Sentences with phrase «screenplay as»

I can now announce officially that I have signed on to write the screenplay as well.

Coincidentally when Gray originally wrote the screenplay as her Master's Thesis at UCLA Film School, she won the prestigious Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award — an honor established by Goldwyn's paternal grandfather, the legendary film producer.

One can sense the air draining from director Joshua Marston and Julian Sheppard's screenplay as soon as the truth behind the story's enigma of a central character is exposed.

In a huge shakeup that will impact both of Oscar's screenplay categories, the scripts for Moonlight and Loving have both been moved to Adapted Screenplay as per the Academy.

It also managed to win Iñárritu Best Director over Linklater, as well as Best Original Screenplay as well, beating back Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel there.

Despite the number of Nicholas Sparks» novels that have been tailored for the big screen, this is the first time the author has penned the screenplay as well.

It also managed to win Iñárritu Best Director over Linklater, as well as Best Original Screenplay as well, beating back Wes Anderson's The -LSB-...]

The film was taken from Damien Chazzelle's original screenplay as a feature.

Among racial strides: Jordan Peele is the fifth black Best Director nominee ever for «Get Out,» and Dee Rees, the first black woman to be up for Best Adapted Screenplay as the co-writer of «Mudbound.»

Likely the first time a comic book adaptation can be credited for putting as much effort into dialogue and screenplay as it does visual effects and stunts.

It's an understatement to describe Danny Strong's screenplay as taking liberties with the true story.

Director Larysa Kondracki and co-writer Eilis Kirwan fashion the screenplay as one woman's hunt for the truth and pursuit of justice, and it's unfortunate the movie loses that personal, microcosmic perspective to go after bigger targets.

At this point, logic and character bend to the whim of the screenplay as Roger transforms from a guy sweating to compete to Dr. P's super-confident alpha - male nemesis.

She garnered the Academy Award ® for Best Original Screenplay as well as Academy Award ® nominations for Best Director and Best Picture in her sophomore feature, «Lost In Translation,» starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson.

This entertaining film marks the directorial debut for Aaron Sorkin, the Oscar - winning screenwriter of a number of hit movies (Social Network, Moneyball) who wrote this screenplay as well.

The group found places for some surprise and inspired nominations like Heal the Living in Adapted Screenplay as well as Columbus in a host of categories including Cinematography and Original Screenplay but missed a chance to reward Haley Lu Richardson or John Cho.

«Frost / Nixon,» however, turns out to be formidably involving, and the reasons start not with expert costars Langella and Michael Sheen or their strong supporting cast or even the skills of Howard, but with the gifts and vision of Morgan, who wrote the screenplay as well as the play.

The River — Jean Renoir's beautiful adaptation of a Rumer Godden (Black Narcissus) novel (she wrote the screenplay as well) about a British colonial family in India is lushly romantic while managing to, for the most part, avoid the pitfalls of imperialism that drag down The Darjeeling Limited.

Nichols, who wrote the screenplay as well, has worked with Shannon before (Shotgun Stories).

All I ask and I'm sure so will your thousands of fans is not just direct the movie but please put your brilliant talents in writing the screenplay as well!!

Alex Kurtzman described David Koepp's screenplay as «brilliant» and believes it will be «relatable to a lot of people»:

DiCaprio praises the screenplay as one of Tarantino's best.

The reading gave Carlo a perfect opportunity to take stock of his screenplay as he prepared for the June Directors Lab, where he is currently further developing the project.

Here they set the record straight regarding their troubles with Crispin Glover, studio head Sid Sheinberg's mandated changes to the screenplay as they barrelled towards the shoot, Eric Stoltz's (mis) casting, the picture's Americana influences, and the reconceived third act.

Rogers title - pages his screenplay as «based on irony free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly.»

With dogged realism - and with a screenplay as clear and compelling as it is complex - Spotlight goes back to the early 2000s and tracks how the publication of this monumental series came to be.

