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La Vie à l'envers (Life Upside Down) won an award in Venice for best feature debut in 1964, and Jeu de massacre (The Killing Game) won a best screenplay award in Cannes in 1967.

It should not go unnoticed, however, that three women — Gerwig (Lady Bird), Liz Hannah (The Post), Vanessa Taylor (The Shape of Water)-- were nominated for the Golden Globes» Best Screenplay award in the same year for the first time ever.

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.

Stavier Films have announced that Anthony Renwick McGill, a writer living in Dublin and co-founder, along with Savio Sequeira, of Stavier Films and The Da Vinci Theatre Company, has won the 2016 FEATURE FILM SCREENPLAY AWARD in the New York Short Film and Screenplay Competition for his screenplay Amazons Inc., a comedy thriller set in 1970's Ireland.

Anthony Renwick McGill wins 2016 Feature Film Screenplay Award in the New York Short Film and Screenplay Competition.

He's also quite content sitting back and watching Aaron Sorkin win pretty much every adapted screenplay award in site.

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

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 latest release has all of the original cast members returning (with star and Academy Award ® nominee Nia Vardolos again writing the screenplay) to sling their Greek wisdom and zingers on anyone and everyone in their line of fire.

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.

It faces uneasy awards season propositions, but Tarantino's screenplay stands a chance at gaining some accolades in that department.

(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.

Peck was one of the many stars who appeared in How the West Was Won (1962), which earned James Webb a «Best Original Screenplay» award.

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.

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 ScreenplaIn 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 Screenplain 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 Screenplain a film that won Woody Allen an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

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

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.

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»).

So far Silver Linings has placed Lawrence and Cooper in privileged positions for Academy Award nominations and not unlikely is the possibility of the film getting recognition in the Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and of course Best Director categories.

Earlier in the night, both Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwellwere awarded for their acting, while Martin McDonagh was recognized for Best Screenplay.

The BAFTAs have always been an important bellwether for predicting Oscar, but they may be even more in tune with the Academy this year as a rule change allowed the entire BAFTA voting body to vote on every award (like the Oscars), instead of writers only voting for screenplay, actors only voting for acting, etc..

In February, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts honored Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope with the Best Adapted Screenplay award.

Its best original screenplay award was a thrilling salute to Jordan Peele's audacity, but lingering in the background was the ongoing debate about whether a mere «horror film» was worthy of the Oscar — that is, the Oscar for best picture.

Which is quite a monumental failure considering the cast includes Zoe Saldana, Sienna Miller, Chris Cooper, Elle Fanning and Brendan Gleeson, among other top - notch talent; the screenplay was based on an award - winning novel by bestselling author Dennis Lehane (Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island, Mystic River); and the action spans several tumultuous years in U.S. history.

New for 2011, films in competition were also eligible for Jury Awards for Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Score / Music, Best Screenplay (narratives) and Breakthrough Performance (narratives).

It was in 1992, however, when he wrote and directed THE CRYING GAME, which was nominated for six academy awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Stephen Rea), Best Supporting Actor (Jaye Davidson) and for which Neil won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay that the wider public became aware of him as a once in a lifetime directing talent.

Best Director: Lynn Ramsay for We Need to Talk About Kevin Best Actor: Michael Fassbender for Shame Best Actress: Olivia Colman for Tyrannosaur Best Supporting Actress: Vanessa Redgrave for Coriolanus Best Supporting Actor: Michael Smiley for Kill List Best Screenplay: Richard Ayoade for Submarine Best Achievement in Production: The Weekend Best Foreign Film: A Separation Best Documentary: Senna Best Newcomer: Tom Cullen for The Weekend Raindance Award: Leaving Baghdad Best Debut Director: Paddy Considine, Tyrannosaur Best Short Film: Chalk

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 LuAwards, winning four awards including best picture, best director for Alejandro González Iñárritu, best original screenplay, and best cinematography for Emmanuel Luawards including best picture, best director for Alejandro González Iñárritu, best original screenplay, and best cinematography for Emmanuel Lubezki.

There is no director yet and the screenplay is yet to be hammered out, but I couldn't help but wonder, with the announcement of the P.T. Barnum biopic «The Greatest Showman on Earth,» whether Hugh Jackman might finally find himself in the awards hunt for -LSB-...]

In an ordinary year, this screenplay award would belong to Greta Gerwig who would win it as Jane Campion did, as Sofia Coppola did in the years they were nominated for picture and directoIn an ordinary year, this screenplay award would belong to Greta Gerwig who would win it as Jane Campion did, as Sofia Coppola did in the years they were nominated for picture and directoin the years they were nominated for picture and director.

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.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated PHILOMENA for four Academy Awards ® including: Best Picture; Best Actress in a Leading Role, Judi Dench; Best Music — Original Score, Alexandre Desplat; and Best Writing — Adapted Screenplay, Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope.

It was the first film to take home all five of the big Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay (before that award was split in two).

The 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations have been announced and Jordan Peele's completely different but also masterful social thriller Get Out, scored five nods in total including Best Director and Screenplay for Peele, as well as Best Picture, Actor, and Editing.

On the other hand their Best Screenplay category encompasses all scripts, unlike the division the Academy Awards make in order to recognize the writers for either creating an original story, or succeeding in translating a previously written source material for the screen.

The character development involved is flawless, as we grow to like, and in some senses love, the main players, thanks in large part to the terrific Academy Award winning screenplay by Dalton Trumbo (Spartacus, Papillon), here credited as Ian McLellan Hunter due to a blacklisting that forced him to write under a pseudonym.

The French Connection helped usher in the second golden age of Hollywood (arguably the best decade in movie history) and went on to win 5 Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - time.

The playwright - turned - filmmaker made his cinematic debut with «In Bruges,» which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

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.

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.

Rees has assembled an impressive POC crew in front of and behind the camera that could gain awards recognition: Dee Rees (Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay); Virgil Williams (Best Adapted Screenplay); Best Supporting Actor (Jason Mitchell), Best Film Editing (Mako Kamitsuna) and Best Picture (Charles D. King).

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Mathew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon star in this brilliant satirical comedy, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay.

Spotlight, a film about the exposure of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church, was presented the award for Best Original Screenplay.

Taking home three awards this year, Carol, a drama about a female clerk who falls in love with an older woman in the 1950s, claimed the awards for Best Actress (Cate Blanchett), Best Supporting Actress (Rooney Mara) and Best Adapted Screenplay.

In addition, Hell or High Water was honored with three other awards including Ben Foster for Best Supporting Actor, David Mackenzie for Best Director, and Taylor Sheridan for Original Screenplay.

The Writers Guild of America has just finished handing out their awards for 2017, resulting in James Ivory («Call Me by Your Name») and Jordan Peele («Get Out») taking top honors for Adapted and Original Screenplays, respectively.