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Navigating the complex codes of the yakuza ethos, he's guided by Ken (Takakura), a former gangster and brother of Mitchum's old flame, but betrayals and double crosses lie ahead in Paul Schrader's first feature screenplay, co-written with his brother Leonard and Robert Towne.

A Brooklyn crime drama with this cast, directed by Roskam and written by Lehane in his first feature screenplay (he's written some for HBO shows The Wire and Boardwalk Empire) should have been an event film for me, but The Drop ultimately remains a little too undercooked and over-familiar to amount to more than the sum of its parts.

#tbt to when all I listened to was the Cats the Musical soundtrack while writing my first feature screenplay.

Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden broke onto the scene in 2006 with their first feature screenplay Half Nelson.

Not exact matches

Here are just a few: Jordan Peele became the first African American to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out, and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won for Best Picture — a film featuring a female actor in the lead role hasn't won the category since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.

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Best Film: «Of Gods and Men» Best Director: Roman Polanski, «The Ghost Writer» Best Actor: Eric Elmosnino, «Gainsbourg» Best Actress: Sara Forestier, «The Names of Love» Best Supporting Actor: Michael Lonsdale, «Of Gods and Men» Best Supporting Actress: Anne Alvaro, «The Clink of Ice» Most Promising Actor: Edgar Ramirez, «Carlos» Most Promising Actress: Leïla Bekhti, «Tout ce qui brille» Best Original Screenplay: Baya Kasmi and Michel Leclerc, «The Names of Love» Best Adapted Screenplay: Robert Harris and Roman Polanski, «The Ghost Writer» Best Foreign Film: «The Social Network» Best Animated Feature: «The Illusionist» Best Documentary: «Oceans» Best First Film: «Gainsbourg» Best Cinematography: Caroline Champetier, «Of Gods and Men» Best Art Direction: Hugues Tissandier, «The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc - Sec» Best Costume Design: Caroline de Vivaise, «The Princess of Montpensier» Best Film Editing: Hervé de Luze, «The Ghost Writer» Best Sound: «Gainsbourg» Best Short Film: «Logorama»

Best Actor — Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant Best Actress — Brie Larson, Room Best Animated Film - Inside Out Best Body of Work — Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina, The Danish Girl, Testament of Youth Best Director — George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road Best Documentary - Amy Best First Feature — Alex Garland, Ex Machina Best Foreign Language Film - Son of Saul Best Original Screenplay - Spotlight Best Adapted Screenplay — Charles Randolph and Adam McKay, The Big Short Best Supporting Actor — Michael Keaton, Spotlight and Sylvester Stallone, Creed (tie) Best Supporting Actress — Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina Most Disappointing Film - Tomorrowland

Best Actor — Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea Best Actress — Amy Adams, Arrival Best Animated Film - Zootopia Best Body of Work — Amy Adams, Arrival, Nocturnal Animals Best Director — Damien Chazelle, La La Land Best Documentary - OJ: Made in America Best Ensemble Cast - Manchester by the Sea Best First Feature — Robert Eggers, The Witch Best Foreign Language Film - The Handmaiden Best Original Screenplay - Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea Best Adapted Screenplay — Eric Heisserer, Arrival Best Supporting Actor — Mahershala Ali, Moonlight Best Supporting Actress — Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea Most Disappointing Film - Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice

Best Actor - George Clooney - The Descendants Best Actress - Michelle Williams - My Week with Marilyn Best Animated Film - The Adventures of Tintin Best Director - Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist Best Documentary - Page One: Inside the New York Times Best First Feature - Martha Marcy May Marlene - Sean Durkin Best Foreign Language Film - The Skin I Live In The Not - So - Obviously Worst Film - Hangover Part II The Obviously Worst Film - Transformers: Dark of the Moon Best Screenplay (Original)- The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius Best Screenplay (Adaptation)- Moneyball - Aaron Sorkin Best Supporting Actor - Albert Brooks - Drive Best Supporting Actress - Octavia Spencer - The Help

The screenplay is the first by James C. Strouse, and despite it being clear the themes and archetypes that attracted Buscemi to the story, the finished film features vaguely defined characters that never become fully believable.

The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), It Happened One Night is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the early sound era, packed with clever situations and gags that have entered the Hollywood comedy pantheon and featuring two actors at the top of their game, sparking with a chemistry that has never been bettered.

