Sentences with phrase «screenplay for writer»

Three Billboards was the evening's big winner, taking home the coveted best film award, as well as supporting actor for Sam Rockwell and screenplay for writer / director McDonagh.

Moonlight had gathered two awards — Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali and Adapted Screenplay for writer - director Barry Jenkins based on Tarell Alvin McCraney's story.

It won best picture (drama), actress (drama) for Frances McDormand, supporting actor for Sam Rockwell and screenplay for writer - director Martin McDonagh.

The critically admired but little heralded Under the Shadow was a surprise success, taking best screenplay for writer - director Babak Anvari, best supporting actress for Avin Manshadi, and the Douglas Hickox award for best debut director for Anvari.

Its nods include best picture, best director and best original screenplay for writer - director Damien Chazelle, best actress for Emma Stone and best actor for Ryan Gosling.

Along with wins for production design, cinematography, editing and score, the musical starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone also landed best original song, best director and best original screenplay for writer - director Damien Chazelle, and the big one, best picture.

Another film that pulled off multiple wins was The Witch, which won Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay for writer - director Robert Eggers.

One, «Three Billboards,» about a mother avenging the rape and murder of her daughter, won best picture, drama, best actress, drama, for Frances McDormand, best supporting actor for Sam Rockwell, and best screenplay for writer - director Martin McDonagh.

A smart, hair - raising satire about prejudice and race relations, «Get Out» won Best Film, as well as Best Original Screenplay for writer - director Jordan Peele's provocative script.

Not exact matches

Netflix's critically acclaimed original drama «Mudbound» earned four nominations for the company, including nods for best supporting actress (Mary J. Blige) and best adapted screenplay (writer - director Dee Rees).

Chambliss, an aspiring film writer working on his second screenplay, acknowledges that life has written a script for him: He's No Chris Chambliss.

Writer / Researcher (Screenplays, novels, poetry) Clinically insane.with MPO (Multiple Personality Order) Former homeless street - dweller for 12 years.

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Credited to three writers, «The Fighter» was directed by David O. Russell, who reportedly rewrote the screenplay during filming, adding humor to a project originally planned for Darren Aronofsky («The Wrestler,» «Black Swan»), who isn't exactly known for his light touch.

But as is often the case in Ron Howard's movies, the morals, the messages, and the barely - hidden subtext are beaten home with a leaden hammer, plus the screenplay (by Space Cowboys writer Ken Kaufman) leaves little to no room for subtlety or nuance.

Featuring a screenplay by no less than five writers, Flushed Away has clearly been geared to appeal primarily to small children - as evidenced by the film's emphasis on action - oriented set pieces and distinctly broad bits of comedy (there's even a fart joke thrown in for good measure).

The latest from writer - director Asghar Farhadi opened the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, but it was a disappointment from a director who has consistently impressed critics and jurors, and who was only two years removed from winning best screenplay for The Salesman at Cannes in 2016.

Nobody goes to a movie like «Rampage» for the poetry, but truly this is a terrible screenplay, credited to four writers and tonally all over the place.

There might not be a better combination of director, writer, and star than Jason Reitman, Diablo Cody and Charlize Theron, who previously collaborated on the delightfully wicked «Young Adult» (Cody also penned the Oscar - winning screenplay for Reitman's «Juno»).

After winning the Grand Prix for The Wonders at the 2014 festival, writer - director Alice Rohrwacher returned to Cannes this year and tied for the festival's best screenplay honors with a «fully formed expression of her virtuosic talents,» according to Rory O'Connor of The Film Stage.

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 documentary.

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.

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

There's a trailer out there that people seem to like, it has pedigree (writer - director Bill Condon adapted the screenplay for Chicago, another musical turned undeserved Best Picture winner), and it's been promoted with a certain amount of swagger.

Edgar Wright is a great writer / director, having directed «Shaun of the Dead» and written screenplays for movies like «Ant - Man.»

Jeremy and John - Henry Butterworth were named recipients of the Writers Guild of America West's 2011 Paul Selvin Award for their screenplay for the film Fair Game (2010), directed by Doug Liman and which starred Naomi Watts and Sean Penn..

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..

And this morning our concern is for someone new: Jez Butterworth is the latest writer to take a shot at Asteroids» screenplay.

Amazon Studios has given a four - episode order to the untitled miniseries, created for television by Schindler's List writer Zaillian and adapted from a screenplay by the late Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, reports variety.com.

Brie Larson, who plays the lead in Lenny Abrahamson's Room, joins Saoirse Ronan in the Leading Actress category and Room «s writer, Emma Donoghue, is nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Somehow, director / writer Brian Fee, with help from writer Ben Queen, put together a screenplay that is a worthy send - off for Owen Wilson's Lightning McQueen and brought with it a sincerity not seen in prior Cars films.

«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.

Beauvois's film (the French Oscar submission, which surprised many by failing to make the Academy's shortlist) took the top prize, but it was «The Ghost Writer» that netted the most wins, with four — including two for Polanski himself (Best Director and Adapted Screenplay), plus honors for editing and Alexandre Desplat's score.

That didn't stop writer and director Yorgos Lanthimos from winning the prize for Best Screenplay at the festival.

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.

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.

As they've shown in the past with nominations for the likes of «Mon Oncle d'Amerique» and «The Barbarian Invasions,» the writers» branch can be quite accommodating towards more esoteric and / or eggheady foreign - language screenplays.

The film's credits do recognize Whedon for his contributions to the screenplay, along with writer Chris Terrio, who previously co-wrote «Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice.»

Stone had already attracted notice as a writer; his script for Midnight Express won him the adapted screenplay Oscar and he followed that up with the commercially strong Conan the Barbarian and Scarface.

The original story was by John Romano, an accomplished TV writer (Hill Street Blues, Party of Five) who went on to write the screenplays for Nights in Rodanthe and The Lincoln Lawyer.

Sons of Anarchy writer Kurt Sutter has overstuffed a screenplay (originally intended for Eminem) to the film's detriment, only to discard plenty as it reaches a predictable climax.

The prize for best screenplay was split between Italian writer - director Alice Rohrwacher's time - warped fable about a poor farm boy in rural Italy Happy as Lazzaro and Nader Saeivar and Jafar Panahi's script for Three Faces.

Very exciting, it's been 8 years since Primer (a science - fiction favourite in these parts), and while the writer / director's screenplay for «A Topiary» never got made into a film, he whipped out this surprise to many earlier this week by way of the festival announcement and a very shiny bit of key art which confirms that Carruth will star in the film along with Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way To Die).

Call Me By Your Name writer James Ivory has criticized the movie for leaving out the full - frontal nudity and explicit sex that was in the screenplay.

Produced by, among others, spy novelist Olen Steinhauer and veteran TV writer - producer Bradford Winters (whose screenplays cover an impressive chronology from The Borgias to The Americans), Berlin Station follows the hunt for a Snowdenesque mole who is leaking unflattering CIA secrets to the world.

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.

While both long to become writers, it is Orton who achieves fame - his plays «Entertaining Mr. Sloane» and «Loot» become huge hits in London of the sixties, and he's even commissioned to write a screenplay for the Beatles.

Four years ago, writer Alex Garland made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a critical smash that surprised with two Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Visual Effects and further surprised by winning the Visual Effects prize.

Even the most resourceful, imaginative filmmaker would be hard - pressed to redeem Diablo Cody's screenplay, specifically the lengths to which the writer goes to disguise her story's true nature, and also the underlying reasons for the charade, which are unconvincing and in bad faith.

Writer / director Jordan Peele was recognized in the Best Original Screenplay and Best First Film categories for Get Out.