Best
Original Screenplay Winner: Lady Bird Alternate: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best
Original Screenplay winner Jordan Peele was amazed that the «Get Out» phenomenon has now lasted almost an entire year.
And you have to go back to 2004 to find
an Original Screenplay winner that wasn't a Best Picture contender.
Accolades: Best Screenplay Winner: Golden Globes Best
Original Screenplay Winner: Writers Guild of America Best
Original Screenplay Winner: Southeastern Film Critics Best
Original Screenplay Winner: Critics Choice Best
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Original Screenplay Winner: Toronto Film Critics Best
Original Screenplay Winner: Vancouver Film Critics Best
Original Screenplay Winner: Washington DC Area Film Critics
Accolades: Best
Original Screenplay Winner — BAFTA Best
Original Screenplay Winner — New York Film Critics
Best
Original Screenplay Winner: Kenneth Lonergan, «Manchester by the Sea» Runner - up: Taylor Sheridan, «Hell or High Water»
But while Manchester By The Sea has the whip - smart chatter and structural ambition of
an Original Screenplay winner, it's hard to shake the sneaking suspicion that La La Land's winning streak might continue here, even if the writing isn't really what anyone loves about this movie.
Although the screenplay contains a smattering of zingers («You've got no confidence, I like that in a man»), it's hardly vintage Allen and was never going to trouble eventual
Original Screenplay winner The Usual Suspects.
Part of that likely has to do with the absence of many truly great movies this year, and the fact key contenders — like «The Shape of Water» (the pick by the directors and producers guilds) and «Get Out» (the WGA's
original screenplay winner)-- come from genres that seldom receive top awards recognition.
Not exact matches
Best
Original Screenplay Eric Warren Singer & David O. Russell — «American Hustle» —
WINNER Woody Allen — «Blue Jasmine» Alfonso & Jonas Cuaron — «Gravity» Joel & Ethan Coen — «Inside Llewyn Davis» Bob Nelson — «Nebraska»
BEST
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor — The Shape of Water Greta Gerwig — Lady Bird Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani — The Big Sick Liz Hannah and Josh Singer — The Post Martin McDonagh — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Jordan Peele — Get Out -
Winner
Neither My Week With Marilyn, the bittersweet romantic comedy about the making of The Prince and the Showgirl, or The Iron Lady, the biopic of Margaret Thatcher, did as well as their longlist positions suggested: the former picked up six nominations (including best actress for Golden Globe
winner Michelle Williams) while the latter took four (including Meryl Streep for best actress and Abi Morgan for best
original screenplay).
In a rather shocking turn of events, the
screenplay for Stephen Gaghan's Syriana, a Golden Globe
winner for Best Supporting Actor Monday night, was apparently classified by the Academy as an
original screenplay in a meeting held in mid-December.
Other
winners were 20 Feet from Stardom for Best Documentary, The Great Beauty for Best Foreign Film, and Her for Best
Original Screenplay.
Also Read: Oscars: Jordan Peele Becomes First African - American
Winner for Best
Original Screenplay
«Birdman» was one of the top
winners of the night, also winning for director,
original screenplay and cinematography.
Best Picture Best Director (Iñárritu) Best Actor, Michael Keaton Best Supporting Actor, Edward Norton Best Supporting Actress, Emma Stone or Amy Ryan and / or Andrea Riseborough Best
Original Screenplay Best Cinematography (Oscar -
winner Emmanuel Lubezki) Best Film Editing (Douglas Crise & Stephen Mirrione) Best Costume Design (Albert Wolsky) Best Score (John Powell)
Aside from Allen in an
Original Screenplay, Director, and Picture race, the early word is that we need to begin to pencil in Academy Award
winner Kate Winslet for one of the highly sought - after Best Actress spots.
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Screenplay predictions can be a bit tricky this early on as we saw with this year's Adapted
Screenplay Oscar
winner Moonlight, which won multiple
Original Screenplay citations from critics as well as the Writers Guild of America but was deemed Adapted by the Academy deep into the Oscar season.
