Sentences with phrase «original screenplay nomination»

The film picked up a Best Original Screenplay nomination, but failed to get recognized for Best Picture or any nominations in the music categories.

«The Messenger» also garnered a Best Original Screenplay nomination for Moverman.

The writers» branch of the Academy, happily, isn't fooled: he's had four Best Original Screenplay nominations in his career, and looks comfortably on course for his fifth.

Chandor's debut feature, which earned him a Best Original Screenplay nomination at the Academy Awards, was a claustrophobic ensemble drama that related the bankruptcy of a Lehman Brothers analogue with elaborate, yet somewhat clunky, dialogue.

This is Hong Sangsoo's sixth Original Screenplay nomination.

Boasting sumptuous period production design, cinematography in the irregular 2.0:1 aspect ratio by accomplished Italian cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor, and a number of Warren Beatty films), and costumes, Café Society could get recognized in some technical award categories, even if it doesn't add to the long list of original screenplay nominations (and wins) Allen has earned with apparent apathy.

On Monday's edition of NPR's «All Things Considered,» reporter Nate DiMeo spotlights the «Cinderella story» of Courtney Hunt's «Frozen River,» which turned up a rather surprising original screenplay nomination two - and - a-half weeks ago.

Get Out (HBO Go, Vudu, YouTube, Amazon Video, iTunes, Google Play) Jordan Peele pulled a hat trick, collecting Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay nominations for his meticulously crafted horror parable.

It's certainly Baumbach's most commercial film to date so I wouldn't be surprised if its distributor slates a March or April 2015 release a la The Grand Budapest Hotel, but if the pic does enter the 2014 fray, I could maybe see a Best Original Screenplay nomination in the cards.

The Big Sick (YouTube, Amazon Video, Vudu, Google Play, iTunes) Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon spun the true story of their courtship — the interracial element was tough enough before she slipped into a coma — into an unorthodox rom - com and snapped up a Best Original Screenplay nomination for their efforts.

Emily Blunt — «Looper» However smart and moving it is, Rian Johnson «s «Looper» always faced an uphill struggle for awards recognition, although fortunately it's looking increasingly likely to pick up an Original Screenplay nomination.

Ever since Get Out opened last February, I'd been cautioning that, realistically, an Original Screenplay nomination was its best bet for Oscar (because based on Oscar history, it was, but Oscar seems ready for a new phase).

Even if he doesn't pick up directing and original screenplay nominations for this film, it seems likely it's only a matter of time until he's being seriously considered for such accolades.

An original screenplay nomination for Martin McDonagh would be a real possibility had the film been platformed through the fall.

Debuting at the New York Film festival was Mike Mills» semi-autobiographical «20th Century Women» (A24), starring Annette Bening in a rich comedic role as a woman much like his mother, which scored rave reviews and Critics Choice and Golden Globes nominations for Bening, but wound up only with an Original Screenplay nomination.

Could Baker break through with Best Picture, Director, and Original Screenplay nominations?

And consider the original screenplay nominations for «Dirty Pretty Things,» a political thriller about immigrants in London, and Denys Arcand's «The Barbarian Invasions,» about a dying leftist intellectual in Quebec.

Surely, Sipe's screenplay has a shot at an original screenplay nomination, as it's hard to find an easy comp for the film, which hits theaters on April 8, 2016.

An omission there would make it easier for the film to miss out on an original screenplay nomination.

Dan Gilroy, the writer and director of «Nightcrawler,» chatted to guests about his Best Original Screenplay nomination.

And yet the closest to a slam - dunk is Peele's bid for an original screenplay nomination for «Get Out,» with a directing nod seemingly more possible after his recent Independent Spirit Award nominations and his wins for breakthrough director and screenplay at the Gotham Awards.

He's usually a lock for a Best Original Screenplay nomination (and he's won it twice, for «Pulp Fiction» and «Django Unchained»).

* While John Singleton was the first black screenwriter to earn an original screenplay nomination for 1991's «Boyz n the Hood,» Jordan Peele became the first African American to win Best Original Screenplay for «Get Out.»

The film went on to nab an original screenplay nomination for Gary Ross at the 66th Academy Awards ceremony.

After being snubbed in the director categories at the Globes, both Peele and Gerwig received best picture, best director and best original screenplay nominations.

The Big Sick, this year's biggest Amazon - backed Oscar contender, scored only a Best Original Screenplay nomination, but it has also made more than $ 42 million at the box office to date.

The film landed three acting nominations, as well as an Original Screenplay nomination in addition to its expected presence in Picture and Director.

But significantly without even an Original Screenplay nomination.

Gilroy's twisted, indicting screenplay (which is reminiscent of Taxi Driver or Network) is worthy of a Best Original Screenplay nomination as well.

The inimitably fluid language of London's multicultural, multi-class population is woven through the film's every exchange; if Leigh could snag a Best Original Screenplay nomination for a film as comparatively underwritten as «Vera Drake,» it's difficult to see him getting passed over for this.

(Excluding Brad Bird's Original Screenplay nomination for The Incredibles.)