AARON SORKIN, MOLLY»S GAME BEST
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY NOMINEE «This nomination represents the great work of hundreds of people — from STX and our producers to Jessica Chastain and the entire cast and crew.
Don't look for a Best
Adapted Screenplay nominee.
-- Molly's Game
adapted screenplay nominee Aaron Sorkin, via email.
-- «Call Me by Your Name»
adapted screenplay nominee James Ivory, on being the second oldest nominee, behind Agnes Varda by a week, in an Associated Press interview.
Not exact matches
Adapted from Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago's masterwork, the film is directed by Academy Awardr -
nominee Fernando Meirelles (City of God) from a
screenplay by Tony Award - winner Don McKellar (The Drowsy Chaperone).
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We must also give kudos to Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, who share a writing nomination for «The Big Sick,» a film that hasn't gotten enough awards season love; Kazuhiro Tsuji, who is nominated, for the third time, this year for the «Darkest Hour» makeup; and Agnès Varda and James Ivory who, at 89, are our oldest
nominees this year (and the oldest on record), for the documentary «Faces Places» and
adapted screenplay of «Call Me by Your Name,» respectively.
The India - born, British - raised Radford became a double
nominee for Director and
Adapted Screenplay on the 1990s Italian film Il Postino (The Postman), the rare foreign language production to earn a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars.
Nominees for the 90th Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning and LOGAN writers Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green received a nomination for «
Adapted Screenplay,» making it the first time a superhero (but not comic book) film has been nominated in this category.
The Secret of Kells was a dark horse
nominee for the Best Animated Feature category, and I know some people will be excited to see In The Loop in there for Best
Adapted Screenplay.
Paramount Home Media Distribution is releasing multiple Oscar ®
nominee Fences (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best
Adapted Screenplay) on Digital HD (February 24th) and Blu - ray Combo Pack (March 14th).
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.
In most cases, the
adapted screenplay category of a given Oscar race is packed with Best Picture
nominees or contenders.
We have a number of LGBTQ people / films up for Oscars tonight: Dee Rees and James Ivory (both in
Adapted Screenplay), the Chilean nominatee A Fantastic Woman, and the Best Pic
nominee Call Me By Your Name, and Rachel Morrison, the first woman nominated in Cinematography.
Sony Pictures Classics Sony Pictures Classics» main competitor is «Call Me By Your Name,» the romantic best picture
nominee that's also up for actor,
adapted screenplay, and original song.
«Steve Jobs» Aaron Sorkin is a likely
nominee for his
adapted screenplay, and Michael Fassbender is a strong contender for Best Actor.
Luca Guadagnino's «Call Me By Your Name» leads the list with eight
nominees for best picture, director,
adapted screenplay, editing, actor, breakthrough performer, and two nominations for supporting actor.
Luca Guadagnino's «Call Me By Your Name» led all
nominees with eight nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best
Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Actor, Breakthrough Performer, and two nominations for Best Supporting Actor.
In addition to Scott's nomination for Directing, the film also is a
nominee for Best Picture, Lead Actor (Matt Damon),
Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Sound Design, and Visual Effects.
Or it could just mean that the Globes have five fewer
screenplay nominees than the Oscars or Writers Guild of America awards, which divide
adapted and original — and that's where The Big Sick will find its recognition down the road.
The other 2017
nominees for Best
Adapted Screenplay: Deadpool written by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick, based on the X-Men comic books; Fences written by August Wilson, based on his own play; Hidden Figures written by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi, based on the book of the same name from Margot Lee Shetterly; and also Nocturnal Animals written by Tom Ford, based on «Tony & Susan» from Austin Wright.
Probably not a Best Picture
nominee here, but a
Screenplay nod is plausible, depending on how the other
adapted films fare.
I've always loved Alexander Payne's uniquely quirky (but never twee, unlike Wes Anderson) sensibility, from films like Election, About Schmidt and Sideways to 2012 Oscar -
nominee The Descendants (for which he, himself, won the Oscar for Best
Adapted Screenplay).
