The big win of the night went to the 89 - year - old James Ivory, who won the Best
Adapted Screenplay award for his work on Call Me by Your Name, which he adapted from André Aciman's 2007 novel.
As expected, Cate Blanchett snagged the Best Leading Actress honor, but surprisingly, it was Steve Coogan who made off with the Best
Adapted Screenplay award for «Philomena,» beating out «12 Years a Slave,» «Behind the Candelabra,» «Captain Phillips» and «Wolf of Wall Street» while Will Poulter took the EE Rising Star award over Dane DeHaan, George MacKay, Lupita Nyong» o and Lea Seydoux.
In other categories, Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship won the Best
Adapted Screenplay award for his film based on the writing of Jane Austen.
Veteran director James Ivory, 89, won
the adapted screenplay award for «Call Me by Your Name» and saluted late colleagues Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Ismail Merchant.
James Ivory won
the adapted screenplay award for «Call Me by Your Name,» giving something of a shoutout to his cast of Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer and Michael Stuhlbarg by acknowledging that «a film like this depends on a lot of people, but first of all it depends on the actors.»
Not exact matches
The unanimously - praised film with a modest budget of $ 23 million deservedly won seven Academy
Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (the first
for Spielberg), Best Cinematography (Janusz Kaminski), Best
Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score (John Williams), Best Editing (Michael Kahn), and Best Art Direction.
Note that most other
awards organizations treated Damien Chazelle's Whiplash script as an original
screenplay, but the Academy considered it to be an
adapted screenplay for reasons known only to the Academy (Chazelle has previously released a single Whiplash scene as a short film to raise funds to complete the full movie, which is apparently the source of the problem).
The Academy really didn't like Gone Girl much, as Gillian Flynn (who has been owning this category on the
awards circuit) couldn't even get a
screenplay nomination
for adapting her own best - seller.
L.A. Confidential was nominated
for nine Academy
Awards and netted two, with Brian Helgeland honored
for Best
Adapted Screenplay, and Kim Basinger taking home a statuette as Best Supporting Actress.
Original and
adapted screenplay awards are still separated out below
for each individual
awards organization (when necessary).
* Due to the often conflicting eligibility requirements set out by various organizations
for determining whether a
screenplay is «original» or «
adapted,» we have opted this year to combine all
screenplay awards into one comprehensive list.
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The Sting became one of the biggest hits of the early»70s; grossing 68.5 million dollars during its first run, the film also picked up seven Academy
Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best
Screenplay, and Best
Adapted Score
for Marvin Hamlisch's unforgettable setting of Scott Joplin's ragtime music.
Originally written and produced as a play
for television, the screen version of Judgment at Nuremberg was nominated
for 11 Academy
Awards, with Maximilian Schell and Abby Mann taking home Oscars
for (respectively) Best Actor and Best
Adapted Screenplay.
So far Silver Linings has placed Lawrence and Cooper in privileged positions
for Academy
Award nominations and not unlikely is the possibility of the film getting recognition in the Best Picture, Best
Adapted Screenplay, and of course Best Director categories.
It was the gaffe heard around the world, but when the dust finally cleared on last year's fateful Oscars and this graceful indie was crowned Best Picture (with well - deserved
awards for Mahershala Ali as Supporting Actor and Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney
for Best
Adapted Screenplay), instead of the front - runner La La Land, liberal Hollywood breathed a collective sigh of relief.
The group also handed out nominations
for Best Animated Feature, Original
Screenplay,
Adapted Screenplay, Foreign Film, Documentary Feature and the Vince Koehler
Award, which is chosen as the year's best Science Fiction, Horror or Fantasy Film.
If you don't know, Dee is up
for the Best
Adapted Screenplay award tonight alongside Virgil Williams
for their work on Mudbound.
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for eight Academy
Awards and winning Best
Adapted Screenplay...
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.
But in these results there is a notable echo of last season, where the only roadblock
for «La La Land» came at the WGA
Awards when «Moonlight» — categorized as an original
screenplay by the guild, yet
adapted by the Academy's writers branch — upset the perceived best - picture frontrunner.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated PHILOMENA
for four Academy
Awards ® including: Best Picture; Best Actress in a Leading Role, Judi Dench; Best Music — Original Score, Alexandre Desplat; and Best Writing —
Adapted Screenplay, Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope.
«Arrival» is currently nominated
for eight Academy
Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best
Adapted Screenplay.
The book was
adapted for the big screen by
award - winning British novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby, who wrote both the book and
screenplay for 2002 film About a Boy.
Last Year «Äôs Big Winners: «ÄúSlumdog Millionaire «Äù took its first major best picture
award of the season here, as well as honors
for adapted screenplay and breakthrough actor Dev Patel.
