Sentences with phrase «for best screenplay»

Hell or High Water, also up for Best Screenplay, is represented in the Best Supporting Actor category by Jeff Bridges, who looks to edge out Moonlight's Mahershala Ali and Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges.

Joining Hell or High Water's Taylor Sheridan as the other nominees for Best Screenplay are Barry Jenkins for Moonlight and Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester by the Sea.

In fact, this is only the second year this century (the other being 2005) that neither a Hong nor a Johnnie To / Wai Ka - fai film is nominated for Best Screenplay.

A Fox Searchlight project, the film premiered this year at Venice's film festival, taking home the award for best screenplay.

Curious lack of love at the Césars for «Atlantic City»... Only nominated for Best Screenplay and Best Music.

Nominated for best screenplay at the Gotham Awards, this self - reflective film combines themes and notions of Lost in Translation with last year's Patterson.

Most significantly for this review, the BloodGuts UK Awards nominated Stearns for Best Screenplay and Orser and Winstead for Best Actor and Best Actress at the 2014 London FrightFest Film Festival.

«Before Midnight» released in June and received two Spirit Awards nominations for Best Screenplay (Delpy, Hawke, and Linklater) and Best Female Lead (Delpy).

Winner of the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Cinematography as well as Golden Globes for Best Screenplay and Best Actor in 2014, Birdman will sit solidly on our list making it strongly probable that it will remain in the Top 50 for the rest of the decade.

It premiered in main competition at Berlinale 2017, where it won the Silver Bear for best screenplay and the Teddy Award for best film with LGBT subject matter.

Nominated for three Academy Awards, including for Best Screenplay for Kaufman, Being John Malkovich follows a puppeteer who discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of the movie star John Malkovich.

Jordan Peele's «Get Out» took home top honors for Best Feature and Best Director, while Greta Gerwig snagged the award for Best Screenplay for «Lady Bird.»

Special Features: N / A Total Box Office: $ 2,133,158 Major Awards: Nominated for Best Screenplay at the Gotham Awards

The film earned Kaufman his second Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay, two acting nominations, and a win for Chris Cooper for Best Actor.

Yet the film was still nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay, so maybe it was just me, but I like I said I still enjoyed it.

A Fantastic Woman has been scoring rave reviews ever since it won the Silver Bear award for Best Screenplay at Berlin International Film Festival last year, winning immense praise for its showstopping central performance from transgender actress and singer Daniela Vega

In fact, it won every award it was nominated for except for Best Screenplay.

Ingrid Jungermann was nominated for the Independent Spirit Someone to Watch Award for her debut feature «Women Who Kill,» which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won the Jury Prize for Best Screenplay.

That's the secret to the success of Joel and Ethan Coen's masterpiece, Fargo (1996), which was nominated for a boatload of Oscars and won two, for Best Screenplay (by the Coens) and Best Actress for Frances McDormand, who plays Margie.

Emma Donoghue was nominated for Best Screenplay for Room, which she adapted from her own award - winning book.

I'm also not sure about District 9 for best screenplay.

It was nominated for the Oscar for Best Screenplay (as well as winning TEN Australian Film Institute Awards, including Best Film) and really put Beresford on the map.

Along with the movie getting the Audience Award and his win for Best Screenplay, Peele also received the Breakthrough Director Award.

It also spun Spacey's career into a whole new orbit, earning him an Oscar win for Best Supporting Actor (the film also won an Oscar for Best Screenplay).

In the end, I guess no one is really that upset about it b / c Almodovar himself won an Oscar for Best Screenplay — that is better than the best foreign film that technically goes to the country and not the individual filmmaker, so he kinda got the last laugh in that regard.

The film received rave reviews and won the award for Best Screenplay at Sundance last year.

The biggest Oscar heavy to land nominations was Thomas McCarthy's «Spotlight,» for best screenplay and best feature.

«Spotlight» screenwriters McCarthy and Josh Singer are also in the running for best screenplay.

