Sentences with phrase «won widespread acclaim»

After they were taken over by the state in 1997, the Hartford Public Schools won widespread acclaim as an example of effective management and labor collaboration.

The directing duo of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris made about as strong a feature filmmaking debut as they could have in 2006 with Little Miss Sunshine, which won widespread acclaim and two Oscars from four nominations.

Not to be confused with this year's A&E remake, «The Returned» — or «Les Revenants» — is a chilling and atmospheric French drama that has won widespread acclaim.

Merchant is also entertaining, if a little underused (much like The Farrelly Brothers» Hall Pass) as Spall's best man, while Colman displays the comic chops that she honed in Hot Fuzz and Peep Show before winning widespread acclaim for her extraordinary performance in Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur.

«Wins widespread acclaim as an attorney who has «set the bar in terms of client service and project finance expertise»... [he has an] ability to «reconcile the achievement of the business objective with the law.

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Vice has documented migrant worker abuses in Dubai, won acclaim for a documentary while embedded with Islamic State and garnered widespread attention when it took former National Basketball Association star Dennis Rodman to North Korea.

Rourke received widespread acclaim for his performance in Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and wins for Best Actor at the Golden Globe Awards, BAFTAs and Independent Spirit Awards.

Cooke stars on «Bates Motel» and drew widespread acclaim for her impressive performance as a young cancer patient in «Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,» which won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at Sundance.

Alex Garland's «Ex Machina» garnered widespread critical acclaim and won a slew of awards, including the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, but there's one scene in particular that took the Internet by storm: Oscar Isaac's character Nathan dancing to Oliver Cheatham's «Get Down Saturday Night» with his «girlfriend» Kyoko (Sonoya Mizuno).

The Dark Knight became the first superhero movie to win an Oscar for acting (Health Ledger for Best Supporting Actor), and many were surprised that the film didn't receive a Best Picture nomination despite its massive success and widespread acclaim.

Three years ago, the last time the Russian filmmaker was here, he garnered widespread attention for Leviathan, his acclaimed, partially state - funded tale of corruption that was seen as challenging Vladimir Putin's government and which won the best screenplay award.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

4C has created waves in the automotive world since its inception, winning four prominent international awards and earning widespread critical acclaim.

Last year, Jennifer duBois» debut novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, was met with widespread acclaim — and she's just won a 2013 Whiting Writers Award.

In May 2017, Teton Gravity Research and award - winning director Taylor Steele debuted «Proximity,» the movie, to widespread industry acclaim.

Horizon Zero Dawn was released on February 28, 2017 to widespread critical acclaim, winning numerous industry awards.

It received widespread critical acclaim winning over 100 awards globally including numerous «Game of the Year» awards from several North American gaming publications.

Dragon Age: Inquisition won Gaming Trend's 2014 Game of the Year award, but despite widespread acclaim, Bioware won't be releasing a new game in the series this year.

He has won numerous prizes and has attracted widespread international acclaim for his sculptures and installations, in which he fuses art and design in works that operate at multiple sensory levels.

His short film Until the Quiet Comes received widespread critical acclaim and won the Grand Jury Prize for Short Films at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival as well as Video of the Year at the UK Music Video Awards in 2013.

She went on to win the Margaret Tait Award in 2013, was twice shortlisted for the Jarman Award, and achieved widespread critical acclaim for Feed Me (2015) in the British Art Show 8.

After World War II, Moore's legacy was already considered canonical, and the artist was the subject of widespread interest and acclaim, notably including a major 1946 retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in New York and winning the International Sculpture Prize at the 1948 Venice Biennale.

His previous work includes Until the Quiet Comes, which received widespread critical acclaim and won the Grand Jury Prize for Short Films at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.