Sentences with phrase «won early acclaim»

At a superficial glance, Freeman is a plain sort of fellow who won his early acclaim playing a plainly charming office employee, so it's not entirely surprising that he found himself somewhat typecast in «everyman» roles once he made the jump to film.

1989, New York): After winning early acclaim for his paintings and engravings, Ojeda participated in exhibitions across the United States, including the International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Outside Cuba.

Not exact matches

Depardieu's performance in Jacques Attali's «The Gates of Heaven» won bravos, but a lot of people walked out, finding the play — about love, death, power and Francois Mitterrand — too long and even a bit boring... President Clinton, whose childhood was troubled by alcohol - fueled abuse, asked Lions Gate for a print of «Affliction,» the acclaimed Nick Nolte movie about a man coping with the results of early years spent with an abusive, alcoholic dad.

This is one of the key preceding awards before the Academy Awards are handed out early next month, and on the feature film side of things, another significant win adds even more momentum to the acclaimed thriller Get Out with Jordan Peele winning the award for original screenplay.

«Nebraska» has already gained acclaim on the festival circuit, particularly for Dern's lead performance (which won Best Actor at Cannes earlier this year), but there's nothing really special about any of the acting here.

The actress, a RADA grad, has been winning acclaim on stage since the late 1990s, and became something of a Mike Leigh favorite in the movie world in the early» 00s, cropping up in «All Or Nothing» and «Vera Drake» before «Happy - Go - Lucky.»

He began receiving critical acclaim early in his career, winning a Golden Globe for his portrayal of James Dean in TNT's 2001 biopic.

Ahead of its UK release this coming February, Altitude has unveiled a trailer for director Andrey Zvyagintsev's (Leviathan, The Return) acclaimed drama Loveless, which won the Jury Prize at Cannes earlier this year and was also named Best Film at the BFI London Film Festival.

Academy Award Winner Alicia Vikander («The Danish Girl») has struggled to find her place in Hollywood after winning such acclaim at an early age.

The critically - acclaimed Kia Optima became a pop culture icon when Blake Griffin leaped over the popular midsize sedan to win the All - Star Slam Dunk competition earlier this year.

Waid, the writer of the Eisner award - winning Daredevil as well as the acclaimed comics Irredeemable and Incorruptible, attracted quite a bit of attention earlier this year when he launched the digital comics site Thrillbent.

Earlier this month, Ninja Theory won a staggering five BAFTAs for the game, and to chief creative director Tameem Antoniades, that level of acclaim obviously means a lot.

The sequel to the critically acclaimed, award - winning RPG Pillars of Eternity, will launch on Windows PC, Mac and Linux in early 2018.

* Anyone who pre-orders Dishonored 2 will be able to play the game a day early before the official worldwide release in addition to receiving a free digital copy of Dishonored: Definitive Edition — the original critically - acclaimed game in the series, which won more than 100 «Game of the Year» Awards, plus all of its add - on content.

Lynn Chadwick: Maquettes, Drawings, and Prints January 22 - May 3, 1998 Since the early 1950s, Lynn Chadwick's stylized bronze figures have won him world - wide acclaim as a sculptor.

While her early career focused on performative pieces that highlighted issues of gender and beauty, she has won the most acclaim for the fierce, hard - edged beauty of her large - scale installations made using industrial and synthetic materials that conjure up the specter of failed modernity.

She experienced early critical acclaim, featured in a showcase of women artists at the Whitney, a group show at the Metropolitan, and she won the D'Orsay prize in 1952.

Los Angeles painter Albert Contreras (born 1933) first won public acclaim in the early 1960s, with monochrome paintings featuring a central disc motif.

Earlier works include Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1996), Young Soul Rebels (1991) which was awarded the Semaine de la Critique Prize at the Cannes Film Festival the same year, and the acclaimed poetic documentary Looking for Langston (1989), which also won several international awards including the Panorama Teddy as part of 2016's Berlinale.

From the early 1960s, Williams exhibited widely, winning awards and garnering high acclaim from a London art circuit enchanted by what Guy Brett calls «the heady interface between artistic innovation and trans - nationalism.»

Only 33, the French artist Cyprien Gaillard is already a bona fide international phenomenon: he was a breakout star of the New Museum's «Younger Than Jesus» show, won the prestigious Prix Marcel Duchamp, was in the Venice Biennale exhibition curated by Bice Curiger, and had an acclaimed solo show at MoMA PS1 earlier this year.

Earlier works include «Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask» (1996); «Young Soul Rebels» (1991), which was awarded the Semaine de la Critique Prize at the Cannes Film Festival the same year; and the acclaimed poetic documentary «Looking for Langston» (1989), which also won several international awards.

He gained early critical acclaim and went on to win numerous awards, including the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize in 1982.

According to SamMobile, the device will feature a 5.67 - inch Super AMOLED QHD display and will feature the same metal - and - glass design that won high acclaim with the Galaxy S6 when it released earlier this year.

According to the most recently leaks, we expect the Note 5 to feature a 5.67 - inch Super AMOLED QHD display and metal - and - glass design that won high acclaim with the Galaxy S6 when it released earlier this year.