Screenplay awards went to Jordan Peele for «Get Out» and James Ivory for «Call Me by Your Name.»
«Lion» won no more awards from the Gotham crix that year, with current Oscar nominee Alan Arkin («The Heart is a Lonely Hunter») and Joanne Woodward («Rachel, Rachel») taking acting honors (instead of Peter O'Toole or Katharine Hepburn), and
the screenplay award went to Lorenzo Semple, Jr. for «Pretty Poison.»
The Best
Screenplay award went to another post-millennium certified auteur, Andrei Zvyagintsev and his co-writer Oleg Negin for Leviathan.
Not exact matches
The best ensemble performance
award went to Straight Outta Compton, which also won for best original
screenplay.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Top honors
went to Spotlight, which won four EDA
Awards: best film, best director, best original
screenplay and tied for best ensemble.
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
screenplay categories are where the Academy often gives an
award to a multi-nominated film that isn't
going to pick up one of the top prizes — see Alexander Payne.
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.
Screenplay honors
went to Wes Anderson for «The Grand Budapest Hotel» and Darius Khondji won the cinematographer
award for «The Immigrant.»
The
award for Best Picture
went to Steve McQueen's «12 Years a Slave,» which also took home
awards for Adapted
Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Lupita Nyong» o. Cate Blanchett won her second Oscar, this time as Best Actress, for her role in «Blue Jasmine.»
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.
«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.»
Going My Way (1944) also Producer and Story Academy
Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Bing Crosby), Best Supporting Actor (Barry Fitzgerald), Best
Screenplay, Best Story, and Best Song
Jordan Peele's «Get Out» snagged four
awards, with three
going to Peele himself for best director, best original
screenplay and being an all - around trailblazer with his directorial debut.
Leigh earned best director and
screenplay for his humanistic comedy,» Happy
go Lucky» which picked up two more
awards.
BEST PICTURE: «Birdman» ROBERT ALTMAN
AWARD FOR BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING: Richard Linklater — «Boyhood» BEST ACTOR: Michael Keaton — «Birdman» BEST ACTRESS: Rosamund Pike — «
Gone Girl» BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Edward Norton — «Birdman» BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Patricia Arquette — «Boyhood» ORIGINAL
SCREENPLAY: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicholas Glocobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo — «Birdman» ADAPTED
SCREENPLAY: Gillian Robespierre — «Obvious Child» BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: «The Lego Movie» BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: «CitizenFour» BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: «Ida» (Poland) VINCE KOEHLER
AWARD FOR BEST SCI - FI, FANTASY or HORROR FILM: «The Babadook»
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Award online voting opens 2 — Palm Springs International Film Festival
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screenplays announced 4 — Art Directors Guild nominations announced 4 — PGA nominations polls close for motion pictures and animated motion pictures 5 — AFI
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The film
went on to win Academy
Awards for Best Original
Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor.
Indeed, Get Out «s unexpected Original
Screenplay win had people wondering whether it could win Best Picture later that night, though the
award ultimately
went to The Shape of Water.
It's pretty hard to believe that Roman Polanski's «Chinatown» almost
went home empty - handed at the 1975 Academy
Awards (it ended up winning Best Original
Screenplay), because it's not only one of the best film noirs ever made, but it's an American classic.
You never know: best picture, best director, best
screenplay and other acting
awards could well
go to Boyhood.
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.
The
award went to Eddie Redmayne, but the movie did win the Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for screenwritter Graham M
award went to Eddie Redmayne, but the movie did win the
Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for screenwritter Graham M
Award for Best Adapted
Screenplay for screenwritter Graham Moore.
She
went on to win the Academy
Award for Best Adapted
Screenplay for her adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, directed by Ang Lee.
His script for Get Out, a movie he said he stopped writing about 20 times because he thought it «wasn't
going to work,» won the
award for Best Original
Screenplay, making Peele the first black filmmaker to receive that honor.
The acting
awards go to — yes, you've guessed it — Ejiofor, Blanchett, Leto and Nyong» o, with Spike Jonze rewarded for HER's original
screenplay and Destin Cretton taking the light off Ryan Coogler.
Download Over 20
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Screenplays Including «
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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.
The other three groups have
gone with Barry Jenkins» strangely over-hyped drama «Moonlight,» giving the film other
awards in the process that include Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, and Best
Screenplay.
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.
Like Campion, Coppola did not win the Academy
Award for Best Director — that award went to Peter Jackson for «The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King» — but she did win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for «Lost in Translation.&r
Award for Best Director — that
award went to Peter Jackson for «The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King» — but she did win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for «Lost in Translation.&r
award went to Peter Jackson for «The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King» — but she did win the Oscar for Best Original
Screenplay for «Lost in Translation.»
Farrell and McDonagh didn't really know each other before the latter cast the former in In Bruges, which
went on to land an Academy
Award nomination (for best original
screenplay) and is widely perceived as the film that turned Farrell's career around - in a good way, that is.
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Screenplay Adapted Frost / Nixon — Peter Morgan Best Documentary (Tie) Man On Wire — James Marsh Trouble The Water — Tia Lessen, Carl Deal Best Actress (Tie) Sally Hawkins — Happy -
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Award Kristin Scott Thomas Hanging in There
Award for Persistence Melissa Leo — Frozen River Actress Defying Age and Ageism Catherine Deneuve — A Christmas Tale 2008 Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Film Industry Sheila Nevins, Producing / Programming at HBO Lifetime Achievement
Award Catherine Deneuve AWFJ
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Other multiple
award winners included
Gone Girl (for Best Actress Rosamund Pike and Gillian Flynn's Adapted
Screenplay), Interstellar (which earned nods for its Visual Effects and Cinematography), and, in a surprise considering its indie status, Damien Chazelle's Whiplash (which earned praise for Best Supporting Actor J.K. Simmons and the director himself, as the FFCC's Breakthrough Artist).
Call Me By Your Name won the Best Adapted
Screenplay award, the only
award almost as prestigious as Best Original
Screenplay, which
went to Get Out.
The IFP Gotham
Awards were handed out at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City tonight, and A24's Moonlight was off to a good
award - season start, taking home Best Feature and Best
Screenplay to
go with its previously announced special jury ensemble
award.
Other film
awards went to Laurie Metcalf, supporting actress for «Lady Bird,» beating out odds - on Oscar favorite Allison Janney in «I Tonya»; Greta Gerwig, best director for «Lady Bird»; Sally Hawkins, best actress for «The Shape of Water»; «BPM (Beats Per Minute),» foreign film; Jordan Peele,
screenplay, for «Get Out»; «Faces Places,» documentary; «The Shape of Water,» visually striking film of the year; «God's Own Country,» unsung film; and «Mother,» campy flick of the year.
It later
went on to win three Academy
Awards, including a
screenplay award for Jenkins and best picture.
A frequent collaborator of Sacha Baron Cohen (who can currently be seen flexing his musical muscles in the
awards - laden Les Miserables), Dan Mazer forged his reputation as a producer / writer in both television and film, with his crowning moment to date being his Oscar - nominated work on the
screenplay for Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, which
went down a storm upon its release Stateside.
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.
Winstead is by far the main
awards contender of the bunch, at least
going by the early reviews, but don't completely count out Offerman, Paul, Spencer, or even the
screenplay in the right situation.
Neon also scooped up the female hip - hop drama «Roxanne, Roxanne» and the Aubrey Plaza - Elizabeth Olsen film «Ingrid
Goes West» at Sundnace — both
award winners on Saturday for «Roxanne» star Chante Adams» breakthrough performance and for Matt Spicer and David Branson Smith's «Ingrid»
screenplay.
Cannes has been the launching pad for many successful Oscar films for decades including «L.A. Confidential» (winning 2 Academy
Awards for Adapted
Screenplay and Supporting Actress for Kim Basinger), «Inglourious Basterds» (netting a Supporting Actor Oscar for Christoph Waltz), and «No Country for Old Men» (which
went on to win 4 Oscars including Best Picture).
At the 1953 Academy
Awards, the Best Original
Screenplay Oscar
went to Titanic.
As for the Best Documentary
Screenplay award, that
went to Brian Knappenberger for the compelling doc The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz.