Sentences with phrase «film screenplay award»

Stavier Films have announced that Anthony Renwick McGill, a writer living in Dublin and co-founder, along with Savio Sequeira, of Stavier Films and The Da Vinci Theatre Company, has won the 2016 FEATURE FILM SCREENPLAY AWARD in the New York Short Film and Screenplay Competition for his screenplay Amazons Inc., a comedy thriller set in 1970's Ireland.

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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 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.

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).

(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.

Resuming his movie career with 1962's Taras Bulba, Salt went on to win an Academy Award for his screenplay for 1969's Midnight Cowboy; nine years later, Salt, Robert C. Jones, and Nancy Dowd shared an Oscar for Coming Home (1978), his final film.

Something in the Air (also known as After May) won an award for its screenplay at the Venice festival, where critics liked the film, though perhaps not as much as Carlos.

In 1968 he completed his first studio film, the box - office bomb Finian's Rainbow, followed the next year by The Rain People.When he was just 31, Coppola won his first Academy Award for his work on the screenplay of 1970's Patton.

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.

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.

Adapted from Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago's masterwork, the film is directed by Academy Awardr - nominee Fernando Meirelles (City of God) from a screenplay by Tony Award - winner Don McKellar (The Drowsy Chaperone).

The film was nominated for various awards including an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay; Owen worked on the screenplay, although he was uScreenplay; Owen worked on the screenplay, although he was uscreenplay, 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.

CANNES, France — Tommy Lee Jones walked away from the 58th Cannes Film Festival here Saturday night as a double winner, after his film «The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada» won him the award as best actor, and the screenplay by Guillermo Arriaga also was honored.

Jeremy and John - Henry Butterworth were named recipients of the Writers Guild of America West's 2011 Paul Selvin Award for their screenplay for the film Fair Game (2010), directed by Doug Liman and which starred Naomi Watts and Sean Penn..

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.

Its best original screenplay award was a thrilling salute to Jordan Peele's audacity, but lingering in the background was the ongoing debate about whether a mere «horror film» was worthy of the Oscar — that is, the Oscar for best picture.

New for 2011, films in competition were also eligible for Jury Awards for Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Score / Music, Best Screenplay (narratives) and Breakthrough Performance (narratives).

Top honors went to Spotlight, which won four EDA Awards: best film, best director, best original screenplay and tied for best ensemble.

The film was, however, nominated for a trio of awards including a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Sal Mineo as his pal, Plato, and a Best Screenplay nomination for the Director, Nicholas Ray.

His film would earn 8 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, winning two for its screenplay and editing.

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

It was the first film to take home all five of the big Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay (before that award was split in two).

The coming - of - age film also earned the coveted Best Screenplay honor along with the Special Gotham Jury award and IFP Gotham Audience award.

The book was adapted for the big screen by award - winning British novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby, who wrote both the book and screenplay for 2002 film About a Boy.

Affleck is an Academy Award as well as a Golden Globe Award winner, along with Matt Damon, for their collaborative screenplay for the 1997 film Good Will Hunting.

Voting is open until December 12 at 11:59 p.m. Categories include Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Documentary, Best Animated Film, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent film).

Spotlight, a film about the exposure of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church, was presented the award for Best Original Screenplay.

The screenplay categories are where the Academy often gives an award to a multi-nominated film that isn't going to pick up one of the top prizes — see Alexander Payne.

This is one of the key preceding awards before the Academy Awards are handed out early next month, and on the feature film side of things, another significant win adds even more momentum to the acclaimed thriller Get Out with Jordan Peele winning the award for original screeawards before the Academy Awards are handed out early next month, and on the feature film side of things, another significant win adds even more momentum to the acclaimed thriller Get Out with Jordan Peele winning the award for original screeAwards are handed out early next month, and on the feature film side of things, another significant win adds even more momentum to the acclaimed thriller Get Out with Jordan Peele winning the award for original 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).

It garnered seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Walter Huston, recreating his earlier stage role, who should have won the Oscar with his sensitive portrayal against winner Paul Muni for The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)-RRB-, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Maria Ouspenskaya, reprising her role from the earlier stage production, and in her film debut), and Best Sound Recording, and won only one Oscar for Best Art Direction - Interior Decoration.

«La La Land,» the most nominated film of the evening, took home eight awards, the most of the night, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay (a tie) for Damien Chazelle, Best Cinematography for Linus Sandgren, Best Production Design for David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds - Wasco, Best Editing for Tom Cross, Best Song, and Best Score for Justin Hurwitz.

Honestly, although Whedon's screenplay will probably be one of the best of the year, the film's limited budget, exposure and early release make it highly likely to be forgotten come awards season.

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.

Year after year her awards are fraught with controversy that includes incomplete nominations lists (check out the TWO nominations in Adapted Screenplay this year), names that are later removed (which happened to Viola Davis for 2008's Doubt), actors being listed as TV shows (I'm looking at your, Lizzy Caplan) but the biggest and most real controversy has been the group's penchant for nominating films they haven't even seen.

The film has been nominated for 5 Golden Globe Awards, including Best Drama Motion Picture, along with nominations for Best Actor in a Drama (Casey Affleck), Best Supporting Actress (Michelle Williams), Best Screenplay (Lonergan) and Best Director (Lonergan).

The film has received eight nominations for our Critics Choice Awards, and Casey Affleck won Best Actor in a Film, Kenneth Lonergan won Best Screenplay, and Best Young Performer, Lucas Hedges.

That film also earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for First Screenplay.

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.

Jordan Peele is nominated for three Academy Awards for his film «Get Out,» including picture, director and original screenplay.

James Ivory won the adapted screenplay award for «Call Me by Your Name,» giving something of a shoutout to his cast of Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer and Michael Stuhlbarg by acknowledging that «a film like this depends on a lot of people, but first of all it depends on the actors.»

In honor of the movie's home video release (and before this weekend's Academy Awards, where it's nominated for Best Animated Feature), I spoke with Molina about the power of the film's music, how physically visiting a place like Monte Alban actually translates into a movie's screenplay, and much more.

The film's screenplay is by Academy Award nominees Paul Tamsay and Eric Johnson (The Fighter) and Academy Award nominee Scott Silver (The Fighter, 8 Mile) based on the book by Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougias.

We must also give kudos to Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, who share a writing nomination for «The Big Sick,» a film that hasn't gotten enough awards season love; Kazuhiro Tsuji, who is nominated, for the third time, this year for the «Darkest Hour» makeup; and Agnès Varda and James Ivory who, at 89, are our oldest nominees this year (and the oldest on record), for the documentary «Faces Places» and adapted screenplay of «Call Me by Your Name,» respectively.

In 2007, the Coens received the TFCA's Best Director award for their film «No Country for Old Men», which also won Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay.

Irish film company Element Pictures also failed to pick up the Best Original Screenplay award for «The Lobster».

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.

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.