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Notably, The Big Short won best adapted screenplay at the Writers Guild Awards and also took the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards, which has predicted the Academy's Best Picture choice 8 out of the past 10 years.

While his Samuel Goldwyn Award - winning student screenplay Pilma, Pilma went unproduced, Coppola's 1966 U.C.L.A. thesis project, a freewheeling comedy titled You're a Big Boy Now, was distributed theatrically by Warner Bros., and that same year he collaborated on the screenplays of the features Is Paris Burning?

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.

Fences won big too with four awards — Best Actor (Denzel Washington), Supporting Actress (Viola Davis), Adapted Screenplay and Ensemble.

«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.

It was the first film to take home all five of the big Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay (before that award was split in two).

David Fincher's «The Social Network» took the Film / Director / Screenplay trifecta, while Christopher Nolan's «Inception» was the big winner over all, taking four awards including Best -LSB-...]

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.

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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.

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.

In 2015, former «Saturday Night Live» head writer Adam McKay won an Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay of his critically lauded «The Big Short,» a caustically funny and stylistically ambitious kaleidoscope on the 2008 financial crisis.

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.

When Jordan Peele got the news that the biggest gamble of his career had just earned four major Academy Award nominations, including best picture, best director and best original screenplay, he got on the phone with his «Get Out» star, Daniel Kaluuya — and broke down in tears.

The other two big Best Picture hopefuls, «Spotlight» and «The Big Short,» took home the same screenplay honors they won at the WGA Awards last night (Original and Adapted, respectfullbig Best Picture hopefuls, «Spotlight» and «The Big Short,» took home the same screenplay honors they won at the WGA Awards last night (Original and Adapted, respectfullBig Short,» took home the same screenplay honors they won at the WGA Awards last night (Original and Adapted, respectfully).

With six nods in total, it cements the streaming giant's place at the movie industry table, with Amazon — which won last year's race to become the first streaming player to win an Academy Award — only picking up one nomination this year: Best Original Screenplay for The Big Sick.

Michael Keaton's big return to the big screen, «Birdman,» won four awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (for Keaton), Best Supporting Actor (Edward Norton) and Best Original Screenplay.

Praised by audiences and critics alike, Moneyball is set to contest the Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture — Drama, Best Actor — Drama (Pitt), Best Supporting Actor (Jonah Hill) and Best Screenplay (Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin), and could prove to be a big player at the Academy Awards.

The biggest awards (the four acting categories and Best Picture) usually aren't susceptible to this phenomenon, but technical categories, screenplay categories and Director have become the opportunities to spread the wealth and make some statements.

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won the night's biggest award for Best Motion Picture, Drama, as well as Best Screenplay, while its star Frances McDormand picked up Best Actress and Sam Rockwell won Best Supporting Actor.

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).

In the biggest BAFTA haul for a non-British production since «American Beauty» a decade ago, Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq drama took six awards at the Royal Opera House, including Best Film, Director and Original Screenplay.

Spotlight won Best Picture at the 21st annual Critics» Choice Awards on Sunday night in Santa Monica, along with best original screenplay and best ensemble, but Mad Max: Fury Road took home nine prizes, with best director (George Miller) being the biggest.

Rob Marshall, the talented filmmaker behind the Academy Award ® - winning musical «Chicago» and Disney's «Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,» helms the film, which is based on the Tony ® - winning original musical by James Lapine, who also penned the screenplay, and legendary composer Stephen Sondheim, who provides the music and lyrics — including an all - new song for the big - screen adaptation.

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS»S Best Adapted Screenplay win proves less of a reliable prediction for the Academy Awards, as its biggest contender in this category, 12 YEARS A SLAVE, was not eligible for the WGA award.

A big day: Besides the two top prizes, Natural Selection also grabbed jury awards for best screenplay (Pickering), best editing (Michelle Tesoro) and best score / music (iZLER, Curt Schneider).

Or it could just mean that the Globes have five fewer screenplay nominees than the Oscars or Writers Guild of America awards, which divide adapted and original — and that's where The Big Sick will find its recognition down the road.

Anne Hathaway finally got hers, but arguably the biggest upset was Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained, and also great to see Tarantino walk away with his second Best Original Screenplay award.

Oscar nominees Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon took home the award for first screenplay for «The Big Sick,» based on their own real life romance.

Vanishing Waves was the big non-horror, non-comedy winner by picking up four awards including Best Feature, Best Director (Kristina Buozyte), Best Screenplay (Bruno Samper, Buozyte), and Best Actress (Jurga Jutaite).

