Sentences with phrase «first screenplay for»

Nicolas Cage plays the screenwriter Kaufman in the film, who is just coming to grips with the success of his first screenplay for Being John Malkovich and realizing that the screenwriter is probably the least popular person on a film set.

Besides its new setting, Fantastic Beasts marks another first for Rowling — it's her first screenplay for one of her stories, and as such the movie suffers from issues any first - time screenwriter might encounter, namely pacing and narrative structure.

Oscar nominees Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon took home the award for first screenplay for «The Big Sick,» based on their own real life romance.

Another film that pulled off multiple wins was The Witch, which won Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay for writer - director Robert Eggers.

Following that coincidence was another, the second award of the night was given to Emma Donoghue for Best First Screenplay for her work in Room, which just happen to be presented by the adorable co-star of that film, Jacob Tremblay.

The film is also nominated for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay for the 2012 awards.

Joseph was nominated for Best First Screenplay for his work on Don Jon, which was won by Bob Nelson for the highly acclaimed film Nebraska.

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.

Not exact matches

Peele made history on Sunday as the first African - American to win an Oscar for best original screenplay.

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.

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.

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.

After writing for The Wire and Boardwalk Empire and having three of his novels made into a trio of well - reviewed movies (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island), Dennis Lehane has finally written his first screenplay.

Take a Pulitzer Prize - winning author's first original screenplay, attach a respected director whose last film was considered a disappointment by many, and add a cast that includes Michael Fassbender (one of the highlights of that disappointing film), Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, and Cameron Diaz, and you have a solid formula for one of the most anticipated films of the year.

He won an original screenplay Oscar for his work on Spotlight, and has jumped from there to The Post, Steven Spielberg's First Amendment rallying cry and account of the Washington Post's decision to defy the Nixon administration by publishing the top - secret Pentagon Papers.

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.

Married three times, Virginia Bruce's first husband was silent screen idol John Gilbert, with whom she costarred in Downstairs (1932), an obscure but lively melodrama for which Gilbert had written the screenplay.

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.

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.

Obviously such great acting results come from the experienced direction of David O. Russell, who received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Director and noms for Best Picture, Original Screenplay, and Editing.

This film isn't just Mini's first time in a relationship, but it also marks the first time in filmmaking for director Nick Guthe, who also provides the snappy screenplay.

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.

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.

First, an almost flawless first time original screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski, whose only other writing credit was for his adaptation of the Icelandic film that became the Mark Wahlberg hit «Contraband.&rFirst, an almost flawless first time original screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski, whose only other writing credit was for his adaptation of the Icelandic film that became the Mark Wahlberg hit «Contraband.&rfirst time original screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski, whose only other writing credit was for his adaptation of the Icelandic film that became the Mark Wahlberg hit «Contraband.»

Larson is nominated for Best Female Lead for her performance while Emma Donoghue is up for Best First Screenplay.

However, everything is done so well between the direction of Anthony and Joe Russo, a screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely with James Gunn, and music by Alan Silvestri for the first time since the first Avengers film.

Also Read: Oscars: Jordan Peele Becomes First African - American Winner for Best Original Screenplay

Last Year «Äôs Big Winners: «ÄúSlumdog Millionaire «Äù took its first major best picture award of the season here, as well as honors for adapted screenplay and breakthrough actor Dev Patel.

Action cinematographer Jan de Bont (Twister, The Haunting) skillfully directs for the first time, making what by all measurements is a terrible screenplay by Graham Yost (Mission to Mars, The Last Castle — reportedly, an uncredited Joss Whedon punched up the script) into one of the better pure action movies of its era, even if it is one of the dumbest.

For the first time in Oscar history, an African - American won for screenplay and... it wasn't much of a surpriFor the first time in Oscar history, an African - American won for screenplay and... it wasn't much of a surprifor screenplay and... it wasn't much of a surprise.

Compare that with Hannah, the co-writer of «The Post,» who's getting major accolades for her first screenplay (though she had an assist from «Spotlight» scribe Singer).

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

Four years later, Moore's first produced screenplay stars Benedict Cumberbatch, an actor perhaps best known for...

Deadline reports that Shyamalan is in talks to re-team with his The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable star Bruce Willis for Labor of Love, which is one of the first screenplays that Shyamalan sold early in his career.

Now we have the first couple of stills from the ghostly chiller that sees cast members Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Lin Shaye, Barbara Hershey, Angus Sampson and Leigh Whannell (again responsible for the story and screenplay) all return for CHAPTER 2!

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.

The first trailer for Dark Places, an adaptation for Gillian Flynn's second novel — she didn't write the screenplay for this one, though — was released yesterday and it looks much darker and more true crime - y than Gone Girl.

(He also wrote the screenplay but it's not his first; he shared credit for last year's Keanu.)

The directorial debut of Bryan Buckley, The Bronze serves as a star vehicle for The Big Bang Theory's Melissa Rauch, who also co-wrote the screenplay with her husband Winston (their first, and it shows), and it makes you wonder why anyone would write such a vile, intolerable character for themselves to play.

What easily could have been the formula for a run of the mill romantic comedy is heightened and finely tuned by a smart script that has clearly been helped by nine years of rewrites since the screenplay was first conceived as «Divorce Comedy» in 2003.

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

Derrickson, who co-wrote the screenplay for November 4's film, told Den of Geek that this first film is just «the tip of an iceberg.»

Suzanne de Passe was the first black woman nominated for an original screenplay Oscar in 1973, for co-writing «Lady Sings the Blues.»

Jordan Peele had to dig deep to get the horror - satire «Get Out» to the screen, and his reward was the first original screenplay Oscar for an African - American.

(5) Then, we cut back to the first story, and the friend starts telling the parents about his idea for a new screenplay, about a boy who tries to track down his mother, a prostitute, but instead ends up hanging around another call girl instead (6).

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?

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).

And «Mudbound» director Dee Rees shares a nomination with Virgil Williams for adapted screenplay, making her the first black woman to be nominated for the award.