed year for black filmmakers, with Barry Jenkins» «Moonlight» winning Best Picture, Jordan Peele getting a Best Director Oscar nomination for «Get Out» and F. Gary Gray directing a billion - dollar hit with «The Fate of the Furious.&rBlack Director: It has been a watershed year for black filmmakers, with Barry Jenkins» «Moonlight» winning Best Picture, Jordan Peele getting a Best Director Oscar nomination for «Get Out» and F. Gary Gray directing a billion - dollar hit with «The Fate of the Furious.&rblack filmmakers, with Barry Jenkins» «Moonlight» winning Best Picture, Jordan Peele getting a Best Director Oscar nomination for «Get Out» and F. Gary Gray directing a billion - dollar hit with «The Fate of the Furious.»

One of the most consistent performers in cinema, Washington has won the Black Reel as a Producer for Outstanding Motion Picture for Antwone Fisher (2002), Outstanding Director, Antwone Fisher (2002), and four times for Outstanding Actor in Flight (2012), Training Day (2001), Remember the Titans (2000), and The Hurricane (1999).

Writer / director Craig Johnson (previously of True Adolescents) won the Walt Salt Screenwriting Award along with his co-writer Mark Heyman (Black Swan) at this year's Sundance Film Festival for The Skeleton Twins, which received many positive notices including one here at Way Too Indie.

Award - winning writer - director of «The Guard» and «Calvary», John Michael McDonagh crosses the Atlantic for his muchanticipated third film, a jet - black action comedy starring Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Peña and Theo James.

The immensely popular and critically - acclaimed drama from Jenkins won seven Black Reel Awards, the second highest total in awards history, including Outstanding Film, Oustanding Director and Outstanding Screenplay (both for Jenkins), Outstanding Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali), Outstanding Breakthrough Actor, Male (Trevante Rhodes), Outstanding Score (Nicholas Britell) and Outstanding Ensemble.

McQueen is nominated for best director and if he wins he would be the first black filmmaker to win that award.

She was the first black woman to win Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival (Middle of Nowhere, 2012), the first black woman to direct a film receiving an Oscar nod for Best Picture (Selma, 2014), and in 2018, the first black woman to direct a studio film budgeted over a hundred million with A Wrinkle in Time, an adaptation of Madeline L'Engle's 1963 Newbery Medal winning sci - fi fantasy novel.

A black - and - white silent movie about the silent era itself, starring Dujardin alongside Hazanavicius's wife and frequent collaborator Bérénice Bejo, The Artist was an irresistible crowd - pleaser that won five Oscars, including best picture, director and actor.

Scottish director Kevin Macdonald, who's best known for the Oscar - winning «The Last King of Scotland,» knows how to build tension, and his talents are on full display in «Black Sea,» a claustrophobic submarine thriller.

Before being selected to direct Black Panther, the director, now 31 years old, had only made two feature films: Fruitvale Station, which won accolades at Sundance in 2013, and Creed, the seventh installment in the Rocky series, which garnered rave reviews in 2015.

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No black feature narrative film directors have ever won the award.

From Oscar - winning writer and director Martin McDonagh comes a star - studded, blood - drenched, black comedy.

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Best Director Will win: David Fincher, «The Social Network» Should win: Darren Aronofsky, «Black Swan»

Writer / director Black won an Oscar for his screenplay for «Milk.»

«Black Swan» Year: 2010 Director: Darren Aronofsky Cast: Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder Distributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures Premiere history: Venice Film Festival Sept. 2010; wide release Dec. 17, 2010 Other awards won: British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) Best Actress in a Leading Role (Natalie Portman); Golden Globe Award Best Actress Drama (Natalie Portman) Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best Actress (Natalie Portman, won), Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Film Editing

The film won one Golden Globe (Best Drama of the Year) out of four nominations (Best Director, George Stevens; Best Actress for Shelley Winters; and Best Cinematography, black and white).

Jordan Peele Wins Best Director, Film and Screenplay At The AAFCA Awards - «The best part of watching Get Out is hearing black people in the theater.»

At Sundance, back in 2012, Ava DuVernay became the first black woman to win Best Director for her film Middle Of Nowhere.

Kimmel noted that Get Out writer - director Jordan Peele is one of only three people to be nominated for three major categories in his directorial debut, and Peele also became the first black writer to win the award for Best Original Screenplay.