Sentences with phrase «best screenplay written»

Its other four nominations were for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Alec Guinness), Best Director, and Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.

But how many know that he's also behind a couple of the best screenplays written over the last decade?

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Rogers was convinced the best way to write the screenplay was to tell it from the point of view of both Harding and Gillooly.

And it's unlike any other book I've ever written, for in addition to the memoir, it includes original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay — all aimed at capturing the wonder and beauty of Scripture, while honoring the best in biblical scholarship and acknowledging the challenges of its most difficult passages.

Given that Carl Sagan helped to write the screenplay, it's no surprise that it is well grounded in real ideas.

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Thanks to masterfully written dialogues, the story and screenplay of Tyranny are intriguing and well - paced.

The plot might've been something very good if the screenwriters would've written another draft of the screenplay, but they didn't.

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.

Pearce has also written a well - carpentered screenplay; there are some very big scenes and big moments here — sometimes too big — but he gives us a carefully crafted dramatic setup, an intriguingly curated selection of suspects for the crime and all of it building to a fascinating, finely balanced ambiguity in the movie's climactic stages.

Overall, the acting is very good, with a well - written, funny and engaging screenplay.

A majestic Mafia epic starring Brando as well as Al Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall, The Godfather was declared an instant classic, and its stature only grew in the years following its initial appearance.Coppola's next move was to write the screenplay for the 1974 adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

During this time, he also wrote, produced, and starred in the comedy The Wrong Guy, which won Best Screenplay at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.

The screenplay by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer is beautifully written, the editing by Michael Kahn and Sarah Broshar is exceptional, and John Williams» score is quite good.

If there's one thing that's genuinely intriguing about this entry, it's the way that the screenplay (written by Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, and Christopher L. Yost) acknowledge how much Thor (Chris Hemsworth) has changed over his own movies, as well as the ones throughout this cinematic universe that feature him.

However, with its excellent performances, well - written screenplay, and engaging story, it's still a very good film.

Diablo next wrote the screenplay for Juno, the unexpected indie hit of 2007, earning her numerous awards including an Oscar for Best Original Sscreenplay for Juno, the unexpected indie hit of 2007, earning her numerous awards including an Oscar for Best Original ScreenplayScreenplay.

Nice cinematography, some good actors, but simply one of the worst screenplays ever written by a man or a woman.

In addition to starring in the football exposé North Dallas Forty (1979), Nolte contributed to its screenplay, written by Peter Gent.Showing a marked preference for unusual and difficult films, it was not long before Nolte became known as a well - rounded actor who brought realism, depth, and spirit to even his most offbeat or even unsympathetic roles.

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.

Intense and engaging performances from Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy bring the well - written screenplay to life.

Directed by four - time Oscar nominee Gary Ross (who also wrote the screenplay), «Jones» stars recent Best Actor winner Matthew McConaughey and critically acclaimed actress Gugu Mbatha - Ra.

He writes a pretty mean screenplay as well, adapting Bahari's book into a succinct, approachable but intelligent tale.

Peralta would only write the screenplay, and obviously he knows the history and characters well enough for us to give him the benefit of the doubt in terms of accuracy.

It was in 1992, however, when he wrote and directed THE CRYING GAME, which was nominated for six academy awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Stephen Rea), Best Supporting Actor (Jaye Davidson) and for which Neil won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay that the wider public became aware of him as a once in a lifetime directing talent.

At this point, Stiller is in place to direct as well as star, with Justin Theroux, a man who understands the struggles of the unreasonably attractive, attached to write the screenplay.

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Allen has written more produced screenplays than anyone else, and he knows how to move the story along, give us all the info we need yet craft a good mystery and reveal it as well.

«Hillbilly Elegy» «The Shape of Water» took home the biggest award at last night's Oscars ceremony, and while it didn't take home the statue for best original screenplay, writer - director Guillermo del Toro earned a nomination, and it's no surprise that his co-writer Vanessa Taylor is already prepping to write a new script.

Variety has reported that Paul Schrader - best known for writing the screenplays for such films as TAXI DRIVER and RAGING BULL - has...

Finally, Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope won Best Screenplay for Stephen Frears's more - written - than - directed Philomena.

«Her» Directed by: Spike Jonze Written by: Spike Jonze Main cast members: Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams, Chris Pratt, Rooney Mara, and Portia Doubleday Number of Oscar nominations in total: 5 Other nominations besides Best Picture: Best Original Screenplay (Jonze), Best Production Design, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song Notable precursor wins: Won Best -LSB-...]

Moonlight director Barry Jenkins won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay along with playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney who wrote the play upon which the film is based, In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.

Tina Gordon Chism (Drumline) builds her script on the original story by Antwone Fisher (yes, the same one that wrote the screenplay for the film that bears his name), with a good ear for the lingo and attitudes that represent the area.

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.

On the other hand their Best Screenplay category encompasses all scripts, unlike the division the Academy Awards make in order to recognize the writers for either creating an original story, or succeeding in translating a previously written source material for the screen.

But when the Oscars finally arrived and Wes Anderson (who was having a great night with The Grand Budapest Hotel) lost Best Screenplay to Birdman, the writing was on the wall.

Michael Mitnick wrote the script, which was voted to the 2011 Black List of Hollywood's best unproduced screenplays.

I don't want to write too much about the game as I could produce an article the length of a Hollywood screenplay on how good it is.

OUR TAKE: This one has a dynamite cast (Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Adam Driver, Rose Byrne, Corey Stoll, Kathryn Hahn, Connie Britton, Timothy Olyphant, Dax Shepard and Abigail Spencer), a good director in Shawn Levy (Real Steel, Night at the Museum)- and the author of novel (Jonathan Tropper) is the one writing the screenplay.

The film's screenplay was also written by Hayward and producer Scott Mosier (Good Will Hunting, Chasing Amy).

Above all is the extremely well - written Oscar - nominated screenplay by the same writers that gave us The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and Il Postino.

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.

Robespierre, who wrote the screenplay with her «Obvious Child» collaborator Elisabeth Holm, works well with her excellent cast, even if you sense she'd rather simply turn her camera on Slate's pipsqueak - voiced energy and let Dana's regressive antics run roughshod over everything.

King wrote both the novella, Cycle of the Werewolf, and the much better named screenplay, but it's all completely ruined by awful special effects and either ham - fisted or lackluster performances by the likes of Gary Busey and the late Corey Haim, the kind of actors who were great in the right roles.

Baumbach faces an uphill climb for his second screenplay nomination, not because he doesn't present a strong case — it's his best writing in years, since at least Greenberg, if not The Squid and the Whale.

Directed by Jeremy Garelick from a screenplay he wrote with Jay Lavender, «The Wedding Ringer» opens with Doug (Josh Gad) nervously cold calling potential best men in preparation for his upcoming nuptials to Gretchen («The Big Bang Theory's» Kaley Cuoco - Sweeting).

It is well known that he imagines characters and a situation, casts actors to play the characters, joins with them in workshops where the dialogue and the plot take shape, and only then writes the screenplay.

Film: Call Me By Your Name Director: Luca Guadagnino Cast: Timothee Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlberg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Oscar Nominations (3): Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Writing Adapted Screenplay Where to Stream: Coming Soon

67th Academy Awards 1 win from 7 nominations Best Actress In A Supporting Role - Dianne Wiest Best Actor In A Supporting Role, Chazz Palminteri Best Actress In A Supporting Role, Jennifer Tilly Best Director, Woody Allen Best Writing, Screenplay, Woody Allen & Douglas McGrath Best Art Direction - Set Decoration, Santo Loquasto & Susan Bode Best Costume Design, Jeffrey Kurland