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY «Hell or High Water,» Taylor Sheridan «I, Daniel Blake» Paul Laverty «La La Land» Damien Chazelle «Manchester by the Sea» Kenneth Lonergan *
WINNER «Moonlight» Barry Jenkins
Not that the
screenplay is a
winner, featuring such cheesy lines, lifted from Cohen's
original, as, «I can see your dirty pillows», Margaret remarks about her daughter's prom dress showing off some of her post-pubescent curves.
More potential players include the Coen Bros.» «Inside Llewyn Davis» (which won
Original Screenplay from NBR and Cinematography from NY), Foreign film
winners «Blue is the Warmest Color» (NY) and «The Past» (NBR), Scorsese's «The Wolf of Wall Street» (NBR's Adapted
Screenplay) and «Prisoners» (Best Ensemble from NBR.)
Along with Anna Paquin, the second youngest Oscar
winner ever, the duo swept the Best Actress categories and Campion won for Best
Original screenplay.
Commercially successful, critically adored,
winner of an
original screenplay Academy Award, and more influential than any other indie ever, it was enough to secure Tarantino a place in film's history books and announce him as the writer / director to watch of his generation.
Original Screenplay Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell - «American Hustle» -
WINNER Woody Allen - «Blue Jasmine» Alfonso Cuarón, Jonas Cuaron - «Gravity» Joel Coen, Ethan Coen - «Inside Llewyn Davis» Bob Nelson - «Nebraska»
Francis Coppola's (he dropped the «Ford» in the»80s) Life Without Zoe (34:19) is the film's insignificant weak link, although it is noteworthy for being the first writing credit of Coppola's daughter Sofia, who has since blossomed into an esteemed director herself and an
original screenplay Oscar
winner.
Phantom Thread won Director, Actress (Vicky Krieps), Supporting Actress (Lesley Manville) and
Original Screenplay (Paul Thomas Anderson) and was the group's top
winner with five awards.
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.
Among the others were Willem Dafoe, winning Best Supporting Actor for The Florida Project; Paul Thomas Anderson won the
Original Screenplay prize for Phantom Thread, another very - recently screened film; and Scott Neustader and Michael H. Weber were the Adapted
Screenplay winners for The Disaster Artist.
Golden Globe
winners Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling each received their second Oscar nominations for Damien Chazelle's modern movie musical «La La Land,» which dominated in 14 categories total — tying the nominations record set by «Titanic» and «All About Eve» — including directing and
original screenplay for Damien Chazelle.
Best
Screenplay (
original) THE BIG SICK — Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon GET OUT — Jordan Peele —
winner LADY BIRD — Greta Gerwig THE SHAPE OF WATER — Guillermo Del Toro and Vanessa Taylor THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI — Martin McDonagh
Directed by Oscar ®
winner Bill Condon from a
screenplay by TBD based on the 1991 animated film, the film is produced by Mandeville Films» David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman with eight - time Oscar - winning composer Alan Menken, who won two Academy Awards ® (Best
Original Score and Best Song) for the 1991 animated film, providing the score, which will include new recordings of the original songs written by Menken and Howard Ashman, as well as several new songs written by Menken and three - time Oscar winner T
Original Score and Best Song) for the 1991 animated film, providing the score, which will include new recordings of the
original songs written by Menken and Howard Ashman, as well as several new songs written by Menken and three - time Oscar winner T
original songs written by Menken and Howard Ashman, as well as several new songs written by Menken and three - time Oscar
winner Tim Rice.
Other
winners included Mo» nique Best Supporting Actress for for Precious, Up for Best Animated Film, Inglourious Basterds for Best
Original Screenplay.
Other
winners include: American Hustle for Best Ensemble; The Wolf of Wall Street's Terence Winter for Best Adapted
Screenplay; Her's Spike Jonze for Best
Original Screenplay and Arcade Fire for Best Score; Best Documentary The Act of Killing; Best Foreign Language Film and Best Animated Film The Wind Rises (Kaze tachinu); and Short Term 12 as Best Overlooked Film.
The
screenplay will be written by Oscar nominee David Magee based on The Mary Poppins Stories by P.L. Travers, with Oscar nominee and Tony Award
winner Marc Shaiman composing an all - new score and Shaiman and Emmy nominee and Tony Award
winner Scott Wittman writing
original songs.
