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The film won multiple awards, including the Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Talent at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and Best First Screenplay at the 2015 Independent Spirit Awards.

Kumail Najiani and wife Emily V. Gordon hit the stage to accept the award for Best First Screenplay at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday afternoon (March 3) in Santa Monica, Calif..

In 2014, she scored the racial satire «Dear White People,» directed and written by Justin Simien, who won best first screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards the next year.

The film did not stop there though; Maggie Gyllenhaal was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and it won Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards.

Not exact matches

At Sunday's Oscars, actor, screenwriter and director Jordan Peele made cinematic history, becoming the first black director to win an Oscar for best screenplay.

She is an ambitious mom who recently wrote her first screenplay for a project in a screenwriting class at the local college and, on a whim, submitted it to a writing contest.

The screenplay leans towards the dogmatic at times, but the actors are sincere and the rousing musical score by Marc Blitztein (and old hand at this sort of agit - prop entertainment) is first - rate.

It was not until he turned to playwright Tony Kushner, who earlier wrote «Munich» at Spielberg's behest, that he began to hear Lincoln's voice, perhaps a little too fulsomely; Kushner's first draft was more than 500 pages, nearly five times the customary length of a screenplay.

During his time at Video Archives, the fledgling filmmaker began writing screenplays, completing his first, True Romance, in 1987.

It's ultimately clear that The Finest Hours is at its best in its relatively propulsive first half, as director Craig Gillespie, working from a script by Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, and Eric Johnson, does a nice job of establishing the the central characters and the dangerous circumstances in which they find themselves - with the screenplay, which also emphasizes the ongoing exploits of Bernie's girlfriend (Holliday Grainger's Miriam), generally juggling the various narrative threads to seamless effect.

Denial spends its first 20 minutes labouring under a rather clunky, wordy screenplay... But it completely changes gear after her legal team decides to visit Auschwitz and suddenly you realise what's at stake.

Granted, if everyone was killed in the first fifteen minutes, there wouldn't be much of a movie, but a good screenplay would have at least offered up a token explanation.

Francis Lawrence («I Am Legend»), working with a screenplay by Simon Beaufoy and Michael deBruyn, has taken over, and parts of «Catching Fire» — at least the first forty - five minutes or so — are impressive.

Kushner first encountered the challenge of fact - based drama when he wrote the screenplay for Spielberg's 2005 film «Munich,» which recounted the terrorist attacks at the 1972 Olympics and their aftermath.

Based on the screenplay of the acclaimed film, BULLETS OVER BROADWAY brings the talents of Woody Allen and Susan Stroman together for the first time at the St. James Theatre.

Certainly fans can rest assured that Fantastic Beasts is no conveyor - belt cash - in — with David Yates, the director of the final four Harry Potter films, at the helm and a script penned by Rowling herself (her first credited screenplay).

Yet, the plot feels truthful and really connected with audiences; so much so, that it won Russell the Audience Award at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, and an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.

Jordan Peele became the first black screenwriter to win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay at the 90th Academy Awards on Sunday.

There is a brief stop at an art fair in France, where the beautiful Monique (Cecile De France) insists on joining their expedition and can not be dissuaded; we think at first she has a nefarious motive, but no, she's probably taken a class in screenplay construction and knows that the film requires a sexy female lead.

The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), It Happened One Night is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the early sound era, packed with clever situations and gags that have entered the Hollywood comedy pantheon and featuring two actors at the top of their game, sparking with a chemistry that has never been bettered.

What seemed like a three - way race in Original Screenplay at the Oscars between La La Land, Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight is now just between the first two (who tied at the Critics Choice Awards this weekend).

The Grand Budapest Hotel: Wes Anderson has his best ever shot at the Oscars this year, with his first Directing and Picture nominations to go along with his third Screenplay nomination (he was also nominated for Best Animated Film in 2009).

On Sunday, Jordan Peele made history at the 90th Academy Awards when he became the first black screenwriter to win Best Original Screenplay.

They create the «truth,» or at least their version of it, but the screenplay under the sharp direction of John Curran sticks to a «just the facts» - style scenario, taking much of its information from first - person accounts and official court documents.

Your Sister's Sister is an original screenplay and marks, I believe, Shelton's first premiere at TIFF.

The screenplay sheds some interesting insights to Norman's psyche, yet somehow it is a tad boring to witness events that are of little surprise to anyone that has seen at least the first film in the series.

Having established his bona fides, he then tackled his first project with a professional cast, led by Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron, but despite its topical subject matter — the plight of the American farmer — At Any Price seemed hopelessly contrived.99 Homes takes the best qualities of his early efforts and channels them through a well - crafted screenplay, brought to life by top - flight actors.

If the screenplay by first - time screenwriter Jeff Lau could have at least injected the drama with something that could be modestly interesting, So Close could have been one of the better Hong Kong action vehicles of the new millennium.

Written and directed by Dale Launer, who had been the screenwriter for some pretty good comedies, such as My Cousin Vinny, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Ruthless People, this would be his first and last attempt at directing (also his last screenplay).

With six nods in total, it cements the streaming giant's place at the movie industry table, with Amazon — which won last year's race to become the first streaming player to win an Academy Award — only picking up one nomination this year: Best Original Screenplay for The Big Sick.

If not for the fact that the same actors are playing the same characters, one really could look at this movie as its own entity (The screenplay may have been co-written by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt, who also wrote the script for the first film, but it often feels as if the characters have been transplanted into the screenplay for an unrelated story — perhaps one written by the other co-screenwriters Christian Gudegast and Chad St. John).

Screenwriter Carl Gottlieb (The Jerk, Jaws 2) takes his first stab at directing a feature film, based on the screenplay he co-wrote, and ends up making almost an extended version of the caveman sequence of History of the World Part I, which came out the same year.

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«Dear White People» won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and last month won a Film Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.

John Lee Hancock and True Detective's Nic Pizzolatto are among those who have contributed to the screenplay, adapted from the classic Seven Samurai, which became the first crack at a Magnificent Seven in 1960.

It was first written prose style and then turned into a screenplay by a university professor, Pat Rushin, who teaches English at the University of Florida.

Visit Carvahall and you'll find featurettes about the Inheritance Trilogy to which the novel Eragon belongs, The Storyteller's Scroll (focusing on turning the novel into a screenplay), Realizing Alagaësia (a look at storyboards, locations, scouting and character design), The Destined Roles (casting the actors), From Carvahall to Farthen Dur (behind - the - scenes footage during film production), Hatching The Dragon (the CGI process of creating the dragons), Just The Beginning (a peak at what's next in the series) and the Random House Digital Novel where you can enjoy the first two chapters of Eldest, the second novel from the Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini.

It's so damn sincere and well - intentioned, and I recall, at least the first time around, being quite taken with the searching quality of Smith's screenplay — it's the work of a guy who is really putting himself out there and trying to figure some difficult shit out.

This first - time helmer (who has also penned the screenplay) fleshes things out admirably, showing an eye for incidental background action (a husband is chided by his wife after belittling her at a work party; we notice Gordo clock Simon in the street long before he makes his initial approach) and this care stretches to the casting, characterisations and performances.

Guadagnino also touches on the long development process for his films, working with 87 - year - old James Ivory who wrote the Call Me by Your Name screenplay and was at one time going to direct, ageism in the business, his muse Tilda Swinton, and getting roundly booed in Venice with his first film.

After earning Best Picture and Best Director accolades at the Spirit Awards, Jordan Peele became the first black filmmaker to earn a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for his phenomenally successful debut feature, «Get Out.»

«Black Panther» has already started its FYC campaign at this year's Oscars and could be the first superhero film to make the Best Picture lineup, just one year after «Logan» made history in Adapted Screenplay.

Perhaps the first sign that something was amiss at the Golden Globe nominations this morning was that neither Get Out nor Call Me by Your Name — both considered Oscar front - runners — received nominations for their lauded screenplays.

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.

This is the first time I haven't been impressed with her, which makes me think that it's the screenplay or the direction that's at fault.

The Chair, which is being submitted in the reality competition category at this year's Emmys, follows two first - time directors as they embark on the cinematic journey of creating a feature using the same original screenplay.

With a legendary director like Scott at the helm, the highly touted first original screenplay from Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Cormac McCarthy (writer of No Country For Old Men, The Road and Blood Meridian amongst other modern classics) and that cast....

The first produced screenplay from Terri Hughes and Ron Milbauer is a mottle of rotting flesh stretched out between lame jokes on death, crotch sniffing digits, and splotches of gratuitous nudity, with unwanted formulaic pokes at Sam Raimi, John Landis, The Exorcist, and numerous other horror classics.

It's a ridiculous and flat - out dumb premise that's employed to terminally underwhelming effect by Cronenberg, as the first - time filmmaker, working from his own screenplay, has infused the proceedings with a cold, sterile atmosphere that holds the viewer at arm's length right from the word go.