That year, the movie won
a best screenplay prize from a jury headed by Tim Burton.
The LEGO Movie didn't go home empty handed, however, as Lord and Miller rightfully won
the Best Screenplay prize.
«Beyond the Lights» also scored
a Best Screenplay prize for its writer / director, Gina Prince - Bythewood.
He also shared
the Best Screenplay prize with Being John Malkovich author Charlie Kaufman (1999).
Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of Ben Mezrich's book «The Accidental Billionaires» won
the Best Screenplay prize.
Alfonso Cuarón won the Best Director prize for his groundbreaking work on the space survival thriller «Gravity»; Spike Jonze's «Her» won
the Best Screenplay prize for its near - future tale of a romance between a man and a computer operating system.
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.
Cannes awarded
her its Best Screenplay prize and Best Actor for Phoenix, both prizes richly deserved.
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.
Last night, the 31 - year - old won the
prize for
Best Screenplay and
Best Director, with his film winning
Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, and its stars, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, winning
Best Actor and
Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.
Beauvois's film (the French Oscar submission, which surprised many by failing to make the Academy's shortlist) took the top
prize, but it was «The Ghost Writer» that netted the most wins, with four — including two for Polanski himself (
Best Director and Adapted
Screenplay), plus honors for editing and Alexandre Desplat's score.
That didn't stop writer and director Yorgos Lanthimos from winning the
prize for
Best Screenplay at the festival.
The
prize for
best screenplay was split between Italian writer - director Alice Rohrwacher's time - warped fable about a poor farm boy in rural Italy Happy as Lazzaro and Nader Saeivar and Jafar Panahi's script for Three Faces.
In their third cinematic go - round together, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy won the
Best Adapted
Screenplay prize for «Before Midnight.»
Four years ago, writer Alex Garland made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a critical smash that surprised with two Oscar nominations for
Best Original
Screenplay and
Best Visual Effects and further surprised by winning the Visual Effects
prize.
In addition to winning the biggest
prize as selected by the Seattle Film Critics Society, Jenkins was named
Best Director and his
screenplay, co-written with Tarell Alvin McCraney, earned Best Screenpl
screenplay, co-written with Tarell Alvin McCraney, earned
Best ScreenplayScreenplay honors.
British writer - director Martin McDonagh, whose film «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» took the
best picture honor as
well as the original
screenplay prize, noted the timeliness of his movie in his acceptance speech.
«The Past» star Bérénice Bejo won the festival's
best actress
prize, while «The Salesman» took home honors for
best actor (Shahab Hosseini) and
best screenplay (Farhadi).
Elsewhere, Greek film «Miss Violence» also proved popular, taking both the Silver Lion and the
Best Actor
prize for Themis Panou, while Tsai Ming - Liang «s «Stray Dogs» won the Grand Jury
Prize, Elena Cotta took
Best Actress for «Via Castellana Bandiera» (which we unfortunately didn't see), Tye Sheridan was awarded
Best Young Actor for David Gordon Green «s «Joe,» Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope picked up
Best Screenplay for «Philomena,» and Philip Groning «s «The Police Officer's Wife» won a Special Jury
Prize.
Peele won the
prize for
best original
screenplay and Ivory for...
Gravity has become the early winner at the Bafta Awards in London, picking up a handful of top
prizes, including
Best Screenplay, Music,...
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.
But Get Out, which won
Best Original
Screenplay, was a constant threat to
Best Picture, while Dunkirk and Lady Bird could not be ruled out for either that or the
Best Director
prize.
NYFCC matched two categories with NBR: Paul Thomas Anderson won another
Best Original
Screenplay prize, and Willem Dafore again won Supporting Actor.
Among the others were Willem Dafoe, winning
Best Supporting Actor for The Florida Project; Paul Thomas Anderson won the Original
Screenplay prize for Phantom Thread, another very - recently screened film; and Scott Neustader and Michael H. Weber were the Adapted
Screenplay winners for The Disaster Artist.
Spotlight won
Best Picture at the 21st annual Critics» Choice Awards on Sunday night in Santa Monica, along with best original screenplay and best ensemble, but Mad Max: Fury Road took home nine prizes, with best director (George Miller) being the bigg
Best Picture at the 21st annual Critics» Choice Awards on Sunday night in Santa Monica, along with
best original screenplay and best ensemble, but Mad Max: Fury Road took home nine prizes, with best director (George Miller) being the bigg
best original
screenplay and
best ensemble, but Mad Max: Fury Road took home nine prizes, with best director (George Miller) being the bigg
best ensemble, but Mad Max: Fury Road took home nine
prizes, with
best director (George Miller) being the bigg
best director (George Miller) being the biggest.
Elsewhere, Gary Oldman followed up his Golden Globe victory with another
Best Actor
prize for his performance as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, while Jordan Peele added his name firmly to the Oscar conversation with a
screenplay victory for Get Out.
