Sentences with phrase «writers and directors such»

DuVernay lauded other black artists from the stage as she accepted her award Monday night, naming writers and directors such as Shonda Rhimes, Gina Prince - Bythewood, Kenya Barris and «Black Panther» director Ryan Coogler.

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Executives at Amazon and Netflix have said in the past that winning major Hollywood awards are good for business, as they lend even more credibility to streaming players looking to woo viewers to their services while also helping to attract high - profile talent, such as actors, writers, and directors.

David Levy (president of the Caucus of Producers, Directors, and Writers) explained that some twenty years ago such sponsors as Kraft, Hallmark, and Texaco normally purchased a whole

David Levy (president of the Caucus of Producers, Directors, and Writers) explained that some twenty years ago such sponsors as Kraft, Hallmark, and Texaco normally purchased a whole series of programs on television, but that today sponsors only purchase time — a few minutes of spot advertising on many different programs.

The Humanitas Award and others such as the National Council of Churches «annual Film Awards, the Christopher awards to productions «affirming the highest value of the human spirit,» and the Southern Baptist Abe Lincoln Awards, encourage producers, directors, and writers to devote time to their craft which the media industry itself, because of its profit considerations, simply does not reward.

While their are several Lucas in English films, literature, and tv shows, there are also several famous Lukas» in Sweden, such as the Swedish film writer and Director, Lukas Moodysson.

With his experience after producing TV commercials for clients such as: Nike, BMW and Mercedes, culminating in the classic «Joga Bonito» World Cup campaign for Nike, Tim Elliott started collaborating with feature film directors as a ghost writer and creative assistant.

The speaker list featured top executives from some shining examples of innovation, such as Google, Microsoft, and GlaxoSmithKline; other speakers included writer and atheist hero Richard Dawkins and World Health Organization Director - General Margaret Chan.

I love many anime from directors / writers such as Makoto Shinkai, Jun Maeda, Mamoru Hosada, Hayao Miyazaki, and Satoshi Kon.

Critics Consensus: By turns intoxicating and confounding, El Topo contains the creative multitudes that made writer - director Alejandro Jodorowsky such a singular talent.

Writer / director James Bridges made his name in the 1970s with such socially aware, character - driven films as The Paper Chase (1973), but his unassuming style and non-blockbuster mentality slowed his career in the 1980s.

Writer - director Vadim Perelman, working from a novel by Andre Dubus III, does his best to keep Kathy's life and attainments simple, in order to sell us on the idea that she's a person who might ignore her mail to the point of getting herself into such a fabricated mess.

Just like director / writer Lorene Scafaria's last film, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, the soundtrack really works, as it's filled with songs that you should be listening to when life as you know it is ending, such as The Sun Ain't Gon na Shine Anymore by the Walker Brothers, The Air That I Breathe by The Hollies, and This Guy's in Love With You by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.

This is an uneven modern remake of A Yank at Oxford (1938) from writer - director Robert Boris, the man behind such diverse earlier productions as Some Kind of Hero (1981) and Doctor Detroit (1983).

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.

Watching Krisha is a revelation: there are expected «rules» for such material (a former addict returns home for a holiday), but then director / writer Trey Edward Shults breaks every rule, making those rules seem tired and arbitrary in the process, and he does so with bravura, confidence, flash.

English Writer / Director John Michael McDonagh is the elder brother of filmmaker Martin McDonagh, the mastermind who is behind such sterling black comedies as IN BRUGES (2008, 8/10) and SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (2012).

First - time writer - director David Robert Mitchell tells a coming - of - age tale with such freshness and such bemused insight it's as if it has never been told before.

Beyond that, I think the challenge of perceiving the life of someone who has had such a profound impact on the world, as we know it today, through a different set of lenses, regardless of the amount of literary license given to the writer and director, may do everyone a world of good.

To the enormous credit of these preternaturally clever writer - directors, the above paragraph contains more low - hanging Lego puns than the movie itself, which relies on ingenuity and genuinely inspired twists on what audiences expect from such an experience to deliver a constant stream of engagement and laughs.

After watching it, I really think that this one will divide the audience and any time could go both ways - some would love figuring it out what the writer and director wanted to say while others could simply walk away, deciding that their life is too precious to be wasted on such movies.

Born in 1937 in West Cliff - on - Sea, England, screenwriter - turned - director Dick Clement cut his teeth on the small screen in his mid - to late twenties, as a BBC television writer and director, including such now - classic programs as the sitcom The Likely Lads (1964), the Dudley Moore and Peter Cook series Not Only... But Also (1965), and the brief Steptoe and Son successor Mr. Aitch (1967), starring Harry H. Corbett.Clement segued into big - screen comedy in 1966, co-scripting (with Ian La Frenais) the Michael Winner - directed picture The Jokers.

For David (Joe Seo), the doubtful protagonist of Spa Night, these encounters are an introduction to the bathhouse's kinesthetic vernacular, but for writer - director Andrew Ahn, such exchanges also reflect forms of being and becoming that occur outside its walls.

Enough Said is a romantic comedy - drama from Nicole Holofcener, the writer - director of other critically acclaimed films exploring the daily travails of mostly upper middle - class affluent women (and men) in such as Lovely & Amazing and Friends with Money — something that invites comparisons to the works of Woody Allen often.

Such glib, blithe quips are the motor oil of the teen comedy, but in her first outing as a solo writer and director, Gerwig is as sensitive to place and the fragility of young and old bodies as she is to her protagonist's often hurtful words.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

If co — writer - directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (viral - video sensations credited as Daniels) had built the ensuing movie out of such desperate dream sequences interposed with Hank's crushing reality, Swiss Army Man might have worked as an unhinged Cast Away for millennials.

