Sentences with phrase «earned best screenplay»

In 1980 Sayles» first directorial effort «Return of the Secaucus 7» earned the Best Screenplay award from the Los Angeles Film Critics, as well as an Oscar nomination for original screenplay.

In addition to winning the biggest prize as selected by the Seattle Film Critics Society, Jenkins was named Best Director and his screenplay, co-written with Tarell Alvin McCraney, earned Best Screenplay honors.

Ramsay was the only other woman to win a top non-acting award, earning Best Screenplay for her film, You Were Never Really Here; she shared the prize with Greek filmmakers Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou for their movie, The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

Not exact matches

Netflix's critically acclaimed original drama «Mudbound» earned four nominations for the company, including nods for best supporting actress (Mary J. Blige) and best adapted screenplay (writer - director Dee Rees).

Peck was one of the many stars who appeared in How the West Was Won (1962), which earned James Webb a «Best Original Screenplay» award.

But it was back in sword - and - sandal territory that Franzoni fully realized his affection for historical - based adventure, collaborating with John Logan and William Nicholson on the screenplay for Ridley Scott's Gladiator, for which the trio earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Sscreenplay for Ridley Scott's Gladiator, for which the trio earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original ScreenplayScreenplay.

Alas, Tarantino didn't earn another Best Director nod, but at least he took home a trophy this time, as he won the Best Screenplay award.

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.

Andrei Zvyagintsev's follow - up to Elena earned some of the best reviews of the Cannes Film Festival (yes, that's a 99 you see) and picked up the festival's best screenplay award.

Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour) picked up another Best Actor win and Jordan Peele (Get Out) earned their Original Screenplay award.

Chandor's debut feature, which earned him a Best Original Screenplay nomination at the Academy Awards, was a claustrophobic ensemble drama that related the bankruptcy of a Lehman Brothers analogue with elaborate, yet somewhat clunky, dialogue.

The movie is one of two Lelio dramas heading to TIFF this year; the other is «A Fantastic Woman,» which earned acclaim at Berlin and won Lelio the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay.

His film would earn 8 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, winning two for its screenplay and editing.

«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.

The film did earn Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Ali), Supporting Actress (Naomie Harris) and Original Screenplay.

The coming - of - age film also earned the coveted Best Screenplay honor along with the Special Gotham Jury award and IFP Gotham Audience award.

The playwright - turned - filmmaker made his cinematic debut with «In Bruges,» which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

«Room» earned the Best Adapted Screenplay Prize, and also was recognized for the top two performances of the year: Brie Larson for Best Actress and Jacob Tremblay for Best Actor.

Humorous reinterpretations of Shakespeare (as well as original screenplays) proved to be auspicious for Stoppard once again, when the costume comedy Shakespeare In Love (1998), about a blocked Will Shakespeare and his Juliet-esque inspiration, earned Stoppard and Marc Norman the Best Original Screenplay Oscar.

«Her,» which was the runner - up for Best Film, made a strong showing with Spike Jonze earning the award for Best Original Screenplay.

2005's semi-autobiographical The Squid and the Whale is a perceptive, and pitiless, look at a family in crisis, one that earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

Fox Searchlight's The Shape of Water tops the nominations list with eleven nominations including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay while Lady Bird earns nine nominations and Dunkirk earns eight.

It grossed more than $ 225 million worldwide and earned nine Academy Awards nominations — winning for best supporting actor for Robin Williams and, of course, best original screenplay for Affleck and Damon.

Manchester by the Sea earned two BAFTAs, one for Kenneth Lonergan's original screenplay and also Casey Affleck for Best Actor.

Oscar frontrunner «Spotlight» also earned nominations where it could in Best Feature and Screenplay.

La La Land won all seven awards it was nominated for, with the retro musical earning Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy; Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for Emma Stone; Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for Ryan Gosling; Best Director, Motion Picture, and Best Screenplay, Motion Picture, for Damien Chazelle; Best Original Score, Motion Picture for Justin Hurwitz; and Best Original Song, Motion Picture for Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's «City of Stars.»

