It also garnered Best Director and
Original Screenplay nods for Jordan Peele, and a Best Actor nomination for Daniel Kaluuya.
There's almost no way this doesn't get Best Picture and Best
Original Screenplay nods, and after Jordan Peele's recent DGA nomination, he's a decent bet for a Best Director spot as well.
«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.
A smaller film like Before Midnight was never going to be in with a shot for any of the main categories but its witty and intelligent script, co-written by director Richard Linklater and stars Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, should have scored
an original screenplay nod.
This year, that picture is «Get Out,» and
the original screenplay nod would reward Peele for his writing and direction.
So one of my faves of the year, «The Big Sick,» got
an original screenplay nod in a stacked category, but no best picture (I had fingers and toes crossed but wasn't expecting it) and, shockingly, horribly, no Holly Hunter in supporting!
Woody Allen's Best
Original Screenplay nod lost out to Eric Warren Singer and -LSB-...]
The studio ceased tracking on the day the Academy Award nominations were announced, with only a Best
Original Screenplay nod earned.
He gifted star Jake Gyllenhaal with his best role to date amongst many strong recent turns (one that hopefully is recognized by the Academy), but also may be in line for
an original screenplay nod himself.
Greta Gerwig joins only four other women ever to be nominated for Best Director, for her drama «Lady Bird,» for which she also got a Best
Original Screenplay nod.
The Big Sick also scored
an original screenplay nod.
The 90th annual Oscars ceremony had everything: A historic win (Jordan Peele's Best
Original Screenplay nod), Sufjan Stevens in that jacket, a star - studded field trip, as well as some not - so - surprising picks (kudos to Gary Oldman's prosthetics).
This is a film that has a great shot at
an original screenplay nod, at the very least, for the great Bruce Wagner, whose script will be among the year's very best.
OSCAR CHANCES: Sly did nab a Best
Original Screenplay nod back in 1976 for «Rocky» but I'm not to optimistic.
It's no secret that Adams is looking good for a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Oscars, but could this citation help Tarantino score a Best
Original Screenplay nod?
And since Linklater and stars Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke netted
an Original Screenplay nod for 2004's Before Sunset, surely their next installment is already on the Academy's radar.
Not exact matches
Netflix's critically acclaimed
original drama «Mudbound» earned four nominations for the company, including
nods for best supporting actress (Mary J. Blige) and best adapted
screenplay (writer - director Dee Rees).
Surely there could have been room for an
Original Screenplay or even Supporting Actress
nod?
Hans Zimmer could contend for Best
Original Score and when you toss in a possible Best Picture
nod and the longshot possibility of a Director,
Screenplay, or Supporting Actor
nod, this could be a double - digit nominee next January 2013.
The 12 nominations for «The King's Speech» — including crucial
nods in key categories such as Best Picture, Best Director, and Best
Original Screenplay — means Tom Hooper's historical drama (and not David Fincher's Facebook film) is -LSB-...]
Both directors have managed to break out of the foreign language «ghetto» with
nods in categories like Director and
Original Screenplay (which Almodóvar won in 2003), so voters will definitely seek out their latest.
Guillermo del Toro's horror / fantasy / romance received the most nominations, including
nods for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best
Original screenplay.
«We would like to acknowledge and congratulate the filmmakers behind Straight Outta Compton and What Happened, Miss Simone who picked up
nods in Best
Original Screenplay and Featured Documentary, respectively.
The online market's studio half has something of a sure thing on its hands with Manchester, with critical acclaim all but guaranteeing a Best Actor
nod for Casey Affleck, a Best Supporting Actress spot for Michelle Williams and nominations for both Best Picture and Best
Original Screenplay for Kenneth Lonergan.
The Shape of Water led the nominations this year with 12
nods, including Best Film, Best Director and Best
Original Screenplay for Guillermo, Best Actress for Sally, and Best Supporting Actress for Octavia.
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.
Get Out is getting a lot of positive buzz, so maybe Jordan Peele will get a
nod for best
original screenplay come next January.
Gerwig is the only the fifth woman to be nominated for Best Director at the Oscars, so fans thought that she could score a dark horse win for the historic
nod, if not for
original screenplay.
