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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.

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.

Getting a screenplay nomination at the Golden Globes is good.

Not exact matches

From the all - star cast, to the historical premise, to Clooney's gilded track record behind the camera, I'd be surprised if it didn't pull off at least five nominations and mostly a lot more — Best Picture, Best Director, Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, Cinematography, Score, you name it, this has a strong shot.

«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.

2005's semi-autobiographical The Squid and the Whale is a perceptive, and pitiless, look at a family in crisis, one that earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

At the very least a nomination in the adapted screenplay category had been predicted for Flynn.

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.

Baumbach faces an uphill climb for his second screenplay nomination, not because he doesn't present a strong case — it's his best writing in years, since at least Greenberg, if not The Squid and the Whale.

Does David Gordon Green have any shot at a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination?

It's not so frequently discussed today but it was a big enough deal at the time to win him an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

We must also give kudos to Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, who share a writing nomination for «The Big Sick,» a film that hasn't gotten enough awards season love; Kazuhiro Tsuji, who is nominated, for the third time, this year for the «Darkest Hour» makeup; and Agnès Varda and James Ivory who, at 89, are our oldest nominees this year (and the oldest on record), for the documentary «Faces Places» and adapted screenplay of «Call Me by Your Name,» respectively.

The Grand Budapest Hotel: Wes Anderson has his best ever shot at the Oscars this year, with his first Directing and Picture nominations to go along with his third Screenplay nomination (he was also nominated for Best Animated Film in 2009).

The India - born, British - raised Radford became a double nominee for Director and Adapted Screenplay on the 1990s Italian film Il Postino (The Postman), the rare foreign language production to earn a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars.

With six nods in total, it cements the streaming giant's place at the movie industry table, with Amazon — which won last year's race to become the first streaming player to win an Academy Award — only picking up one nomination this year: Best Original Screenplay for The Big Sick.

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.

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At the end of the day there just wasn't enough focused passion behind «The Town» to get it across the finish line with nominations for Best Picture or Best Adapted Screenplay.

It won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Metacritic deemed it the best - reviewed movie of the year, it won the Academy Award for Best Foreign - Language Film and even scored a Best Screenplay nomination — a rarity for an international movie.

The Oscars already snubbed Martin McDonagh once with the Best Director nominations, but the Irish writer - director was at least expected to earn a Best Original Screenplay win for his awards favorite Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

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.

A frontrunner for Original Screenplay and Best Actor Affleck (it won both at New York Film Critics Circle), «Manchester By the Sea» landed Critics Choice, Globe, DGA, and WGA nominations for Lonergan's tragic portrait of a New England family dealing with death and loss, and won Original Screenplay and Best Actor BAFTAs.

• The underdog winner of the year is the indie film «Winter's Bone,» made for less than $ 2 million, which won at Sundance just a year ago and now has nominations including Best Picture, actress (Jennifer Lawrence), supporting actor (John Hawkes) and adapted screenplay.

Perhaps the first sign that something was amiss at the Golden Globe nominations this morning was that neither Get Out nor Call Me by Your Name — both considered Oscar front - runners — received nominations for their lauded screenplays.

Before Wes Anderson was a household name (at least among movie buffs), before receiving Oscar nominations for The Royal Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Moonrise Kingdom, before The Darjeeling Limited, Rushmore, and The Life Aquatic, yes, before all of that, he and Owen Wilson co-wrote the screenplay for Bottle Rocket.

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.

Weitz has done solid work in the past with his brother Chris Weitz on things like About a Boy (which got them a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination) and American Pie, while his solo filmmaking career has been nothing to sneeze at either with things like Being Flynn and In Good Company.

by Ian Pugh Beyond its pale stab at indie street cred and an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay (which are almost one and the same these days), Lars and the Real Girl shares with Juno an invitation to partake in a never - ending stream of laughs over its premise until it basically flips a switch and instructs you to get emotional over it — the supposed target of discussion here being nothing less than that ever - popular subject of paternalistic revulsion, mental illness.

