Sentences with phrase «screenplay prize for»

Writer - director Greta Gerwig took home the top screenplay prize for penning «Lady Bird.»

Brett Morgan won the Documentary Screenplay prize for Jane (National Geographic).

«Beyond the Lights» also scored a Best Screenplay prize for its writer / director, Gina Prince - Bythewood.

Among the others were Willem Dafoe, winning Best Supporting Actor for The Florida Project; Paul Thomas Anderson won the Original Screenplay prize for Phantom Thread, another very - recently screened film; and Scott Neustader and Michael H. Weber were the Adapted Screenplay winners for The Disaster Artist.

Alfonso Cuarón won the Best Director prize for his groundbreaking work on the space survival thriller «Gravity»; Spike Jonze's «Her» won the Best Screenplay prize for its near - future tale of a romance between a man and a computer operating system.

The five BAFTA awards «Budapest» took — score, makeup and hair, costume design, production design and an original screenplay prize for Anderson — might all be Oscar wins too, making it the night's most celebrated movie.

In their third cinematic go - round together, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy won the Best Adapted Screenplay prize for «Before Midnight.»

Not exact matches

Last night, the 31 - year - old won the prize for Best Screenplay and Best Director, with his film winning Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, and its stars, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, winning Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

Cannes awarded her its Best Screenplay prize and Best Actor for Phoenix, both prizes richly deserved.

Franco's film also picked up the prize for Adapted Screenplay.

Ramsay shared the screenplay prize with Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou («The Lobster»), who won for the divisive «The Killing of a Sacred Deer.»

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.

Michel Franco, whose «Chronic» won a screenplay prize in the main competition two years ago,» received the Certain Regard jury prize for his latest, the family drama «April's Daughters» («Hijas de Abril»).

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.

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.

«The Past» star Bérénice Bejo won the festival's best actress prize, while «The Salesman» took home honors for best actor (Shahab Hosseini) and best screenplay (Farhadi).

Elsewhere, Greek film «Miss Violence» also proved popular, taking both the Silver Lion and the Best Actor prize for Themis Panou, while Tsai Ming - Liang «s «Stray Dogs» won the Grand Jury Prize, Elena Cotta took Best Actress for «Via Castellana Bandiera» (which we unfortunately didn't see), Tye Sheridan was awarded Best Young Actor for David Gordon Green «s «Joe,» Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope picked up Best Screenplay for «Philomena,» and Philip Groning «s «The Police Officer's Wife» won a Special Jury Prize.

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Spotlight, which was previously awarded a Special Jury prize for its ensemble also took home the screenplay trophy.

You Were Never Really Here may not have technically been finished when it premiered last summer in Cannes, where it won prizes for its screenplay and Phoenix's spooky, urban - samurai performance.

In 1983, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Booker - prize winning novel Heat and Dust was released in theatres for its first run, and in 1984, BAFTA rewarded her with a Best Adapted Screenplay award.

But Get Out, which won Best Original Screenplay, was a constant threat to Best Picture, while Dunkirk and Lady Bird could not be ruled out for either that or the Best Director prize.

Elsewhere, Gary Oldman followed up his Golden Globe victory with another Best Actor prize for his performance as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, while Jordan Peele added his name firmly to the Oscar conversation with a screenplay victory for Get Out.

Moonlight, which follows the life of a young black boy dealing with his sexuality, scooped three prizes in total, landing best picture, best adapted screenplay and best supporting actor for Mahershala Ali.

The history: On his two previous Competition appearances, for «All About My Mother» in 1999 and «Volver» in 2006, Almodovar entered the race as the bookies» favourite, only to land the consolation prizes of Best Director and Best Screenplay, respectively.

A big day: Besides the two top prizes, Natural Selection also grabbed jury awards for best screenplay (Pickering), best editing (Michelle Tesoro) and best score / music (iZLER, Curt Schneider).

After scooping up Best Screenplay and Best Actor honors for The Salesman at the Cannes Film Festival, Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi has swiftly landed two more international prizes for his next film: Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem.

Hailed by the LA Times as an «implausible feat of sustained imagination,» and the Wall Street Journal as «an almost perfect movie with flawless performances,» Nancy Oliver's screenplay was nominated for an Oscar, while Gillespie's film won numerous critics» awards and festival prizes.

