Competition Jury Golden Bear: Jodaeiye Nader Az Simin (Nader and Simin, A Separation) by Asghar Farhadi Silver Bear The Jury Grand Prize: A Torinoi Lo (The Turin Horse) by Bela Tarr Silver Bear Best Director: Ulrich Kohler for Schlafkrankheit (Sleeping Sickness) Silver Bear Best Actress: the female ensemble in Nader & Simin Silver Bear Best Actor: the male ensemble in Nader & Simin Silver
Bear Best Screenplay: The Forgiveness of Blood written by Joshua Marston and Andamion Murataj.
Silver
Bear Best Screenplay Una Mujer Fantastica (A Fantastic Woman) Chile - U.S. - Spain Dirs: Sebastian Lelio, Writer: Gonzalo Maza
A Fantastic Woman (Una Mujer Fantástica) debuted at the Berlin Film Festival this year and won the Silver
Bear Best Screenplay prize which Lelio shared with frequent collaborator Gonzalo Maza.
Not exact matches
Woody's noms: Crimes and Misdemeanors,
best director (lost to Oliver Stone,
Born on the Fourth of July),
best screenplay (lost to Dead Poets Society)
The duo based the sequel's
screenplay on the
best - selling books by Michael Bond, who was the creator of Paddington
Bear.
But this is a year where Kristin Scott Thomas, Daniel Kaluuya, Josh O'Connor and Florence Pugh are nominated, where Simon Farnaby and Paul King's remarkable Paddington 2
screenplay is honoured (the film deserved a
Best Film /
Best British Film nod too), where Saoirse Ronan is celebrated, where Jamie Bell is justly remembered for Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, and where Hugh Grant is nominated for
Best Supporting Actor in a family film about a CGI
bear.
The movie is one of two Lelio dramas heading to TIFF this year; the other is «A Fantastic Woman,» which earned acclaim at Berlin and won Lelio the Silver
Bear for
Best Screenplay.
Tina Gordon Chism (Drumline) builds her script on the original story by Antwone Fisher (yes, the same one that wrote the
screenplay for the film that
bears his name), with a
good ear for the lingo and attitudes that represent the area.
The Israeli -
born New York filmmaker shares a
Best Original
Screenplay Oscar nomination with co-writer Alessandro Camon for The Messenger, Moverman's drama about the people who deliver the bad news of Iraq War casualties to next - of - kin in America.
writer Steven Zaillian turned in three
screenplays for films of varying quality «The Falcon and the Snowman,» «Awakenings» and «Jack the
Bear» that showcased the
best and worst of his tendencies as a filmmaker.
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.
It won the Golden
Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Metacritic deemed it the
best - reviewed movie of the year, it won the Academy Award for Best Foreign - Language Film and even scored a Best Screenplay nomination — a rarity for an international mo
best - reviewed movie of the year, it won the Academy Award for
Best Foreign - Language Film and even scored a Best Screenplay nomination — a rarity for an international mo
Best Foreign - Language Film and even scored a
Best Screenplay nomination — a rarity for an international mo
Best Screenplay nomination — a rarity for an international movie.
Gorgeous sci - fi drama «Arrival» (a Paramount pickup from Shawn Levy's 21 Laps, FilmNation, and Lava
Bear) landed eight nods, including Adapted
Screenplay, Directing and Editing — a sign of strength for a
Best Picture contender.
Best Costume Design, Make - Up / Hair, Original Score and Production Design, Academy Awards 2015;
Best Original
Screenplay, Production Design, Music and Make Up / Hair at the 2015 BAFTA Awards;
Best Film (Comedy / Musical) at the 2015 Golden Globes; Winner of the Silver Berlin
Bear, Grand Jury Prize at Berlin Film Festival 2014
But there's so much more wrong with Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius than just the music, the winking title, and the truism that for as
boring as golf is to watch on television, it's that much more
boring to watch in reverent celluloid slow motion — no, the picture is also fatally tagged by a terrible
screenplay and terrible direction (that includes a half dozen ball's - eye view shots: not as interesting as you might misunderstand), as
well as the dreadfully persistent belief that the measure of a man's life are the crescendos and valleys rather than the caesuras and grace notes.
But Stone gives it his all, using his Natural
Born Killers intercutting visual style to
good use here to underscore points in Ridley's ever - twisting
screenplay, and going full - throttle with the sex and, this being Stone, violence.
A Fantastic Woman has been scoring rave reviews ever since it won the Silver
Bear award for
Best Screenplay at Berlin International Film Festival last year, winning immense praise for its showstopping central performance from transgender actress and singer Daniela Vega
It premiered in main competition at Berlinale 2017, where it won the Silver
Bear for
best screenplay and the Teddy Award for
best film with LGBT subject matter.