He also shared the Best
Screenplay prize with Being John Malkovich author Charlie Kaufman (1999).
Ramsay shared
the screenplay prize with Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou («The Lobster»), who won for the divisive «The Killing of a Sacred Deer.»
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.
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.
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.
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.
In addition to winning the biggest
prize as selected by the Seattle Film Critics Society, Jenkins was named Best Director and his
screenplay, co-written with Tarell Alvin McCraney, earned Best Screenpl
screenplay, co-written
with Tarell Alvin McCraney, earned Best
ScreenplayScreenplay honors.
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.
NYFCC matched two categories
with NBR: Paul Thomas Anderson won another Best Original
Screenplay prize, and Willem Dafore again won Supporting Actor.
Spotlight won Best Picture at the 21st annual Critics» Choice Awards on Sunday night in Santa Monica, along
with best original
screenplay and best ensemble, but Mad Max: Fury Road took home nine
prizes,
with best director (George Miller) being the biggest.
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.
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.
Still matching each other category by category, CMBYN took adapted
screenplay with James Ivory's warm and delicate rendering of the beloved book, while Thread «s P.T. Anderson parlayed his witty dialogue to an original
screenplay prize.
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.
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.
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.
The film won the
Screenplay prize at the Cannes Film Festival this year (tying
with Lynne Ramsey's You Were Never Really There) and will also show at the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
The film walked away from the fest
with the
screenplay prize and perhaps, more importantly, a distribution deal
with Sony Pictures Classics.
A first for Saulnier who works from a
screenplay that is not his own, nonetheless,
with Hold the Dark he continues the creative collaboration
with Macon Blair, who after winning the U.S Dramatic Comp
prize for I Don't Feel At Home in This World Anymore, wrote the adaptation.
Diane Keaton would end up taking the top
prize along
with Annie Hall taking Best Picture and Woody Allen taking Best Director and original
screenplay.
Showing loyalty to the Lido, meanwhile, is Italy's adopted son George Clooney, whom we already knew would be kicking off the Competition
with «The Ides of March»; he took the festival's
screenplay prize in 2005 for «Good Night, and Good Luck,» and will be hoping to go at least one better this time.
In fact, no film can win more than two
prizes and if a film is awarded two is must be a combination of Best
Screenplay or the Jury Prize
with a Best Performance award,
with a special dispensation of the Festival's President.
The Writers Store has online writing competitions
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With its
screenplay - like format, the prospect of reading Saunders» Booker
prize - winning novel may seem daunting — so investing in this seven - hour audio version, read by a starry 166 - person cast, is a great alternative — and perfectly suits Saunders's inventive take on the novel.