Last week, Pegg described Wright and Cornish's screenplay as «daring, fun, funny and hugely exciting» in a post on Twitter, and said he felt lucky to have had the chance to read it.

He writes a pretty mean screenplay as well, adapting Bahari's book into a succinct, approachable but intelligent tale.

In the most elementary terms it needs a screenplay as a base, a cast to bring the script to life and a director to orchestrate the pieces into something of considerable impact.

Steven Spielberg crafted his landmark Holocaust story Schindler's List to look like a documentary, using black - and - white film to give it a newsreel authenticity and employing Steven Zaillian's straight - forward screenplay as a template that consistently rejects melodrama and lets the barbarity speak for itself.

Though he once described his screenplays as more craft than art, Stoppard's literate film adaptations of various works by major authors have matched him with some of the most esteemed directors in international cinema, beginning with Joseph Losey's The Romantic Englishwoman in 1975.

The acclaimed and much rewarded writer of such screenplays as Moneyball, Steve Jobs, Charlie Wilson's War, A Few Good Men, his Oscar - winning The Social Network as well as creator and writer of TV shows like The West Wing and Sports Night tells me never once thought about stepping behind the camera to try his hand at directing until Molly Bloom came along.

Its main competitors for Best Picture are now the horror - satire Get Out and the teen coming - of - age dramedy Lady Bird, each of which received nominations for their screenplays as well as Best Picture and Director nods.

I suspect that the company that puts out that product must have also crafted one for screenplays as well.

Not exact matches

Peele made history on Sunday as the first African - American to win an Oscar for best original screenplay.

In the same way that a film studio can help a person with an incredible screenplay navigate the logistics of making a movie, a startup studio assists domain experts who might have a solid concept but aren't as strong on the coding side.

It will be all but impossible for audiences to determine guilt or innocence, dereliction of duty or devotion to veracity, based strictly on the movie: Its screenplay was adapted by James Vanderbilt from Mapes» own memoir, Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power, in which she strenuously defends her work on what became known as «Rathergate» (or «Memogate»).

Effective B2B storytelling often follows the same arc as a successful Hollywood screenplays: Three Acts consisting of (1) The Setup; (2) The Conflict, and (3) The Resolution.

Stanley and his third wife, Linda, are sailing these days as he writes the screenplay of his next project.

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.

Perhaps her script / screenplay will include responses such as mine.

In the original screenplay by Edmund H. North, an alien ambassador named Klaatu (Michael Rennie) arrives in Washington, D.C., in his saucer - shaped spaceship (à la UFO convention of the time) with an eight - foot (2.4 - meter) humanoid robot named Gort (played by the 7 - foot, 7 - inch Lock Martin, who was working as a doorman at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood when discovered).

Friday the 13th, which currently has Prisoners «scribe, Aaron Guzikowski, penning the screenplay, has been a bumpy road for Friday fans in regards to getting a firm release date and any details as to what the plot will entail.

I'm in the final stages of finishing my second book, The Rules of Netiquette: How to Mind Your Manners on the Web as well as an exciting screenplay.

I am currently retired and work as a writer, having just published a new novel and written a screenplay, which I am marketing.

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

Tropper's screenplay, however, leaves the various performers with too little to do, as the scattered narrative results in a disappointing absence of satisfying character arcs for many of the movie's protagonists.

But Kidd isn't content to allow this to play out as a typical May - December story, and his screenplay has a lot to say about loftier issues such as aging and even the meaning of life.

But they escape and make their way to Basra, where Ahmad, now living as a beggar, meets and falls in love with the Princess (June Duprez), who has been betrothed by her father the Sultan (Miles Malleson, who also wrote the screenplay) to Jaffar.

Over the next 16 years, until Biró's death in 1948, he shared with Korda the intellectual control of the company that they'd both founded and, in conjunction with such writers as Arthur Wimperis and Miles Malleson, wrote the screenplays to a string of notable movies.