With two big BAFTA wins on Sunday for screenplay and lead actor Casey Affleck, a very good shot at taking a WGA Original Screenplay award this coming Sunday, a domestic box office gross nearing $ 50 million, and six Academy Award nominations Manchester By The Sea is riding higher than even anyone expected after its smash Sundance debut over ascreenplay and lead actor Casey Affleck, a very good shot at taking a WGA Original Screenplay award this coming Sunday, a domestic box office gross nearing $ 50 million, and six Academy Award nominations Manchester By The Sea is riding higher than even anyone expected after its smash Sundance debut over aScreenplay award this coming Sunday, a domestic box office gross nearing $ 50 million, and six Academy Award nominations Manchester By The Sea is riding higher than even anyone expected after its smash Sundance debut over a year ago.

I pointed out yesterday that Fox Searchlight is operating on a different plane when it comes to turning out the vote for its movies, and alongside the aforementioned surprise little hit of the final quarter of 2007 ($ 85 million and counting), further evidence arrives in the form of Tamara Jenkins» The Savages, which, despite not (yet) having connected at the box office (it's made only $ 3.6 million in a month and a half of release), garnered an expected Best Original Screenplay nomination, but also a Best Actress nod for Laura Linney, probably coming at the expense of Angelina Jolie and A Mighty Heart.

At this point, only an unprecedented whirlwind of year - end creativity could prevent it from getting an Original Screenplay Oscar nomination.

After being snubbed in the director categories at the Globes, both Peele and Gerwig received best picture, best director and best original screenplay nominations.

The Big Sick, this year's biggest Amazon - backed Oscar contender, scored only a Best Original Screenplay nomination, but it has also made more than $ 42 million at the box office to date.

Paramount «s Selma also managed the same nominations as it did at the Golden Globes, including missing Screenplay.

Not sure it'll sweep the boards at the Oscars, but can see it'll pick up a few awards - certainly I think it's worthy of a best screenplay nomination.

No film has ever won Best Picture at the BAFTAs without a screenplay nomination, going way way way back (to 1989).

At this point, Mudbound, so deserving of many category nominations from Best Picture to Screenplay to Supporting Actor and Actress to Song, seems like the longest of long shots.

Even though Birdman came in with the most BAFTA nominations compared to Boyhood, it still did not win anything except Cinematography, before going on to win Picture, Director, Screenplay, Cinematography at the Oscars.

Last year Focus Features» parent Universal Pictures sneaked the Blumhouse title Get Out at midnight Tuesday last year, which kicked off a roaring box office whirlwind of $ 255M worldwide for the socially - conscious horror title and a year long - plus awards season march which hasn't stopped including two Golden Globe noms (comedy, lead actor), two SAG noms (ensemble cast and lead actor Daniel Kaluuya), Critics Choice wins for best horror film and Jordan Peele's screenplay, two DGA nominations for best picture and first time feature by Peele, as well as the Stanley Kramer honor at last night's PGAs.

The success of «Whiplash,» Chazelle's exhilarating depiction of a demanding jazz conservatory that earned three Oscars plus a nomination for his screenplay, changed everything; after several iterations of production (at one point Miles Teller and Emma Watson were set to star), the conversation circled, miraculously, back to his dream casting.

The film made a big splash at Cannes, snagging the awards for Best Actor (Phoenix) and Best Screenplay (Ramsay), along with a nomination for the coveted Palme d'Or for Ramsay.

Despite his film The Disaster Artist earning a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination, Franco was left out of the Best Actor field at this morning's Oscar nominations, where he had been widely assumed to be one of the top contenders.

After those have been shared, the nominations for actor in a leading role, actor in a supporting role, actress in a leading role, actress in a supporting role, animated feature film, directing, documentary feature, documentary short subject, foreign language film, original song, best picture, adapted screenplay, and original screenplay will be announced at 5:38:30 a.m. PT / 8: 38:30 a.m. ET (and not 30 seconds sooner).

It's no secret that Adams is looking good for a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Oscars, but could this citation help Tarantino score a Best Original Screenplay nod?

The last time Universal screened one of their big summer comedies at South by Southwest, it turned out to be «Bridesmaids «-- a movie that not only went on to be a massive financial success (and a breakthrough for its cowriter / star Kristin Wiig) but a critical one as well, even earning an Academy Award nomination for its screenplay.