In film, «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» garnered four trophies, including best drama, McDonagh for best screenplay, best actress for Frances McDormand as a mother seeking justice for her murdered daughter, and best supporting actor for Sam Rockwell as the hot - tempered, dim - witted sheriff's deputy who is supposed to leading the investigation.

The film was nominated for Best Feature — Comedy at the Golden Globe Awards and earned them an Independent Spirit Award and a Golden Satellite Award for Best Screenplay of the Year.

It won the Waldo Salt Award for best screenplay at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

Kevin Kline was the only member of the cast nominated for the American Oscars, and his win for Best Supporting Actor was the film's only Oscar win, despite also being nominated for Best Screenplay and Best Director.

You can also add on McDonagh's major Golden Globe win for Best Screenplay and BAFTA win for Best Original Screenplay to further cement him as the lead contender for the Oscar.

Aaron Sorkin has been nominated for best screenplay, and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross together have been nominated for best original score.

Along with its nomination for best motion picture, The King's Speech is in the running to take home the most awards with Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush up for best supporting actress and actor, Tom Hooper nominated for best director, David Seidler in line for best screenplay, and Alexandre Desplat having been nominated for best score.

In the last two years, wins in key categories at the Indie Spirits have also synced with the Oscars: At the 2014 ceremony, 12 Years a Slave took best feature, Matthew McConaughey took best actor for Dallas Buyers Club, Cate Blanchett won best actress for Blue Jasmine, Jared Leto took the best supporting actor trophy for Dallas Buyers Club, Lupita Nyong» o won best supporting actress for 12 Years a Slave as well as the film's screenwriter John Ridley for best screenplay.

At least it was nominated, although it converted only one of its nine nods into an award (for best screenplay) and lost in the best picture category to John Ford's family saga How Green Was My Valley.

The director race ended in a tie between «Carlos» helmer Olivier Assayas and David Fincher, whose «The Social Network» pulled in wins for Best Screenplay and, ultimately, Best Picture.

Prior to their Oscar wins in respective categories, 12 Years a Slave took best feature, Matthew McConaughey took best actor for Dallas Buyers Club, Cate Blanchett won best actress for Blue Jasmine, Jared Leto took the best supporting actor trophy for Dallas Buyers Club, Lupita Nyong» o won best supporting actress for 12 Years a Slave as well as the film's screenwriter John Ridley for best screenplay.

And now Carol has become one of the most talked about awards contenders of the year across a range of categories.To see an exclusive featurette about Nagy, who recently won the New York Film Critics award for Best Screenplay, just click on the video link above.

When I was nominated for Best Screenplay for «In Bruges», I had a relaxing time, because I had one already.

Two of them took home awards: Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki's neo-realistic child poverty drama «Capernaum,» which won the Jury Prize, and Italian director Alice Rohrwacher's farm boy fable «Happy as Lazzaro,» which tied with Panahi's «Three Faces» for best screenplay.

McDonagh has already won an Oscar for his short film Six Shooter in 2006 (and was nominated for Best Screenplay for In Bruges in 2008), and along with his stellar cast, he is surely in line for more honors in the coming year.

The Working Title «rom zom com» was a sleeper box office success; was nominated for two BAFTA Awards, including Outstanding British Film of the Year; and won the British Independent Film Award (BIFA) for Best Screenplay.

The Russian director already won an award for Best Screenplay in 2014 for Leviathan and was awarded the...

Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou have picked up the award for Best Screenplay at the closing ceremony of the 70th Cannes Film Festival for the Irish - backed The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

Then came The Witches of Eastwick in 1987 and the intimate drama Lorenzo's Oil in 1992, starring Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte, which picked up Oscar nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Actress.

«Safety Not Guaranteed» If the Academy still remembers this gem from earlier in the year there's a good chance it will be nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar.

Other winners included Warwick Thornton's Australian Western «Sweet Country,» which won a Special Jury Prize, and McDonagh's «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» which took the trophy for best screenplay.

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).