Black movies matter, black actors matter, black directors matter, and the Oscars would matter more, if they included more people of color, more women, and more diversity in ideas and stories told, and quite frankly, if the Academy wasn't so white.
Watching those early videos on Thursday night was a reminder of how little all the window dressing — the Rick Baker creature makeup, the Saturday matinee story lines, the waves of dancers, the celebrity guest stars and directors — mattered.
Commentary: Why the academy's focus on international writers and directors matters.
A guy commits suicide by throwing himself in front of a truck on the freeway, and we glimpse a sickening stripe of gore being painted on to the tarmac from under the rig before the director matter-of-factly cuts to something else.
One thing you have to respect about Yahoo's board of directors – no matter how much the press criticizes them for making painfully awful strategic decisions, they keep their chin up and at least maintain some level of basic decorum.
I mean these directors, no matter what anybody said, knew that I was the one for the job.
"Amores Perros" won more than two dozen awards worldwide, propelling Mr. González Iñárritu, 40, into the front rank of directors who matter.
In my opinion, there are hidden and in some cases there are some odious strings that come with that money that keep the library directors, no matter how well intentioned they are, from developing certain exhibitions or programs".
Then, consider that this tradition embraces much of the work of Jean Renoir, Kenji Mizoguchi, Max Ophüls, Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Bresson, Ingmar Bergman, and the subject of this essay, a man who deserves to be considered among the greatest living and working film directors, no matter how he might shrink from the description.
And some senior intelligence officials have suggested that no interim director, no matter how able, could ever wield the clout that a permanent director could muster.
In the old studio days, almost every director, no matter how powerful or macho, found himself sooner or later forced to make a musical.
