In 1980 Sayles» first directorial effort «Return of the Secaucus 7» earned the Best
Screenplay award from the Los Angeles Film Critics, as well as an Oscar nomination for original screenplay.
Not exact matches
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.
Recent and upcoming releases include the romance - horror hybrid Spring; the hotly - anticipated The Look Of Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room,
from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List
screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes
award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animals.
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.
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.
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.
Adapted
from Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago's masterwork, the film is directed by Academy Awardr - nominee Fernando Meirelles (City of God)
from a
screenplay by Tony
Award - winner Don McKellar (The Drowsy Chaperone).
CANNES, France — Tommy Lee Jones walked away
from the 58th Cannes Film Festival here Saturday night as a double winner, after his film «The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada» won him the
award as best actor, and the
screenplay by Guillermo Arriaga also was honored.
Synopsis: Oscar winner Matt Damon («Good Will Hunting,» «Invictus») stars in «Hereafter,» directed by Academy
Award winner Clint Eastwood («Million Dollar Baby,» «Unforgiven»)
from a
screenplay by two time Oscar nominee Peter Morgan («Frost / Nixon,» «The Queen»).
Obviously such great acting results come
from the experienced direction of David O. Russell, who received his first Academy
Award nomination for Best Director and noms for Best Picture, Original
Screenplay, and Editing.
From the Oscar -
award winning writers of The Descendants (Best Adapted
Screenplay, 2012) comes a feel good summer movie, with plenty of sensitive emotional punch.
Earlier this week, Anderson was
awarded Best
Screenplay for «Phantom Thread»
from both the National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics Circle.
The Social Network walks off with three top
awards from the Chicago Film Critics «Äô Association, including Picture, Director and Adapted
Screenplay.
Cirkus Columbia The fourth film
from Bosnian director Danis Tanović, and his third since his debut feature No Man's Land took home the Cannes Film Festival best
screenplay award in 2001 and the best
The dramatic comedy was directed by Tony
Award - winner Matthew Warchus («God of Carnage»)
from a
screenplay by Stephen Beresford.
There's «Get Out»
from Jordan Peele (which feels like a dark horse for Original
Screenplay on a good day, though I'm sure many will work hard for Daniel Kaluuya and Betty Gabriel in acting categories) and «The Fate of the Furious»
from F. Gary Gray («Straight Outta Compton»), but neither truly feel like they'll make a dent come
awards season.
It garnered seven Academy
Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Walter Huston, recreating his earlier stage role, who should have won the Oscar with his sensitive portrayal against winner Paul Muni for The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)-RRB-, Best
Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Maria Ouspenskaya, reprising her role
from the earlier stage production, and in her film debut), and Best Sound Recording, and won only one Oscar for Best Art Direction - Interior Decoration.
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.
67th Academy
Awards 1 win
from 7 nominations Best Actress In A Supporting Role - Dianne Wiest Best Actor In A Supporting Role, Chazz Palminteri Best Actress In A Supporting Role, Jennifer Tilly Best Director, Woody Allen Best Writing,
Screenplay, Woody Allen & Douglas McGrath Best Art Direction - Set Decoration, Santo Loquasto & Susan Bode Best Costume Design, Jeffrey Kurland
Academy
Award ® winners Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men) rewrote the
screenplay from earlier drafts by William Nicholson (Les Misérables) and Richard LaGravenese (HBO's Behind the Candelabra).
Fredrik Bond has been making «short» movies for the past decade as an
award - winning commercials director (view some here) and luck would have it that he gets to work
from a top tier 2007 Blacklist
Screenplay and a solid ensemble with the likes of Shia LaBeouf (who reportedly dropped acid for some scenes), Aubrey Plaza, Rupert Grint, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, Til Schweiger and Melissa Leo.
After winning Best First Film
from the New York Film Critics Circle and Best
Screenplay from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the movie's showing here is yet another indication that it will be a strong player in year - end polls and next year's various
awards.
The one remaining elephant in the room is the 2015 Silver Screen Riot
Awards where we pick and choose
from the elite and populist alike to make our selection for best director, performer, cinematographer,
screenplay, documentary, foreign film, action movie, horror movie and comedy.
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.
I personally am shocked that the film is nominated for a
screenplay award and supporting actress (nothing against Melissa McCarthy because she is an awesome) but if that's all Hollywood needs
from a script is a bunch of women fighting like 8 year olds and pooping in the street, please let me know and I will have my brothers write you up a
screenplay in a few hours.
