She wrote and directed Look at Me, which won Best
Screenplay Award at the 2004 Festival de Cannes, followed by Let's Talk about the Rain (2008) and Under the Rainbow (2013).
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, winner of the Best
Screenplay award at this year's Cannes, arrives in UK cinemas this week, just weeks after an enthusiastic reception at this year's London Film Festival.
They are also up for the original
screenplay award at the Oscars.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer shared the Best
Screenplay award at Cannes (with Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here).
Winning
the Screenplay award at this year's festival, the mouthful titled Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a pointed, jet black drama - cum - comedy about redemption, murder and the ignorance of a corrupt, Red State police force.
Meanwhile, two films have been awarded the best
screenplay award at the Cannes Film Festival - Happy as Lazzaro and 3 Faces.
Chinese director Jia Zhangke took home the best
screenplay award at Cannes last year, and many stateside critics — including the L.A. Times» Kenneth Turan — put it on their lists of top foreign films for 2013.
Distributor Sony Pictures Classics has pulled off a number of wins in this category, and, in Andrei Zvyagintsev's «Leviathan,» which took
the screenplay award at Cannes, the studio has another strong contender, a movie that weaves naturalism, allegory and dark humor into a multi-layered masterpiece.
Not exact matches
Notably, The Big Short won best adapted
screenplay at the Writers Guild
Awards and also took the top prize
at the Producers Guild
Awards, which has predicted the Academy's Best Picture choice 8 out of the past 10 years.
Winner of two
awards at the Sundance Film Festival, including Best
Screenplay, and created with the close participation of Dr. Zimbardo himself, «The Stanford Prison Experiment» is a chilling, edge - of - your - seat thriller about the dark side of power and the effects of imprisonment.
It faces uneasy
awards season propositions, but Tarantino's
screenplay stands a chance
at gaining some accolades in that department.
Something in the Air (also known as After May) won an
award for its
screenplay at the Venice festival, where critics liked the film, though perhaps not as much as Carlos.
Alas, Tarantino didn't earn another Best Director nod, but
at least he took home a trophy this time, as he won the Best
Screenplay award.
Originally written and produced as a play for television, the screen version of Judgment
at Nuremberg was nominated for 11 Academy
Awards, with Maximilian Schell and Abby Mann taking home Oscars for (respectively) Best Actor and Best Adapted
Screenplay.
Chandor's debut feature, which earned him a Best Original
Screenplay nomination
at the Academy
Awards, was a claustrophobic ensemble drama that related the bankruptcy of a Lehman Brothers analogue with elaborate, yet somewhat clunky, dialogue.
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.
The feature's writer - director Greta Gerwig won Best
Screenplay yesterday
at the Independent Spirit
Awards.
«Hillbilly Elegy» «The Shape of Water» took home the biggest
award at last night's Oscars ceremony, and while it didn't take home the statue for best original
screenplay, writer - director Guillermo del Toro earned a nomination, and it's no surprise that his co-writer Vanessa Taylor is already prepping to write a new script.
Shut out
at the BAFTAs, and nominated for eight Academy
Awards and winning Best Adapted
Screenplay...
In the standoff between «Boy...» and ``... man,» the «Birdman» came out on top last night
at the 87th annual Academy
Awards, winning four awards including best picture, best director for Alejandro González Iñárritu, best original screenplay, and best cinematography for Emmanuel Lu
Awards, winning four
awards including best picture, best director for Alejandro González Iñárritu, best original screenplay, and best cinematography for Emmanuel Lu
awards including best picture, best director for Alejandro González Iñárritu, best original
screenplay, and best cinematography for Emmanuel Lubezki.
Anthony McCarten poses in the winners room with the
award for Best Adapted
Screenplay for «The Theory Of Everything»
at the EE British Academy Film
Awards at The Royal Opera House on February 8, 2015 in London, England.
But in these results there is a notable echo of last season, where the only roadblock for «La La Land» came
at the WGA
Awards when «Moonlight» — categorized as an original
screenplay by the guild, yet adapted by the Academy's writers branch — upset the perceived best - picture frontrunner.
There's an old truism among Oscar observers that, in any given year, one can look
at one of the winners of the
Screenplay awards and spot the true best picture of the year, regardless of what the voters actually elected to the top spot.
Voting is open until December 12
at 11:59 p.m. Categories include Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best
Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Documentary, Best Animated Film, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith
Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent film).
