Sentences with phrase «screenplay prize which»

A Fantastic Woman (Una Mujer Fantástica) debuted at the Berlin Film Festival this year and won the Silver Bear Best Screenplay prize which Lelio shared with frequent collaborator Gonzalo Maza.

Not exact matches

Notably, The Big Short won best adapted screenplay at the Writers Guild Awards and also took the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards, which has predicted the Academy's Best Picture choice 8 out of the past 10 years.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Philomena's story finds its way to a prickly journalist played Steve Coogan (who also wrote the screenplay, which won him a prize at the Venice Film Festival), and the two set off in search together.

The quirky drama, which takes a look at contemporary life in America through the lens of a grieving mother (Frances McDormand) and her frustrations with local law enforcement, won a screenplay prize at the Venice Film Festival.

Traditional Oscar rules from, say, a decade ago would've favored Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water, which has the requisite spread of guild prizes and the year's biggest nomination count across a broad selection of categories, including the all - important bellwethers that weren't necessarily sure shots given the field: original screenplay and editing.

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.

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.

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.

Joel and Ethan Coen won the Best Director Oscar as well as the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for «No Country for Old Men,» which also took the Best Picture prize that year.

Other movies of theirs, such as «Fargo» (which also took the Best Original Screenplay prize) and «A Serious Man,» have been nominated for Best Picture.