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I feel like this race is between that film and James White so if I predict James White then Diary gets First Screenplay over Room.

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.

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.

Compare that with Hannah, the co-writer of «The Post,» who's getting major accolades for her first screenplay (though she had an assist from «Spotlight» scribe Singer).

Writer / director Jordan Peele was recognized in the Best Original Screenplay and Best First Film categories for Get Out.

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.

Park brought the DP Chung - hoon Chung, his regular cinematographer since Oldboy, but the rest of the talent was provided by the producers, from the stars to ace production designer Thérèse DePrez (wooed by hardcore indies as well as studio executives), including the actor Wentworth Miller, who signs here his first screenplay (and gets a production credit).

Jordan Peele had to dig deep to get the horror - satire «Get Out» to the screen, and his reward was the first original screenplay Oscar for an African - Americget the horror - satire «Get Out» to the screen, and his reward was the first original screenplay Oscar for an African - AmericGet Out» to the screen, and his reward was the first original screenplay Oscar for an African - American.

But first - time screenwriter J.K. Rowling could get some attention in the Best Adapted Screenplay field.

Her latest, Laggies, is her first directorial outing where Shelton has not also written the screenplay (Andrea Siegel gets her first credit instead), which divorces the film from a body of work largely improvised and often careening off the cuff to mostly enjoyable effect.

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.

Josh Heald, who conceived the first film and shared screenplay credit with the duo of Sean Anders and John Morris, gets no credited help this time around.

While praising Jordan Peele for becoming only the third person to be nominated for Best Directing, Screenplay and Picture for his debut film, Kimmel joked, «None other than President Trump called Get Out the best first three - quarters of a movie this year.»

The writer and director of «Get Out» on Sunday, March 4, won an Oscar for his first film, taking a best original screenplay statue for the sociological thriller about a black man who meets his white girlfriend's family and finds a house of racial horrors.

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Guadagnino also touches on the long development process for his films, working with 87 - year - old James Ivory who wrote the Call Me by Your Name screenplay and was at one time going to direct, ageism in the business, his muse Tilda Swinton, and getting roundly booed in Venice with his first film.

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.»

The Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) announced its 2017 awards today, with Jordan Peele's «Get Out» winning Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, and Best First Film.

Perhaps the first sign that something was amiss at the Golden Globe nominations this morning was that neither Get Out nor Call Me by Your Name — both considered Oscar front - runners — received nominations for their lauded screenplays.

His script for Get Out, a movie he said he stopped writing about 20 times because he thought it «wasn't going to work,» won the award for Best Original Screenplay, making Peele the first black filmmaker to receive that honor.

Other winners included Paul Thomas Anderson for his screenplay to «Phantom Thread» and Jordan Peele's horror hit «Get Out» for best first film.

First we got to learn that Nicole Perlman and Alex Hirsch are to write the Detective Pikachu screenplay, and now we get to learn about its Director.

The well - received film garnered major acclaim from critics and got Weitz his first Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Arguably Spike Lee's best film (although some might make the case for She's Got ta Have It, Four Little Girls, Bamboozled, School Daze or The Original Kings of Comedy), this refreshingly - frank exploration of black - white relations earned Spike his first Academy Award nomination (in the Original Screenplay category).

How something so indebted to dozens upon dozens of other films can't get the imitation right buggers the imagination, providing a nation of yearning hacks that dulcet feeling of hope that results in a few more horrifically inept screenplays (produced and directed with commensurate incompetence) just like this one probably in the first half of 2004 alone.

This is Kazan's first screenplay credit, but we have no reservations on the quality of her work: her Off - Broadway play «We Live Here» unfortunately drew comparisons to the often histrionic and extravagant «Rachel Getting Married» for sharing a similar plot, but the former was actually a much stronger and subtler work without all of the miserablist Oscar - beggar mayhem.

Personally would have dumped Flight, which had a screenplay that tended to drift toward schmaltz and didn't quite earn its ending, for something exciting that wouldn't win, such as Rian Johnson's Looper script, which would get the Inception treatment (i.e. nerds love that it got nominated and rage when it doesn't win, even though it never had a chance in the first place) from a couple years ago.

The screenplay by Gideon Defoe (based on the first two books in his series about these characters) gets far more mileage out of these characters when they are simply mucking about — getting into arguments about the best part of a pirate's life, sailing while leaving behind red dots in the water so that their progress can be seen on a map, and otherwise doing very silly things for no reason more than that they must.

