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In fact, domestic terrorists stealing chemical weapons were the subject of her first screenplay in 1995.
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Rogers was in his twenties when his first - ever screenplay was made, «Hope Floats,» the 1998 romance movie starring Sandra Bullock and Harry Connick Jr. that has since become a staple on cable TV.
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.
The Judd Apatow - produced comedy starring Kumali Nanjiani («Silicon Valley»), who co-wrote the screenplay with his girlfriend Emily V. Gordon), followed - up its impressive limited release run with a $ 7.6 million take in the first weekend of its wide release.
She is an ambitious mom who recently wrote her first screenplay for a project in a screenwriting class at the local college and, on a whim, submitted it to a writing contest.
Bridges moved to directing theater in 1966; he notched his first produced movie screenplay that same year with the Marlon Brando Western The Appaloosa (1966).
Wilders and Brackett's screenplay has some laughs, and Lubitsch knows how to get the most out of the least, but this movie was a mistake to make in the first place.
In 1962, Gelbart penned his first screenplay The Notorious Landlady, but his best - known screenplay from that era is A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, on which he collaborated with Burt Shevelove.
The problem is the screenplay, written by first - timer Dorothy Blyskal, who can't overcome the daunting hurdle that would face anyone trying to adapt this incident into a film: there's no story to tell until the thing happens, and once it happens, it's over in a few minutes.
Hitchcock / Truffaut director Kent Jones» first narrative feature won Best Narrative Feature, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography in the U.S. Narrative Feature Film section of the festival.
In 1968 he completed his first studio film, the box - office bomb Finian's Rainbow, followed the next year by The Rain People.When he was just 31, Coppola won his first Academy Award for his work on the screenplay of 1970's Patton.
During his time at Video Archives, the fledgling filmmaker began writing screenplays, completing his first, True Romance, in 1987.
It's ultimately clear that The Finest Hours is at its best in its relatively propulsive first half, as director Craig Gillespie, working from a script by Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, and Eric Johnson, does a nice job of establishing the the central characters and the dangerous circumstances in which they find themselves - with the screenplay, which also emphasizes the ongoing exploits of Bernie's girlfriend (Holliday Grainger's Miriam), generally juggling the various narrative threads to seamless effect.
This is a much different project, of course, both in terms of setting and story, and the screenplay could use more narrative focus in its first half.
However, in the second half of the film, Amiel and the stately screenplay (by John Collee, «Master and Commander») turn their attention to the saga of Annie, and how her catastrophic illness shattered Charles, his marriage (Charles and Emma were first cousins, a fact that kept the scientist forever paranoid about the health of his children), and the very questions posed in the book.
Granted, if everyone was killed in the first fifteen minutes, there wouldn't be much of a movie, but a good screenplay would have at least offered up a token explanation.
Married three times, Virginia Bruce's first husband was silent screen idol John Gilbert, with whom she costarred in Downstairs (1932), an obscure but lively melodrama for which Gilbert had written the screenplay.
Watching Tetro, Coppola's first original screenplay in some 30 years, is like eavesdropping on someone's dream.
This film isn't just Mini's first time in a relationship, but it also marks the first time in filmmaking for director Nick Guthe, who also provides the snappy screenplay.
Certainly fans can rest assured that Fantastic Beasts is no conveyor - belt cash - in — with David Yates, the director of the final four Harry Potter films, at the helm and a script penned by Rowling herself (her first credited screenplay).
The screenplay is also written by Oren Moverman, adapting from the novel by Herman Koch, first published in 2009.
There is a brief stop at an art fair in France, where the beautiful Monique (Cecile De France) insists on joining their expedition and can not be dissuaded; we think at first she has a nefarious motive, but no, she's probably taken a class in screenplay construction and knows that the film requires a sexy female lead.
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).
Noomi Rapace, who starred as Elizabeth Shaw in the first film, reveals to The Playlist that they're currently working on the screenplay.
For the first time in Oscar history, an African - American won for screenplay and... it wasn't much of a surprise.
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
In the testosterone - drenched film The Drop, director Michaël Roskam uses Dennis Lehane's screenplay (his first), a fine supporting role from James Gandolfini (his last),...
Writer / director Jordan Peele was recognized in the Best Original Screenplay and Best First Film categories for Get Out.
Deadline reports that Shyamalan is in talks to re-team with his The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable star Bruce Willis for Labor of Love, which is one of the first screenplays that Shyamalan sold early in his career.
Greta Gerwig, the first female nominee in the Best Director category in eight years, lost to del Toro as well as Jordan Peele for Get Out in the Best Original Screenplay category.
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What easily could have been the formula for a run of the mill romantic comedy is heightened and finely tuned by a smart script that has clearly been helped by nine years of rewrites since the screenplay was first conceived as «Divorce Comedy» in 2003.
What seemed like a three - way race in Original Screenplay at the Oscars between La La Land, Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight is now just between the first two (who tied at the Critics Choice Awards this weekend).
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden broke onto the scene in 2006 with their first feature screenplay Half Nelson.
Suzanne de Passe was the first black woman nominated for an original screenplay Oscar in 1973, for co-writing «Lady Sings the Blues.»
What It Could Win: Ang Lee, who took home the Best Director Academy Award in 2013 for Life of Pi, is a frontrunner once again, seemingly providing the movie Best Picture heft, while the rest of the categories — first - time screenwriter Jean - Christophe Castelli for Best Adapted Screenplay?
The Grand Budapest Hotel: Wes Anderson has his best ever shot at the Oscars this year, with his first Directing and Picture nominations to go along with his third Screenplay nomination (he was also nominated for Best Animated Film in 2009).
Our money here is on writer Allan Loeb becoming a first - time nominee in the Best Original Screenplay field.
After winning Best First Film from the New York Film Critics Circle and Best Screenplay from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the movie's showing here is yet another indication that it will be a strong player in year - end polls and next year's various awards.
Alice Rohrwacher's follow - up to her Grand Jury Prize — winning «The Wonders» shared the Best Screenplay award with Jafar Panahi's «3 Faces,» and Lukas Dhont's film won both the Camera d'Or for best first film and Best Actor laurels in the Un Certain Regard section for Victor Polster.
Screenwriter David Seidler wrote a stage treatment «as a way to work out the relationships among the characters for himself», according to his manager Jeff Aghassi in an interview last year with The New York Times, though the screenplay is believed to have come first.
But first - time screenwriter J.K. Rowling could get some attention in the Best Adapted Screenplay field.
FUN FACTS: - This is the first time we see the face of Blofeld, even though he has made appearances in the previous movies - The screenplay was written by notable children's author Roald Dahl - The title theme song was written by John Barry and Leslie Bricusse and performed by Nancy Sinatra.
With the screenplay written by Sylvester Stallone, who first established worldwide recognition as a writer when his screenplay Rocky, won the Academy Award ® in 1976 for Best Picture, Homefront is based on the book by Chuck Logan.
It has been an exceptional franchise in that its global grosses continue to grow with each new installment, with Clint Culpepper's Screen Gems releasing in the U.S. Anderson, who wrote all the screenplays, directed the first film, skipped the next two and returned to direct the last three 3D efforts.
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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.
The screenplay sheds some interesting insights to Norman's psyche, yet somehow it is a tad boring to witness events that are of little surprise to anyone that has seen at least the first film in the series.
Following that coincidence was another, the second award of the night was given to Emma Donoghue for Best First Screenplay for her work in Room, which just happen to be presented by the adorable co-star of that film, Jacob Tremblay.