Sentences with phrase «performance as a screenwriter»

Wilson's performance as screenwriter and aspiring novelist Gil Pender garnered him a Golden Globe nomination in the category of Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Bale gives a haunted performance as a screenwriter named Rick, who represents the Knight of Cups, a romantic adventurer.

Not exact matches

Of the world premieres, the major gets for Toronto include Freeheld, Peter Sollett's LGBT drama starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page; Stonewall, Roland Emmerich's drama about the birth of the gay rights movement; Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van, which is rumored to feature an awards - worthy performance from Maggie Smith; Jay Roach's film Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston as the famed Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted in the 1940s; Terence Davies's anticipated follow - up to The Deep Blue Sea, Sunset Song; Charlie Kaufman's first stop - motion film, Anomalisa; and Eye in the Sky, Gavin Hood's thriller about piloted aircraft warfare, starring Aaron Paul and Helen Mirren.

A failed attempt to make it in L.A. as both a comic and screenwriter would typify his poor reception in America; despite thousands of performances coast to coast and a handful of appearances of David Letterman, he remained virtually anonymous stateside.

Franco's ubiquity as an actor, screenwriter, and director over the last decade has resulted in an almost endless stream of bored, indifferent performances, often to the detriment if not of Franco's seemingly unstoppable career, then whatever film he happened to appear in that particular month.

The Accenture Gala is the European premiere of TRUMBO, directed by Jay Roach and starring Bryan Cranston in a cracking performance as Dalton Trumbo, the Hollywood screenwriter who was blacklisted after refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1947.

Charlie Kaufman has written some of the most original movies of the last decade, but «Adaptation» is probably his best thanks to an incredible (and surprisingly reserved) performance from Nicolas Cage, who plays a fictionalized version of the screenwriter as he struggles to finish the script for the very film that the audience is watching.

Shane Black, a bright, experienced screenwriter directing his second movie, is an anonymous leader of a vast technical army, and the film's saving graces are Downey's Stark, a charming neurotic; Rebecca Hall, an old flame who seems to have taken a wrong turn but is infinitely more engaging than Stark's tiresome current girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow; and especially Ben Kingsley, a big surprise in every sense as the villainous «Mandarin», his best performance since Sexy Beast.

Screenwriters Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en) and David Self (Road to Perdition) have moved the setting from the 1940s back to the 1890s and turned Talbot into a Shakespearean actor, for no apparent reason other than the opportunity to show him in a gaslit performance as Hamlet.

The story of Eilis Lacey isn't suffused with the kind of impoverished anguish one might associate with stories of postwar immigration, but it still doesn't lack for emotion and quiet wit, rendered sensitively by Crowley and the screenwriter Nick Hornby and anchored by a confident lead performance from Saoirse Ronan as Eilis, who saves the film whenever it threatens to veer into formulaic territory.

The directorial debut of Oscar - winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, the film features compelling performances by Jessica Chastain as Bloom and Idris Elba as her lawyer.

We've got our first look at Meryl Streep in what will presumably be her next Oscar - nominated role as a hard - rocking front - woman in director Jonathan Demme and screenwriter Diablo Cody's upcoming comedy Ricki and the Flash... In a film loaded with music and live performance, Streep stars as Ricki, a guitar heroine who gave up everything -LSB-...]

by Walter Chaw Editor Éva Gardos's An American Rhapsody, her first film as writer - director, is riddled with inconsistencies, lacklustre performances, and convenient platitudes that are perhaps not terribly surprising for a debut screenwriter and director, but disheartening from a veteran cutter who gained experience with the likes of Hal Ashby and Peter Bogdanovich.

Though Gosling delivers as compelling a performance as one might've expected, the film - saddled with an extraordinarily one - note premise - never quite makes it up to his level; screenwriter Nancy Oliver has infused the proceedings with a number of overtly comedic elements, a choice that ultimately feels at odds with Gosling's distinctly down - to - earth take on his character.

8:00 am — TCM — In a Lonely Place Simply a brilliant film from director Nicholas Ray — Humphrey Bogart gives probably his best performance as washed - up screenwriter Dixon Steele, who's trying to make a comeback with a new adaptation.

Best Debut as Director — New York Film Critics Online Breakout Filmmaker — Las Vegas Film Critics Best Original Screenplay — Final Draft Screenwriters Choice Awards Breakthrough Performance for Alicia Vikander (tie)-- New York Film Critics Online Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Los Angeles Film Critics Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Toronto Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Southeastern Film Critics Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Phoenix Critics Circle Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Chicago Film Critics Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Vancouver Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Kansas City Film Critics Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Austin Film Critics Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Central Ohio Film Critics Best Supporting Actor for Oscar Isaac — Online Film Critics Society Best Supporting Actor for Oscar Isaac — Florida Film Critics Circle Best First Feature — Toronto Film Critics Association Best First Feature — Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Best First Film — Austin Film Critics Best Science Fiction Film — Phoenix Critics Circle Best Horror / Sci - Fi Film — Las Vegas Film Critics Best Horror / Sci - Fi / Fantasy Film — Kansas City Film Critics Best Sci - Fi / Horror Film — Critics» Choice Award

A U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance was presented to: Joe Seo for Spa Night (Director & Screenwriter: Andrew Ahn)-- Los Angeles's Korean spas serve not only as meeting places but also as a bridge between past and future for generations of immigrant families.

Mark Rylance is quite fine as the BFG (at least what we can see of his performance via motion - capture technology), although he is still given far too much gobbledygook dialogue to say by screenwriter Melissa Mathison (E.T.).

Special Mention for Performance: Mati Diop for her contribution to «Simon Killer» as both an actress and screenwriter.

Director Steve Beck is less interested in telling a coherent story (though, to be fair, it's not as if screenwriters Neal Marshall Stevens of Richard D'Ovidio have come up with one), establishing characters worth caring about, coaxing believable performances, or coming up with a decent scare than coming up with a reel of cool visuals.

I was at that debate, Don, and Mike Crichton «s performance prevailed not just because he could act — he was a screenwriter after all, but because besides practicing his act before a critical CalTech audience, he was studying environmental law as part of his due diligence for State of Fear — John Gresham made for serious hardcover competition in those days.