Sentence examples for substantial acclaim from inspiring English sources

The film enjoyed substantial acclaim; Haynes was nominated for an Academy Award for best original screenplay, and he received best director awards from several critics' groups.

But even before he had directed a single film that attracted a large audience or substantial acclaim Coppola made the movie business seem wide open in a way few directors had since the early silents.

The company has attracted substantial acclaim, but also frequent controversy, rights have often been a problem and the use of blackface in Route 1&9 lost the Group much of its funding.

In the 1980s and '90s, George Wolfe won substantial acclaim both as a playwright, whose The Colored Museum (produced 1986) lampooned stereotypes and myths of black culture, and as the director of Angels in America, a Tony Award-winning drama by white playwright Tony Kushner.

Dig Me Out received substantial acclaim from music critics.

The album received substantial acclaim from music critics, who praised the album's energy and feminist lyrics.

Her books and her television career have left her with a sizable fortune and substantial critical acclaim.

Hawke's next role, and one for which he received substantial critical acclaim, came in Training Day (2001).

In 2009, the controversial "Black Dynamite," a "blaxploitation" comedy, showed at the festival before being nationally distributed and gaining substantial critical acclaim.

What Betzer and Levine have done is substantial, and substantially different from the familiar run of low-budget genre films that come out, sometimes to acclaim (I'm thinking, for instance, of "Blue Ruin" and the forthcoming teen horror film "It Follows"), films that have their merits but that fit into genre without reflecting on or transforming it.

Two fingers up to the suits, on its biggest, most tepid night out of the year, from musicians like Skepta, Jammer and Krept and Konan, who between them have spent decades releasing music to great acclaim (and, often, substantial sales) on tiny independent labels, or more often, putting it out themselves, direct to the fans.