Alice Rohrwacher's follow - up to her Grand Jury Prize — winning «The Wonders» shared the Best
Screenplay award with Jafar Panahi's «3 Faces,» and Lukas Dhont's film won both the Camera d'Or for best first film and Best Actor laurels in the Un Certain Regard section for Victor Polster.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As he did on The Ides of March and Good Night, and Good Luck, Clooney co-wrote the
screenplay with producing partner Grant Heslov, and the late - December release date suggests
awards - season hopes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nominated for six Academy
Awards, Neil Jordan's IRA thriller walked away
with one for him for Best Original
Screenplay.
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.
It was the gaffe heard around the world, but when the dust finally cleared on last year's fateful Oscars and this graceful indie was crowned Best Picture (
with well - deserved
awards for Mahershala Ali as Supporting Actor and Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney for Best Adapted
Screenplay), instead of the front - runner La La Land, liberal Hollywood breathed a collective sigh of relief.
Fences won big too
with four
awards — Best Actor (Denzel Washington), Supporting Actress (Viola Davis), Adapted
Screenplay and Ensemble.
The Social Network walks off
with three top
awards from the Chicago Film Critics «Äô Association, including Picture, Director and Adapted
Screenplay.
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
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Little Miss Sunshine was nominated for several Academy
Awards, and came home
with Best Original
Screenplay for Michael Ardnt and Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin.
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.
The coming - of - age film also earned the coveted Best
Screenplay honor along
with the Special Gotham Jury
award and IFP Gotham Audience
award.
The playwright - turned - filmmaker made his cinematic debut
with «In Bruges,» which earned him an Academy
Award nomination for Best Original
Screenplay.
Affleck is an Academy
Award as well as a Golden Globe
Award winner, along
with Matt Damon, for their collaborative
screenplay for the 1997 film Good Will Hunting.
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.
«Her,» which was the runner - up for Best Film, made a strong showing
with Spike Jonze earning the
award for Best Original
Screenplay.
Combining broad comedy
with believable and well - drawn characters, The Full Monty was a major box - office hit both in England and the United States and was nominated for Academy
Awards as Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original
Screenplay.
This is one of the key preceding
awards before the Academy Awards are handed out early next month, and on the feature film side of things, another significant win adds even more momentum to the acclaimed thriller Get Out with Jordan Peele winning the award for original scree
awards before the Academy
Awards are handed out early next month, and on the feature film side of things, another significant win adds even more momentum to the acclaimed thriller Get Out with Jordan Peele winning the award for original scree
Awards are handed out early next month, and on the feature film side of things, another significant win adds even more momentum to the acclaimed thriller Get Out
with Jordan Peele winning the
award for original
screenplay.
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.
A true career achievement
award, the adapted
screenplay Oscar will go to the 89 - year - old Ivory, best known for his collaborations
with Ismail Merchant.
the time we'll see an animated movie win best pic, though, is when the animated movie runs away
with the
screenplay award.
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.
La La Land won all seven
awards it was nominated for,
with the retro musical earning Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy; Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for Emma Stone; Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for Ryan Gosling; Best Director, Motion Picture, and Best
Screenplay, Motion Picture, for Damien Chazelle; Best Original Score, Motion Picture for Justin Hurwitz; and Best Original Song, Motion Picture for Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's «City of Stars.»
Both
screenplays are competing in Original
Screenplay with the Writers Guild of America and Moonlight has already won a few screenplay awards (although, incidentally, with groups who combine adapted and
Screenplay with the Writers Guild of America and Moonlight has already won a few
screenplay awards (although, incidentally, with groups who combine adapted and
screenplay awards (although, incidentally,
with groups who combine adapted and original).
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.
The film has been nominated for 5 Golden Globe
Awards, including Best Drama Motion Picture, along
with nominations for Best Actor in a Drama (Casey Affleck), Best Supporting Actress (Michelle Williams), Best
Screenplay (Lonergan) and Best Director (Lonergan).
The lion's share of
awards were split between Moonlight and Manchester by the Sea
with the former winning Best Director, Supporting Actor and Cinematography and the latter taking Actor, Supporting Actress and
Screenplay.
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.
Yet here he is, adapting Michael Lewis» nonfiction book on the reasons behind the financial collapse and coming away
with a hit movie, five Academy
Award nominations, and an Oscar win for Best Adapted
Screenplay (shared
with Charles Randolph).
In honor of the movie's home video release (and before this weekend's Academy
Awards, where it's nominated for Best Animated Feature), I spoke
with Molina about the power of the film's music, how physically visiting a place like Monte Alban actually translates into a movie's
screenplay, and much more.
The evening began
with awards being given on the red carpet, as the BFCA does, and was a strange start as the winners announced for Foreign Language Film, Adapted
Screenplay and Documentary (Force Majeure, Gone Girl and Life Itself, respectively), were all snubbed by the Oscars that morning.
And «Mudbound» director Dee Rees shares a nomination
with Virgil Williams for adapted
screenplay, making her the first black woman to be nominated for the
award.
«This one is really, I think, the one where people are just going to remember who he is and let all of the other stuff go,» said Damon, who shared a
screenplay Academy
Award with Affleck for «Good Will Hunting.»
Then, we revisit two interviews
with first - time directors who could win major
awards on Sunday: Yance Ford, whose film Strong Island is up for Best Documentary, and Greta Gerwig, a contender for Best Director and Best Original
Screenplay for Lady Bird.
When Jordan Peele got the news that the biggest gamble of his career had just earned four major Academy
Award nominations, including best picture, best director and best original
screenplay, he got on the phone
with his «Get Out» star, Daniel Kaluuya — and broke down in tears.
With the
screenplay written by Sylvester Stallone, who first established worldwide recognition as a writer when his
screenplay Rocky, won the Academy
Award ® in 1976 for Best Picture, Homefront is based on the book by Chuck Logan.