The sumptuously filmed classical drama will be a strong awards contender (for cinematography as well as foreign film) and could prove an art - house hit in North America, adding to such Amazon successes as Kenneth Lonergan's «Manchester by the Sea» (Roadside Attractions) and Asghar Farhadi's «The Salesman» (Cohen Media), which both won Oscars, as well as last year's Sundance acquisition, summer hit «The Big Sick» (Lionsgate), which earned an Original Screenplay nomination.

On the television side, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story was the evening big winner taking home five Black Reel Awards, including Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series, Outstanding Actor (Courtney B. Vance), Outstanding Supporting Actor, (Sterling K. Brown), Outstanding Director (John Singleton) and Outstanding Screenplay (Joe Robert Cole).

With two big BAFTA wins on Sunday for screenplay and lead actor Casey Affleck, a very good shot at taking a WGA Original Screenplay award this coming Sunday, a domestic box office gross nearing $ 50 million, and six Academy Award nominations Manchester By The Sea is riding higher than even anyone expected after its smash Sundance debut over ascreenplay and lead actor Casey Affleck, a very good shot at taking a WGA Original Screenplay award this coming Sunday, a domestic box office gross nearing $ 50 million, and six Academy Award nominations Manchester By The Sea is riding higher than even anyone expected after its smash Sundance debut over aScreenplay award this coming Sunday, a domestic box office gross nearing $ 50 million, and six Academy Award nominations Manchester By The Sea is riding higher than even anyone expected after its smash Sundance debut over a yearaward this coming Sunday, a domestic box office gross nearing $ 50 million, and six Academy Award nominations Manchester By The Sea is riding higher than even anyone expected after its smash Sundance debut over a yearAward nominations Manchester By The Sea is riding higher than even anyone expected after its smash Sundance debut over a year ago.

Last year's big winner at the NYFCC Awards was American Hustle, which won awards for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress for Jennifer Lawrence, and Best ScreeAwards was American Hustle, which won awards for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress for Jennifer Lawrence, and Best Screeawards for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress for Jennifer Lawrence, and Best Screenplay.

However, when it came to the bigger awards, it really started racking up its major wins: Four Golden Globes (including Best Picture (Drama) and Best Screenplay), three SAG Awards (including Best Cast), and five BAFTA Awards (including Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, and Outstanding British awards, it really started racking up its major wins: Four Golden Globes (including Best Picture (Drama) and Best Screenplay), three SAG Awards (including Best Cast), and five BAFTA Awards (including Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, and Outstanding British Awards (including Best Cast), and five BAFTA Awards (including Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, and Outstanding British Awards (including Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, and Outstanding British Film).

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.

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The Big Short took home Best Screenplay, while Inside Out won for Best Animation and Brooklyn took home the Outstanding British Film award too.

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God's Own Country and Lady Macbeth were big winners last night at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) where God's Own Country won the top award, Best British Independent Film, plus Best Actor for Josh O'Connor and Lady Macbeth won Best Actress for Florence Pugh and Best Screenplay.

THE 88th ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS The Complete List of Winners... and some commentary BEST PICTURE Spotlight BEST DIRECTOR Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, The Revenant BEST ACTOR Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant BEST ACTRESS Brie Larson, Room BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy, Spotlight BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, The Big Short BEST EDITING Margaret Sixel, Mad Max Fury Road BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Son of Saul, Hungary BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Emmanuel «Chivo» Lubezki, The Revenant First to win three back to back Oscars in this category.

«Moonlight» won over the group in a big way, taking Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay and a Special Honorary Award for the cast's ensemble and casting.

Fox's award campaigning for Logan pays off in a big way with a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination from the Writers Guild of America.

In the 83 - year history of the Academy Awards, only three movies have pulled off a «sweep» in arguably the five biggest Oscar categories: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay (original or adapted).

The film made a big splash at Cannes, snagging the awards for Best Actor (Phoenix) and Best Screenplay (Ramsay), along with a nomination for the coveted Palme d'Or for Ramsay.

The National Board of Review has announced its list of winners for the 2008 awards season and Fox Searchlight's «Slumdog Millionaire» is the big champ, taking down three awards including Best Film and a tie for Best Adapted Screenplay with Eric Roth's «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.»

The couple looked stylish in coordinating blue outfits as they accepted the award for writing the screenplay for their hit movie The Big Sick.

As a vehicle for awards players, the big chances will stand for Screenplay and Best Actress, both of which are win - worthy.