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A Prophet should have been released before the end of the year because it might have gotten a director and screenplay nomination as well as one for acting.
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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.
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.
The acclaimed third feature by Noah Baumbach marked a critical development for the filmmaker as he turned toward an increasingly personal style — a move that garnered him an Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay.
Neither My Week With Marilyn, the bittersweet romantic comedy about the making of The Prince and the Showgirl, or The Iron Lady, the biopic of Margaret Thatcher, did as well as their longlist positions suggested: the former picked up six nominations (including best actress for Golden Globe winner Michelle Williams) while the latter took four (including Meryl Streep for best actress and Abi Morgan for best original screenplay).
Even as the parenting dramedy «The Kids Are All Right» hauled in the nominations — for best picture, original screenplay, lead actress (Annette Bening) and supporting actor (Mark Ruffalo)-- director and co-writer Lisa Cholodenko expressed a degree of shock that «Kids» co-lead Julianne Moore had been overlooked.
The group also handed out nominations for Best Animated Feature, Original Screenplay, Adapted Screenplay, Foreign Film, Documentary Feature and the Vince Koehler Award, which is chosen as the year's best Science Fiction, Horror or Fantasy Film.
The film was, however, nominated for a trio of awards including a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Sal Mineo as his pal, Plato, and a Best Screenplay nomination for the Director, Nicholas Ray.
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.
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.
Also getting a best picture nomination (as well as nods for star Brie Larson, adapted screenplay by Emma Donoghue from her novel and director Lenny Abrahamson) was the singular «Room,» an emotional roller coaster whose success led to perhaps the biggest surprise of the morning.
The 12 nominations for «The King's Speech» — including crucial nods in key categories such as Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay — means Tom Hooper's historical drama (and not David Fincher's Facebook film) is -LSB-...]
With a host of big Oscar nominations including best picture, best director / best screenplay (Greta Gerwig), as well as best actress (Saoirse Ronan) and best supporting actress (Laurie Metcalf), the buzz should be enough to interest most audiences.
Jordan Peele, who scored two personal nominations for best director and original screenplay, as well as two more nominations for «Get Out,» seemed almost stunned, reacting with a gif of Kaluuya in one of the film's iconic scenes and asking «What's the opposite of the sunken place?»
Jordan Peele, who scored two personal nominations for best director and original screenplay, as well as two more nominations for «Get Out,» seemed almost stunned, reacting with a gif of Kaluuya in one of the film's iconic scenes and asking...
«The Shape of Water,» which stars nominee Sally Hawkins as a mute cleaning lady who falls for a soulful, otherworldly beast, tops all movies with seven nominations, including best director, best screenplay and best motion picture, drama.
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.
«Big Short» not only snuck into the Best Picture category but it earned McKay a Best Director nod, an Adapted Screenplay nomination (shared with Charles Randolph) and the film took an Editing slot as well.
As for snubs, sadly «Room» only earned a Best Actress nomination for Brie Larson, «Love & Mercy» was shut out of Best Feature (it earned a screenplay nod), «Anomalisa» should have earned a screenplay nod (it didn't) and Sundance Grand Prize and Audience Award winner «Me and Earl and the Dying Girl» was forgotten.
Amour has been nominated for five Academy Awards including nominations for Haneke for his direction and screenplay, Riva, as well as Best Picture and Best Foreign Film.
Something to note; of Daniel Day - Lewis's five Oscar nominations (and three wins) all have come from top 5 films with Best Picture, Director and Screenplay nominations and three with a supporting acting nomination as well.
With the exception of Boyhood, which emerged as a Best Picture favorite only to fall to Birdman, Linklater's work has mostly flown under the radar of awards organizations, aside from Adapted Screenplay nominations at the Oscars for the two Before sequels.
As for what these WGA nominations mean for Oscar, the WGA is a less solid gauge for Oscar glory than the other guild awards given that each year, many of the frontrunner screenplays are deemed ineligible for the WGA awards for one reason or another.
Room scooped the coveted People's Choice award at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this year, and has scorched through the early nomination rounds in LA - picking up nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress (for Brie Larson) and Best Screenplay at the Golden Globes, as well as Best Actor and Actress at the SAG awards.
Mann was honored to see her work used as the central piece of a film like this, and besides the critics» praise, her work gained recognition in the form of an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song («Save Me»), one of three Academy nominations the film received (Best Original Screenplay for Anderson, Best Supporting Actor for Cruise).
