Sentences with phrase «own first screenplay»

In fact, domestic terrorists stealing chemical weapons were the subject of her first screenplay in 1995.

She is an ambitious mom who recently wrote her first screenplay for a project in a screenwriting class at the local college and, on a whim, submitted it to a writing contest.

In 1962, Gelbart penned his first screenplay The Notorious Landlady, but his best - known screenplay from that era is A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, on which he collaborated with Burt Shevelove.

The first screenplay by comedy performer Brent Simons and Coen Brothers collaborator Alan J. Schoolcraft, Megamind is directed by Tom McGrath, one of the writers and directors of both Madagascar movies.

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.

Yet, the plot feels truthful and really connected with audiences; so much so, that it won Russell the Audience Award at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, and an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY Desiree Akhavan - Appropriate Behavior Sara Colangelo - Little Accidents Justin Lader - The One I Love Anja Marquardt - She's Lost Control Justin Simien - Dear White People

Larson is nominated for Best Female Lead for her performance while Emma Donoghue is up for Best First Screenplay.

The final product is a disappointingly uneven effort that may be a cut above its teen - friendly brethren - the clever references to Halloween and Psycho are alone evidence of this - yet it's impossible not to have expected something more than just a passable time - waster given the caliber of Williamson's first screenplay.

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Compare that with Hannah, the co-writer of «The Post,» who's getting major accolades for her first screenplay (though she had an assist from «Spotlight» scribe Singer).

Deadline reports that Shyamalan is in talks to re-team with his The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable star Bruce Willis for Labor of Love, which is one of the first screenplays that Shyamalan sold early in his career.

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That film also earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for First Screenplay.

Joseph was nominated for Best First Screenplay for his work on Don Jon, which was won by Bob Nelson for the highly acclaimed film Nebraska.

Amy Heckerling's directorial debut (from the first screenplay written by Cameron Crowe) features an ensemble cast of then - unknown stars (including Nicolas Cage, Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Eric Stoltz, and...

Park brought the DP Chung - hoon Chung, his regular cinematographer since Oldboy, but the rest of the talent was provided by the producers, from the stars to ace production designer Thérèse DePrez (wooed by hardcore indies as well as studio executives), including the actor Wentworth Miller, who signs here his first screenplay (and gets a production credit).

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The film is also nominated for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay for the 2012 awards.

Writer - director Sara Colangelo expands her 2010 short film Little Accidents into her first full - length feature, which recently received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Screenplay.

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY Mike Cahill & Brit Marling - Another Earth [IMDb / Trailer] J.C. Chandor - Margin Call [IMDb / Trailer] Patrick Dewitt - Terri [IMDb / Trailer] Phil Johnston - Cedar Rapids [IMDb / Trailer] Will Reiser - 50/50 [IMDb / Trailer]

It won for best picture, best actress (Gabourey Sidibe), best supporting actress (Mo'Nique), best director (Lee Daniels) and best first screenplay (Geoffrey Fletcher).

Following that coincidence was another, the second award of the night was given to Emma Donoghue for Best First Screenplay for her work in Room, which just happen to be presented by the adorable co-star of that film, Jacob Tremblay.

«Milk» won two trophies early on, James Franco taking down a win in the Best Supporting Actor category and Dustin Lance Black's first screenplay award.

Best Feature: «The Wrestler» Best Director: Tom McCarthy, «The Visitor» Best Male Lead: Mickey Rourke, «The Wrestler» Best Female Lead: Melissa Leo, «Frozen River» Best Supporting Male: James Franco, «Milk» Best Supporting Female: Penelope Cruz, «Vicky Cristina Barcelona» Best Screenplay: «Vicky Cristina Barcelona» Best Cinematography: «The Wrestler» Best First Feature: «Synecdoche, New York» Best First Screenplay: «Milk» Best Foreign Film: «The Class» Best Documentary: «Man on Wire» Robert Altman Award: «Synecdoche, New York» John Cassavetes Award: «In Search of a Midnight Kiss» Lacoste Truer Than Fiction Award: Margaret Brown, «The Order of Myths» Piaget Producers Award: Heather Rae, «Frozen River» Someone to Watch Award: Lynn Shelton, «My Effortless Brilliance»

Best First Screenplay: Mike Cahill & Brit Marling (Another Earth), J.C. Chandor (Margin Call), Patrick DeWitt (Terri), Phil Johnston (Cedar Rapids) and Will Reiser (50/50)

This original tale is the product of the first screenplay by Stacey Menear.