However, when you take on such an endeavor and are so steadfast to nailing every detail of the process of bringing a very specific vision to life, like writer - director Sarah Polley, you're bound to end up with at least some degree of success.

The ensemble is a disappointment, though some truly hardcore horror fans will like a few of the casing choices, such as B - movie scream queen Barbara Crampton (Body Double, Re-Animator) as the mother, schlock writer / director / actor Larry Fessenden (Habit, The Last Winter) as one of the first victims, and director Ti West (Drinking Buddies, Silver Bullets) as one of the significant others.

Whereas a hit like Wedding Crashers struck such a balance somewhat awkwardly — structured so that the first half was for boys - boy rowdiness, and the second half for girly - girl romance — Apatow's latest tackles both exigencies nearly simultaneously, a considerable feat aided by the writer - director's adept ability to wring laughs not from outrageous farce and slapstick but, instead, from real - world situations and dilemmas.

Simmons, who played a sadistic music teacher in «Whiplash,» thanked the movie's two «boy wonders» — writer - director Damien Chazelle, 29, and costar Miles Teller, «a young actor of such maturity and brilliance that he inspired me every day to want to scream at him and hit him in the face.»

His latest movie, Baby Driver, is the writer / director's love letter to the great car chase films from the likes of Walter Hill (The Driver), William Friedkin (The French Connection) and George Miller (Mad Max), all driven by a non-stop soundtrack that features both popular and obscure tracks of such diverse genres as rock»n' roll, punk, soul and hip hop.

The Party is a dark cerebral comedy from British writer - director Sally Potter, the woman behind such brilliantly challenging productions as Orlando and Yes.

But, it seems to me, what director / co-writer Robert Zemeckis and co - writer Bob Gale are mainly doing in this film is recapturing the spirit of such Disney live - action movies as The sentimentality.

The much - honored, London - born Irish author of such plays as «The Beauty Queen of Leenane» and «The Cripple of Inishmaan,» and the writer - director of the cult comedy «In Bruges,» creates a setting and a people who could be anywhere, certainly Ireland.

In Complete Unknown, the new release from Maria Full of Grace writer - director Joshua Marston (who co-wrote the script with Julian Sheppard), we can see such a journey occur for both the actors and the characters they play.

It also features conversations with artists sorely deserving of more Oscar buzz, such as «Mudbound» director Dee Rees and «The Big Sick» co - writer / star Kumail Nanjiani.

Familiar elements such as a dark family secret, a ghost and a Ouija board start to seem trite after a while, and the third act is a little ridiculous, but debut writer - director Nicholas McCarthy does a lot with a little and seems fully prepared to handle a big - studio horror project.

First time writer / director Richard Tanne saddles his actors with some heavy - handed foreshadowing, but Sumpter and Sawyers are so likeable and have such believable chemistry that they sell it anyway.

It's not one of the writer - director's canonical «80s classics, such as The Breakfast Club, Vacation, or Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and receives less love than nostalgic fan favorites like Home Alone, Uncle Buck, or Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

Leigh, the writer and director of such classics as «Naked» and «Secrets and Lies,» usually tells stories set in the present day, often of a more urban character.

Cast: Colin Firth, Emily Blunt, Anne Heche Program: Special Presentations Headline: Lost in America Noel's Take: There's such a strong notion at the core of director Dante Ariola and writer Becky Johnston's Arthur Newman that it becomes even more frustrating when the film follows a familiar road — something that happens within the first 10 minutes, actually.

But a person so hateful, misogynistic and homophobic is simply a person / actor I will never support, no matter how good a performance.Oddly (which I am still struggling with) is that if he had a lesser role in the production of Sid and Nancy (such as writer, director, cinematographer, etc.) I would have still hoped for his acceptance speech.

Writer - director Gina Prince - Bythewood's film has its melodramatic moments, but Parker and Mbatha - Raw bring such honesty to their interactions -LSB-...]

With Krieps on board, it also somehow feels like the Hitchcock movie Audrey Hepburn didn't get to make but clearly channeled through the unique mind of Anderson, a film - savvy writer - director responsible for such fever dreams as Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Inherent Vice, and of course There Will Be Blood, his previous adventure with Day - Lewis that also felt like a movie stitched together out of something not easily explained on first viewing.

First time writer / director Eli Craig's Tucker & Dale Vs Evil is one such example, with the film making an appearance at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and also featuring on the SXSW bill the same year, yet remaining unreleased outside of the festival circuit everywhere except Kazakhstan, Russia, Estonia and Lithuania eighteen months later.

Actually, in the unlikely case that we were to get a lone director this year, Ghost Writer, along with Another Year, are the films I could see getting such a nom since both are very much «director's pictures» and both come from academy favorite filmmakers.

She made her mark playing difficult, disturbed and complex women in films such as «A Woman Under the Influence,» «Faces» and «Gloria,» all made with her husband, the groundbreaking writer / director / actor John Cassavetes.

So it is to writer / director Greta Gerwig's credit that her new film Lady Bird (her first as a solo director) could be boiled down to such a simple essence and yet still feels distinctive, and maybe even original.

As a writer he's been associated with everything from Apartment Zero to Death Becomes Her to Panic Room to Spider - Man and with directors such as Brian De Palma (Mission: Impossible, Carlito's Way, Snake Eyes) and Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park).