Sentences with phrase «book film nominations»

Warner Bros. will mount an Oscar campaign for Wonder Woman, Gal Gadot and director Patty Jenkins, striving to get first - ever comic book film nominations.

Not exact matches

Best animated film nominee The Croods, Fox's highest - grossing film last year (though with just $ 587 million worldwide, good for 11th place overall), was one of just two Oscar nominations for the studio (the other came for John Williams» Book Thief score).

Disney's The Jungle Book dominated the Visual Effects Society awards for feature films, winning five of its six nominations.

A comic book film finally got a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination.

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.

Nominees for the 90th Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning and LOGAN writers Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green received a nomination for «Adapted Screenplay,» making it the first time a superhero (but not comic book) film has been nominated in this category.

She scored her latest Oscar nomination for novel adaptation Brooklyn, and Saoirse Ronan is lining up another film based on a book for a future project.

Among his long list of feature credits are The Pillow Book, Velvet Goldmine, Young Adam, Big Fish, I Love You Philip Morris, Salmon Fishing In The Yemen and Moulin Rouge (scoring Golden Globe nominations for the latter two films).

Honored with the French Legion of Honor in 2001, the 2000 Acapulco Black Film Festival's Best International Film Award for Le Conte du ventre plein (aka Bellyful, 2000), the 1999 Chicago Underground Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award, the 1987 Children's Live - Action Humanitas Prize for The Day They Came to Arrest the Book, a 1972 Tony Award nomination for «Don't Play Us Cheap», two 1971 Tony Award nominations for «Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death», along with a Grammy Award nomination and Drama Desk Award for this earlier musical, Melvin Van Peebles is more than a one - note film director.

Call Me By Your Name, a romantic coming - of - age film based on a book by the same name, and Guillermo del Toro's fantasy drama The Shape of Water are predicted to capture the most nominations, according to the awards analysis site goldderby.com.

A rum aspect of the Oscar nominations has been the inclusion of two films that concern American slavery, and which could not be more different: in Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino gives the American slave exactly the sort of empowerment he offered the Jews in Inglourious Basterds — blood - splatter violent and fantastical; in Lincoln, Steven Spielberg is happy to lean on the history books, for a respectful biopic.

Morrison also finds herself in the history books as the first woman, after 90 years of the film academy, to receive a cinematography nomination.

That book came out in 2012, and the 2014 film adaptation featured a nomination - worthy performance from Shailene Woodley — the centerpiece of an emotionally moving story about teen troubles and love.

The film was loosely based on the beloved children's book of the same name and earned Lord and Miller a Golden Globe and Critics Choice nomination for «Best Animated Feature» along with four Annie Award nominations for excellence in animation, including «Best Direction» and «Best Screenplay.»

Hidden Figures Recently adapted to film — with Oscar nominations for best picture and best adapted screenplay — Margot Lee Shetterly's nonfiction book depicts the lives of four black women who, as mathematicians and engineers, helped send the first American astronaut into space.

It helped launch a long - term career for the author with a major publisher including a hardcover / paperback multi-book deal, getting picked up for feature film, dozens of awards and award nominations, and audio book adaptations.

Dash Shaw (BFA 2005 Illustration) Author, animator and cartoonist; published works include Cosplayers 1 & 2, Doctors, New School, 3 New Stories, The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D., Bottomless Belly Button all published by Fantagraphics; New Jobs published by Uncivilized Books; BodyWorld published by Pantheon; Bottomless Belly Button was named Publishers Weekly's best graphic novel and one of Entertainment Weekly's top 10 books; New School was voted One the Best Books of 2013 by National Public Radio; animated short Seraph selected for 2013 Sundance Film Festival; animated series The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. aired on IFC.com (2009); solo exhibition of original writings and storyboards at Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center (2008); solo exhibition at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (2010); Harvey Award nominee: Best Graphic Album for Bottomless Belly Button (2009); Ignatz Award nomination in the category of Outstanding Story for Galactic Funnels (2008); drawings featured in the film Rabbit Hole (2010); Sundance Writing and Directing Labs Fellow (2010); Cullman Center Fellow (2Books; BodyWorld published by Pantheon; Bottomless Belly Button was named Publishers Weekly's best graphic novel and one of Entertainment Weekly's top 10 books; New School was voted One the Best Books of 2013 by National Public Radio; animated short Seraph selected for 2013 Sundance Film Festival; animated series The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. aired on IFC.com (2009); solo exhibition of original writings and storyboards at Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center (2008); solo exhibition at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (2010); Harvey Award nominee: Best Graphic Album for Bottomless Belly Button (2009); Ignatz Award nomination in the category of Outstanding Story for Galactic Funnels (2008); drawings featured in the film Rabbit Hole (2010); Sundance Writing and Directing Labs Fellow (2010); Cullman Center Fellow (2books; New School was voted One the Best Books of 2013 by National Public Radio; animated short Seraph selected for 2013 Sundance Film Festival; animated series The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. aired on IFC.com (2009); solo exhibition of original writings and storyboards at Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center (2008); solo exhibition at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (2010); Harvey Award nominee: Best Graphic Album for Bottomless Belly Button (2009); Ignatz Award nomination in the category of Outstanding Story for Galactic Funnels (2008); drawings featured in the film Rabbit Hole (2010); Sundance Writing and Directing Labs Fellow (2010); Cullman Center Fellow (2Books of 2013 by National Public Radio; animated short Seraph selected for 2013 Sundance Film Festival; animated series The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. aired on IFC.com (2009); solo exhibition of original writings and storyboards at Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center (2008); solo exhibition at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (2010); Harvey Award nominee: Best Graphic Album for Bottomless Belly Button (2009); Ignatz Award nomination in the category of Outstanding Story for Galactic Funnels (2008); drawings featured in the film Rabbit Hole (2010); Sundance Writing and Directing Labs Fellow (2010); Cullman Center Fellow (2014).