«Big Short» not only snuck into the Best Picture category but it earned McKay a Best Director nod, an Adapted Screenplay nomination (shared with Charles Randolph) and the film took an Editing slot as well.

As for snubs, sadly «Room» only earned a Best Actress nomination for Brie Larson, «Love & Mercy» was shut out of Best Feature (it earned a screenplay nod), «Anomalisa» should have earned a screenplay nod (it didn't) and Sundance Grand Prize and Audience Award winner «Me and Earl and the Dying Girl» was forgotten.

Writer and director Adam McKay made an impressive jump from directing feature comedies like Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Step Brothers to the real life The Big Short, even earning an Oscar nomination for Best Director and a win for Best Adapted Screenplay.

In its smooth marriage of inspirational sports drama and comfort - food rom - com, the film charmed audiences, gave Kevin Costner what's arguably his definitive role (that «I believe» monologue alone) and rightfully earned writer - director Ron Shelton a Best Screenplay Oscar nomination.

Barry Jenkins is a breakout contender for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, and Trevante Rhodes is already earning Best Actor buzz.

This is the Greek director's second English - language feature after The Lobster, which earned a much - deserved best - screenplay nomination last year.

The India - born, British - raised Radford became a double nominee for Director and Adapted Screenplay on the 1990s Italian film Il Postino (The Postman), the rare foreign language production to earn a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars.

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.

A Fish Called Wanda was an $ 8 million movie that became a $ 100 million smash worldwide, won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Kevin Kline, and earned Best Director and Best Screenplay nominations for director Charles Crichton and co-writer John Cleese.

The film, speculatively autobiographical in some of its components, earned Coppola the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 2004.

The screenplay (by Sicario's Taylor Sheridan) has earned well - deserved praise for its dialogue, but is just as impressive for the richly novelistic structure it gives to a fairly straightforward tale of crime and pursuit.

Leigh earned best director and screenplay for his humanistic comedy,» Happy go Lucky» which picked up two more awards.

«The Post» earns top honors, with Best Picture, Best Director (Steven Spielberg), Best Drama and Best Original Screenplay, and «I, Tonya» is the recipient of Best Actress (Margot Robbie), Best Supporting Actress (Allison Janney), Best Comedy and Best Film Editing.

The studio ceased tracking on the day the Academy Award nominations were announced, with only a Best Original Screenplay nod earned.

«Midnight in Paris» (Sony), the grown - up romantic fantasy that unexpectedly became Woody Allen's most financially successful film ever, earned four nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.

Stillman's deft, literate dialogue and hilariously highbrow observations earned this first film an Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay.

The Oscars already snubbed Martin McDonagh once with the Best Director nominations, but the Irish writer - director was at least expected to earn a Best Original Screenplay win for his awards favorite Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Their sixth movie as auteurs, 1996's Fargo, brought the brothers a whole new level of recognition, earning them a Best Original Screenplay Oscar and their first Best Picture nomination.

Along with a best picture nod in comedy, it earned nominations for Ralph Fiennes as best actor, and Wes Anderson for screenplay and director.

Allen's previous romantic / comedy, Midnight in Paris (2011), did pretty well with the Academy, however, earning nominations for Picture, Director, Art Direction (now Production Design), and Original Screenplay (for which it won).

It earned two Golden Globe nominations: Best Screenplay and Best Actress - Drama.

Alexander Payne is on some kind of hot streak, with all four of his major features receiving Oscar nominations and his last two (Sideways and The Descendants) both earning Best Picture nominations and taking home statues for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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It also earned him some of the best reviews of his career, with aggregate scores matching those of his Original Screenplay Oscar - nominated The Squid and the Whale and Anderson's stop - motion Fantastic Mr. Fox.