And it would be wise to keep an eye on Bohdan Sláma's «Ice Mother» (Best
Screenplay winner at the Tribeca Film Festival) and Iceland's «Under the Tree,» a winner at Fantastic Fest and the Hamptons and Zurich Film Festivals.
Robin Write at writeoutofla.com shares his favorite Best
Screenplay winners at Cannes.
Not exact matches
Winner of two awards
at the Sundance Film Festival, including Best
Screenplay, and created with the close participation of Dr. Zimbardo himself, «The Stanford Prison Experiment» is a chilling, edge - of - your - seat thriller about the dark side of power and the effects of imprisonment.
Anthony McCarten poses in the
winners room with the award for Best Adapted
Screenplay for «The Theory Of Everything»
at the EE British Academy Film Awards
at The Royal Opera House on February 8, 2015 in London, England.
There's an old truism among Oscar observers that, in any given year, one can look
at one of the
winners of the
Screenplay awards and spot the true best picture of the year, regardless of what the voters actually elected to the top spot.
He also voiced his appreciation to «Birdman» writer - director Alejandro G. Iñárritu (the night's
screenplay winner), calling him a «true artist,» someone everyone in the room would work with
at a moment's notice.
If you just want to see the
winners, these are on VOD and disc and
at Redbox: Moonlight (Picture, Adapted
Screenplay, Supporting Actor, R), Manchester by the -LSB-...]
Winner of Best
Screenplay and Best Actor (Luchini)
at the 2015 Venice Film Festival....
At the age of 89, writer - director James Ivory won Adapted
Screenplay for his lovely, thoughtful treatment of André Aciman's Call Me By Your Name, making him the oldest Oscar
winner in history.
Gravity has become the early
winner at the Bafta Awards in London, picking up a handful of top prizes, including Best
Screenplay, Music,...
At the event, Jian Ghomeshi, host of CBC Radio's Q, read letters from some of the previously announced
winners, including Joel and Ethan Coen (Best Picture for Inside Llewyn Davis), Alfonso Cuarón (Best Director for Gravity), and Spike Jonze (Best
Screenplay for Her).
DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Script and Supporting Actress Oscar -
Winner Arrives on DVD Precious deservedly landed a couple of Oscars
at this year's Academy Awards, in the Best Supporting Actress (Mo'Nique) and Adapted
Screenplay (Geoffrey Fletcher) categories.
• 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.
* James Ivory, who has competed three times in the directing category for his literary costume dramas «A Room With a View,» «Howards End» and «The Remains of the Day,» is officially the oldest Oscar
winner ever
at age 89 after winning Best Adapted
Screenplay for the love story «Call Me by Your Name.»
The top four contenders aren't just all possibilities here, they're also all legitimate contenders for Best Picture and looking
at the recent trend of Best Picture
winners, it's a
screenplay win that is its closest ally.
The film, which had a limited theatrical engagement on May 3 through Fathom events, has been touted
at various film festivals with awards including
Winner Best Picture, Best Ensemble Cast, Best
Screenplay and Best Breakout Performance — Boston Film Festival;
Winner Audience Award for Best Picture — Austin Film Festival;
Winner Outstanding Achievement in Film making, Best Actor — Newport Beach Film Festival; and Audience Award for Best Film, Audience Award for Best Actor,
Winner Best Actor — Napa Valley Film Festival.
James Ivory,
winner of the Oscar for adapted
screenplay, for «Call Me by Your Name» poses backstage
at the Oscars.
Richard Gere is Norman, a New York fixer in this Israeli - American drama from writer - director Joseph Cedar (
winner of Best
Screenplay at Cannes 2011 for Hearat Shulayim).
Last year's big
winner at the NYFCC Awards was American Hustle, which won awards for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress for Jennifer Lawrence, and Best
Screenplay.
Writer Jordan Peele,
winner of the Best Original
Screenplay award for «Get Out,» poses in the press room during the 90th Annual Academy Awards
at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 4, 2018 in Hollywood, California.
At 89 years old, James Ivory — who took home the Best Adapted
Screenplay Oscar for Call Me by Your Name — became the Academy's oldest
winner in history.
