Sentences with phrase «screenplay prizes»

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

«Birdman» — a visually inventive look at a washed - up movie actor seeking redemption on the Broadway stage — took best picture, director, cinematography and original screenplay prizes at the Dolby Theatre ceremony.

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

His writer / director, Lynne Ramsay, shared the screenplay prize.

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

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.

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»).

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

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.

British writer - director Martin McDonagh, whose film «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» took the best picture honor as well as the original screenplay prize, noted the timeliness of his movie in his acceptance speech.

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.

Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of Ben Mezrich's book «The Accidental Billionaires» won the Best Screenplay prize.

He also shared the Best Screenplay prize with Being John Malkovich author Charlie Kaufman (1999).

NYFCC matched two categories with NBR: Paul Thomas Anderson won another Best Original Screenplay prize, and Willem Dafore again won Supporting Actor.

Regarding the Screenplay prize: If Marston's name looks familiar think Maria Full of Grace.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

While Jordan Peele's horror film did not receive any other awards, it was within one vote of the screenplay prize and just two away from best picture.

The film walked away from the fest with the screenplay prize and perhaps, more importantly, a distribution deal with Sony Pictures Classics.

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.

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.

The LEGO Movie didn't go home empty handed, however, as Lord and Miller rightfully won the Best Screenplay prize.

That year, the movie won a best screenplay prize from a jury headed by Tim Burton.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

As far as these types of films go, Moore's screenplay is incredibly unexceptional, pouring on the heavy - handedness unabashedly (including his prized line «sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine, used three times), such as showing the juxtaposition of heterosexual flirtation between Matthew Goode and Tuppence Middleton.

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.

The screenplay categories are where the Academy often gives an award to a multi-nominated film that isn't going to pick up one of the top prizes — see Alexander Payne.

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 Screenplscreenplay, co-written with Tarell Alvin McCraney, earned Best ScreenplayScreenplay honors.

Chazelle got his much - deserved prize and Kenneth Lonergan and Barry Jenkins were the screenplay recipients.

«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.

Peele won the prize for best original screenplay and Ivory for...

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.

Gravity has become the early winner at the Bafta Awards in London, picking up a handful of top prizes, including Best Screenplay, Music,...

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.