Sentences with phrase «best screenplay went»

Best screenplay went to Malcolm Campbell for What Richard Did, the story of a popular Irish teenager whose life is changed forever after a senseless act of violence.

Polisse by French actress, writer and director, Maïwenn Le Besco, which snagged the Jury Prize while best screenplay went to Israeli filmmaker, Joseph Cedar, for Footnote.

Best screenplay went to Jordan Peele for «Get Out.»

Best Screenplay went to «Moneyball», the story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, written by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, story by Stan Chervin, based on the non-fiction book by Michael Lewis.

Best supporting female and male went to I, Tonya's Alison Janney and Sam Rockwell for Three Billboards, while best screenplay went to Greta Gerwig for Ladybird.

Not exact matches

The best ensemble performance award went to Straight Outta Compton, which also won for best original screenplay.

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.

Despite one shocking revelation (if you don't know the play) and the handful of Wildean bon mots that make it into Howard Himelstein's screenplay (says Lord Darlington, «Marital bliss is a terrible burden to place on two people; sometimes a third person is needed to lighten the load»), «A Good Woman» goes nowhere handsomely.

It goes without saying, then, that the viewer begins to crave anything even resembling a plot development, and there's little doubt that the strong performances and well - developed characters are simply, to an increasingly palpable degree, unable to compensate for the aimlessness that's been hard - wired into Curval and Hiet's screenplay.

After writing for The Wire and Boardwalk Empire and having three of his novels made into a trio of well - reviewed movies (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island), Dennis Lehane has finally written his first screenplay.

He is not demonized; in fact, the screenplay goes to great lengths to emphasize the tragedy of his genesis and how, were it not for the misguided actions of «good» people, he might never have become the man he became.

I thought Costner was going to try and make some better films, he'd better start reading the screenplays.

The film went on to win the inaugural Writers Guild of America best documentary screenplay award as well as garner an Academy Award nomination for best feature documentary.

Very Bad Things likely read better as a screenplay than it plays on film because the idea of what's going on is funnier than the actual execution.

Both films feature clever screenplays with smart characters, and go about their business with good humor.

Instead the honors went to 12 Years a Slave, which also picked up Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress.

Top honors went to Spotlight, which won four EDA Awards: best film, best director, best original screenplay and tied for best ensemble.

Oscar Chances: A just world has Theron and Cody in respective Best Actress and Original Screenplay consideration, but spring release and low grosses are going to be a hindrance.

Sometimes that seems accurate enough (going all the way back to the win for Citizen Kane, which lost Best Picture to How Green Was My Valley), but just as often, you'll find Screenplay picks that are just as boneheaded as any other Oscar win.

BEST SCREENPLAY — MOTION PICTURE Richard Linklater — Boyhood Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo — Birdman Graham Moore — The Imitation Game Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness — The Grand Budapest Hotel Gillian Flynn — Gone Girl

The French Connection helped usher in the second golden age of Hollywood (arguably the best decade in movie history) and went on to win 5 Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - tbest decade in movie history) and went on to win 5 Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - tBest Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - tBest Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - tBest Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - tBest Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - tBest Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - tbest American movies of all - time.

As for the bigger ones, Best Picture is more likely than not, and the same goes for Best Director and Adapted Screenplay.

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

These recreations are less dramatic aids to paper over a lack of documentary footage than a movie of their own, with a screenplay that goes well beyond established facts and a full cast (including Molly Parker of Deadwood and Peter Sarsgaard of The Killing) that interprets characters rather than representing them.

Best Original Screenplay went to Taylor Sheridan for his recession crime thriller Hell or High Water.

Oscar nominations: Best Actor, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Picture Where to see it right now: Stream on HBO GO / NOW; rent on iTunes, Amazon Video, YouTube, and VUDU (watch the trailer)

It's the kind of old - fashioned yet multi-layered movie that Hollywood filmmakers seemed to have forgotten how to make in 1991, when well - written, carefully structured screenplays often appeared to have gone the way of manageable budgets.

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.

Film: Get Out Director: Jordan Peele Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener, Caleb Landry Jones Oscar Nominations (4): Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay Where to Stream: HBO Now / Go, Available for order on Amazon Video

As for «Happy - Go - Lucky,» I think it may creep into Best Actress and screenplay (I've seen it and think it's a fine film), but I kept the list at U.S. releases thus far.

