But for such a heady draught of melodrama, From the Terrace
also features a screenplay with all the immediate, acerbic bite of a hard - boiled film noir.
Not exact matches
This is Tucci's fourth directorial
feature, who
also stars and co-wrote the
screenplay with David Schechter.
And director Brett Haley, who
also co-wrote the
screenplay with Marc Basch, is the rare young American filmmaker who's sincerely interested in older generations; his previous
feature, I'll See You In My Dreams, starred Blythe Danner, who's even older than Elliott.
From his inspired collaborations with the prolific writer Charlie kaufman in Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, to his adapted
screenplay of Maurice Sendak's Where The Wild Things Are, Jonze continues to prove himself as not only an important film - maker of his time but
also a wonderful screenwriter, and his latest
feature Her starring Joaquin Phoenix might just be his magnum opus.
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.
Of the eight or nine films up for Best Picture, you can bet that many of those will
also be
featured in the
screenplay category.
Oscar frontrunner «Spotlight»
also earned nominations where it could in Best
Feature and
Screenplay.
The film's best bet for a nomination is Steven Chbosky for Best Adapted
Screenplay — he has the added caveat of having written both book and film — but this is
also Chbosky's
feature film debut.
The film is
also nominated for Best First
Feature and Best First
Screenplay for the 2012 awards.
The film — which
also features the likes of Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Carla Bruni, Tom Hiddleston, Kathy Bates, Marion Cotillard and Adrien Brody — provided Allen with his biggest hit, banking over $ 145m at the global box office, and it will
also contest the Golden Globe awards for Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, Best Director, Best
Screenplay and Best Actor — Musical or Comedy (Wilson).
Waking the Dead Keith Gordon's fourth
feature outing as a director (he
also wrote the
screenplay, uncredited) is a thing of beauty.
Susan Sarandon and Gideon Adlon have come aboard the Focus
Features drama Mustang, from French actress and first - time director Laure de Clermont - Tonnerre, who
also co-wrote the
screenplay.
Directed by Reinhard Klooss (Animals United) from a screen story and
screenplay by him as well, Tarzan
also features the voice talents of Spencer Locke (Resident Evil: Afterlife) and Jaime Ray Newman (TV's «Mind Games»).
Directed by MacFarlane from a
screenplay co-written with Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild, the film
also features Giovanni Ribisi and Sarah Silverman.
It's
also much more a comedy than a drama or a romance, and to that end
features a
screenplay with some nicely - written gags.
On the Oscar front, you can
also rent Best Adapted
Screenplay winner Call Me By Your Name and Best Supporting Actress winner I, Tonya if you're in the mood for an award - winning double
feature.
Every single
screenplay I'm currently predicting (hey, it's only March) is
also featured in my Best Picture predictions and many in the acting categories as well (see below).
Paul Dano for «best supporting male» (that's the IFP's category) in «Little Miss Sunshine,» which is
also nominated for best
feature,
screenplay, directors — and Alan Arkin,
also nominated for supporting male.
In the last two years, wins in key categories at the Indie Spirits have
also synced with the Oscars: At the 2014 ceremony, 12 Years a Slave took best
feature, Matthew McConaughey took best actor for Dallas Buyers Club, Cate Blanchett won best actress for Blue Jasmine, Jared Leto took the best supporting actor trophy for Dallas Buyers Club, Lupita Nyong» o won best supporting actress for 12 Years a Slave as well as the film's screenwriter John Ridley for best
screenplay.
Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson's stop motion Anomalisa
also scored well, hitting in
Feature, Director,
Screenplay and a Supporting Female mention for Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Gosford Park
also features Charles Dance, Tom Hollander, Natasha Wightman, and Ron Webster; the
screenplay was written by Julian Fellowes, based on a story by Altman and co-star Bob Balaban.
The film, which is directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, marks the
feature debut for the helmer, with Robinson
also penning the
screenplay.
Prisoners is directed well, apart from its length, by French - Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve (Incendies, Maelstrom), from a sometimes nifty, sometimes turgid
screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski (Contraband), which
features narrative twists and turns to keep the audience guessing as to what might have happened to the two young girls, and
also who holds the key to the answer of their whereabouts.
Though Zhao, who
also wrote the film's
screenplay, has not strayed too far from the subjects and place of her debut
feature, there's a more focused growth in storytelling to
The second was June's 16 Wishes, which not only
featured Ryan as familiar talent in front of the camera, but
also worked from a
screenplay by Annie DeYoung, who has written nothing but DCOMs since 2006's Return to Halloweentown.
Despite the presence of Oscar hopefuls throughout many of the categories, the Spirit Awards
also strive to recognize emerging talents, with categories for first
feature and first
screenplay, as well as the John Cassavetes Award for a
feature made for under $ 500,000.
It's
also worth noting that last year's winners here for Best
Feature and
Screenplay (both Moonlight), Best Actor (Manchester by the Sea «s Casey Affleck) and Documentary (O.J. Made in America) all...
Awards were
also given in the categories of Original Score, Original
Screenplay, Adapted
Screenplay and Documentary
Feature.
It's
also the highest - grossing title ever for a
feature debut from a writer / director with an original
screenplay.
I'm
also working on a science fiction
feature screenplay.
«Singin» in the Rain: The MGM
Screenplay» also features page - accurate screenplay in text and image formats as well for the film that consistently tops lists as the greatest movie musical of
Screenplay»
also features page - accurate
screenplay in text and image formats as well for the film that consistently tops lists as the greatest movie musical of
screenplay in text and image formats as well for the film that consistently tops lists as the greatest movie musical of all time.
He has
also written many
screenplays for film and television, including the
feature film adaptation of Starter For Ten.