Sentences with phrase «of best screenplay»

In fact, no film can win more than two prizes and if a film is awarded two is must be a combination of Best Screenplay or the Jury Prize with a Best Performance award, with a special dispensation of the Festival's President.

The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, winner of the Best Screenplay award at this year's Cannes, arrives in UK cinemas this week, just weeks after an enthusiastic reception at this year's London Film Festival.

Not sure it'll sweep the boards at the Oscars, but can see it'll pick up a few awards - certainly I think it's worthy of a best screenplay nomination.

The TIFF win comes on the heels of best screenplay honours for Three Billboards at the Venice Film Festival.

From writer / director Stephen Gaghan, winner of the Best Screenplay Academy Award ® for Traffic, comes Syriana, a political thriller that unfolds against the intrigue of the global oil industry.

Richard Gere is Norman, a New York fixer in this Israeli - American drama from writer - director Joseph Cedar (winner of Best Screenplay at Cannes 2011 for Hearat Shulayim).

Winner of Best Screenplay and Best Actor (Luchini) at the 2015 Venice Film Festival....

Writer / Producer Alexander Dinelaris, Writer / Associate Producer Armando Bo, Writer / Director / Producer Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Writer / Associate Producer Nicolas Giacobone, winners of Best Screenplay Award for «Birdman» pose in the... More

They've supplied Howard with a nifty story idea (by David Saperstein), two - thirds of a good screenplay (Tom Benedek), and a cast unmatched for professionalism and appeal, if not marquee clout: Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Don Ameche, Gwen Verdon, Maureen Stapleton, Jack Gilford, Brian Dennehy, and Steve Guttenberg.

But how many know that he's also behind a couple of the best screenplays written over the last decade?

Not exact matches

«Moonlight,» the coming of age tale of a young black boy in Miami, also won the best adapted screenplay statuette, while grief - driven independent drama «Manchester by the Sea» took home original screenplay.

A similar case to EuropaCorp's «Kursk,» the true story of a Russian submarine that sank in the Barents Sea in 2000 and killed everyone on board; though Putin had a significant role in the events, appears in the source material of Robert Moore's best - seller «A Time to Die,» and even featured in early versions of the screenplay, he's nowhere to be found in the finished film.

Notably, The Big Short won best adapted screenplay at the Writers Guild Awards and also took the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards, which has predicted the Academy's Best Picture choice 8 out of the past 10 yebest adapted screenplay at the Writers Guild Awards and also took the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards, which has predicted the Academy's Best Picture choice 8 out of the past 10 yeBest Picture choice 8 out of the past 10 years.

His book «The Accidental Billionaires» was the basis of «The Social Network» blockbuster, which won Aaron Sorkin a best adapted screenplay Oscar.

Rogers was convinced the best way to write the screenplay was to tell it from the point of view of both Harding and Gillooly.

The surprising snub of the unconventional Tonya Harding biopic, «I, Tonya,» from the best original screenplay category for this year's Oscar nominations was disappointing for many.

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.

Best Picture: «The Shape of Water» Lead Actor: Gary Oldman, «Darkest Hour» Lead Actress: Frances McDormand, «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» Supporting Actor: Sam Rockwell, «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» Supporting Actress: Allison Janney, «I, Tonya» Director: «The Shape of Water,» Guillermo del Toro Animated Feature: «Loving Vincent,» Animated Short: «Revolting Rhymes» Adapted Screenplay: «The Disaster Artist» Original Screenplay: «The Big Sick» Cinematography: «Blade Runner 2049» Roger Deakins Best Documentary Feature: «Last Men in Aleppo» Best Documentary Short Subject: «Traffic Stop» Best Live Action Short Film: «The Silent Child» Best Foreign Language Film: «The Insult» (Lebanon) Film Editing: «Baby Driver» Sound Editing: «Dunkirk» Sound Mixing: «Dunkirk» Production Design: «The Shape of Water» Original Score: «Star Wars: The Last Jedi Original Song: «This Is Me» from «The Greatest Showman» Makeup and Hair: «Darkest Hour» Costume Design: «Phantom Thread» Visual Effects: «Star Wars: The Last Jedi»

Catholic News Agency: «Exorcist» author prepares canon lawsuit against Georgetown The author of the best - selling book and award - winning screenplay «The Exorcist» has announced that he is leading an effort to file a canon lawsuit against Georgetown University for failures to live up to the demands of the school's Catholic identity.

Fresh on the heels of his very well - received take on the life of Abraham Lincoln, Steven Spielberg is setting his sights on one of Stanley Kubrick's abandoned screenplays: a Napoleon Bonaparte biopic.

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.

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.

During Lent, I've been rewatching the magnificent 1981 BBC production of Brideshead Revisited — the best TV adaption ever made of a great novel, in part because of the stunning cast but in larger part because Evelyn Waugh's book is the screenplay.

Recent and upcoming releases include the romance - horror hybrid Spring; the hotly - anticipated The Look Of Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animalOf Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animalOf Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animalof deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animalof the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animalof 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animals.

Earlier this week Bovada, one of the most popular offshore sportsbooks, posted odds for eleven of the fourteen film categories — omitting Best Screenplay, Best Original Score and Best Original Song.

Beasts Of No Nation, starring Idris Elba received a total of 15 Ghana Movie Awards nominations including Best Picture, Best Editing, Music - Original Score, Best Directing, Best Visual Effects, Best Cinematography, Actor and Best ScreenplaOf No Nation, starring Idris Elba received a total of 15 Ghana Movie Awards nominations including Best Picture, Best Editing, Music - Original Score, Best Directing, Best Visual Effects, Best Cinematography, Actor and Best Screenplaof 15 Ghana Movie Awards nominations including Best Picture, Best Editing, Music - Original Score, Best Directing, Best Visual Effects, Best Cinematography, Actor and Best Screenplay.

I'm in the final stages of finishing my second book, The Rules of Netiquette: How to Mind Your Manners on the Web as well as an exciting screenplay.

Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay — Laurie Davis is the founder of eFlirt Expert, an online dating consultancy... the crowd.

Winner of two awards at the Sundance Film Festival, including Best Screenplay, and created with the close participation of Dr. Zimbardo himself, «The Stanford Prison Experiment» is a chilling, edge - of - your - seat thriller about the dark side of power and the effects of imprisonment.

«A Good Woman,» a ham - fisted adaptation of Wilde's play «Lady Windermere's Fan,» suffers from a staggeringly bad miscasting of its central role and from a cut - and - paste screenplay that substitutes random insertions of Wilde epigrams for character.

It has a great screenplay and it actually works with tons of horror film stereotypes which make it even better.

Ironically, Ernst Lubitsch's 1925 silent version far better captured the play's silly tenor, but the new A Good Woman screenplay, adapted by Howard Himelstein, at least has the benefit of Wilde's spoken dialogue, and it's intermittently quite fun.

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.

Thanks to masterfully written dialogues, the story and screenplay of Tyranny are intriguing and well - paced.

The unanimously - praised film with a modest budget of $ 23 million deservedly won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (the first for Spielberg), Best Cinematography (Janusz Kaminski), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score (John Williams), Best Editing (Michael Kahn), and Best Art Direction.

Brackett won a second «best screenplay» Oscar for 1953's Titanic (1953); he was also president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1949 through 1955.

The plot might've been something very good if the screenwriters would've written another draft of the screenplay, but they didn't.

Despite one shocking revelation (if you don't know the play) and the handful of Wildean bon mots that make it into Howard Himelstein's screenplay (says Lord Darlington, «Marital bliss is a terrible burden to place on two people; sometimes a third person is needed to lighten the load»), «A Good Woman» goes nowhere handsomely.

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).

Peck was one of the many stars who appeared in How the West Was Won (1962), which earned James Webb a «Best Original Screenplay» award.

After writing for The Wire and Boardwalk Empire and having three of his novels made into a trio of well - reviewed movies (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island), Dennis Lehane has finally written his first screenplay.

As such, «Django Unchained» isn't much of an adaptation for the screen as it is a completely faithful distended adaptation of a screenplay that reads better as a book.

One of 2011's best movie with perfect screenplay, Great Cast and acting and good direction.

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.

So, yes, I walked into «Annihilation,» Garland's second directorial effort (screenplay also by him) with a good amount of anticipation and a little trepidation.

The screenplay is very good and helps us discover many secrets of the characters, unfolding more the history

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.

As he did on The Ides of March and Good Night, and Good Luck, Clooney co-wrote the screenplay with producing partner Grant Heslov, and the late - December release date suggests awards - season hopes.

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.