It's one of Lindsay Lohan's most popular films, it put Rachel McAdams (as the vicious Regina George) on the path to stardom, and it earned Tina Fey, who wrote the screenplay, a Writers Guild of America Awards nomination.
As it begins its roll - out Christmas Day, the feature has Golden Globe nominations for Jessica Chastain (Best Actress) and Aaron Sorkin (Best Screenplay).
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, written and directed by Martin McDonagh, has secured two nominations in the technical awards - Original Score and Film Editing as well as Best Picture, Original Screenplay and Best Actress for Frances McDormand and Best Supporting Actor nominations for both Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson.
Dench could get a nomination for Best Actress for her compelling performance, as well as the aforementioned screenplay, but of course the movie has hit a snag with the MPAA, getting an R - rating for two non-sexual uses of the «F» word.
Their sixth movie as auteurs, 1996's Fargo, brought the brothers a whole new level of recognition, earning them a Best Original Screenplay Oscar and their first Best Picture nomination.
Adam Sandler (as usual) didn't get off easy either, with a worst actor nomination for The Cobbler and Pixels (which had six nominations in all: worst actor, worst supporting actor (2), worst supporting actress, worst screenplay and worst picture).
Along with a best picture nod in comedy, it earned nominations for Ralph Fiennes as best actor, and Wes Anderson for screenplay and director.
Nightcrawler did surprisingly well at the nomination stage, with four, including one for Rene Russo's supporting role; outdoing them with five was Whiplash, with nods not just for JK Simmons as best supporting actor, but also in the directing, original screenplay, editing and sound categories.
Morgan earned an Oscar nomination for his original screenplay «The Queen,» starring Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II; Mirren reprised the role for the stage production of «The Audience.»
Colin was deserving, as was In Bruges» Oscar nomination for «Best Original Screenplay.»
Seaton wrote and directed the original production that led him to win an Oscar for best story and screenplay, as well as a nomination for best picture.
The Purple Rose of Cairo earned Allen an Academy Award nomination for Original Screenplay, a category that was recognizing him almost as frequently as he was releasing a movie on his still - upheld one - film - a-year schedule.
Its main competitors for Best Picture are now the horror - satire Get Out and the teen coming - of - age dramedy Lady Bird, each of which received nominations for their screenplays as well as Best Picture and Director nods.
SNUB: Holly Hunter for «The Big Sick»: Kumail Nanjiani's true - story dramedy earned a screenplay nomination, but Hunter, who was considered an early contender for Best Supporting Actress last summer for her performance as Kumail's tough but loving future mother - in - law, ended up sliding out of the final list.
The group found places for some surprise and inspired nominations like Heal the Living in Adapted Screenplay as well as Columbus in a host of categories including Cinematography and Original Screenplay but missed a chance to reward Haley Lu Richardson or John Cho.
Why it could succeed: The Coens brothers are no strangers to the Academy, boasting thirteen nominations and four wins apiece despite their eccentric style of filmmaking (including five nominations each for their screenplays, as discussed on this week's Power Hour podcast).
Making the most meaningful impression of the supporting characters, however, is Hal Holbrook, who clocks in for only a portion of the screenplay but demands at least a tear or two in his role as a kindly grandfather type which earned him a rightful Oscar nomination.
The sumptuously filmed classical drama will be a strong awards contender (for cinematography as well as foreign film) and could prove an art - house hit in North America, adding to such Amazon successes as Kenneth Lonergan's «Manchester by the Sea» (Roadside Attractions) and Asghar Farhadi's «The Salesman» (Cohen Media), which both won Oscars, as well as last year's Sundance acquisition, summer hit «The Big Sick» (Lionsgate), which earned an Original Screenplay nomination.
Released near the end of 1985 locally and the spring of 1987 in the US, My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund in its native tongue) would earn Hallström Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay (the latter shared with three co-writers), two categories rarely recognizing foreign films.
The movie also scored nominations for Paul Haggis for best direction and original screenplay (co-written with Bobby Moresco), continuing his streak after «Million Dollar Baby,» which he wrote, won as last year's best picture.
John Garfield, starring opposite Lilli Palmer, received a Best Actor Oscar nomination as did Abraham Polonsky for his original screenplay.
She garnered the Academy Award ® for Best Original Screenplay as well as Academy Award ® nominations for Best Director and Best Picture in her sophomore feature, «Lost In Translation,» starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson.
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-...]
But perhaps more interesting were the movies that landed nominations in categories such as acting, directing and screenplay but didn't manage to squeeze on to the Best Feature list, including Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
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.