This happened last year with Lynne Ramsay picking up
the screenplay award for You Were Never Really Here and Joaquin Phoenix winning Best Actor.
It later went on to win three Academy Awards, including
a screenplay award for Jenkins and best picture.
Writer Jordan Peele, winner of the Best Original
Screenplay award for «Get Out,» poses with award at the 90th Annual Academy Awards Governors Ball at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 4, 2018 in Hollywood, California.
The big win of the night went to the 89 - year - old James Ivory, who won the Best Adapted
Screenplay award for his work on Call Me by Your Name, which he adapted from André Aciman's 2007 novel.
As expected, Cate Blanchett snagged the Best Leading Actress honor, but surprisingly, it was Steve Coogan who made off with the Best Adapted
Screenplay award for «Philomena,» beating out «12 Years a Slave,» «Behind the Candelabra,» «Captain Phillips» and «Wolf of Wall Street» while Will Poulter took the EE Rising Star award over Dane DeHaan, George MacKay, Lupita Nyong» o and Lea Seydoux.
Writer Jordan Peele, winner of the Best Original
Screenplay award for «Get Out,» poses in the press room during the 90th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 4, 2018 in Hollywood, California.
In other categories, Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship won the Best Adapted
Screenplay award for his film based on the writing of Jane Austen.
As for the documentary side of things, Robert Kenner & Eric Schlosser won the Best
Screenplay award for their nuclear missile documentary Command and Control, which first premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2016.
He nabbed the Best
Screenplay award for audience favorite «A Self - Made Hero» in 1996.
Irish film company Element Pictures also failed to pick up the Best Original
Screenplay award for «The Lobster».
Veteran director James Ivory, 89, won the adapted
screenplay award for «Call Me by Your Name» and saluted late colleagues Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Ismail Merchant.
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.»
Moroccan writer - director Meryem Benm» Barek tearfully accepted the Best
Screenplay award for her debut feature «Sofia»; a Casablanca - set drama about a 20 - year - old woman facing arrest after giving birth to a baby out of wedlock, it draws heartfelt attention to the lack of women's rights in the filmmaker's home country.
Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer shared the Best
Screenplay award for SPOTLIGHT over Emma Donoghue for ROOM.
John Ridley won the Best
Screenplay award for 12 YEARS A SLAVE over a tie between Bob Nelson for NEBRASKA and Spike Jonze for HER.
Kenneth Lonergan won the Best
Screenplay award for MANCHESTER BY THE SEA over Barry Jenkins for MOONLIGHT.
Greta Gerwig won the best
screenplay award for her Oscar - nominated coming - of - age comedy - drama Lady Bird.
Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy won
the screenplay award for «Before Midnight.»
Writer / Producer Alexander Dinelaris, Writer / Associate Producer Armando Bo, Writer / Director / Producer Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Writer / Associate Producer Nicolas Giacobone, winners of Best
Screenplay Award for «Birdman» pose in the... More
Not exact matches
The performances are so good, that both Steve Carell and Christian Bale have been nominated
for Golden Globe
Awards for «Best Actor in a Comedy» and McCay and Charles Randolph, who co-wrote the movie, were nominated
for «Best
Screenplay.»
The adaptation of author E.L. James» erotic novel won worst
screenplay, worst actor
for Jamie Dornan and worst actress
for Dakota Johnson during Saturday's 36th annual Golden Raspberry
Awards, according to the Associated Press.
Catholic News Agency: «Exorcist» author prepares canon lawsuit against Georgetown The author of the best - selling book and
award - winning
screenplay «The Exorcist» has announced that he is leading an effort to file a canon lawsuit against Georgetown University
for failures to live up to the demands of the school's Catholic identity.
The best ensemble performance
award went to Straight Outta Compton, which also won
for best original
screenplay.
11 — 30 Frost / Nixon, a play by Peter Morgan, who also co-wrote the
award - winning
screenplay for The Last King of Scotland, reenacts the famous 1977 interview in which British talk - show host David Frost extracted an on - air apology from Richard Nixon regarding his role in the Watergate scandal.