Mathew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon star in this brilliant satirical comedy, which was nominated
for an Academy
Award for best
adapted screenplay.
Taking home three
awards this year, Carol, a drama about a female clerk who falls in love with an older woman in the 1950s, claimed the
awards for Best Actress (Cate Blanchett), Best Supporting Actress (Rooney Mara) and Best
Adapted Screenplay.
The Writers Guild of America has just finished handing out their
awards for 2017, resulting in James Ivory («Call Me by Your Name») and Jordan Peele («Get Out») taking top honors
for Adapted and Original
Screenplays, respectively.
Nominated
for an Academy
Award for best
adapted screenplay.
A true career achievement
award, the
adapted screenplay Oscar will go to the 89 - year - old Ivory, best known
for his collaborations with Ismail Merchant.
The Martian is one of the most talked about films of the year and has been named one of the best movies of the year by groups such as National Board of Review, which also
awarded top honors to Ridley Scott
for Best Director, Matt Damon
for Best Actor and Drew Goddard
for Best
Adapted Screenplay.
Year after year her
awards are fraught with controversy that includes incomplete nominations lists (check out the TWO nominations in
Adapted Screenplay this year), names that are later removed (which happened to Viola Davis
for 2008's Doubt), actors being listed as TV shows (I'm looking at your, Lizzy Caplan) but the biggest and most real controversy has been the group's penchant
for nominating films they haven't even seen.
Call Me By Your Name took home the gong
for Best
Adapted Screenplay and Daniel Kaluuya scooping the EE Rising Star
award.
Its best shot
for any
awards is in the
adapted screenplay category, which it may be able to corral depending on its reception and momentum.
The Writers Guild of America honored Spike Jonze
for his future - set love story «Her» with its
award for original
screenplay and Billy Ray
for «Captain Phillips,» the true story of a hijacking at sea,
for adapted screenplay on Saturday night.
Two leading Oscar contenders also won
awards: «Spotlight,» the drama about newspaper reporters investigating sex abuses in the Catholic Church,
for original
screenplay, nd «The Big Short,» the financial crisis dramedy,
for adapted screenplay.
The
award for Best Picture went to Steve McQueen's «12 Years a Slave,» which also took home
awards for Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress
for Lupita Nyong» o. Cate Blanchett won her second Oscar, this time as Best Actress,
for her role in «Blue Jasmine.»
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However, Call Me By Your Name took home the
award for Best
Adapted Screenplay by James Ivory based on the novel by André Acimandouble!
Arndt won an Academy
Award ®
for Best Original
Screenplay for writing Little Miss Sunshine (2006), and was nominated
for Best
Adapted Screenplay for writing Toy Story 3 (2010).
Yet here he is,
adapting Michael Lewis» nonfiction book on the reasons behind the financial collapse and coming away with a hit movie, five Academy
Award nominations, and an Oscar win
for Best
Adapted Screenplay (shared with Charles Randolph).
We must also give kudos to Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, who share a writing nomination
for «The Big Sick,» a film that hasn't gotten enough
awards season love; Kazuhiro Tsuji, who is nominated,
for the third time, this year
for the «Darkest Hour» makeup; and Agnès Varda and James Ivory who, at 89, are our oldest nominees this year (and the oldest on record),
for the documentary «Faces Places» and
adapted screenplay of «Call Me by Your Name,» respectively.
The evening began with
awards being given on the red carpet, as the BFCA does, and was a strange start as the winners announced
for Foreign Language Film,
Adapted Screenplay and Documentary (Force Majeure, Gone Girl and Life Itself, respectively), were all snubbed by the Oscars that morning.
This year, they make up
for it by
awarding Lawrence Best Supporting Actress
for «American Hustle» (which also won Best
Screenplay, original or
adapted.)
What It Could Win: Ang Lee, who took home the Best Director Academy
Award in 2013
for Life of Pi, is a frontrunner once again, seemingly providing the movie Best Picture heft, while the rest of the categories — first - time screenwriter Jean - Christophe Castelli
for Best
Adapted Screenplay?
And «Mudbound» director Dee Rees shares a nomination with Virgil Williams
for adapted screenplay, making her the first black woman to be nominated
for the
award.
Less important is the fact that a horror movie that addressed race and social issues won best
adapted screenplay, which is a seriously promising turn
for the Academy
Awards.
It had its world premiere at last year's Sundance Film Festival (where we reviewed it) and it's continued to remain a part of the cultural conversation even up to yesterday, when it was nominated
for a Writers Guild of America
award for best
adapted screenplay.