Sentences with phrase «best screenplay award»

She wrote and directed Look at Me, which won Best Screenplay Award at the 2004 Festival de Cannes, followed by Let's Talk about the Rain (2008) and Under the Rainbow (2013).

The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, winner of the Best Screenplay award at this year's Cannes, arrives in UK cinemas this week, just weeks after an enthusiastic reception at this year's London Film Festival.

Leviathan, Russian's entry in the 2014 Best Foreign Language Film race, premiered at Cannes, where it won the Best Screenplay award.

With its accomplished, old - fashioned narrative values, richly drawn characters, and incisive, droll dialogue, it justly won the best screenplay award.

Three years ago, the last time the Russian filmmaker was here, he garnered widespread attention for Leviathan, his acclaimed, partially state - funded tale of corruption that was seen as challenging Vladimir Putin's government and which won the best screenplay award.

Later, Kirk Douglas (a surprising choice, given that he's faced some allegations of his own) helped present the Best Screenplay award to Three Billboard's Martin McDonaugh, Coco won Best Animated Film (with Pixar co-founder John Lasseter being left out of the acceptance speech), and everyone had to politely smile as Get Out was inexplicably introduced as a comedy.

La Vie à l'envers (Life Upside Down) won an award in Venice for best feature debut in 1964, and Jeu de massacre (The Killing Game) won a best screenplay award in Cannes in 1967.

The Best Screenplay award went to another post-millennium certified auteur, Andrei Zvyagintsev and his co-writer Oleg Negin for Leviathan.

In 1980 Sayles» first directorial effort «Return of the Secaucus 7» earned the Best Screenplay award from the Los Angeles Film Critics, as well as an Oscar nomination for original screenplay.

It should not go unnoticed, however, that three women — Gerwig (Lady Bird), Liz Hannah (The Post), Vanessa Taylor (The Shape of Water)-- were nominated for the Golden Globes» Best Screenplay award in the same year for the first time ever.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer shared the Best Screenplay award at Cannes (with Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here).

This year's best screenplay award is a tie, with Nader Saeivar winning for her work on Jafar Panahi's 3 Faces, in which the director and actress Behnaz Jafari travel to the Iranian countryside in search of a distressed teenaged girl; and Alice Rohrwacher, for Happy as Lazzaro, the tale of a simpleton that blends magic realism and social drama.

As for the documentary side of things, Robert Kenner & Eric Schlosser won the Best Screenplay award for their nuclear missile documentary Command and Control, which first premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2016.

The film, which won genre festival FantasticFest's Next Wave Best Screenplay award, is about a group of friends who meet for a dinner party on the night of an abnormal astrological occurrence.

He nabbed the Best Screenplay award for audience favorite «A Self - Made Hero» in 1996.

And although Lanthimos and regular co-writer Efthymis Filippou took the Best Screenplay award in Cannes, it's the film's sheer all - of - a-piece execution — from pacing and composition, to brilliant use of contemporary composers including (Kubrick fave) Ligeti and Gubaidulina, and expertly modulated performances — which holds you in its steely grip and just never lets go.

Meanwhile, two films have been awarded the best screenplay award at the Cannes Film Festival - Happy as Lazzaro and 3 Faces.

Alice Rohrwacher's follow - up to her Grand Jury Prize — winning «The Wonders» shared the Best Screenplay award with Jafar Panahi's «3 Faces,» and Lukas Dhont's film won both the Camera d'Or for best first film and Best Actor laurels in the Un Certain Regard section for Victor Polster.

Chinese director Jia Zhangke took home the best screenplay award at Cannes last year, and many stateside critics — including the L.A. Times» Kenneth Turan — put it on their lists of top foreign films for 2013.

Moroccan writer - director Meryem Benm» Barek tearfully accepted the Best Screenplay award for her debut feature «Sofia»; a Casablanca - set drama about a 20 - year - old woman facing arrest after giving birth to a baby out of wedlock, it draws heartfelt attention to the lack of women's rights in the filmmaker's home country.

Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer shared the Best Screenplay award for SPOTLIGHT over Emma Donoghue for ROOM.

John Ridley won the Best Screenplay award for 12 YEARS A SLAVE over a tie between Bob Nelson for NEBRASKA and Spike Jonze for HER.

Kenneth Lonergan won the Best Screenplay award for MANCHESTER BY THE SEA over Barry Jenkins for MOONLIGHT.

Cirkus Columbia The fourth film from Bosnian director Danis Tanović, and his third since his debut feature No Man's Land took home the Cannes Film Festival best screenplay award in 2001 and the best

Greta Gerwig won the best screenplay award for her Oscar - nominated coming - of - age comedy - drama Lady Bird.

Writer / Producer Alexander Dinelaris, Writer / Associate Producer Armando Bo, Writer / Director / Producer Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Writer / Associate Producer Nicolas Giacobone, winners of Best Screenplay Award for «Birdman» pose in the... More

Andrei Zvyagintsev's follow - up to Elena earned some of the best reviews of the Cannes Film Festival (yes, that's a 99 you see) and picked up the festival's best screenplay award.

Alas, Tarantino didn't earn another Best Director nod, but at least he took home a trophy this time, as he won the Best Screenplay award.

Panahi also tied for the festival's best 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 yebest 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 yeBest Picture choice 8 out of the past 10 years.

The performances are so good, that both Steve Carell and Christian Bale have been nominated for Golden Globe Awards for «Best Actor in a Comedy» and McCay and Charles Randolph, who co-wrote the movie, were nominated for «Best Screenplay.»

Catholic News Agency: «Exorcist» author prepares canon lawsuit against Georgetown The author of the best - selling book and award - winning screenplay «The Exorcist» has announced that he is leading an effort to file a canon lawsuit against Georgetown University for failures to live up to the demands of the school's Catholic identity.

Recent and upcoming releases include the romance - horror hybrid Spring; the hotly - anticipated The Look Of Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animals.

The best ensemble performance award went to Straight Outta Compton, which also won for best original screenplay.

Beasts Of No Nation, starring Idris Elba received a total of 15 Ghana Movie Awards nominations including Best Picture, Best Editing, Music - Original Score, Best Directing, Best Visual Effects, Best Cinematography, Actor and Best Screenplay.

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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.

Winner of two awards at the Sundance Film Festival, including Best Screenplay, and created with the close participation of Dr. Zimbardo himself, «The Stanford Prison Experiment» is a chilling, edge - of - your - seat thriller about the dark side of power and the effects of imprisonment.

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.

(Ian Holm was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor in his role as Abrahams» coach), and this powerful film ended up with four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Costume Design, and Best Original Score.

Peck was one of the many stars who appeared in How the West Was Won (1962), which earned James Webb a «Best Original Screenplay» award.

As he did on The Ides of March and Good Night, and Good Luck, Clooney co-wrote the screenplay with producing partner Grant Heslov, and the late - December release date suggests awards - season hopes.

Cannes awarded her its Best Screenplay prize and Best Actor for Phoenix, both prizes richly deserved.

The Post seems certain to draw a number of major Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.

In 2011, she was nominated for a SAG Ensemble Award for Midnight in Paris, once again paired up with Owen Wilson (her co-star from Wedding Crashers), in a film that won Woody Allen an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

Kubrick's masterpiece was not nominated for Best Picture, but received four Academy Award nominations, including Best Director, Best Art Direction, and Best Original Story and Screenplay.

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).

The film went on to win the inaugural Writers Guild of America best documentary screenplay award as well as garner an Academy Award nomination for best feature documenaward as well as garner an Academy Award nomination for best feature documenAward nomination for best feature documentary.