Jonze both wrote and directed Her, making it his first solo feature screenplay.

Amy Heckerling's directorial debut (from the first screenplay written by Cameron Crowe) features an ensemble cast of then - unknown stars (including Nicolas Cage, Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Eric Stoltz, and...

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The film is also nominated for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay for the 2012 awards.

Writer - director Sara Colangelo expands her 2010 short film Little Accidents into her first full - length feature, which recently received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Screenfirst full - length feature, which recently received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First ScreenFirst Screenplay.

In a first for the studio, Linda Woolverton was hired to write the screenplay - before her, Disney's animated features had depended only on storyboarding.

Evidently, «The Grand Budapest Hotel» was conceived of with an old friend, but it will be the first feature - length screenplay that Anderson has penned that won't feature a co-authoring credit.

Best Feature: «The Wrestler» Best Director: Tom McCarthy, «The Visitor» Best Male Lead: Mickey Rourke, «The Wrestler» Best Female Lead: Melissa Leo, «Frozen River» Best Supporting Male: James Franco, «Milk» Best Supporting Female: Penelope Cruz, «Vicky Cristina Barcelona» Best Screenplay: «Vicky Cristina Barcelona» Best Cinematography: «The Wrestler» Best First Feature: «Synecdoche, New York» Best First Screenplay: «Milk» Best Foreign Film: «The Class» Best Documentary: «Man on Wire» Robert Altman Award: «Synecdoche, New York» John Cassavetes Award: «In Search of a Midnight Kiss» Lacoste Truer Than Fiction Award: Margaret Brown, «The Order of Myths» Piaget Producers Award: Heather Rae, «Frozen River» Someone to Watch Award: Lynn Shelton, «My Effortless Brilliance»

Screenwriter Carl Gottlieb (The Jerk, Jaws 2) takes his first stab at directing a feature film, based on the screenplay he co-wrote, and ends up making almost an extended version of the caveman sequence of History of the World Part I, which came out the same year.

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Cinephilia and Beyond claims to have gotten hold of a 1999 note written by the auteur to fellow filmmaker James Brooks, who helped Anderson fund his first feature - length film, Bottle Rocket, and wrote an introduction to Anderson's Rushmore screenplay, which was published by Faber & Faber.

Bryan Buckley is a long - time commercials director but first - time feature director who works here from a screenplay Rauch wrote with her husband, Winston.

Peele, helming his first feature, took home the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award and best screenplay honor.

Nightcrawler, is being predicted to snag a large haul of nominations in the form of Best Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Screenplay and First Feature, with most Gold Rush Gang members locking in votes for all or most of these.

The Palme D'Or: Blue is the Warmest Colour (a.k.a. La Vie d'Adele — Chapitre 1 & 2) by Abdellatif Kechiche (France) The Grand Prix: Inside Llewyn Davis by Ethan and Joel Coen (U.S.) The Jury Prize: Like Father, Like Son (a.k.a. Soshite Chichi Ni Naru) by Kore - Eda Hirokazu (Japan) Best Director: Amat Escalante (Mexico) for Heli Best Screenplay: A Touch of Sin (a.k.a. Tian Zhu Ding) by Jia Zhangke (China) Best Actor: Bruce Dern in Nebraska Best Actress: Bérénice Bejo in The Past (a.k.a. Le Passé) The Camera D'Or (for first feature): Ilo Ilo by Anthony Chen (Singapore)

After earning Best Picture and Best Director accolades at the Spirit Awards, Jordan Peele became the first black filmmaker to earn a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for his phenomenally successful debut feature, «Get Out.»

In celebration of The Disaster Artist movie release and The Room's 15 year anniversary, Co-star, line producer and former Wiseau roommate Greg Sestero is coming to town to present an exclusive behind the scenes documentary about the making of The Room, a live reading of this first edition of Tommy's screenplay, which features settings, dialogue and plot devices that never made it on screen!

It just so happens that the screenplay represents the first feature of Brad Copeland, who has written for «Grounded for Life», «Arrested Development», and, most recently, «My Name is Earl.»

Susan Sarandon and Gideon Adlon have come aboard the Focus Features drama Mustang, from French actress and first - time director Laure de Clermont - Tonnerre, who also co-wrote the screenplay.

