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Peele is the first black person to earn the Original Screenplay honor, while the 89 - year - old Ivory has become the oldest Oscar winner in history.
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The Writers Guild of America bestowed the Best Original Screenplay honor upon Spike Jonze for «Her,» further suggesting that Jonze could be on his way to an Oscar win.
If the word «adapted» is tripping you up, the CliffsNotes explanation is that the Academy's nutso rules decree that established franchises, whose subsequent installments have such credits as «based on characters created by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan,» become ineligible for Original Screenplay honors.
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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.
Top honors went to Spotlight, which won four EDA Awards: best film, best director, best original screenplay and tied for best ensemble.
If Tarantino fails to gain entrance into the Original Screenplay and Director categories (which would be understandable after all the shade his controversial interviews have thrown on his peers) and the Best Picture field isn't big enough to support this, the film should likely still compete for Best Cinematography and Best Original Score honors.
«Safety Not Guaranteed» took top honors, winning Best Film as well as Best Original Screenplay (Derek Connolly).
In addition, Hell or High Water was honored with three other awards including Ben Foster for Best Supporting Actor, David Mackenzie for Best Director, and Taylor Sheridan for Original Screenplay.
The Writers Guild of America has just finished handing out their awards for 2017, resulting in James Ivory («Call Me by Your Name») and Jordan Peele («Get Out») taking top honors for Adapted and Original Screenplays, respectively.
The Writers Guild of America honored Spike Jonze for his future - set love story «Her» with its award for original screenplay and Billy Ray for «Captain Phillips,» the true story of a hijacking at sea, for adapted screenplay on Saturday night.
British writer - director Martin McDonagh, whose film «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» took the best picture honor as well as the original screenplay prize, noted the timeliness of his movie in his acceptance speech.
To further muddy the waters, I can't disagree with its success at the 69th Academy Awards ceremony, being nominated for an impressive seven awards and winning two — one for its original screenplay and another honoring McDormand's lead performance.
The other two big Best Picture hopefuls, «Spotlight» and «The Big Short,» took home the same screenplay honors they won at the WGA Awards last night (Original and Adapted, respectfully).
«The Post» earns top honors, with Best Picture, Best Director (Steven Spielberg), Best Drama and Best Original Screenplay, and «I, Tonya» is the recipient of Best Actress (Margot Robbie), Best Supporting Actress (Allison Janney), Best Comedy and Best Film Editing.
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).
Not to be left out, Guillermo Del Toro's «The Shape of Water» snagged seven nominations, and Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele have both earned the rare honor of the nomination trifecta: best director, best original screenplay and breakthrough filmmaker.
He's won two Best Original Screenplay awards so far, while Oscar has also honored Christoph Waltz twice in Best Supporting Actor for working with him.
Purple Rose did win the Best Screenplay honor at the Golden Globes, where original and adapted scripts compete against each other.
«Birdman» scored top honors for best picture, best director, cinematography and original screenplay.
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.
Jake Gyllenhaal won Best Actor, and writer - director Dan Gilroy was honored with both Best Original Screenplay and Best First Film.
Spike Jonze's Her beat out David O. Russell's American Hustle for the Writers Guild's highest honor for original screenplays and set itself up for a potential upset on Oscar night.
The WGA awarded their screenplay honors to Get Out in original and Call Me By Your Name in adapted.
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Though Sound of Music took home top honors, Zhivago ended up claiming the same number of Oscars, five in total, winning for adapted screenplay, costume design, cinematography, art decoration, and original score.
Broadway was appreciated upon release by critics and by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, who nominated Allen for Original Screenplay and Director honors.
Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, co-writers of THE BIG SICK, nominated for an Academy Award for «Best Original Screenplay We are thrilled and honored to be nominated for The Big Sick.
He was honored with an Oscar nomination for his original screenplay for the film, which won Academy Awards for Art Direction, Cinematography, and Makeup.
Though Tarantino failed to gain entrance into the Original Screenplay and Director categories (which was somewhat understandable after all the shade his recent controversial interviews have thrown on his peers) and the film failed to crack the Best Picture field of ten, the film still predictably competed for Best Cinematography and Best Original Score honors.