Best supporting actor went to Willem Dafoe («The Florida Project»), Paul Thomas Anderson landed best original screenplay for his «Phantom Thread,» and «The Disaster Artist» scribes Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber won for adapted screenpBest supporting actor went to Willem Dafoe («The Florida Project»), Paul Thomas Anderson landed best original screenplay for his «Phantom Thread,» and «The Disaster Artist» scribes Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber won for adapted screenpbest original screenplay for his «Phantom Thread,» and «The Disaster Artist» scribes Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber won for adapted screenplay.

Best Original Screenplay «Happy - Go - Lucky» «In Bruges» «I've Loved You So Long» «The Visitor» «Waltz With Bashir»

Mind you, it has other good things going for it, too — a taut, intelligent and cleverly structured screenplay by Anthony McCarten, who brought us The Theory Of Everything, top - drawer direction from Joe Wright, whose 2007 wartime drama, Atonement, comes repeatedly to mind, and a scene - stealing but exquisitely judged supporting performance from Kristin Scott Thomas as Clementine Churchill.

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.»

According to an article on Variety, there's not one but two writers who are currently in negotiations to write the screenplay for the Pikachu movie and if all goes well, it sounds like the two could be working together.

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (5 nominees) Gone Girl Guardians of the Galaxy The Imitation Game The Theory of Everything) Unbroken

He wrote the script after graduating from college and it made The Black List (a list of the best unproduced screenplays of the year) back in 2013, but years went by before he found funding for the film.

Film: Logan Director: James Mangold Cast: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant Oscar Nominations (1): Best Writing Adapted Screenplay Where to Stream: HBO Go / Now, Available for purchase on Vudu, YouTube, iTunes, Google Play and Amazon Video

Maybe if Luhrmann created an original screenplay rather than adapting a book, this movie would have gone down a little better.

I was expecting the intricately - designed, always - paying - off - and - paying - back screenplay, and the astonishingly good fight sequences, but I wasn't expecting a final product that was so profoundly sad, a raucous, but melancholy sci - fi action - comedy about addiction, friendship, aging, the way that You Can't Go Home Again, and humanity's inalienable right to be fucking awful.

The Grand Budapest Hotel: Wes Anderson has his best ever shot at the Oscars this year, with his first Directing and Picture nominations to go along with his third Screenplay nomination (he was also nominated for Best Animated Film in 20best ever shot at the Oscars this year, with his first Directing and Picture nominations to go along with his third Screenplay nomination (he was also nominated for Best Animated Film in 20Best Animated Film in 2009).

Maybe they all went to Nocturnal Animals, which somehow managed to rack up three nominations, including Tom Ford for Best Director and Best Screenplay and Aaron Taylor - Johnson for Best Supporting Actor.

Well, that must have been said at the screenplay development stage for this film, because if there is a plot, it's the typical dumb - ass Hollywood kind; a small - town girl goes to the big city to find stardom, but can't get it through the normal avenues, finally getting it though compromising all of her values.

«This one is really, I think, the one where people are just going to remember who he is and let all of the other stuff go,» said Damon, who shared a screenplay Academy Award with Affleck for «Good Will Hunting.»

(Screenplay credit goes to Joel and Ethan Coen, whose trademark dark wit is nowhere to be found here, as well as Richard LaGravenese and William Nicholson.)

Not to mention that they're going to have a strong - arm in Best Original Screenplay with «Mr. Turner,» «Whiplash,» and «Foxcatcher.»

This week's big release is the highly anticipated Gone Girl, directed by David Fincher, from a screenplay adapted by Gillian Flynn from her own best - selling novel.

Going My Way (1944) also Producer and Story Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Bing Crosby), Best Supporting Actor (Barry Fitzgerald), Best Screenplay, Best Story, and Best Song

That said, the film went on to become a smash hit around the world, becoming the only the second of three films to date to win the top five Oscars (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay) and is regularly enshrined in lists of the greatest American films of all time.

Jordan Peele's «Get Out» snagged four awards, with three going to Peele himself for best director, best original screenplay and being an all - around trailblazer with his directorial debut.