Sentences with phrase «like best screenplay»
Somewhere seemed the kind of film that could be thrown a bone like Best Screenplay.
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Its most controversial aspect was the early decision to eschew a screenplay and have the movie follow, Pasolini - like, the Good News Bible's rendition of the Gospel of John word for word.
The Academy really didn't like Gone Girl much, as Gillian Flynn (who has been owning this category on the awards circuit) couldn't even get a screenplay nomination for adapting her own best - seller.
I am grateful that the Academy Awards uncharacteristically chose not to take this film's bait, opting to reward better films like Argo (Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay) and Life of Pi (Best Director).
There's a trailer out there that people seem to like, it has pedigree (writer - director Bill Condon adapted the screenplay for Chicago, another musical turned undeserved Best Picture winner), and it's been promoted with a certain amount of swagger.
It's no secret we really like Moonlight — and, thankfully, the Academy did too, giving it eight nominations: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Actress, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Score.
Either fans of the film are content perpetuating the myth that comedies, like Little Miss Sunshine, direct themselves, or they really think Juno is only as good as Diablo Cody's screenplay.
There's «Get Out» from Jordan Peele (which feels like a dark horse for Original Screenplay on a good day, though I'm sure many will work hard for Daniel Kaluuya and Betty Gabriel in acting categories) and «The Fate of the Furious» from F. Gary Gray («Straight Outta Compton»), but neither truly feel like they'll make a dent come awards season.
It was assumed it would get in here rather easily, but instead, it looks like it's effectively been eliminated from the competition, and subsequently for Best Picture (no nomination here equals no chance of winning the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, and nowadays no screenplay Oscar means no Best PictuScreenplay, and nowadays no screenplay Oscar means no Best Pictuscreenplay Oscar means no Best Picture Oscar).
Tom Schulman's screenplay is serviceable at best, but it does lay the ground work for actors like Jeff Goldblum and Eddie Murphy to do some of their best work.
But you never feel like you're watching a play on film: The way Morgan has opened up the proceedings in his screenplay feels organic under the direction of Ron Howard, who's crafted his finest film yet, and one of the year's best.
Loosely based on Walter Isaacson's best - selling biography with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin («The Social Network»), Danny Boyle's («127 Hours») Steve Jobs is not a conventional biopic of the famous co-founder of Apple Computers but is more like an impressionist painting — short strokes of paint that capture the essence of the subject rather than...
King wrote both the novella, Cycle of the Werewolf, and the much better named screenplay, but it's all completely ruined by awful special effects and either ham - fisted or lackluster performances by the likes of Gary Busey and the late Corey Haim, the kind of actors who were great in the right roles.
According to an article on Variety, there's not one but two writers who are currently in negotiations to write the screenplay for the Pikachu movie and if all goes well, it sounds like the two could be working together.
Writer and director Adam McKay made an impressive jump from directing feature comedies like Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Step Brothers to the real life The Big Short, even earning an Oscar nomination for Best Director and a win for Best Adapted Screenplay.
In honor of the movie's home video release (and before this weekend's Academy Awards, where it's nominated for Best Animated Feature), I spoke with Molina about the power of the film's music, how physically visiting a place like Monte Alban actually translates into a movie's screenplay, and much more.
No Call Me By Your Name for Best Screenplay or Best Director Luca Guadagnino's coming - of - age romance has been considered an Oscar frontrunner all year, and its international pedigree made it feel like a slam - dunk for several Golden Globe nominations.
«We would like to acknowledge and congratulate the filmmakers behind Straight Outta Compton and What Happened, Miss Simone who picked up nods in Best Original Screenplay and Featured Documentary, respectively.
Northern Playlist contributor Nikola Grozdanovic saw both parts, and found it «a remarkably well made relationship film,» using a «Rashomon «- like conceit cunningly across a «multi-layered, organically paced, delicate and quite often hilarious screenplay,» with a «perfect ensemble cast» led by Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy, with Isabelle Huppert, Ciaran Hinds, Bill Hader, Viola Davis, William Hurt and Jess Weixler among those in support.
Like all good suspense stories, the screenplay relies on an ominous musical score and overcast, rain - soaked scenes to propel the story along.
In my opinion I would really like to see who wins best adapted screenplay.
Best Picture may be tough with the 5 % rule and Original Screenplay tends to offer up some head - scratching surprises like Dirty Pretty Things and Frozen River being nominated in their respective years.
It sounds like a change of pace, though NASA's tireless efforts to get the Apollo 11 mission off the ground, which is reportedly the subject of Spotlight writer Josh Singer's screenplay, could align well with Chazelle's interest in obsession and single - minded pursuit of a goal.
Mann was honored to see her work used as the central piece of a film like this, and besides the critics» praise, her work gained recognition in the form of an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song («Save Me»), one of three Academy nominations the film received (Best Original Screenplay for Anderson, Best Supporting Actor for Cruise).
