Sentences with phrase «screenplay around the actors»

Not exact matches

While not a particularly novel narrative concept, Pellington uses the screenplay from NYC indie wunderkind Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up, Philip) to help collect quite the impressive ensemble of actors - including Jon Hamm, Ellen Burstyn and Catherine Keener - to play out various vignettes that revolve around intense emotional trauma.

It was the gaffe heard around the world, but when the dust finally cleared on last year's fateful Oscars and this graceful indie was crowned Best Picture (with well - deserved awards for Mahershala Ali as Supporting Actor and Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney for Best Adapted Screenplay), instead of the front - runner La La Land, liberal Hollywood breathed a collective sigh of relief.

That said, the film went on to become a smash hit around the world, becoming the only the second of three films to date to win the top five Oscars (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay) and is regularly enshrined in lists of the greatest American films of all time.

Braff's screenplay, which revolves around struggling 26 - year - old actor Andrew «Large» Largeman (Braff), who returns home to suburban... read more

With CMBYN virtually out of the running, except for Actor and Adapted Screenplay, what do reasonable people coalesce around for Picture?

For me, There Will Be Blood was the better film all around but I'm by no means incensed that No Country was the night's big winner, taking away Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem).