Sentences with phrase «first screenplay category»

Among the other notable nominations: James Gandolfini has been shortlisted posthumously for Best Supporting Male for his performance in his last film, romantic comedy Enough Said, and the Best First Screenplay category features Lake Bell for In A World and Joseph Gordon - Levitt for Don Jon.

Not exact matches

Here are just a few: Jordan Peele became the first African American to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out, and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won for Best Picture — a film featuring a female actor in the lead role hasn't won the category since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.

Writer / director Jordan Peele was recognized in the Best Original Screenplay and Best First Film categories for Get Out.

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.

Greta Gerwig, the first female nominee in the Best Director category in eight years, lost to del Toro as well as Jordan Peele for Get Out in the Best Original Screenplay category.

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?

Nominees for the 90th Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning and LOGAN writers Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green received a nomination for «Adapted Screenplay,» making it the first time a superhero (but not comic book) film has been nominated in this category.

«Milk» won two trophies early on, James Franco taking down a win in the Best Supporting Actor category and Dustin Lance Black's first screenplay award.

Throw in Jordan Peele becoming the first African - American screenwriter to win an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, an open endorsement of the Time's Up movement and Frances McDormand speaking very loudly, and you have an eventful evening of progressive winners, even if they didn't win in every category.

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.

Arguably Spike Lee's best film (although some might make the case for She's Got ta Have It, Four Little Girls, Bamboozled, School Daze or The Original Kings of Comedy), this refreshingly - frank exploration of black - white relations earned Spike his first Academy Award nomination (in the Original Screenplay category).

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.

Another was Get Out's Jordan Peele, who became the first black director to be nominated for Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture in one year, and the first black director to have his debut film nominated in all three of those categories.

While its cast, from its talented young leads to a never - better Ben Kingsley as Méliès, was regrettably snubbed, the film vied for Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay honors and likely wound up the runner - up in the first two of those categories to The Artist, a kindred French production which took its love for early cinema in a drastically different direction (full - on emulation) to nonetheless comparably delightful results.

This is the first time that a comic book film has been nominated in the adapted screenplay category, giving further credence to the notion that Logan is more than just your average superhero movie.

AND, if it takes Picture, Director, Sound Editing... it could also take Screenplay AND Actor, since it's easily in second place, edging into first, in both those categories too.

THE 88th ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS The Complete List of Winners... and some commentary BEST PICTURE Spotlight BEST DIRECTOR Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, The Revenant BEST ACTOR Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant BEST ACTRESS Brie Larson, Room BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy, Spotlight BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, The Big Short BEST EDITING Margaret Sixel, Mad Max Fury Road BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Son of Saul, Hungary BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Emmanuel «Chivo» Lubezki, The Revenant First to win three back to back Oscars in this category.

Despite the presence of Oscar hopefuls throughout many of the categories, the Spirit Awards also strive to recognize emerging talents, with categories for first feature and first screenplay, as well as the John Cassavetes Award for a feature made for under $ 500,000.

His sci - fi thriller Inception broke through the barrier of earnestness to the best picture category in 2011 and it scored him a second screenplay nod (the first was for Memento) but it looks like he might finally get the ultimate recognition for his next film Dunkirk.

Kimmel noted that Get Out writer - director Jordan Peele is one of only three people to be nominated for three major categories in his directorial debut, and Peele also became the first black writer to win the award for Best Original Screenplay.

Mudbound is nominated four times, but they're a long shot in Adapted Screenplay and Supporting actor, and we're all agreed on rooting for Roger Deakins in Best Cinematography (though a win for Mudbound «s Rachel Morrison there would mean the first win by a woman in that category ever, so rooting interests abound), so it's Mary in Best Original Song as Netflix's great narrative hope.

Its other presumed best shot was in the Screenplay category, but the recent dustup over its (absurd) designation as an Adapted Screenplay that was, in fact, adapted from... itself (essentially, the feature script was written, then Chazelle adapted it into a short to sell the film, but since the short came out first, it's considered adapted from the short, even though the short was technically adapted from the unshot script.

«Mudbound» director Dee Rees, though not recognized in that category, became the first black woman in 45 years - and the second ever - to be nominated for an original screenplay Oscar.

With three prior nominations in the acting categories and a win in Screenplay for Good Will Hunting, Matt Damon now has his first Best Picture nomination, as producer of the Casey Affleck - starring Manchester by the Sea.