Call Me By Your Name won
the Best Adapted Screenplay award, the only award almost as prestigious as Best Original Screenplay, which went to Get Out.
The big win of the night went to the 89 - year - old James Ivory, who won
the Best Adapted Screenplay award for his work on Call Me by Your Name, which he adapted from André Aciman's 2007 novel.
As expected, Cate Blanchett snagged the Best Leading Actress honor, but surprisingly, it was Steve Coogan who made off with
the Best Adapted Screenplay award for «Philomena,» beating out «12 Years a Slave,» «Behind the Candelabra,» «Captain Phillips» and «Wolf of Wall Street» while Will Poulter took the EE Rising Star award over Dane DeHaan, George MacKay, Lupita Nyong» o and Lea Seydoux.
In other categories, Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship won
the Best Adapted Screenplay award for his film based on the writing of Jane Austen.
In the end, newbie actress Lupita Nyong» o collected a Best Supporting Actress trophy, 12 Years a Slave took home Best Picture, and screenwriter John Ridley won
the Best Adapted Screenplay award.
Disney released the full, hilarious script for Thor: Ragnarok as part of the film's campaign for
a Best Adapted Screenplay award, and now it can live on your computer as a PDF forever.
In 1983, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Booker - prize winning novel Heat and Dust was released in theatres for its first run, and in 1984, BAFTA rewarded her with
a Best Adapted Screenplay award.
If you don't know, Dee is up for
the Best Adapted Screenplay award tonight alongside Virgil Williams for their work on Mudbound.
In February, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts honored Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope with
the Best Adapted Screenplay award.
Not exact matches
Notably, The Big Short won
best adapted screenplay at the Writers Guild Awards and also took the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards, which has predicted the Academy's Best Picture choice 8 out of the past 10 ye
best adapted screenplay at the Writers Guild
Awards and also took the top prize at the Producers Guild
Awards, which has predicted the Academy's
Best Picture choice 8 out of the past 10 ye
Best Picture choice 8 out of the past 10 years.
While «Schindler's List» won 7 Academy
Awards (including
Best Picture,
Best Director and
Best -LCB-
adapted -RCB-
screenplay), and 11 Academy
Award Nominations (including
Best Actor - Liam Neeson), it is a movie that left this reviewer a little uneasy.
The unanimously - praised film with a modest budget of $ 23 million deservedly won seven Academy
Awards, including
Best Picture,
Best Director (the first for Spielberg),
Best Cinematography (Janusz Kaminski),
Best Adapted Screenplay,
Best Original Score (John Williams),
Best Editing (Michael Kahn), and
Best Art Direction.
The Academy really didn't like Gone Girl much, as Gillian Flynn (who has been owning this category on the
awards circuit) couldn't even get a
screenplay nomination for
adapting her own
best - seller.
L.A. Confidential was nominated for nine Academy
Awards and netted two, with Brian Helgeland honored for
Best Adapted Screenplay, and Kim Basinger taking home a statuette as
Best Supporting Actress.
I am grateful that the Academy
Awards uncharacteristically chose not to take this film's bait, opting to reward
better films like Argo (
Best Picture,
Best Adapted Screenplay) and Life of Pi (
Best Director).
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awards including an Academy
Award for
Best Adapted Screenplay; Owen worked on the screenplay, although he was u
Screenplay; Owen worked on the
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screenplay, although he was uncredited.
The Sting became one of the biggest hits of the early»70s; grossing 68.5 million dollars during its first run, the film also picked up seven Academy
Awards, including
Best Picture,
Best Director,
Best Screenplay, and
Best Adapted Score for Marvin Hamlisch's unforgettable setting of Scott Joplin's ragtime music.
Originally written and produced as a play for television, the screen version of Judgment at Nuremberg was nominated for 11 Academy
Awards, with Maximilian Schell and Abby Mann taking home Oscars for (respectively)
Best Actor and
Best Adapted Screenplay.
From the Oscar -
award winning writers of The Descendants (
Best Adapted Screenplay, 2012) comes a feel
good summer movie, with plenty of sensitive emotional punch.
So far Silver Linings has placed Lawrence and Cooper in privileged positions for Academy
Award nominations and not unlikely is the possibility of the film getting recognition in the
Best Picture,
Best Adapted Screenplay, and of course
Best Director categories.
It was the gaffe heard around the world, but when the dust finally cleared on last year's fateful Oscars and this graceful indie was crowned
Best Picture (with
well - deserved
awards for Mahershala Ali as Supporting Actor and Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney for
Best Adapted Screenplay), instead of the front - runner La La Land, liberal Hollywood breathed a collective sigh of relief.
