Like it or not, Jean-Pierre Jeunet has a claim to be the dominant director in French cinema of the last 20 years.
The various Cadbury, Greenbury, Higgs and Hampel reports and codes were designed to protect investors from greedy directors and dominant shareholders.
At a seminar, Peter met a consultant who impressed him, and together they produced a diagram presenting the relationships between the directors as "dominant", "balanced" or "blocked", with a special zigzag reserved for the "antagonistic" bond between Peter and his younger brother John.
Once upon a time, the best film and director Oscars arrived in lockstep, reinforcing the view that the director was dominant and the movie an extension of his (or in one case her) genius.
Gelb is not alone among opera chiefs in his approach, although the increasingly dominant role of the director in reinterpreting familiar story lines has been widely contested.
And "War Horse" turns out to have a central Spielbergian theme — perhaps the dominant idea in this director's body of work — namely the fraught and fascinating relationship between the human and the nonhuman.
To the young Oshima, the films marked a shift away from the dominant production-line mentality of directors.
Back then, there was a dominant triumvirate: Mr. Gotbaum, executive director of District Council 37, which then, as now, represented 120,000 workers; Mr. Shanker, president of the United Federation of Teachers; and Barry Feinstein, president of Teamsters Local 237, representing more than 20,000 city workers.
In many Muslim countries, the American military and its dominant religion appear inseparable, said John C. Green, the director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron.
"Live sport is as dominant as it ever was," Kevin Alavy, managing director of the sports research unit of Initiative, a media buying agency.
