Sentences with phrase «original screenplay category»

Spotlight also won in the Best Original Screenplay category.

It's also the only one of the five Best Picture nominees that fell short of a nomination in the Best Original Screenplay category.

Other Irish interests include Martin McDonagh, who has been nominated in the Best Original Screenplay category for In Bruges.

Irish co-production «The Lobster», starring Colin Farrell, has made it into the Best Original Screenplay category alongside «Hell or High Water», «Manchester by the Sea», «La La Land», and» 20th Century Women».

Nominated in the prestigious Original Screenplay category are «The Big Sick,» «Get Out,» «I, Tonya,» «Lady Bird,» and «The Shape of Water,» all of which have been picking up steam this awards season.

An extremely competitive Original Screenplay category was won by Quentin Tarantino for the enjoyably brash and transgressive Django Unchained, immediately followed up with a worthy win for Christoph Waltz (pictured above right) for his supporting (show - stealing) performance in the same film.

Peele, who is nominated in the best director and best original screenplay category for Get Out, which also got a best picture nod, arrived dressed in a white tuxedo with wife and Brooklyn Nine - Nine star Chelsea Peretti.

The surprising snub of the unconventional Tonya Harding biopic, «I, Tonya,» from the best original screenplay category for this year's Oscar nominations was disappointing for many.

Spike Lee made the presentation of the director award to Peele, who has been nominated for Oscars in the best picture, best director and best original screenplay categories.

Popular favorite «Get Out» received nominations in the best picture, actor, director, and original screenplay categories.

This was especially true with the writers branch in the original screenplay category.

It was snubbed by the Academy, though, most surprisingly in the original screenplay category, which picked three European dramas to join the crowd - pleasing Finding Nemo and winner Lost in Translation.

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.

in the Best Original Screenplay category.

So that means we're in a battle to the finish in the ORIGINAL screenplay category AND the Best Director category, meaning it's entirely possible Best Director and Original Screenplay will match 5/5, but probably 4/5 since Dunkirk may not get a Screenplay nod — that will put the Big Sick in there.

The Times caught up with the filmmaker, who is nominated in the original screenplay category, shortly after the news Tuesday.

He's never won, and his best shot this year is probably in the Original Screenplay category.

Blue Jasmine is sure to be recognized in the Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay categories, and though Allen shuns the Oscar ceremony altogether (he opts to stay home and watch basketball instead), the Academy continues to reward the legendary filmmaker.

What would you say the frontrunners are in this year's Best Original Screenplay category?

About time as he was definitely robbed for «The Station Agent», if not for «The Visitor» as well (but last year's Original Screenplay category was so strong and perfect, I can't see replacing anybody with him... maybe «WALL · E», even though I adore the film more than all the others except «Frozen River»).

Colin Farrell's movie «The Lobster» also got a nomination in the Best Original Screenplay category.

And good lord that Original Screenplay category is stacked (the other thing I could easily get wrong is seeing The Big Sick nominated over Phantom Thread, but I'm too much of a PTA homer to go for that one).

The script for «The Shape of Water» is up for an Oscar in the original screenplay category, but a copyright infringement lawsuit alleges originality isn't one of the film's strengths.

Sure, the film was more scripted than many are led to believe, but wouldn't it be better off in the Original Screenplay category, or is the Academy considering this an adaptation of a pre-existing character?

«Ex Machina» and Straight Outta Compton» getting Best Original Screenplay nods — Yesterday, I knew there was room among the big hitters for one surprise entry in the Best Original Screenplay category.

Dan Gilroy, Oscar nominee in the Best Original Screenplay category for «Nightcrawler,» walked the red carpet.

For a good indication of the Satellites» level of credibility, check out their bizarre nominees in the Best Original Screenplay category, which include not one, but two adaptations.

But there were also nominations for Mike Leigh's tale of an irrepressible primary school teacher, Happy - Go - Lucky, and Martin McDonagh's mobster comedy In Bruges, both in the best original screenplay category.

Like I mentioned earlier, new talent can be recognized in a big way by AMPAS, but the safe bet for newcomer Benson is in the original screenplay category.

The original screenplay category is once again packed with men.

Rule number one for prognosticating the Best Original Screenplay category: Rule out Mike Leigh at your own peril.

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 critics gave «Django Unchained» some love in the Best Original Screenplay category and went for «Wreck - It Ralph» for Best Animated Feature.

As a matter of fact, I wanted to see that movie in the original screenplay category as well.

Gerwig has also made history by becoming only the fifth woman ever to have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, where she was also nominated in the Best Original Screenplay category.

The win was McDonagh's second BAFTA win in the original screenplay category; he previously won for 2008's «In Bruges.»

McDonagh also has nods in the Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay categories.

Nominated for an Oscar in the Best Original Screenplay category, 20th Century Women is an inter-generational coming - of - age tale set in Santa Barbara, California in 1979.

William Peter Blatty did win for adapting his own novel into a screenplay, but he didn't have to compete with The Sting, which fell into the original screenplay category.

seem to think Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation is so lose that a nomination in the Original Screenplay category would have been more fitting.

Interestingly, two other heavy hitters, Loving and Moonlight, both appear in the Original Screenplay category for the WGA but are considered adapted works under the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences rules.

There was no best actress nomination for Sally Hawkins, whose sunny schoolteacher in Mike Leigh's Happy - Go - Lucky had been expected to pick one up; although Mike Leigh's script did make an appearance in the best original screenplay category — a controversial inclusion, given that Leigh's films are largely the result of improvisation.

The only real surprise at the BAFTAs was Get Out losing in the Original Screenplay category.

Each of the nominees is also a Best Picture nominee, unlike in the Best Original Screenplay category.

The other Oscar nominees in the Original Screenplay category are strong, especially Martin McDonagh's searing and contemplative Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani's poignantly hilarious The Big Sick and Greta Gerwig's earnest Ladybird.

in the Original Screenplay category this year), and this would have been the perfect opportunity to throw some more love Kaufman's way.

The screenplay categories tend to be the sort of places that the weirder movies of the bunch get nods (see Her from a couple of years ago, or Ex Machina in the Original Screenplay category this year), and this would have been the perfect opportunity to throw some more love Kaufman's way.

While it's not been a lock in recent years, Allen is always a threat for a nomination in the Original screenplay category.