If audiences embrace it — and I think they will — then the distributor will assess its awards chances — Best Actress and
Original Screenplay come to mind.
Disc One includes animated menus and subtitles and DVD ROM content including a
printable original screenplay with links to scenes from the movie.
Both screenplay categories are top - heavy with Best Picture material at the moment, with
Original Screenplay carrying the burden as a very packed category this season.
What I'll be thinking about and wondering is which of them, considering almost all are also up for
Best Original Screenplay, will win the day?
The film reunites director Jason Reitman (Up In The Air) with screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno), whose work was nominated for Best
Original Screenplay by the Writers Guild of America and the Broadcast Film Critics Association.
Jordan Peele had to dig deep to get the horror - satire «Get Out» to the screen, and his reward was the first
original screenplay Oscar for an African - American.
The unusual nature of this year's Oscar season is that all five of the films named today are by writers and directors who
wrote original screenplays.
Boasting sumptuous period production design, cinematography in the irregular 2.0:1 aspect ratio by accomplished Italian cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor, and a number of Warren Beatty films), and costumes, Café Society could get recognized in some technical award categories, even if it doesn't add to the long list
of original screenplay nominations (and wins) Allen has earned with apparent apathy.
It also garnered Best Director and
Original Screenplay nods for Jordan Peele, and a Best Actor nomination for Daniel Kaluuya.
Adapted screenplay is as strong this year
as original screenplay is weak — so much so that complaints about Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs «snub» never got much traction.
Get Out «s Jordan Peele has become the first black screenwriter to win Best
Original Screenplay at the Oscars.
Ridley Scott's new movie, The Counselor, made from the
first original screenplay by novelist Cormac McCarthy, tells the story of a criminal defense lawyer — the «Counselor» of the title (Michael Fassbender)-- who has decided, for unspecified financial reasons, to enter the world of the Mexican drug trade.
The Best
Original Screenplay nominees include Nebraska, Her, and American Hustle, while the Best Adapted category is filled out by the likes of Before Midnight, Captain Phillips, and The Wolf of Wall Street.
Feature Film Best
Original Screenplay Get Out (Universal Pictures)-- Jordan Peele Best Adapted Screenplay Call Me by Your Name (Sony Pictures Classics)-- James Ivory; based on the novel by André Aciman Best Documentary Screenplay...
«Moonlight,» the coming of age tale of a young black boy in Miami, also won the best adapted screenplay statuette, while grief - driven independent drama «Manchester by the Sea» took
home original screenplay.
And while you could feel the joyous electricity in the room when Jordan Peele won
original screenplay honors for «Get Out,» his victory landed less with a shock than with a sigh of relief: At least one of the year's best, most important movies wouldn't leave the night empty - handed.
«Frozen» snagged the Best Animated Film award, «The Great Beauty» trumped the Best Foreign Language Film category and Spike Jonez took the Oscar for Best
Original Screenplay while John Ridley nabbed the honor in the Best Adapted Screenplay category, but it was «Gravity» that came out the biggest winner by far.
And if you think that a movie can't win Best Picture with only one other Oscar supporting it, look to but two years ago, when Spotlight won Best Picture and then just one other award — a heavily competitive
Original Screenplay race.
Best
Original Screenplay Hell or High Water — Taylor Sheridan Jackie — Noah Oppenheim La La Land — Damien Chazelle The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou Manchester By the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan
Turner wrote the screenplays for The Longest Yard and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, and he is currently casting his directorial debut, By Virtue Fall, from his
own original screenplay.
In 2015, Garland made his directorial debut with the sci - fi thriller Ex Machina, for which his script was nominated for a Best
Original Screenplay Academy Award.
Best
Original Screenplay Eric Warren Singer & David O. Russell — «American Hustle» — WINNER Woody Allen — «Blue Jasmine» Alfonso & Jonas Cuaron — «Gravity» Joel & Ethan Coen — «Inside Llewyn Davis» Bob Nelson — «Nebraska»
In this case, Spotlight's Academy Award - winning scriptwriter, Josh Singer, was tapped to tweak first timer Liz Hannah's
original screenplay about the Pentagon Papers.
BEST
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Wes Anderson «Grand Budapest Hotel» Alejandro Inarritu et al «Birdman» Richard Linklater «Boyhood» Dan Gilroy «Nightcrawler» Ava Duvernay, Paul Webb «Selma»
Analysis: Tarantino recently told GQ that he wants to win
more original screenplay Oscars «than anybody who's ever lived!»
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Best
original screenplay Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr and Armando Bo — Birdman Richard Linklater — Boyhood E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman — Foxcatcher Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness — The Grand Budapest Hotel Dan Gilroy — Nightcrawler
On the other hand, while I've had the film as something of a placeholder in my Best
Original Screenplay predictions for a couple of months now, that possibility is making more and more sense to me.
The L.A. - set musical came in with a record - tying 14 nominations and went home with seven Oscars including Best Actress for Emma Stone, and Damien Chazelle won for Best Director but
lost Original Screenplay to Kenneth Lonergan's script for Manchester by the Sea.
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