Coming up next in the
awards race, we have the Writers Guild Awards happening on Sunday, February 11th, which should help us narrow down the two Screenplay categories at the Oscars (though Original Screenplay will still be up in the air thanks to the WGA's silly rules that «disqualified» «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri»), so be sure to check back to see who
awards race, we have the Writers Guild
Awards happening on Sunday, February 11th, which should help us narrow down the two Screenplay categories at the Oscars (though Original Screenplay will still be up in the air thanks to the WGA's silly rules that «disqualified» «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri»), so be sure to check back to see who
Awards happening on Sunday, February 11th, which should help us narrow down the two
Screenplay categories
at the Oscars (though Original
Screenplay will still be up in the air thanks to the WGA's silly rules that «disqualified» «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri»), so be sure to check back to see who wins.
Year after year her
awards are fraught with controversy that includes incomplete nominations lists (check out the TWO nominations in Adapted
Screenplay this year), names that are later removed (which happened to Viola Davis for 2008's Doubt), actors being listed as TV shows (I'm looking
at your, Lizzy Caplan) but the biggest and most real controversy has been the group's penchant for nominating films they haven't even seen.
«Diane,» which is produced by Martin Scorsese, also won for Jones»
screenplay and Wyatt Garfield's cinematography in
awards announced
at a ceremony in New York on Thursday night.
The Writers Guild of America honored Spike Jonze for his future - set love story «Her» with its
award for original
screenplay and Billy Ray for «Captain Phillips,» the true story of a hijacking
at sea, for adapted
screenplay on Saturday night.
What seemed like a three - way race in Original
Screenplay at the Oscars between La La Land, Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight is now just between the first two (who tied
at the Critics Choice
Awards this weekend).
Best Supporting Actress (Winslet)
at the 2016 BAFTA
Awards; Best Supporting Actress (Winslet) and Best
Screenplay at the 2016 Golden Globes
We must also give kudos to Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, who share a writing nomination for «The Big Sick,» a film that hasn't gotten enough
awards season love; Kazuhiro Tsuji, who is nominated, for the third time, this year for the «Darkest Hour» makeup; and Agnès Varda and James Ivory who,
at 89, are our oldest nominees this year (and the oldest on record), for the documentary «Faces Places» and adapted
screenplay of «Call Me by Your Name,» respectively.
This latest win for Jordan Peele and his
screenplay for Get Out bodes well for a victory
at the Academy
Awards.
On Sunday, Jordan Peele made history
at the 90th Academy
Awards when he became the first black screenwriter to win Best Original
Screenplay.
It had its world premiere
at last year's Sundance Film Festival (where we reviewed it) and it's continued to remain a part of the cultural conversation even up to yesterday, when it was nominated for a Writers Guild of America
award for best adapted
screenplay.
With the exception of Boyhood, which emerged as a Best Picture favorite only to fall to Birdman, Linklater's work has mostly flown under the radar of
awards organizations, aside from Adapted
Screenplay nominations
at the Oscars for the two Before sequels.
An unfinished version of the movie was screened in competition
at the Cannes Film Festival, where it received
awards for Best
Screenplay and Best Actor.
Emily Blunt, left, and Charlize Theron present the
award for best original
screenplay at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016,
at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
Tom McCarthy accepts the
award for best original
screenplay for «Spotlight»
at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016,
at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
Ryan Gosling, left, and Russell Crowe present the
award for best adapted
screenplay at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016,
at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
To further muddy the waters, I can't disagree with its success
at the 69th Academy
Awards ceremony, being nominated for an impressive seven awards and winning two — one for its original screenplay and another honoring McDormand's lead perfor
Awards ceremony, being nominated for an impressive seven
awards and winning two — one for its original screenplay and another honoring McDormand's lead perfor
awards and winning two — one for its original
screenplay and another honoring McDormand's lead performance.
The film is directed by Academy
Award ® nominee Paul Greengrass, from a
screenplay by Billy Ray based upon the book, A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days
at Sea, by Richard Phillips with Stephan Talty.
The other two big Best Picture hopefuls, «Spotlight» and «The Big Short,» took home the same
screenplay honors they won
at the WGA
Awards last night (Original and Adapted, respectfully).
He collected both best director and best original
screenplay — he is nominated for the same
awards at the Oscars.
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.
Room scooped the coveted People's Choice
award at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this year, and has scorched through the early nomination rounds in LA - picking up nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress (for Brie Larson) and Best
Screenplay at the Golden Globes, as well as Best Actor and Actress
at the SAG
awards.
Breznican: A
screenplay mention for «Labor Day,» a complex and emotional narrative that I think was under - appreciated
at the Toronto festival and never got the
awards push it should have.
Gravity has become the early winner
at the Bafta
Awards in London, picking up a handful of top prizes, including Best
Screenplay, Music,...
Carol wins Best Picture, Director,
Screenplay and Cinematography
at New York Film Critic
Awards
The
award, which was presented
at our 2016 Sundance Film Festival, included a grant that allowed the filmmakers to continue developing the
screenplay in the months that followed.