Academy
Award for Best Original
Screenplay — Laurie Davis is the founder of eFlirt Expert, an online dating consultancy... the crowd.
German
Screenplay Award — Nomination
for JE SUIS KARL.
He would later move to Hollywood and was notably successful there, even sharing an Academy
Award nomination
for the
screenplay of Josef von Sternberg's The Last Command (1928).
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.
Note that most other
awards organizations treated Damien Chazelle's Whiplash script as an original
screenplay, but the Academy considered it to be an adapted
screenplay for reasons known only to the Academy (Chazelle has previously released a single Whiplash scene as a short film to raise funds to complete the full movie, which is apparently the source of the problem).
The Academy really didn't like Gone Girl much, as Gillian Flynn (who has been owning this category on the
awards circuit) couldn't even get a
screenplay nomination
for adapting her own best - seller.
L.A. Confidential was nominated
for nine Academy
Awards and netted two, with Brian Helgeland honored
for Best Adapted
Screenplay, and Kim Basinger taking home a statuette as Best Supporting Actress.
(Ian Holm was nominated
for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor in his role as Abrahams» coach), and this powerful film ended up with four Academy
Awards: Best Picture, Best Original
Screenplay, Best Costume Design, and Best Original Score.
The Ladykillers won an Oscar nomination
for William Rose's
screenplay, and a BFA
award for veteran character actress Johnson.
Resuming his movie career with 1962's Taras Bulba, Salt went on to win an Academy
Award for his
screenplay for 1969's Midnight Cowboy; nine years later, Salt, Robert C. Jones, and Nancy Dowd shared an Oscar
for Coming Home (1978), his final film.
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.
Panahi also tied
for the festival's best
screenplay award.
Cannes
awarded her its Best
Screenplay prize and Best Actor
for Phoenix, both prizes richly deserved.
Almodóvar faces a new opportunity to win an Oscar
Award for «Volver»
screenplay.
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.
In 2011, she was nominated
for a SAG Ensemble
Award for Midnight in Paris, once again paired up with Owen Wilson (her co-star from Wedding Crashers), in a film that won Woody Allen an Oscar
for Best Original
Screenplay.
Kubrick's masterpiece was not nominated
for Best Picture, but received four Academy
Award nominations, including Best Director, Best Art Direction, and Best Original Story and
Screenplay.
Synopsis: World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury
Award for Screenplay, Kirsten Tan Thana, a once - illustrious architect, drifts ever further into existential crisis, propelled by the impending demolition of his proudest work and his wife's waning romantic interest.
The film went on to win the inaugural Writers Guild of America best documentary
screenplay award as well as garner an Academy Award nomination for best feature documen
award as well as garner an Academy
Award nomination for best feature documen
Award nomination
for best feature documentary.
Original and adapted
screenplay awards are still separated out below
for each individual
awards organization (when necessary).
Diablo next wrote the
screenplay for Juno, the unexpected indie hit of 2007, earning her numerous awards including an Oscar for Best Original S
screenplay for Juno, the unexpected indie hit of 2007, earning her numerous
awards including an Oscar
for Best Original
ScreenplayScreenplay.
* Due to the often conflicting eligibility requirements set out by various organizations
for determining whether a
screenplay is «original» or «adapted,» we have opted this year to combine all
screenplay awards into one comprehensive list.
Synopsis: Academy
Award - Winner
for Best Adapted
Screenplay.
Among the more notable recognition: winning the Golden Globe
for Best Picture (Comedy or Musical), picking up BAFTA and Writers Guild nominations
for Jon Lucas and Scott Moore's original
screenplay, winning a comedy / musical editing
award from American Cinema Editors, and having its production design nominated by the Art Directors Guild.
The film was nominated
for various
awards including an Academy
Award for Best Adapted
Screenplay; Owen worked on the screenplay, although he was u
Screenplay; Owen worked on the
screenplay, although he was u
screenplay, although he was uncredited.
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.