Sentence examples for a leading director from inspiring English sources

In 2000 Soderbergh established himself as a leading director with the release of Erin Brockovich and Traffic.

Now a leading director and Shakespeare scholar thinks he can explain why: the playwright's last great work had originally been intended as a musical.

Karel Reisz, a Czech refugee who became a leading director of the British New Wave before making "The French Lieutenant's Woman" and other Hollywood dramas, died on Monday at a hospital near his home in London.

In 1975, aged 23, he began his theatre studies at the Hans Otto Theatre Academy in Leipzig and began to get small roles in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now, once again Chemnitz) before being discovered by Heiner Müller, a leading director and playwright in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) (obituary, January 1 1996), and invited to join the ensemble of the Berliner Volksbühne.

Fashioning visual metaphors out of primal materials is a trademark of Mr. Nekrosius, 49, who has been a leading director in the Baltic region since his much-acclaimed productions of Gogol's "Nose" and Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" for the State Theater of Lithuania in the early 90's.

He came into prominence after Mouna Ragam (1986) which established himself as a leading director in Tamil cinema.

This brilliantly atmospheric film, followed by Cornered (1945), Till The End Of Time (1945) and the British-made So Well Remembered (1946), were to establish Dmytryk as the RKO studio's leading director - a position compounded by his best film, Crossfire (1947), which concerned the murder of a homosexual by a soldier.

Sullivan was a major moving force and leading director of the company that oversaw the Middlesex Canal (construction of which began in 1793).

A coalition of leading directors including JJ Abrams, Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino and Judd Apatow has won a battle to ensure movies can still be shot and screened on traditional film.

He then entered the cinema as an assistant to the leading directors of the British new wave, Lindsay Anderson and Karel Reisz, both dedicated to challenging the complacent, middle-class values they thought were stifling our cinema.

He remains a stalwart of the theatre, in demand by leading directors.