Not exact matches
While «Schindler's List» won 7 Academy
Awards (including Best Picture, Best Director and Best -LCB- adapted -RCB-
screenplay), and 11 Academy
Award Nominations (including Best Actor - Liam Neeson), it is a movie that left this reviewer a little uneasy.
While his Samuel Goldwyn
Award - winning student
screenplay Pilma, Pilma went unproduced, Coppola's 1966 U.C.L.A. thesis project, a freewheeling comedy titled You're a Big Boy Now, was distributed theatrically by Warner Bros., and that same year he collaborated on the
screenplays of the features Is Paris Burning?
Earlier in the night, both Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwellwere
awarded for their acting,
while Martin McDonagh was recognized for Best
Screenplay.
«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.
David Fincher's «The Social Network» took the Film / Director /
Screenplay trifecta,
while Christopher Nolan's «Inception» was the big winner over all, taking four
awards including Best -LSB-...]
Inception dreams up two
awards, notably another Original
Screenplay kudo for Chris Nolan,
while Black Swan also takes two.
«Lady Bird» and «Get Out» have received nominations for SAG's Best Cast
award and the WGA's Original
Screenplay award,
while «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri» has also been nominated for SAG's Best Cast (and would have no doubt been nominated by the WGA if it weren't for their asinine rules that disqualified it).
What It Could Win: Ang Lee, who took home the Best Director Academy
Award in 2013 for Life of Pi, is a frontrunner once again, seemingly providing the movie Best Picture heft,
while the rest of the categories — first - time screenwriter Jean - Christophe Castelli for Best Adapted
Screenplay?
Elsewhere, Greek film «Miss Violence» also proved popular, taking both the Silver Lion and the Best Actor prize for Themis Panou,
while Tsai Ming - Liang «s «Stray Dogs» won the Grand Jury Prize, Elena Cotta took Best Actress for «Via Castellana Bandiera» (which we unfortunately didn't see), Tye Sheridan was
awarded Best Young Actor for David Gordon Green «s «Joe,» Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope picked up Best
Screenplay for «Philomena,» and Philip Groning «s «The Police Officer's Wife» won a Special Jury Prize.
Greta Gerwig's teen comedy, Lady Bird, won Best Motion Picture and Best Actress for a comedy or musical,
while Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri secured
awards for Best Picture, Best
Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor in the Drama category.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won the night's biggest
award for Best Motion Picture, Drama, as well as Best
Screenplay,
while its star Frances McDormand picked up Best Actress and Sam Rockwell won Best Supporting Actor.
Coming - of - age drama Call Me By Your Name took the adapted
screenplay award,
while Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was also named outstanding British film.
Both films premiered in competition with «Girl» winning the best first film
award, the Camera d'Or,
while «Lazzaro» nabbed Best
Screenplay.
The National Board of Review has named the dystopian - future blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road the best film of the year,
while the box office goliath The Martian grabbed three
awards, taking best actor for Matt Damon, best director for Ridley Scott and best adapted
screenplay for Drew Goddard.
He's won two Best Original
Screenplay awards so far,
while Oscar has also honored Christoph Waltz twice in Best Supporting Actor for working with him.
Hailed by the LA Times as an «implausible feat of sustained imagination,» and the Wall Street Journal as «an almost perfect movie with flawless performances,» Nancy Oliver's
screenplay was nominated for an Oscar,
while Gillespie's film won numerous critics»
awards and festival prizes.
Loganbroke through this year as the first superhero film to be recognized for a writing
award (Best Adapted
Screenplay),
while Morrison made history as the first woman to be nominated for Best Cinematography.
While Tim Burton was far calmer and more thoughtful than his appearance might suggest, Ang Lee, with whom Rickman worked on Sense and Sensibility opposite Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson (who also wrote the Academy
Award - winning
screenplay), had an entirely idiosyncratic way of communicating with his actors.
Directed by: Richard Linklater Written by: Richard Linklater Main Cast: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Lorelei Linklater, and many others as well... Past Oscar relations: Richard Linklater has been nominated for two Academy
Awards (Best Adapted
Screenplay for Before Sunset and Before Midnight),
while Ethan Hawke has three Academy
Award nominations (the -LSB-...]
While Polley has starred in such films as DAWN OF THE DEAD, GO and THE SWEET HEREAFTER, she has been causing a buzz with her film projects, even earning an Academy
Award nomination in Best Adapted
Screenplay for her movie AWAY FROM HER.
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.
While it wasn't exactly a popular choice for Best Picture with the critics, it did win a fair amount of
Screenplay and Acting
awards.
While the Academy
Award for Best Director was
awarded to Steven Spielberg for Schindler's List, Campion did win the Academy
Award for Best Original
Screenplay for «The Piano» that year.
The Big Short took home Best
Screenplay,
while Inside Out won for Best Animation and Brooklyn took home the Outstanding British Film
award too.
While Jordan Peele's horror hit Get Out swept multiple categories at the beginning of the ceremony including best
screenplay, breakthrough director, and the audience
award, it was Call Me By Your Name that won the coveted best feature
award in a surprising last - minute twist.
Jordan Peele's «Get Out» took home top honors for Best Feature and Best Director,
while Greta Gerwig snagged the
award for Best
Screenplay for «Lady Bird.»
Comedy film «In Bruges» won the
award for Best Original
Screenplay,
while «I've Loved You So Long» was
awarded the prize for Best Non-English language film.
The movie is nominated for best picture, best original
screenplay, and best directing,
while protagonists Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling could both take home best acting
awards.
While Jordan Peele's horror film did not receive any other
awards, it was within one vote of the
screenplay prize and just two away from best picture.
It was nominated for 12 Academy
Awards (it won one: Best Adapted
Screenplay for Edward Anhalt), but what seemed majestic and theatrically impressive back then feels plodding and stodgy today, like a film obliged to show off every angle of its grand sets
while losing the characters in the drafty castle and hearty speechifying.