Last year Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney of «Moonlight» took home the original screenplay prize; at the subsequent Oscars they won for adapted screenplay.

Ramsay was the only other woman to win a top non-acting award, earning Best Screenplay for her film, You Were Never Really Here; she shared the prize with Greek filmmakers Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou for their movie, The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

She received several nominations and prizes, including an Independent Spirit Award nomination for best first screenplay.

The caustic, darkly comic ballbuster Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri walked away from the Globes with trophies in four of the six categories it was nominated in, and the most awards of any feature film of the night: The movie took the Best Motion Picture — Drama) prize, stars Sam Rockwell and Frances McDormand both took home acting awards in their categories, and director Martin McDonagh won for his screenplay.

Gerwig in particular has been in contention for Best Director prizes from critics» groups throughout the end of the year, including winning that honor (along with Best Screenplay and Best Picture) the day before the Globes by the National Society of Film Critics.

The victory for «The Shape of Water» is rather surprising because, for the first time in over 20 years, a Best Picture winner has won the top prize without having a nomination for Best Cast from SAG, along with another big surprise of not winning its respective Screenplay category on the way to the top.

Both were nominated for Best Picture and the Best Original Screenplay prizes.

Additionally, the film scored prizes for Best Actor for Timothée Chalamet, Best Adapted Screenplay for James Ivory, and Best Original Song for the number «Mystery of Love.»

That movie, which won the festival's jury prize and went on to earn an Oscar nomination for its screenplay, was a surreal and haunting satire of monogamous love — governed by a rigid speculative premise but also open, in its way, to the rich and startlingly funny possibilities of human experience.

Best Cast Ensemble went to Greta Gerwig «s «Lady Bird,» the only win for the film despite runner - up prizes in Supporting Actress and Original Screenplay.

Jane Campion, «The Piano» (1993) • The Australian director won an Oscar for her original screenplay for the period drama but lost the directing prize to Steven Spielberg for «Schindler's List.»

The Salesman, from Iranian director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation), picked up two awards: one for Farhadi's screenplay, the other a Best Actor prize for Shahab Hosseini, who plays a stage actor whose wife is assaulted in their home.

Comedy film «In Bruges» won the award for Best Original Screenplay, while «I've Loved You So Long» was awarded the prize for Best Non-English language film.

Last year at the bi-coastal WGA ceremonies, Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney of «Moonlight» took home the original screenplay prize; at the subsequent Academy Awards they won for adapted screenplay.

Gaspard Ulliel's mesmerizing turn at Yves Saint Laurent in Saint Laurent earned him the Best Actor prize and the supporting categories were won by Kristen Stewart for Clouds of Sils Maria (which also won Original Screenplay and a place in the top 5 films of the year) and Oscar Isaac for Ex Machina.

Asghar Farhadi (pictured above) returned and picked up two prizes, best actor and best screenplay, for a not - quite - up - to - his best Forushande / The Salesman, a post-earthquake tale whose tremors reverberate and imbalance an artsy couple playing in a Persian version of Arthur Miller's play.

«The Past» star Bérénice Bejo won the best actress prize, while «The Salesman» took home honors for best actor (Shahab Hosseini) and best screenplay (Farhadi).

He wrote the winning adapted screenplays for «Sideways» and «The Descendants,» and has been nominated for additional writing, directing, and Best Picture prizes.

A late surge of momentum (five stars from Peter) for Andrei Zvyagintsev's Russian drama which takes literal pot shots at the Kremlin administration was only enough, in the end, to secure it the screenplay prize.

Up for four other prizes — including Best Director and Best Original Screenplay — the Austrian end - of - life drama will likely follow in the footsteps of the three previous Best Foreign Film / Best Picture double nominees (Life is Beautiful, Z, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), easily taking the Foreign Film Oscar and leaving the big one for domestic product.

Hours after James Franco won the best actor prize at the Gotham Awards, The Disaster Artist screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber won the NBR's best adapted screenplay prize, setting up that film about The Room director Tommy Wiseau for an unlikely awards season run.