Sentences with phrase «screenwriting award for»

The latest name to be uncovered is Quentin Tarantino, who's being given the Hollywood Screenwriting Award for his «Django Unchained» script.

Winner of the Directing Award Dramatic and Special Jury Prize for Vera Farmiga for Down to the Bone in (2004), and winner of the Grand Jury Prize Dramatic and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for Winter's Bone (2010), this originally had Casey Affleck in the lead, but Ben Foster might be a better casting bet for a survivalist protective father with a complicated past and will be a perfect spotlight to launch a new career for the young co-lead kiwi thesp Thomasin McKenzie.

Not exact matches

The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic was presented to: Christina Choe, for her film Nancy (Director & Screenwriter: Christina Choe, Producers: Amy Lo, Michelle Cameron, Andrea Riseborough)-- Blurring lines between fact and fiction, Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child.

In Skeleton Twins, which won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, director Craig Johnson displayed a knack for finding humor and warmth in the darkest of places, which is why he was the perfect choice to bring to life this Daniel Clowes graphic novel of the same name.

In May 2007, the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival honored Morgan with the year's Kanbar Award for Excellence in Screenwriting.

Russell's award season biography includes being passed over thrice in four years for top directing honors; he's also a two - time screenwriting nominee.

In a surprisingly rare occurrence, all five of the nominees for the Academy Award for best director have a writing credit on their film, and three are up for screenwriting Oscars: Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig, who are the sole nominees for their films, and Guillermo del Toro, who shares credit with Vanessa Taylor.

PARK CITY, Utah — «Sunday,» the story of a homeless man who is mistaken for a movie director by a failing British actress who courts him for a day, won the Sundance Film Festival and the Waldo Salt screenwriting award.

«Get Out» is a best picture contender, and the first - time filmmaker was nominated for directing and screenwriting awards.

In 2017, her debut feature film Pop Aye wins the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting at Sundance Film Festival.

The crowd in the backstage wings erupted when Jordan Peele won his screenwriting award, but it was «The Greatest Showman» star Keala Settle who was most excited for him.

Writer / director Craig Johnson (previously of True Adolescents) won the Walt Salt Screenwriting Award along with his co-writer Mark Heyman (Black Swan) at this year's Sundance Film Festival for The Skeleton Twins, which received many positive notices including one here at Way Too Indie.

At the WGA West ceremoney in Los Angeles special honors went to: The Post writers Liz Hannah and Josh Singer with Paul Selvin Award; Milk writer Dustin Lance Black with the Valentine Davies Award for his work for the LGBTQ community; Mary Tyler Moore show co-creator James L. Brooks with the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement; writer - producer Alison Cross (Roe vs. Wade, Murder in the First) with the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement; and late comic - book icon Len Wein, co-creator of Wolverine, with the Animation Writers Caucus Animation Writing Award.

Safety Not Guaranteed, written by Derek Connolly (who won the Sundance Screenwriting Award as well) and directed by Colin Trevorrow, is about the classified ad placed in a paper looking for someone to «travel back in time with.»

They received two Academy Award nominations together for screenwriting.

The 2018 WGA West honorees included screenwriter James L. Brooks, receiving the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement; writer - producer Alison Cross, receiving the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement; screenwriter and activist Dustin Lance Black, receiving the Valentine Davies Award; and «The Post» screenwriters Liz Hannah and Josh Singer, receiving the Paul Selvin Award.

Her debut feature film, Pop Aye received the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting...

It's been nearly 20 years since Emma Thompson won a screenwriting Academy Award for her delightful adaptation of «Sense and Sensibility»; since then, despite the odd rumor (whatever happened to her supposed update on «My Fair Lady»?)

Accolades for the charming romantic comedy about gender discrimination in the voice - over industry — which she also wrote, produced and starred in — quickly piled up, including a screenwriting award at the Sundance Film Festival.

He's run a film studio, backed in a young unknown director called Ang Lee, been nominated for Academy Awards in both screenwriting and...

Often touted as an heir to Tarkovsky, Russian cinema's other famously austere Andrey, Zvyagintsev previously competed at Cannes with «Leviathan» (2014), which won the jury's screenwriting award and went on to score an Oscar nomination for foreign - language film.

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic — Fruitvale U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic — Jill Soloway, Afternoon Delight Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award — Lake Bell, In A World Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic — Bradford Young, Ain't Them Bodies Saints and Mother of George Special Jury Award for Acting — Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley, The Spectacular Now Special Jury Award for Sound Design — Upstream Color

First on this list was Drew Goddard, who earlier this year was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenwriting efforts on The Martian, an accolade that ultimately went to Adam McKay and Charles Randolph for The Big Short.

The Screenwriting Award: World Cinema Dramatic was presented to: Eskil Vogt for Blind from Norway, Netherlands (Director & Screenwriter: Eskil Vogt)-- Having recently lost her sight, Ingrid retreats to the safety of her home — a place she can feel in control, alone with her husband and her thoughts.

The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic was presented to: Tim Talbott for The Stanford Prison Experiment (Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Screenwriter: Tim Talbott)-- Based on the actual events that took place in 1971, when Stanford professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo created what became one of the most shocking and famous social experiments of all time.

The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic was presented to: Matt Spicer and David Branson Smith for their film Ingrid Goes West — A young woman becomes obsessed with an Instagram «influencer» and moves to Los Angeles to try and befriend her in real life.

John Ridley reflects on his beginnings and the inspirations that have shaped his approach to screenwriting, with a special look into his journey adapting the Academy Award ® - winning script for 12 Years a Slave.

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Not so for this Visual Mindscape screenwriting podcast with award - winning screenwriter Bill Boyle, hosted by the International Screenwriters Association (ISA): http://www.networkisa.org/podcast.php?id=3067.

... a 2001 Finalist and 2004 Semi-Finalist for the prestigious Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship... had a project invited to the 2005 Sundance Institute Producers Conference... placed in a variety of writing competitions, including the Austin Film Festival, PAGE International, FADE IN Awards, Cynosure Screenwriting and Scriptapalooza.

She has also received an Emmy Award for her screenwriting and several Obie Awards for her plays.

This script will probably not win an Academy Award for screenwriting.

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