12 Years a Slave,» about a free black man ripped
from his family and sold into more than a decade of bondage, won six
awards including Best Film, Best Actor (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Best Supporting Actress (Lupita Nyong» o), Best Ensemble, Best Adapted
Screenplay (John Ridley) and Best Original Score (Hans Zimmer).
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.
32nd British Academy Film
Awards 2 wins
from 10 nominations Best Film Best
Screenplay - Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman - Best Actor - Woody Allen - Best Actress - Diane Keaton - Best Supporting Actress - Mariel Hemingway - Best Supporting Actress - Meryl Streep - Best Direction - Woody Allen - Best Cinematography - Gordon Willis - Best Editing - Susan E Morse - Best Sound - James Sabat, Dan Sable, Jack Higgins
The film also won Academy
Awards for Best Actor (Gene Hackman), Directing (William Friedkin), Film Editing (Jerry Greenberg), and Writing —
Screenplay based on material
from another medium (Ernest Tidyman).
Directed by Ava DuVernay
from a
screenplay by Oscar - winner Jennifer Lee based upon the beloved novel by Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time stars: two - time Academy
Award nominee Oprah Winfrey, Oscar and Emmy winner Reese Witherspoon, Emmy nominee Mindy Kaling, Gugu Mbatha - Raw, Michael Pe?a and introducing Storm Reid, with two - time Emmy winner Zach Galifianakis and Emmy nominee Chris Pine.
During their brief stopover in San Francisco, we talked everything
from Community getting renewed for a fifth, improbable season, to winning the aforementioned Academy
Award, to the differences between adapting source material
from another medium and writing an original
screenplay, to character development, and casting The Way, Way Back with some of the better (if not the best) comedic actors of their (and our) generation.
2 — Annie
Award online voting opens 2 — Palm Springs International Film Festival
Awards Gala 3 — Deadline for receipt of final Golden Globe ballots from HFPA members 3 — Voting ends for Art Directors Guild nominations 3 — Cinema Audio Society nomination ballot voting ends 3 — NYFCC awards dinner 4 — WGA theatrical and documentary screenplays announced 4 — Art Directors Guild nominations announced 4 — PGA nominations polls close for motion pictures and animated motion pictures 5 — AFI Awards luncheon 5 — PGA Awards nominations announced 5 — PGA nominations for TV, animated, motion pictures and digital announced 5 — Academy Award nominations voting opens at 8AM PST 7 — Golden Globe Awards 8 — Final ballots go out to BFCA members 8 — Final ballots go out to BTJA members 9 — Deadline for BFCA returning final ballots 9 — Deadline for BTJA returning final ballots 9 — National Board of Review gala 9 — BAFTA nominations announced 10 — Cinema Audio Society nominees announced 10 — DGA TV, Commercial and Documentary nominees announced 11 — Critics» Choice Awards 11 — DGA feature film and first - time feature nominations announced 12 — Academy Award nominations voting closes at 5PM PST 15 — NAACP Image Awards 19 — PGA final voting closes 20 — PGA Awards 19 — SAG final voting closes 21 — SAG Awards 23 - Annie Award final voting closes 23 — Academy Award nominations announced 26 — ACE Eddie Awards Gala 27 — Art Directors Guild
Awards Gala 3 — Deadline for receipt of final Golden Globe ballots
from HFPA members 3 — Voting ends for Art Directors Guild nominations 3 — Cinema Audio Society nomination ballot voting ends 3 — NYFCC
awards dinner 4 — WGA theatrical and documentary screenplays announced 4 — Art Directors Guild nominations announced 4 — PGA nominations polls close for motion pictures and animated motion pictures 5 — AFI Awards luncheon 5 — PGA Awards nominations announced 5 — PGA nominations for TV, animated, motion pictures and digital announced 5 — Academy Award nominations voting opens at 8AM PST 7 — Golden Globe Awards 8 — Final ballots go out to BFCA members 8 — Final ballots go out to BTJA members 9 — Deadline for BFCA returning final ballots 9 — Deadline for BTJA returning final ballots 9 — National Board of Review gala 9 — BAFTA nominations announced 10 — Cinema Audio Society nominees announced 10 — DGA TV, Commercial and Documentary nominees announced 11 — Critics» Choice Awards 11 — DGA feature film and first - time feature nominations announced 12 — Academy Award nominations voting closes at 5PM PST 15 — NAACP Image Awards 19 — PGA final voting closes 20 — PGA Awards 19 — SAG final voting closes 21 — SAG Awards 23 - Annie Award final voting closes 23 — Academy Award nominations announced 26 — ACE Eddie Awards Gala 27 — Art Directors Guild
awards dinner 4 — WGA theatrical and documentary