The Gold Standard looks at potential Oscar
nominees for best picture, and original and
adapted screenplay
The Danish Girl has been
adapted into a
screenplay by BAFTA Award
nominee Lucinda Coxon, based on the novel of the same name by David Ebershoff.
Below are the top - shelf domestic narrative nominations: Best Picture The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost / Nixon Milk The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Best Director Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire Stephen Daldry, The Reader David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Ron Howard, Frost / Nixon Gus Van Sant, Milk Best Actor Richard Jenkins, The Visitor Frank Langella, Frost / Nixon Sean Penn, Milk Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler Best Actress Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married Angelina Jolie, Changeling Melissa Leo, Frozen River Meryl Streep, Doubt Kate Winslet, The Reader Best Supporting Actor Josh Brolin, Milk Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road Best Supporting Actress Amy Adams, Doubt Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona Viola Davis, Doubt Taraji P Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler Best Original
Screenplay Frozen River In Bruges Happy - Go - Lucky Milk Wall ▪ E Best
Adapted Screenplay The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Doubt Frost / Nixon The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Best Animated Feature Bolt Kung Fu Panda Wall ▪ E More thoughts later, and in the coming weeks, certainly, but the Best Supporting Actress nominations clearly offer mostly confirmatory love on the part of AMPAS voters — Cruz and Adams are recent
nominees, and Tomei a past Oscar winner.
The entertainment news website, acquired by the Penske Media Corporation in 2015, released lists of potential Oscar
nominees in each category: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original
Screenplay and Best
Adapted Screenplay (among others).
The hands down lock
nominee and winner is Aaron Sorkin for best
adapted screenplay, and I said so to anyone who would listen as I left Amy Pascal and Michael Lynton's (and the producers») invited screening a few weeks before it opened.
The
nominees for best
adapted screenplay: Eric Roth's «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,» John Patrick Shanley's «Doubt,» Peter Morgan's «Frost / Nixon,» David Hare's «The Reader,» and Simon Beaufoy's «Slumdog Millionaire.»
Among racial strides: Jordan Peele is the fifth black Best Director
nominee ever for «Get Out,» and Dee Rees, the first black woman to be up for Best
Adapted Screenplay as the co-writer of «Mudbound.»
I'm no predicting The Death of Stalin for that elusive 5th
nominee in
Adapted Screenplay.
Bottom Photo: In one of the more heartwarming moments of the evening, Rising Star
nominee Timothee Chalamet helps 89 - year - old Call Me By Your Name screenwriter James Ivory to the stage to accept the BAFTA for best
adapted screenplay.
Two - time Black Reel Awards winner Ryan Coogler will direct «Black Panther» from an
adapted screenplay written by himself and Joe Robert Cole, based on characters by Hugo Awards
nominees Jack Kirby and Stan Lee.
Adapted Screenplay was a bit of a wasteland, with just one BP
nominee in the bunch — Call Me By Your Name...
At 5:38:30 a.m. PT / 8: 38:30 a.m. ET,
nominees were announced in the remaining 13 categories: Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress,
Adapted Screenplay, Original
Screenplay, Original Song, Animated Feature, Documentary Feature, Foreign Language Film and Documentary Short Subject.
The guild, which crosses over significantly in membership with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, tends to be one of the better Oscar predictors — it's only missed one Best Picture
nominee in each of the last three years — and considering Deadpool also netted a surprise Writers Guild of America nomination for Best
Adapted Screenplay last week, its selection certainly positions the film as a serious (if still relatively unlikely) contender.
Five - time Academy Award
nominee Kenneth Branagh will direct «Artemis Fowl» from an
adapted screenplay written by two - time Saturn Award
nominee Michael Goldenberg and two - time Gold Hugo Award
nominee Conor McPherson.