Plus, many of the best original screenplays of the year are from films that aren't such obvious contenders, like District 9 and Moon.
Terrible fanboy screenwriters who have never risen above rushed derivative hack screenplays that a good Hollywood writer like John Logan has to come in and try to fix.
The Best Original Screenplay nominees include Nebraska, Her, and American Hustle, while the Best Adapted category is filled out by the likes of Before Midnight, Captain Phillips, and The Wolf of Wall Street.
The film is very popular and well liked all around and is the only adapted screenplay that also has a Best Picture nomination, making it a shoo - in.
The Hurt Locker, as good as it is, doesn't really feel like a film that would win for screenplay, to me personally it felt more like a director's film.
The film — which also features the likes of Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Carla Bruni, Tom Hiddleston, Kathy Bates, Marion Cotillard and Adrien Brody — provided Allen with his biggest hit, banking over $ 145m at the global box office, and it will also contest the Golden Globe awards for Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor — Musical or Comedy (Wilson).
The screenplay, by the suddenly - ubiquitous Simon Kinberg (also the scribe behind the upcoming X-Men 3, Fantastic Four, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith — let me go on record first saying that this film does not bode well), is a foul compost of flaccid catchphrases and boggle - eyed declarations, squeezed like old cheese between action sequences so poorly conceptualized and executed that not only is it impossible to ever tell for a moment what the hell's going on, but the film also actually reminded me in its over-processed way of outtakes from Tron.
The simple jokes, like a shot of Rick and Fred passed out in their beds at the hotel room where they're staying for the week for an entire day after the tiring previous one, work best here, and the screenplay struggles as the pair completely loses focus on their goal.
The acclaimed and much rewarded writer of such screenplays as Moneyball, Steve Jobs, Charlie Wilson's War, A Few Good Men, his Oscar - winning The Social Network as well as creator and writer of TV shows like The West Wing and Sports Night tells me never once thought about stepping behind the camera to try his hand at directing until Molly Bloom came along.
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)
Schrader — who is best known for his screenplays for Martin Scorsese, but has also written and directed movies like American Gigolo, Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters, and Affliction — has never made anything as minimalist and contemplative as First Reformed, a film of empty spaces framed in boxy Academy ratio.
Nicole Holofcener, well - known for putting women front and center in numerous astute indies like Lovely & Amazing and Enough Said, adapted the screenplay from the novel by award - winning mystery writer Laura Lippman.
The group found places for some surprise and inspired nominations like Heal the Living in Adapted Screenplay as well as Columbus in a host of categories including Cinematography and Original Screenplay but missed a chance to reward Haley Lu Richardson or John Cho.
Prior to Beasts, Sundance darlings included films like Little Miss Sunshine and Juno which both won the Academy Award for the Best Original Screenplay without the assistance of a Cannes screening.
Weitz has done solid work in the past with his brother Chris Weitz on things like About a Boy (which got them a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination) and American Pie, while his solo filmmaking career has been nothing to sneeze at either with things like Being Flynn and In Good Company.
This year's Academy Awards were full of some great surprises, like Jordan Peele's historic Best Original Screenplay win for «Get Out.»
At best, the two seem like an ill - matched pair of idiots — and at worst, as mismatched as this very bad screenplay is with the film.
It also makes sense that, as is the case with Best Original Screenplay, The Grand Budapest Hotel seems to be one of the most well - liked films of the year.
In addition to his role as director, Wright — known for bitingly funny films like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End, as well as Scott Pilgrim vs. the World — cowrote the movie's script with Joe Cornish, who worked on the screenplay for The Adventures of Tintin and wrote and directed Attack the Block.
I've always loved Alexander Payne's uniquely quirky (but never twee, unlike Wes Anderson) sensibility, from films like Election, About Schmidt and Sideways to 2012 Oscar - nominee The Descendants (for which he, himself, won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay).
Rather than real life, the film feels like a screenplay come to life: never a good sign.
The only rather large disappointment of the evening was seeing Jordan Peele win Best Original Screenplay for the overrated «Get Out» over deserving nominees like «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri» and «Lady Bird.»
The best of the Thor movies feels like about five different screenplays grafted together, complete with several narrative detours that ultimately don't go anywhere all that interesting.
Like Campion, Coppola did not win the Academy Award for Best Director — that award went to Peter Jackson for «The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King» — but she did win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for «Lost in Translation.»
It's a screenplay that could be taught in screenwriting classes for how well it handles structure but also plays with narrative like when Ethan realizes that Jim is the mole, but he keeps his realization a secret.
Based on the different variations among recent Best Picture winners, why couldn't a film like Get Out or Lady Bird «only» win Screenplay and then Best Picture?