screenplays announced 4 — Art Directors Guild nominations announced 4 — PGA nominations polls close for motion pictures and animated motion pictures 5 — AFI
Awards luncheon 5 — PGA Awards nominations announced 5 — PGA nominations for TV, animated, motion pictures and digital announced 5 — Academy Award nominations voting opens at 8AM PST 7 — Golden Globe Awards 8 — Final ballots go out to BFCA members 8 — Final ballots go out to BTJA members 9 — Deadline for BFCA returning final ballots 9 — Deadline for BTJA returning final ballots 9 — National Board of Review gala 9 — BAFTA nominations announced 10 — Cinema Audio Society nominees announced 10 — DGA TV, Commercial and Documentary nominees announced 11 — Critics» Choice Awards 11 — DGA feature film and first - time feature nominations announced 12 — Academy Award nominations voting closes at 5PM PST 15 — NAACP Image Awards 19 — PGA final voting closes 20 — PGA Awards 19 — SAG final voting closes 21 — SAG Awards 23 - Annie Award final voting closes 23 — Academy Award nominations announced 26 — ACE Eddie Awards Gala 27 — Art Directors Guild
Awards luncheon 5 — PGA
Awards nominations announced 5 — PGA nominations for TV, animated, motion pictures and digital announced 5 — Academy Award nominations voting opens at 8AM PST 7 — Golden Globe Awards 8 — Final ballots go out to BFCA members 8 — Final ballots go out to BTJA members 9 — Deadline for BFCA returning final ballots 9 — Deadline for BTJA returning final ballots 9 — National Board of Review gala 9 — BAFTA nominations announced 10 — Cinema Audio Society nominees announced 10 — DGA TV, Commercial and Documentary nominees announced 11 — Critics» Choice Awards 11 — DGA feature film and first - time feature nominations announced 12 — Academy Award nominations voting closes at 5PM PST 15 — NAACP Image Awards 19 — PGA final voting closes 20 — PGA Awards 19 — SAG final voting closes 21 — SAG Awards 23 - Annie Award final voting closes 23 — Academy Award nominations announced 26 — ACE Eddie Awards Gala 27 — Art Directors Guild
Awards nominations announced 5 — PGA nominations for TV, animated, motion pictures and digital announced 5 — Academy
Award nominations voting opens at 8AM PST 7 — Golden Globe
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Awards 8 — Final ballots go out to BFCA members 8 — Final ballots go out to BTJA members 9 — Deadline for BFCA returning final ballots 9 — Deadline for BTJA returning final ballots 9 — National Board of Review gala 9 — BAFTA nominations announced 10 — Cinema Audio Society nominees announced 10 — DGA TV, Commercial and Documentary nominees announced 11 — Critics» Choice
Awards 11 — DGA feature film and first - time feature nominations announced 12 — Academy Award nominations voting closes at 5PM PST 15 — NAACP Image Awards 19 — PGA final voting closes 20 — PGA Awards 19 — SAG final voting closes 21 — SAG Awards 23 - Annie Award final voting closes 23 — Academy Award nominations announced 26 — ACE Eddie Awards Gala 27 — Art Directors Guild
Awards 11 — DGA feature film and first - time feature nominations announced 12 — Academy
Award nominations voting closes at 5PM PST 15 — NAACP Image
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Awards 19 — SAG final voting closes 21 — SAG Awards 23 - Annie Award final voting closes 23 — Academy Award nominations announced 26 — ACE Eddie Awards Gala 27 — Art Directors Guild
Awards 19 — SAG final voting closes 21 — SAG
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Award nominations announced 26 — ACE Eddie
Awards Gala 27 — Art Directors Guild
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Directed by Mick Jackson
from a
screenplay by novelist / playwright Barry Hines and nominated for seven BAFTA
Awards, «The most terrifying and honest portrayal of nuclear war ever filmed» (The Guardian) has now been fully restored
from a 2K scan for the first time ever.
One film that could slip up on the
awards season with an endearing, personal journey is «50/50,»
from an original
screenplay by Will Reiser (it's fully his story) and directed by «The Wackness» helmer Jonathan Levine.
Writer / director Kenneth Lonergan (C) accepts Best Original
Screenplay for «Manchester by the Sea»
from actor / director Ben Affleck (L) and actor / producer Matt Damon (R) onstage during the 89th Annual Academy
Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2017 in Hollywood, California.
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 Tim Rice.
Both Call Me By Your Name supporting actors, Armie Hammer and Michael Stuhlbarg, were nominated and the
awards - dormant Wonderstruck
from Todd Haynes found life today with nominations in Adapted
Screenplay, Cinematography, Art Direction / Production Design and a Breakout nomination for Millicent Simmonds.