Diane's first film, Obselidia, premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards, including one for Best First Screenplay.

I feel like this race is between that film and James White so if I predict James White then Diary gets First Screenplay over Room.

«Dear White People» won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and last month won a Film Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.

Well, actually, it's based on one line of that first screenplay where the rebellion leaders, with the Death Star's plans in tow, inform the pilots that a great many people sacrifice their lives to obtain these documents.

Apatow first collaborated with Rogen when he was an actor on «Freaks and Geeks»; soon after, Rogen submitted his first screenplay (written with his best friend, Evan Goldberg) to Apatow as a writing sample, and the producer was impressed.

All of the trademarks of his work are evident in this very first screenplay — witty banter laced with profanity, reversals, reveals, a loopy plot that doesn't make much sense if you hold it up to any kind of scrutiny but it's so fun you never will, a Christmas - time setting — less tightly controlled and mannered in his later scripts, but still there.

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But the most significant talent the filmmakers tapped was Rowling herself, who, having already churned out a stage - bound sequel («Harry Potter and the Cursed Child»), now earns her first screenplay credit with this cinematic prequel.

Gone Girl's Gillian Flynn is writing the script, her first screenplay that's not based off of one of her own books.

Soderbergh commented to Entertainment Weekly, «When people make a statement like that they should be very careful, especially when it's a woman screenwriter who is having her first screenplay produced.»

But his first screenplay ignores a cardinal rule in film: «Show, don't tell.»

This original and bizarre film by written by Charlie Kaufman (his first screenplay) and first time director Spike Jonze (featured in Three Kings and director of numerous music videos) defies any conventional description.

Another film that pulled off multiple wins was The Witch, which won Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay for writer - director Robert Eggers.

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY Desiree Akhavan - Appropriate Behavior [IMDb] Sara Colangelo - Little Accidents [IMDb] Justin Lader - The One I Love [IMDb] Anja Marquardt - She's Lost Control [IMDb] Justin Simien - Dear White People [IMDb]

Oscar nominees Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon took home the award for first screenplay for «The Big Sick,» based on their own real life romance.

Early in the evening, tears were shed by Scott Cooper and Geoffrey Fletcher on stage as they accepted awards for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay respectively.

The film did not stop there though; Maggie Gyllenhaal was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and it won Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards.

Captain Phillips, starring Tom Hanks as the captain of the American ship hijacked by Somali pirates; Diana, starring Naomi Watts as the Princess of Wales; The Counselor, the first screenplay by Cormac McCarthy, starring Brad Pitt and Javier Bardem and directed by Ridley Scott; 42, a biopic about Jackie Robinson; and Twelve Years a Slave, Steve McQueen's follow - up to the tragically underrated Hunger and Shame.

Best First Screenplay Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Joseph Carpignano, Mediterranea Emma Donoghue, Room Marielle Heller, The Diary of a Teenage Girl John Magary, Russell Harbaugh, Myna Joseph, The Mend

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY Desiree Akhavan, Appropriate Behavior Sara Colangelo, Little Accidents Justin Lader, The One I Love Anja Marquardt, She's Lost Control Justin Simien, Dear White People

This is Kazan's first screenplay credit, but we have no reservations on the quality of her work: her Off - Broadway play «We Live Here» unfortunately drew comparisons to the often histrionic and extravagant «Rachel Getting Married» for sharing a similar plot, but the former was actually a much stronger and subtler work without all of the miserablist Oscar - beggar mayhem.

It's her first screenplay that she's written.

This was Michael Diliberti's first screenplay, so perhaps that had something to do with the apparent lackluster results.