This original and bizarre film by written by Charlie Kaufman (his first screenplay) and first time director Spike Jonze (featured in Three Kings and director of numerous music videos) defies any conventional description.

Independent Screenwriters from Cuba or diaspora working on their first or second feature screenplay.

Eligibility: The Screenwriters Intensive supports writers, writer / directors, and writer / director teams from underrepresented communities who are developing a first fiction feature screenplay.

Another film that pulled off multiple wins was The Witch, which won Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay for writer - director Robert Eggers.

The Chair, which is being submitted in the reality competition category at this year's Emmys, follows two first - time directors as they embark on the cinematic journey of creating a feature using the same original screenplay.

Early in the evening, tears were shed by Scott Cooper and Geoffrey Fletcher on stage as they accepted awards for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay respectively.

The film did not stop there though; Maggie Gyllenhaal was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and it won Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards.

This is the first feature - length screenplay from Michael Starrbury and it's a nice piece of writing, although some abrupt tonal shifts and sequences that run a bit too long hold it back from total greatness.

In 1992, he was nominated for best first feature & director for Slacker; 2002 was nominated for screenplay & director for Waking Life.

First - time feature director Richard Ramsey's screenplay is informed by the Song of Solomon — a reference that is hammered home throughout the overlong film courtesy of scripture - quoting voice - overs.

First Man features a screenplay co-written by Oscar winner Josh Singer (Spotlight) and Can You Ever Forgive Me?

«Half Nelson,» for best feature, director (Ryan Fleck), first screenplay (Anna Boden & Fleck), male lead (Ryan Gosling), female lead (Shareeka Epps)

The commentary featuring writer Megan Holley and producer Glenn Williamson nevertheless does a good job of telling the story of the film's making, mostly from Holley's perspective having a screenplay produced for the first time.

Key early kudos: Outstanding First Feature, Directors Guild of America; Best Original Screenplay, Writers Guild of America.

First - time feature helmer Penna wrote the screenplay with Ryan Morrison.

3 - The Wrestler (Best Feature, Best Cinematography, Best Actor) 2 - Milk (Best Supporting Actor, Best First Screenplay) 2 - Frozen River (Best Actress, Piaget Producers Award) 2 - Synecdoche, New York (Best First Feature, Best Ensemble)...

Best Debut as Director — New York Film Critics Online Breakout Filmmaker — Las Vegas Film Critics Best Original Screenplay — Final Draft Screenwriters Choice Awards Breakthrough Performance for Alicia Vikander (tie)-- New York Film Critics Online Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Los Angeles Film Critics Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Toronto Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Southeastern Film Critics Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Phoenix Critics Circle Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Chicago Film Critics Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Vancouver Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Kansas City Film Critics Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Austin Film Critics Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Central Ohio Film Critics Best Supporting Actor for Oscar Isaac — Online Film Critics Society Best Supporting Actor for Oscar Isaac — Florida Film Critics Circle Best First Feature — Toronto Film Critics Association Best First Feature — Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Best First Film — Austin Film Critics Best Science Fiction Film — Phoenix Critics Circle Best Horror / Sci - Fi Film — Las Vegas Film Critics Best Horror / Sci - Fi / Fantasy Film — Kansas City Film Critics Best Sci - Fi / Horror Film — Critics» Choice Award

Best Film: 12 Years a Slave Best Director: Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave Best Lead Female: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine Best Lead Male: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club Best Supporting Female: Lupita Nyong» o, 12 Years a Slave Best Supporting Male: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club Best Cinematography: Sean Bobbitt, 12 Years a Slave Best Screenplay: John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave Best Editing: Nat Sanders, Short Term 12 Best International Film: Blue Is The Warmest Color Best Documentary: 20 Feet from Stardom Best First Feature: Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station Best First Screenplay: Bob Nelson, Nebraska John Cassavetes Award: This Is Martin Bonner Robert Altman Award for Best Ensemble: Mud

Feature — «Precious» Actress — Gabby Sidibe Actor — Jeff Bridges Supporting Actress — Mo» nique Supporting Actor — Woody Harrelson Director — Lee Daniels Screenplay — «(500) Days of Summer» First Screenplay — «Precious» Cinematography — «A Serious Man» First Feature — «Crazy Heart» Foreign Film — «A Prophet» Documentary — «Anvil!