Winner of two Oscars for best Actress and Best
Original Screenplay Fargo stars Frances McDormand, William H Macy, Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare in a riveting dark - humoured drama of debt, ransom and murder that features one of the funniest and most horrific means of disposing of a body ever caught on film.
WRITING (
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY) THE BIG SICK Written by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani Winner: GET OUT Written by Jordan Peele LADY BIRD Written by Greta Gerwig THE SHAPE OF WATER Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor; Story by Guillermo del Toro THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Written by Marti
SCREENPLAY) THE BIG SICK Written by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
Winner: GET OUT Written by Jordan Peele LADY BIRD Written by Greta Gerwig THE SHAPE OF WATER
Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor; Story by Guillermo del Toro THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Written by Marti
Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor; Story by Guillermo del Toro THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Written by Martin McDonagh
Officially hosted by both WIF President Cathy Schulman and Oscar -
winner Emma Stone, on Friday night, Women In Film celebrated some of the year's most lauded women nominees, including Best Actress contender Margot Robbie, «Lady Bird» filmmaker and Best Director nominee Greta Gerwig, Bes Cinematography nominee Rachel Morrison, double nominee Mary J. Blige, Best Documentary contender (and living legend) Agnes Varda, and Best
Original Screenplay nominee Emily V. Gordon (plus husband and co-nominee) Kumail Nanjiani.
Oscar
winners and nominees highlight this category with Spike Lee (nominated in
Original Screenplay for Do the Right Thing; Honorary Oscar
winner in 2016) for Black Klansman and last season's
winner in this category — Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) for If Beale Street Could Talk.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2 is directed by Francis Lawrence from a
screenplay by Peter Craig and Danny Strong and features an acclaimed cast including Academy Award ® -
winner Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Academy Award ® -
winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Willow Shields, Sam Claflin, Jena Malone with Stanley Tucci and Donald Sutherland reprising their
original roles from The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
Almost Famous (2000) was a modest box office performer, but an Oscar
winner for
Original Screenplay and loved by most who saw it.
Peele is the first black person to earn the
Original Screenplay honor, while the 89 - year - old Ivory has become the oldest Oscar
winner in history.
Best
Original Screenplay — Begin Again, Boyhood (runner up), The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, The Skeleton Twins, and Wish I Was Here (
winner)
Best
Original Screenplay «American Hustle» «Blue Jasmine» «Dallas Buyers Club» «Her» -
WINNER «Nebraska»
Original Screenplay: The Big Sick Get Out —
winner Lady Bird The Shape Of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best
Original Screenplay: Places in the Heart — Robert Benton (
Winner) Beverly Hills Cop — Danilo Bach and Daniel Petrie, Jr..
Below are the top - shelf domestic narrative nominations: Best Picture The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost / Nixon Milk The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Best Director Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire Stephen Daldry, The Reader David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Ron Howard, Frost / Nixon Gus Van Sant, Milk Best Actor Richard Jenkins, The Visitor Frank Langella, Frost / Nixon Sean Penn, Milk Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler Best Actress Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married Angelina Jolie, Changeling Melissa Leo, Frozen River Meryl Streep, Doubt Kate Winslet, The Reader Best Supporting Actor Josh Brolin, Milk Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road Best Supporting Actress Amy Adams, Doubt Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona Viola Davis, Doubt Taraji P Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler Best
Original Screenplay Frozen River In Bruges Happy - Go - Lucky Milk Wall ▪ E Best Adapted
Screenplay The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Doubt Frost / Nixon The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Best Animated Feature Bolt Kung Fu Panda Wall ▪ E More thoughts later, and in the coming weeks, certainly, but the Best Supporting Actress nominations clearly offer mostly confirmatory love on the part of AMPAS voters — Cruz and Adams are recent nominees, and Tomei a past Oscar
winner.
The Academy Award ©
winner for Best
Original Screenplay, Gosford Park is a whodunit as only director Robert Altman could do it.
The Academy has clearly shown us that they believe writing to be the single most important thing for a Best Picture
winner to have nowadays, shown most clearly by when «Spotlight» won Best Picture and just ONE additional award: Best
Original Screenplay (and also when «Argo,» «12 Years a Slave,» and «Moonlight» won Best Picture with just TWO additional Oscars, one of which was Adapted
Screenplay).