Jordan Peele's «Get Out» has won four
awards from members of the African American Film Critics Association, taking the trophies for best film, director, actor, and
screenplay.
And although Lanthimos and regular co-writer Efthymis Filippou took the Best
Screenplay award in Cannes, it's the film's sheer all - of - a-piece execution —
from pacing and composition, to brilliant use of contemporary composers including (Kubrick fave) Ligeti and Gubaidulina, and expertly modulated performances — which holds you in its steely grip and just never lets go.
From a screenplay by Academy Award ® - winner Hayao Miyazaki, the English language version is directed by multiple Academy Award ® - winner Gary Rydstrom from a script adaptation by Karey Kirkpatrick (James and the Giant Peach, Chicken Run, Charlotte's Web) and features an all - star English voice cast including Gillian Anderson, Sarah Bolger, Beau Bridges, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Fuhrman, Christina Hendricks, Ron Howard, Chris Noth, Emily Osment, Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Saxton, Alex Wolff and Anton Yelc
From a
screenplay by Academy
Award ® - winner Hayao Miyazaki, the English language version is directed by multiple Academy
Award ® - winner Gary Rydstrom
from a script adaptation by Karey Kirkpatrick (James and the Giant Peach, Chicken Run, Charlotte's Web) and features an all - star English voice cast including Gillian Anderson, Sarah Bolger, Beau Bridges, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Fuhrman, Christina Hendricks, Ron Howard, Chris Noth, Emily Osment, Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Saxton, Alex Wolff and Anton Yelc
from a script adaptation by Karey Kirkpatrick (James and the Giant Peach, Chicken Run, Charlotte's Web) and features an all - star English voice cast including Gillian Anderson, Sarah Bolger, Beau Bridges, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Fuhrman, Christina Hendricks, Ron Howard, Chris Noth, Emily Osment, Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Saxton, Alex Wolff and Anton Yelchin.
Screenwriter Chris Sparling has been quietly on the beat for sometime, shocking the
awards season world in 2010 when he won Best Original
Screenplay (
from the National Board of Review) for the underrated «Buried» with Ryan Reynolds.
Jon Watts will direct «Untitled Spider - Man: Homecoming Sequel»
from an adapted
screenplay penned by the Primetime Emmy
Award nominated writing team of Erik Sommers and Chris McKenna.
This documentary,
from writer - turned - director Ron Nyswaner (The Painted Veil
screenplay), tells the story of lifelong character actress Mary Louise Wilson (who finally won a Tony
Award in 2007 after years on stage and screen) as she heads back to her native New Orleans to teach an acting class at Tulane University.
The
screenplay received a Bradbury
Award nomination
from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and the film received, among other honors, the Empire
Award for Best Director; a Comedy Central Comedy
Award for Best Director; two Scream
Awards; a GLAAD Media
Award nomination for Outstanding Film — Wide Release; and two Satellite
Awards including Best Picture — Comedy or Musical.
Nicole Holofcener, well - known for putting women front and center in numerous astute indies like Lovely & Amazing and Enough Said, adapted the
screenplay from the novel by
award - winning mystery writer Laura Lippman.
Directed by Emmy (R) winner and Oscar (R) and Golden Globe (R) nominee Ava DuVernay
from a
screenplay by Oscar winner Jennifer Lee based upon the beloved novel by Madeleine L'Engle, «A Wrinkle in Time» stars: two - time Academy
Award (R) nominee Oprah Winfrey, Oscar and Emmy winner Reese Witherspoon, Emmy nominee Mindy Kaling, Gugu Mbatha - Raw, Michael Peňa and introducing Storm Reid, with two - time Emmy winner Zach Galifianakis and Emmy nominee Chris Pine.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is directed by J.J. Abrams
from a
screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan & Abrams, and features a cast including actors John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Academy
Award winner Lupita Nyong» o, Gwendoline Christie, Crystal Clarke, Pip Andersen, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow.
Oscar and Golden Globe - winning futuristic romantic comedy
from writer - director Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich) whose
screenplay took out
awards, starring Joaquin Phoenix as the lonely Theodore.
Best Original
Screenplay - considered separate
from Motion Picture Story until 1958; both are combined into this single designation for the Hollmann
Awards
Moonlight,
from Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney, won the WGA Original
Screenplay award last night, a coup of sorts since the film was moved over to Adapted by the Academy (where it's Oscar - nominated) so most felt the WGA race was between La La Land and Manchester by the Sea.