The primary reason that it seems to be out of the running is that it has absolutely no chance of winning Best Original
Screenplay (it's in fourth place
at best), and as I've already explained, the Academy believes writing to be the single most important thing for a Best Picture
winner to have.
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Winners: The Fighter • No Country for Old Men (Collector's Edition) • A Thousand Clowns Best Original
Screenplay Oscar
Winners: Chinatown • The King's Speech • Juno • Ghost • The Apartment Written by Christopher McQuarrie: The Tourist
Writer Jordan Peele,
winner of the Best Original
Screenplay award for «Get Out,» poses with award
at the 90th Annual Academy Awards Governors Ball
at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 4, 2018 in Hollywood, California.
Looking
at the Cannes lineup and
winners this year it's unlikely anyone outside of Spike Lee, who was already a top contender, will factor in the upper tiers of Best Director predictions but I am adding Jury Prize
winner Nadine Labaki, whose Capernaum was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics and
Screenplay winner Alice Rohrwacher, whose Happy as Lazzaro was picked up by Netflix.
God's Own Country and Lady Macbeth were big
winners last night
at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) where God's Own Country won the top award, Best British Independent Film, plus Best Actor for Josh O'Connor and Lady Macbeth won Best Actress for Florence Pugh and Best
Screenplay.
(Whatever that even is anymore...)
At the moment, it's McDonagh's
screenplay and Oscar -
winner McDormand who gain the most as each land in the top 5 of their respective categories.
Best Costume Design, Make - Up / Hair, Original Score and Production Design, Academy Awards 2015; Best Original
Screenplay, Production Design, Music and Make Up / Hair
at the 2015 BAFTA Awards; Best Film (Comedy / Musical)
at the 2015 Golden Globes;
Winner of the Silver Berlin Bear, Grand Jury Prize
at Berlin Film Festival 2014
Here, aided by a killer, and highly authentic
screenplay by former prison psychotherapist and poet Jonathan Asser (the rightful
winner of the Best Newcomer prize
at the festival), Mackenzie excels.
In another exciting development, Oscar ®
winner Bill Condon will follow his worldwide smash Beauty and the Beast, one of this year's biggest hits — which crossed $ 1 billion
at the global box office and became the most successful musical of all time — by directing Bride of Frankenstein from a
screenplay by Koepp.
Winner of the Best Actor (Shahab Hosseini) and Best
Screenplay (Farhadi) awards
at this year's Cannes Film Festival, the film also screened as a Special Presentation during the...
Neon also scooped up the female hip - hop drama «Roxanne, Roxanne» and the Aubrey Plaza - Elizabeth Olsen film «Ingrid Goes West»
at Sundnace — both award
winners on Saturday for «Roxanne» star Chante Adams» breakthrough performance and for Matt Spicer and David Branson Smith's «Ingrid»
screenplay.
In between are screenings of Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or
winner Amour, Ken Loach's Cannes Jury Prize
winner The Angel's Share, Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt (Best Actor
at Cannes), Cristian Mungiu's Beyond the Hills (Best Actress and Best
Screenplay, Cannes), Christian Petzold's Barbara (Best Director, Berlin), Ben Lewin's Sundance
winner The Sessions, Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone, Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love, Pablo Larrain's No, Olivier Assayas's Venice premiere Something in the Air, Raul Ruiz's final film, Night Across the Street, the international premiere of Any Day Now (an audience - award
winner at Seattle and Tribeca), and the North American premiere of I, Anna, starring Charlotte Rampling and directed by her son, Barnaby Southcombe, just to name a few of the over 230 features playing over two - plus weeks.
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer,
winner of the Best
Screenplay award
at this year's Cannes, arrives in UK cinemas this week, just weeks after an enthusiastic reception
at this year's London Film Festival.
Unfortunately, many things went against me in Berlin and prevented me from watching the eventual big
winners like Fire
At Sea (Golden Bear), Death In Sarajevo (Jury Prize) and United States of Love (Silver Bear for
Screenplay), but that doesn't mean the films below are any less deserving of recognition and praise.
Slumdog Millionaire emerged the big
winner at the 81st Annual Academy Awards, garnering 8 Oscars overall, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted
Screenplay.