Sentences with phrase «in screenplay for»

With three prior nominations in the acting categories and a win in Screenplay for Good Will Hunting, Matt Damon now has his first Best Picture nomination, as producer of the Casey Affleck - starring Manchester by the Sea.

In fact, all of the mothers in Bad Moms are treated in this exaggerated way, basically coming off as female versions of the man - children Lucas and Moore previously essayed in their screenplay for The Hangover (with Kathryn Hahn, as the proudly oversexed Carla, given Zach Galifianakis - style scene - stealing honors).

Hossein Amini, The Two Faces of January's writer - director, turned in the screenplay for Drive, the enthralling and utterly captivating film that somehow...

You wouldn't expect little Ghost Town to have come from someone who's had a hand in the screenplays for such high - profile blockbusters as Jurassic Park, Spider - Man, War of the Worlds, and the latest Indiana Jones movie.

Not exact matches

James Cameron nNet worth: $ 650M nCameron's (at left) film career has humble beginnings — the Avatar - director sold his screenplay for The Terminator for just one dollar in exchange for the opportunity to direct the film.

James Cameron Net worth: $ 650M Cameron's (at left) film career has humble beginnings — the Avatar - director sold his screenplay for The Terminator for just one dollar in exchange for the opportunity to direct the film.

The performances are so good, that both Steve Carell and Christian Bale have been nominated for Golden Globe Awards for «Best Actor in a Comedy» and McCay and Charles Randolph, who co-wrote the movie, were nominated for «Best Screenplay.»

It will be all but impossible for audiences to determine guilt or innocence, dereliction of duty or devotion to veracity, based strictly on the movie: Its screenplay was adapted by James Vanderbilt from Mapes» own memoir, Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power, in which she strenuously defends her work on what became known as «Rathergate» (or «Memogate»).

But the special purpose entity created for the production, in tracing the chain of title on «Silence,» became aware of a 2002 agreement that Cecchi Gori had made with an individual named Michael Gordon to write the «Silence» screenplay.

«For my feature screenplay, Personal Influence, I developed a vision book that invites my audiences and collaborators to share in the vision.»

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 movie, about a father dealing with the aftermath of his wife falling into a coma, was nominated for five Oscars in 2012, winning one for Best Adapted Screenplay.

And it's unlike any other book I've ever written, for in addition to the memoir, it includes original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay — all aimed at capturing the wonder and beauty of Scripture, while honoring the best in biblical scholarship and acknowledging the challenges of its most difficult passages.

Yes, it's Lindsey Lohan acting older than she is in a screenplay that is fitting for an older and more corrupted group than she needs to be with.

Last night, the 31 - year - old won the prize for Best Screenplay and Best Director, with his film winning Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, and its stars, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, winning Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

It's unlike any other I've written, for in addition to memoir, it includes original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay, all aimed at engaging your questions, doubts, ideas, and imagination as you wrestle with the Bible along with me.

Lee, who also wrote the screenplay for Frozen, is also known for her writing in Wreck - It Ralph and Zootopia.

Bell admits she wasn't coming from an open - minded place when she started writing the screenplay (she chose a contract of seven years is because she heard about German politician Gabriele Pauli's call for a renewable seven - year contract in 2007).

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.

11 — 30 Frost / Nixon, a play by Peter Morgan, who also co-wrote the award - winning screenplay for The Last King of Scotland, reenacts the famous 1977 interview in which British talk - show host David Frost extracted an on - air apology from Richard Nixon regarding his role in the Watergate scandal.

Named in honor of film director Stanley Kubrick, who co-wrote the screenplay for the film 2001: a Space Odyssey with Sir Arthur and directed the film version.

When you sell your next screenplay you can shell out for a Rolfing series - in the meantime, a group exorcism at Wanderlust will do just fine.

Friday the 13th, which currently has Prisoners «scribe, Aaron Guzikowski, penning the screenplay, has been a bumpy road for Friday fans in regards to getting a firm release date and any details as to what the plot will entail.

Open, ethical, straight playwright, screenplays, compose music, enjoy sensual play, kayak, bike, sailing, prefer traveling in Europe, Polynesia but I'm up for other.

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Tropper's screenplay, however, leaves the various performers with too little to do, as the scattered narrative results in a disappointing absence of satisfying character arcs for many of the movie's protagonists.