The group also handed out nominations for
Best Animated Feature, Original Screenplay, Adapted Screenplay, Foreign Film, Documentary Feature and the Vince Koehler Award, which is chosen as the year's best Science Fiction, Horror or Fantasy F
Best Animated Feature, Original
Screenplay,
Adapted Screenplay, Foreign Film, Documentary Feature and the Vince Koehler
Award, which is chosen as the year's
best Science Fiction, Horror or Fantasy F
best Science Fiction, Horror or Fantasy Film.
Fences won big too with four
awards —
Best Actor (Denzel Washington), Supporting Actress (Viola Davis),
Adapted Screenplay and Ensemble.
The Walt Disney Studios»
awards - season promotion for Thor: Ragnarok includes a For Your Consideration campaign for
Best Adapted Screenplay.
Shut out at the BAFTAs, and nominated for eight Academy
Awards and winning
Best Adapted Screenplay...
Anthony McCarten poses in the winners room with the
award for
Best Adapted Screenplay for «The Theory Of Everything» at the EE British Academy Film
Awards at The Royal Opera House on February 8, 2015 in London, England.
But in these results there is a notable echo of last season, where the only roadblock for «La La Land» came at the WGA
Awards when «Moonlight» — categorized as an original
screenplay by the guild, yet
adapted by the Academy's writers branch — upset the perceived
best - picture frontrunner.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated PHILOMENA for four Academy
Awards ® including:
Best Picture;
Best Actress in a Leading Role, Judi Dench;
Best Music — Original Score, Alexandre Desplat; and
Best Writing —
Adapted Screenplay, Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope.
The French Connection helped usher in the second golden age of Hollywood (arguably the
best decade in movie history) and went on to win 5 Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - t
best decade in movie history) and went on to win 5 Academy
Awards (
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - t
Best Picture,
Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - t
Best Director,
Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - t
Best Actor,
Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - t
Best Adapted Screenplay,
Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - t
Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100
best American movies of all - t
best American movies of all - time.
«Arrival» is currently nominated for eight Academy
Awards, including
Best Picture,
Best Director and
Best Adapted Screenplay.
Rees has assembled an impressive POC crew in front of and behind the camera that could gain
awards recognition: Dee Rees (
Best Director,
Best Adapted Screenplay); Virgil Williams (
Best Adapted Screenplay);
Best Supporting Actor (Jason Mitchell),
Best Film Editing (Mako Kamitsuna) and
Best Picture (Charles D. King).
Last Year «Äôs Big Winners: «ÄúSlumdog Millionaire «Äù took its first major
best picture
award of the season here, as
well as honors for
adapted screenplay and breakthrough actor Dev Patel.
Mathew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon star in this brilliant satirical comedy, which was nominated for an Academy
Award for
best adapted screenplay.
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Taking home three
awards this year, Carol, a drama about a female clerk who falls in love with an older woman in the 1950s, claimed the
awards for
Best Actress (Cate Blanchett),
Best Supporting Actress (Rooney Mara) and
Best Adapted Screenplay.
Nominated for an Academy
Award for
best adapted screenplay.
Other films receiving more than one
award were «Capote» (
best actor to Philip Seymour Hoffman and
best adapted screenplay to first - time screenwriter Dan Futterman) and «Crash» (
best original
screenplay to Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco and
best ensemble acting).
A true career achievement
award, the
adapted screenplay Oscar will go to the 89 - year - old Ivory,
best known for his collaborations with Ismail Merchant.
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 Screenp
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 Screenp
Best Director, Matt Damon for
Best Actor and Drew Goddard for Best Adapted Screenp
Best Actor and Drew Goddard for
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Best Adapted Screenplay.
Call Me By Your Name took home the gong for
Best Adapted Screenplay and Daniel Kaluuya scooping the EE Rising Star
award.
Its
best shot for any
awards is in the
adapted screenplay category, which it may be able to corral depending on its reception and momentum.
The
award for
Best Picture went to Steve McQueen's «12 Years a Slave,» which also took home
awards for
Adapted Screenplay and
Best Supporting Actress for Lupita Nyong» o. Cate Blanchett won her second Oscar, this time as
Best Actress, for her role in «Blue Jasmine.»
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Best Animated Feature,
Best Animated Short Film,
Best Documentary Feature,
Best Documentary Short Subject,
Best Live Action Short Film,
Best Cinematography,
Best Editing,
Best Production Design,
Best Costume Design,
Best Makeup and Hair - Styling,
Best Visual Effects,
Best Sound Editing,
Best Sound Mixing,
Best Original Song,
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However, Call Me By Your Name took home the
award for
Best Adapted Screenplay by James Ivory based on the novel by André Acimandouble!
Arndt won an Academy
Award ® for
Best Original
Screenplay for writing Little Miss Sunshine (2006), and was nominated for
Best Adapted Screenplay for writing Toy Story 3 (2010).
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).
This year, they make up for it by
awarding Lawrence
Best Supporting Actress for «American Hustle» (which also won
Best Screenplay, original or
adapted.)
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.