In one of the better moments of last night's Academy Awards ceremony, Jordan Peele made history as the first ever black recipient of the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out.

Another was Get Out's Jordan Peele, who became the first black director to be nominated for Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture in one year, and the first black director to have his debut film nominated in all three of those categories.

The superhero genre just got its first - ever screenplay nomination with Logan this year.

The former Comedy Central star took home a historic win for Get Out, becoming the first black writer to win Best Original Screenplay.

Marshall Flores, proofreader and stats whiz and the first to call a potential win for Get Out in screenplay and its Best Picture nomination.

It doesn't alter the standard serial killer scenario, but writer - director Scott Frank knows his way around crime dramas: Seven of his first eight screenplays (including «Out of Sight» and «Get Shorty») were crime - based, and he marches us forward with grim skill toward the melodramatic ending.

I had the chance to speak with Villeneuve about the impressions he had on his first read of the screenplay (Sons of Anarchy actor and first - time scribe Taylor Sheridan is also seeing his second screenplay Comancheria being directed by another noteworthy auteur in David MacKenzie with Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster on the scorecard) and I got a little insight on what he was looking for in Sicario's score (here he reteams with his Jóhann Jóhannsson who scored Prisoners).

Best Picture: «Lady Bird» Best Actor: Timothée Chalamet, «Call Me By Your Name» Best Actress: Saoirse Ronan, «Lady Bird» Best Supporting Actor: Willem Dafoe, «The Florida Project» Best Supporting Actress: Tiffany Haddish, «Girls Trip» Best Director: Sean Baker, «The Florida Project» Best Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson, «Phantom Thread» Best Cinematographer: Rachel Morrison, «Mudbound» Best Foreign Film: «BPM (Beats Per Minute)» by Robin Campillo Best Animated Film: «Coco» (Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina) Best Documentary: «Faces Places» (Agnès Varda) Best First Film: «Get Out» (Jordan Peele)

Among racial strides: Jordan Peele is the fifth black Best Director nominee ever for «Get Out,» and Dee Rees, the first black woman to be up for Best Adapted Screenplay as the co-writer of «Mudbound.»

Farrell was first to get on board when the screenplay, co-scripted with the director's usual writing partner Efthymis Filippou, was finished; the actor, who starred in Lanthimos's last film The Lobster, recalled how he felt «perturbed, confused and ultimately moved» when he read it, just as he had been by their previous collaboration.

Last year Focus Features» parent Universal Pictures sneaked the Blumhouse title Get Out at midnight Tuesday last year, which kicked off a roaring box office whirlwind of $ 255M worldwide for the socially - conscious horror title and a year long - plus awards season march which hasn't stopped including two Golden Globe noms (comedy, lead actor), two SAG noms (ensemble cast and lead actor Daniel Kaluuya), Critics Choice wins for best horror film and Jordan Peele's screenplay, two DGA nominations for best picture and first time feature by Peele, as well as the Stanley Kramer honor at last night's PGAs.

His sci - fi thriller Inception broke through the barrier of earnestness to the best picture category in 2011 and it scored him a second screenplay nod (the first was for Memento) but it looks like he might finally get the ultimate recognition for his next film Dunkirk.

Kimmel noted that Get Out writer - director Jordan Peele is one of only three people to be nominated for three major categories in his directorial debut, and Peele also became the first black writer to win the award for Best Original Screenplay.

Marty (Colin Farrell), has been working for while on a Hollywood screenplay called «Seven Psychopaths «but he hasn't got past the first page and has developed a reliance on alcohol to see him through it.

#OscarsSoWhite No More -LRB-- ish) Almost a year to the day after the Sundance sneak - peek premiere of Get Out, Jordan Peele made history this morning, becoming the first black director nominated for Picture, Director and Screenplay for his debut film.

Jordan Peele won for his script to his horror sensation «Get Out,» becoming the first African - American to win for best original screenplay.

Meanwhile, «Get Out» mastermind Jordan Peele became the first black screenwriter to take home a best original screenplay Oscar Sunday night.

A number of the night's winners were first - time nominees including Jordan Peele, who won the Oscar for original screenplay for his horror satire «Get Out.»