Boasting a strong cast, but an anemic screenplay, and an enthusiastic approach to lensing in the great outdoors, The Missing might not be one of the guy's very best movies, but he sure gets points in my book for trying something a little more... grown - up... this time around.

But in the capable hands of director David O. Russell («Three Kings,» «I Heart Huckabees»), working from a screenplay by Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, and Eric Johnson, Micky Ward's hardscrabble rise to the top — OK, to the middle — makes for a compelling underdog sports drama.

I was not one of A Beautiful Mind's historical accuracy Nazis, who used the film's marginalization of the real John Nash as a way to bash the film (for my money, it was the horrid screenplay and direction that made it such a painful film to watch, not its artistic rewriting of history), though the erasing of Turing in Enigma is rather distressing.

But as is often the case in Ron Howard's movies, the morals, the messages, and the barely - hidden subtext are beaten home with a leaden hammer, plus the screenplay (by Space Cowboys writer Ken Kaufman) leaves little to no room for subtlety or nuance.

He remains too detached to show much enthusiasm, except for times when the screenplay begins moralizing about what a sick world we live in.

Featuring a screenplay by no less than five writers, Flushed Away has clearly been geared to appeal primarily to small children - as evidenced by the film's emphasis on action - oriented set pieces and distinctly broad bits of comedy (there's even a fart joke thrown in for good measure).

All the illuminating mise - en - scene and framing in the world can't compensate for a screenplay that has some focus issues.

Stir of Echoes was based on a novel by Richard Matheson, whose work inspired such disparate films as Somewhere in Time and The Incredible Shrinking Man; it was written and directed by David Koepp, who wrote the screenplays for Jurassic Park and Mission: Impossible.

A poor screenplay and some dubious acting in subsidiary roles make for a misguided horror thriller.

At the same time, Cooper (who also wrote the screenplay) deserves credit for not providing much in the way of easy resolution and answers in Hostiles.

Williams Bowers was a guest speaker in the class, and we had read his wonderfully funny screenplay for Support Your Local Sheriff (1969), which had just finished shooting.

(Ian Holm was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor in his role as Abrahams» coach), and this powerful film ended up with four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Costume Design, and Best Original Score.

The musical's original creative team was brought into the screenwriting process and asked to write entirely new lyrics to fill in the screenplay's original narrative which even called for a new song («Suddenly»).

Megamind might well be loaded with big names (Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, David Cross, Brad Pitt), it does have the odd cheeky nod for the grown - ups - and it is presented in inglorious 3D - but it's also got a screenplay overflowing with charm, intelligence, wit and a real spark.

By the movie's midpoint, the Wachowski brothers» screenplay has gotten so bogged down in back story that it takes 40 minutes for director James McTiegue to get back to the explosions that his 16 - year - old target audience assumes will solve everything.

Something in the Air (also known as After May) won an award for its screenplay at the Venice festival, where critics liked the film, though perhaps not as much as Carlos.

Director Fatih Akin and Hark Bohm's screenplay for In the Fade is cleanly divided into three acts.

Pearce has also written a well - carpentered screenplay; there are some very big scenes and big moments here — sometimes too big — but he gives us a carefully crafted dramatic setup, an intriguingly curated selection of suspects for the crime and all of it building to a fascinating, finely balanced ambiguity in the movie's climactic stages.

The latest from writer - director Asghar Farhadi opened the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, but it was a disappointment from a director who has consistently impressed critics and jurors, and who was only two years removed from winning best screenplay for The Salesman at Cannes in 2016.

The screenplay by Ryan Engle («Rampage,» «The Commuter») squanders its potential for emotional depth, making Breaking In a serviceable, but indistinct product.

He is not demonized; in fact, the screenplay goes to great lengths to emphasize the tragedy of his genesis and how, were it not for the misguided actions of «good» people, he might never have become the man he became.

A majestic Mafia epic starring Brando as well as Al Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall, The Godfather was declared an instant classic, and its stature only grew in the years following its initial appearance.Coppola's next move was to write the screenplay for the 1974 adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

Contributing to screenplays for the great Polish directors Andrzej Wajda (Danton) and Krzysztof Kieslowski (Three Colors), Holland has spent most of the past quarter - century making films in the West, including adaptations of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden and Henry James» Washington Square.