Moonlight, which follows the life of a young black boy dealing with his sexuality, scooped three
prizes in total, landing
best picture,
best adapted
screenplay and
best supporting actor for Mahershala Ali.
To be sure, all but the Competition's worst (Paolo Sorrentino's self - indulgent, arthritic Youth) had some redeeming facet — from Tim Roth's quietly contained performance as a home nurse in Michel Franco's unpleasantly antiseptic Chronic (the
Best Screenplay winner) to the everything - but - the - kitchen - sink turn by Emmanuelle Bercot (shared
Best Actress
prize) in Maïwenn's overwrought relationship drama Mon Roi, possibly my festival guilty pleasure, if such a thing is necessary.
The history: On his two previous Competition appearances, for «All About My Mother» in 1999 and «Volver» in 2006, Almodovar entered the race as the bookies» favourite, only to land the consolation
prizes of
Best Director and
Best Screenplay, respectively.
A big day: Besides the two top
prizes, Natural Selection also grabbed jury awards for
best screenplay (Pickering),
best editing (Michelle Tesoro) and
best score / music (iZLER, Curt Schneider).
«Birdman» — a visually inventive look at a washed - up movie actor seeking redemption on the Broadway stage — took
best picture, director, cinematography and original
screenplay prizes at the Dolby Theatre ceremony.
After scooping up
Best Screenplay and
Best Actor honors for The Salesman at the Cannes Film Festival, Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi has swiftly landed two more international
prizes for his next film: Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem.
Ramsay was the only other woman to win a top non-acting award, earning
Best Screenplay for her film, You Were Never Really Here; she shared the
prize with Greek filmmakers Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou for their movie, The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
She received several nominations and
prizes, including an Independent Spirit Award nomination for
best first
screenplay.
The caustic, darkly comic ballbuster Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri walked away from the Globes with trophies in four of the six categories it was nominated in, and the most awards of any feature film of the night: The movie took the
Best Motion Picture — Drama)
prize, stars Sam Rockwell and Frances McDormand both took home acting awards in their categories, and director Martin McDonagh won for his
screenplay.
Gerwig in particular has been in contention for
Best Director
prizes from critics» groups throughout the end of the year, including winning that honor (along with
Best Screenplay and
Best Picture) the day before the Globes by the National Society of Film Critics.
The victory for «The Shape of Water» is rather surprising because, for the first time in over 20 years, a
Best Picture winner has won the top
prize without having a nomination for
Best Cast from SAG, along with another big surprise of not winning its respective
Screenplay category on the way to the top.
Both were nominated for
Best Picture and the
Best Original
Screenplay prizes.
Additionally, the film scored
prizes for
Best Actor for Timothée Chalamet,
Best Adapted
Screenplay for James Ivory, and
Best Original Song for the number «Mystery of Love.»
Best Cast Ensemble went to Greta Gerwig «s «Lady Bird,» the only win for the film despite runner - up
prizes in Supporting Actress and Original
Screenplay.
Here, aided by a killer, and highly authentic
screenplay by former prison psychotherapist and poet Jonathan Asser (the rightful winner of the
Best Newcomer
prize at the festival), Mackenzie excels.
The Salesman, from Iranian director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation), picked up two awards: one for Farhadi's
screenplay, the other a
Best Actor
prize for Shahab Hosseini, who plays a stage actor whose wife is assaulted in their home.
Comedy film «In Bruges» won the award for
Best Original
Screenplay, while «I've Loved You So Long» was awarded the
prize for
Best Non-English language film.
Gaspard Ulliel's mesmerizing turn at Yves Saint Laurent in Saint Laurent earned him the
Best Actor
prize and the supporting categories were won by Kristen Stewart for Clouds of Sils Maria (which also won Original
Screenplay and a place in the top 5 films of the year) and Oscar Isaac for Ex Machina.
Asghar Farhadi (pictured above) returned and picked up two
prizes,
best actor and
best screenplay, for a not - quite - up - to - his
best Forushande / The Salesman, a post-earthquake tale whose tremors reverberate and imbalance an artsy couple playing in a Persian version of Arthur Miller's play.
«The Past» star Bérénice Bejo won the
best actress
prize, while «The Salesman» took home honors for
best actor (Shahab Hosseini) and
best screenplay (Farhadi).
He wrote the winning adapted
screenplays for «Sideways» and «The Descendants,» and has been nominated for additional writing, directing, and
Best Picture
prizes.
While Jordan Peele's horror film did not receive any other awards, it was within one vote of the
screenplay prize and just two away from
best picture.
Up for four other
prizes — including
Best Director and
Best Original
Screenplay — the Austrian end - of - life drama will likely follow in the footsteps of the three previous
Best Foreign Film /
Best Picture double nominees (Life is Beautiful, Z, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), easily taking the Foreign Film Oscar and leaving the big one for domestic product.