Sentences with phrase «adapted screenplay for her movie»

While Polley has starred in such films as DAWN OF THE DEAD, GO and THE SWEET HEREAFTER, she has been causing a buzz with her film projects, even earning an Academy Award nomination in Best Adapted Screenplay for her movie AWAY FROM HER.

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It will be all but impossible for audiences to determine guilt or innocence, dereliction of duty or devotion to veracity, based strictly on the movie: Its screenplay was adapted by James Vanderbilt from Mapes» own memoir, Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power, in which she strenuously defends her work on what became known as «Rathergate» (or «Memogate»).

The movie, about a father dealing with the aftermath of his wife falling into a coma, was nominated for five Oscars in 2012, winning one for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Note that most other awards organizations treated Damien Chazelle's Whiplash script as an original screenplay, but the Academy considered it to be an adapted screenplay for reasons known only to the Academy (Chazelle has previously released a single Whiplash scene as a short film to raise funds to complete the full movie, which is apparently the source of the problem).

Best Film - Spotlight Best Actor - Leonardo DiCaprio - the Revenant Best Actress - Brie Larson - Room Best Supporting Actor - Tom Hardy - The Revenant Best Supporting Actress - Alicia Vikander - Ex Machina Best Youth Performance - Jacob Tremblay - Room Best Director - Alejandro Iñárritu - The Revenant Best Original Screenplay - Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer - Spotlight Best Adapted Screenplay - tie - Drew Goddard for The Martian and Emma Donoghue for Room Best Ensemble Cast - Spotlight Best Documentary - Amy Best Animated Movie - Inside Out Best Production Design - Francois Séguin - Brooklyn Best Cinematography - Emmanuel Lubezki - The Revenant Best Visual Effects - Ex Machina

The Martian is one of the most talked about films of the year and has been named one of the best movies of the year by groups such as National Board of Review, which also awarded top honors to Ridley Scott for Best Director, Matt Damon for Best Actor and Drew Goddard for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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Yet here he is, adapting Michael Lewis» nonfiction book on the reasons behind the financial collapse and coming away with a hit movie, five Academy Award nominations, and an Oscar win for Best Adapted Screenplay (shared with Charles Randolph).

What It Could Win: Ang Lee, who took home the Best Director Academy Award in 2013 for Life of Pi, is a frontrunner once again, seemingly providing the movie Best Picture heft, while the rest of the categories — first - time screenwriter Jean - Christophe Castelli for Best Adapted Screenplay?

Less important is the fact that a horror movie that addressed race and social issues won best adapted screenplay, which is a seriously promising turn for the Academy Awards.

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Condon does have previous history with Bride of Frankenstein, having including a homage to the classic Monster movie in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1, as well as writing and directing Gods and Monsters, which revolved around Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein director James Whale and saw him receiving the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

The company's best known movies include «Ex Machina,» «Room,» «The Witch,» «Amy» and» Moonlight,» which won the 2016 Academy Award for best picture, best adapted screenplay and best supporting actor for Mahershala Ali.

The award went to Eddie Redmayne, but the movie did win the Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for screenwritter Graham Moore.

That included Steven Spielberg's Pentagon Papers drama «The Post» (best picture, best actress for Meryl Streep), the first adapted screenplay nod for a superhero movie in the Wolverine sequel «Logan» and two animated film nominations: «Ferdinand» and the much - mocked «The Boss Baby.»

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In terms of the movie's Oscar potential, despite my issues with it, I expect plays to be made for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Cinematography.

The film only won two Oscars, including Best Adapted Screenplay for Blatty, But it proved to be such a critical and commercial sensation that the movie overcame the industry's marginalization of stories about things that go bump in the night (and cause heads to do complete 360 - degree rotations).

The screenplay for the movie was written by Aaron Sorkin and adapted from Walter Isaacson's bestselling biography of Mr Jobs.

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Movie: Fences Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay Streaming on: Amazon Video, iTunes

Movie: Moonlight Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score Streaming on: Amazon Video, iTunes

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Just as likely if the movie is a true Oscar contender is Best Adapted Screenplay, where Reitman could try to make up for his loss last time around.

The movie got nods for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Music (Original Score), Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing.

Rather than going out during intermissions, Taylor and I were content to stand near our seats speaking with our neighboring seatmates including Samuel Jackson, Sony Pictures Classics studio co-president, Michael Barker (whom Cate Blanchett thanked when she won), director Steve McQueen and screenwriter John Ridley, who won for adapting the screenplay for «12 Years a Slave,» producer Megan Ellison who financed «Her», all of the people associated with the movie «Nebraska,» including producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa (whom you once famously mistook for David Lynch), and on and on.

We'll cover Best Editing in the next few days, but the movie still seems more of a spoiler than a frontrunner for original score and adapted screenplay *.

He is also however responsible for adapting Robert Graysmith's book of the same name into the screenplay for what is arguably the greatest movie by one of the greatest living American directors: David Fincher's Zodiac.

On the plus side, director Rob Marshall was an old hand at adapting Broadway hits into movie form — his Chicago nabbed a few Oscars ® — and the screenplay for Into The Woods was adapted by James Lapine, who, with Stephen Sondheim, created the original musical.

Think about your book adapted for a screenplay, TV show, theatre production or as a movie!

Dave Eggers, who adapted the children's book into the screenplay for the anticipated movie directed by Spike Jonze.

Finally, «Where the Wild Things Are» was adapted into a live - action movie in 2009, with a screenplay that was co-written by the award - winning novelist Dave Eggers (who was once also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize).