Sentences with phrase «other screenplay»

Like Spotlight in the other screenplay category, this could wind up being the only win for what's still a legitimate best - picture contender.

All too frequently, Admission serves as an object lesson in the risks of having a non-comic writer (Karen Croner, whose other screenplay to date was the cancer drama One True Thing) adapt a non-comic novel (by Jean Hanff Korelitz), and handing the result to a director, Paul Weitz, whose last comedy was Little Fockers.

It's hard to believe Gilroy wrote the other screenplays too.

And now Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, keepers of the Bond movie flame, have asked him to be involved in writing other screenplays based on Ian Fleming's famous espionage officer.

With a few good gags and more appealing characters, there could have been some worthwhile viewing here, but this script seems like pages ripped out of many other screenplays, and not particularly good ones at that.

Shakespeare's romantic tale of star - crossed lovers has been adapted into other screenplays too, including Baz Luhrmann's version of Romeo and Juliet and the story of feuding garden decorations Gnomeo and Juliet.

Not exact matches

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.

«He had not made any copyrightable (or other substantive) contributions to the screenplay,» it said.

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.

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

The screenplay focuses on two lonely people who Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a

It's an original experience, one where the quality of the screenplay plays an important role, and the unique atmosphere does the other half of the job.

Note that most other awards organizations treated Damien Chazelle's Whiplash script as an original screenplay, but the Academy considered it to be an adapted screenplay for reasons known only to the Academy (Chazelle has previously released a single Whiplash scene as a short film to raise funds to complete the full movie, which is apparently the source of the problem).

But unlike so many other recent (or upcoming) Hollywood products, it was made from an original screenplay (Faber and Fisher previously wrote for TV sitcoms); it didn't come from a source that audiences are already familiar with, like an old television show or a previous movie.

Laden with lazy writing that drags out clichéd phrase after clichéd phrase — seriously, the line «you don't write, you don't call...» should be permanently retired from screenplays, especially if it's delivered between characters who hate each other — the story kind of plods along, checking off plots points from a list.

Screenplay by W.R. Burnett and James Clavell and among other uncredited writers, William Roberts, Walter Newman, and Nelson Gidding, based on the book by Paul Brickhill.

By the time the screenplay provides its «reveal», we know what's coming, having been trained by other films to expect this sort of thing.

The screenplay is better when it withholds — throughout The Post, characters walk and talk (the other credited writer, Josh Singer, who also co-wrote Spotlight, is a West Wing alum), and drop references to people or events that would have been familiar knowledge to those at the time.

Jokes about impotence, menopause and other middle - aged maladies reside where a screenplay ought to live.

Garland, whose only other directorial feature is Ex Machina, a film I thought was the best movie of its entire year, tries his hand at adapting this phenomenal book into a screenplay and then into a film, but he couldn't do it without falling back on a ton of typical elements, and that's a real shame.

Revealing the intimate details of Allen's filmmaking process, Lax shows us the screenplay being shaped, the scenes being prepared, the actors, cinematographers, other crew members, the editors, all engaged in their work.

There are surprising plot problems for a story written by two people (Martin Stellman and Brian Ward), and then polished into a screenplay by three others (Charles Randolph, Scott Frank and Steven Zallian).

War Machine, with a screenplay and direction by David Michod (of 2010's ferocious «Animal Kingdom»), is a comedy because, as per the old Angela Carter line, it's tragedy happening to other people.

Though the metaphysical overtones of the screenplay are sometimes awkwardly handled and Eastwood's direction of actors (other than himself) is occasionally uncertain, this was one of the better American films of 1985.

Garland, working from his own screenplay, has infused Ex Machina with a pace best described as deliberate, with Garland's willingness to let the story breathe having both positive and negative ramifications on the movie as a whole (ie certain sections are far more enthralling and entertaining than others).

I like her films (The Taste of Others and Look at Me) and their screenplays for the way they embrace and acknowledge the vulnerabilities, the weaknesses, the flaws of their characters without trying to apologize for them, simply recognizing that they are part of the package.

Johnson and Heyman have a script here that deserves Best Original Screenplay consideration, almost simply for how well they've created a quartet of characters (Burrell and Wilson's supporting players don't behave as these sorts of characters would in other films), though the balance of both comedic and dramatic emotion is tremendously done as well.

The film itself scored 3 other nominations: Original Song («Mystery Of Love»), Adapted Screenplay (James Ivory), and Best Picture!

Which is quite a monumental failure considering the cast includes Zoe Saldana, Sienna Miller, Chris Cooper, Elle Fanning and Brendan Gleeson, among other top - notch talent; the screenplay was based on an award - winning novel by bestselling author Dennis Lehane (Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island, Mystic River); and the action spans several tumultuous years in U.S. history.

But two other losses that seemed like easy wins were Michael Fassbender to Captain Phillips «Barkhad Abdi and even stranger, Philomena beating it in Adapted Screenplay.

First, an almost flawless first time original screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski, whose only other writing credit was for his adaptation of the Icelandic film that became the Mark Wahlberg hit «Contraband.»

The movie is one of two Lelio dramas heading to TIFF this year; the other is «A Fantastic Woman,» which earned acclaim at Berlin and won Lelio the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay.

Danny Boyle's Mumbai - set melodrama triumphed in all but one of the categories for which it was nominated, taking best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay, as well as five others.

Mike Carey's novel and screenplay takes ideas from superhero films like «X-Men» and expects the audience to already know quite a bit of zombie history from other films.

Instead, it's based on an original screenplay by Charles Grayson (The Barbarian and the Geisha, 1958), The Woman on Pier 13, 1949) and Vincent B. Evans, a real - life bombardier on the Memphis Belle during WW2 whose only other screen credit was for Chain Lightning (1950).

Sometimes that seems accurate enough (going all the way back to the win for Citizen Kane, which lost Best Picture to How Green Was My Valley), but just as often, you'll find Screenplay picks that are just as boneheaded as any other Oscar win.

«Her» Directed by: Spike Jonze Written by: Spike Jonze Main cast members: Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams, Chris Pratt, Rooney Mara, and Portia Doubleday Number of Oscar nominations in total: 5 Other nominations besides Best Picture: Best Original Screenplay (Jonze), Best Production Design, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song Notable precursor wins: Won Best -LSB-...]

Other winners were 20 Feet from Stardom for Best Documentary, The Great Beauty for Best Foreign Film, and Her for Best Original Screenplay.

On the other hand their Best Screenplay category encompasses all scripts, unlike the division the Academy Awards make in order to recognize the writers for either creating an original story, or succeeding in translating a previously written source material for the screen.

In fact, I told someone the other day that I expect it to be in the conversation for a nomination for Best Original Screenplay (it's A24, who worked similar wonders for «Ex Machina»).

On the other hand, while I've had the film as something of a placeholder in my Best Original Screenplay predictions for a couple of months now, that possibility is making more and more sense to me.

The screenplay by Michael Green (Blade Runner 2049) barely allows the other characters to register.

Last year the Gold Rush Gang didn't start our screenplay predictions until May and had Moonlight (in Original), Fences, Lion, Manchester by the Sea and La La Land in our predictions with The Lobster and Hidden Figures on our Other Contenders list.

The core story reads like a screenplay, with many highly dramatic points, but the movie plays out like most other submarine movies.

Produced by, among others, spy novelist Olen Steinhauer and veteran TV writer - producer Bradford Winters (whose screenplays cover an impressive chronology from The Borgias to The Americans), Berlin Station follows the hunt for a Snowdenesque mole who is leaking unflattering CIA secrets to the world.

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.

Other films receiving more than one award were «Capote» (best actor to Philip Seymour Hoffman and best adapted screenplay to first - time screenwriter Dan Futterman) and «Crash» (best original screenplay to Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco and best ensemble acting).

As with most other WGBH releases there are no on - disc special features, which is a shame since the closing credits indicate the existence, on the PBS web site, of an interview with Emmy - winning classic adaptation specialist Andrew Davies, who wrote the screenplay here.

In other words, «I Origins» is about a scientist pursuing the possibility of reincarnation, though Cahill's screenplay smartly avoids using that term.

In between other Ellroy novels were made into movies — «Dark Blue» (2003), directed by Ron Shelton, screenplay by David Ayres, and starring Kurt Russell.