Nightcrawler did surprisingly well at the nomination stage, with four, including one for Rene Russo's supporting role; outdoing them with five was Whiplash, with
nods not just for JK Simmons as best supporting actor, but also in the directing,
original screenplay, editing and sound categories.
Earlier in the evening, McDormand's «Three Billboards» co-star Sam Rockwell was named Best Supporting Actor; the film received a total of seven nominations, including Best Picture, Best
Original Screenplay, and another Best Supporting Actor
nod for Woody Harrelson.
Todd Haynes» return to film, the 1950s romance Carol, landed an impressive 10 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director (Haynes), Best Adapted
Screenplay, technical
nods for Cinematography, Costume Design, Makeup & Hairstyling, Production Design,
Original Score, and two Lead Actress nominations for Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.
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 Post garnered nominations in nearly every major category, including Best Motion Picture, Drama, Best Actor and Actress
nods for Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, plus Best Director, Best
Screenplay and Best
Original Score.
Kaluuya picked up a
nod for his role in Get Out, Jordan Peele's stirring social thriller, which also picked up a slew of other nominations, including best
original screenplay, best director, and best picture.
I pointed out yesterday that Fox Searchlight is operating on a different plane when it comes to turning out the vote for its movies, and alongside the aforementioned surprise little hit of the final quarter of 2007 ($ 85 million and counting), further evidence arrives in the form of Tamara Jenkins» The Savages, which, despite not (yet) having connected at the box office (it's made only $ 3.6 million in a month and a half of release), garnered an expected Best
Original Screenplay nomination, but also a Best Actress
nod for Laura Linney, probably coming at the expense of Angelina Jolie and A Mighty Heart.
Writer - director Tony Gilroy's end - around on studio financing worked out well, with Michael Clayton racking up
nods for George Clooney's lead performance, Tilda Swinton and Tom Wilkinson's supporting turns, Best
Original Screenplay and, somewhat surprisingly, Best Director, in Gilroy's debut.
McDonagh also has
nods in the Best Picture and Best
Original Screenplay categories.
Wes Anderson filled «The Grand Budapest Hotel» with returning guests, including Bill Murray and Owen Wilson, and was awarded a Golden Globe for a motion picture comedy along with best picture and
original screenplay Oscar
nods, among...
I do hope Greta Gerwig gets a nomination for Best
Original Screenplay while Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf get acting
nods.
Its
nods include best picture, best director and best
original screenplay for writer - director Damien Chazelle, best actress for Emma Stone and best actor for Ryan Gosling.
Best
Screenplays: William Goldman, All the President's Men (adaptation); Alan Rudolph, Welcome to L.A. (
original — with a healthy
nod to Richard Baskin's suite «City of the One Night Stands»).
Beyond the strong
screenplay, the film also incorporates animation from Sara Gunnarsdóttir throughout, a
nod to both Minnie's own cartoons and the
original novel's art.
Besides in the category of Best Director, «Seven Beauties,» which benefitted from its Holocaust theme, also earned
nods for Best Actor, Best Foreign Language Film and Best
Original Screenplay.
What to remember:
Original Screenplay is so weak «While We're Young» could actually surprise with an Oscar
nod.
The movie got
nods for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin, Best Adapted
Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Music (
Original Score), Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing.
Jordan Peele, who was nominated for Best Director and Best
Original Screenplay, hit the red carpet with a golden deer antler pin (featuring blood spatters) placed on the left lapel of his white suit jacket, which was a
nod to the deer symbolism shown throughout the dramatic film, Get Out, starring Allison Williams and Daniel Kaluuya.
I'm hoping Miller wins Director, DiCaprio finally gets his oscar, Stallone wins a well deserved best supporting actor, Blanchett gets a
nod for the amazing Carol, Shaun the Sheep was awesome lol, Ex Machina for
original screenplay, The Revenant for cinematography, anything but TFA for
original score and that Mad Max wins all the SFX categories:).
It nevertheless managed to rack up four
nods (for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best
Original Screenplay and Best Acting Ensemble), but it's pretty damning, I think, that it couldn't slide into the top 10.
A
nod for Best Film and a
nod to Martin McDonagh for Best Director and Best
Original Screenplay, too.
Nominations for the 87th Annual Academy Awards were released today and among the nine
nods for Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel is a nomination for best
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