Peele has the edge, however, since he has been winning in
the screenplay categories with many of the critic associations.
«La La Land» and «Moonlight» are practically neck - and - neck when it comes to wins for Best Picture and Best Director, but «Manchester by the Sea» is a clear favorite in
the screenplay category with seven wins thus far (compared to its closest competitors that only have two).
Kore - eda topped the best
screenplay category with 25 % of the vote, while «Burning» only received 10 % of the vote in the category, tying for second place with Lebanese director Nadine Labaki's Jury Prize - winner «Capernaum» and Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's three hour - plus drama «The Wild Pear Tree,» the last film to screen in competition this year.
Not exact matches
A smaller film like Before Midnight was never going to be in
with a shot for any of the main
categories but its witty and intelligent script, co-written by director Richard Linklater and stars Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, should have scored an original
screenplay nod.
Considering Lee's pedigree, he has to be in
with a shot at Best Director again, although keep an eye on this one in the
screenplay and Best Picture
categories.
Best Picture, Director,
Screenplay and all four acting
categories are put under the microscope,
with Gary Oldman, Margot Robbie, Ridley Scott, Armie Hammer and more speaking in - depth about their contending movies.
Both
screenplay categories are top - heavy with Best Picture material at the moment, with Original Screenplay carrying the burden as a very packed category th
screenplay categories are top - heavy
with Best Picture material at the moment,
with Original
Screenplay carrying the burden as a very packed category th
Screenplay carrying the burden as a very packed
category this season.
This was especially true
with the writers branch in the original
screenplay category.
Both directors have managed to break out of the foreign language «ghetto»
with nods in
categories like Director and Original
Screenplay (which Almodóvar won in 2003), so voters will definitely seek out their latest.
Jordan Peele's horror - satire Get Out has a single nomination for Best
Screenplay, a
category he occupies
with Martin McDonagh of Three Billboards and Greta Gerwig of Lady Bird.
The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar
categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best
screenplay), It Happened One Night is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the early sound era, packed
with clever situations and gags that have entered the Hollywood comedy pantheon and featuring two actors at the top of their game, sparking
with a chemistry that has never been bettered.
«Big Short» not only snuck into the Best Picture
category but it earned McKay a Best Director nod, an Adapted
Screenplay nomination (shared
with Charles Randolph) and the film took an Editing slot as well.
With Rosamund Pike and Gillian Flynn, they may be able to push those ladies to the top of their
categories of Actress and Adapted
Screenplay.
The Times caught up
with the filmmaker, who is nominated in the original
screenplay category, shortly after the news Tuesday.
Both
screenplay categories are top - heavy
with Best Picture material at the...
Best Picture Will Win: The Artist Deserves to Win: The Artist Overlooked: Bridesmaids Best Director Will Win: Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) Deserves to Win: Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) Overlooked: David Fincher (The Girl
with the Dragon Tattoo) Best Actor Will Win: George Clooney (The Descendants) Deserves to Win: Jean Dujardin (The Artist) Overlooked: Ryan Gosling (Drive) Best Actress Will Win: Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady) Deserves to Win: Viola Davis (The Help) Overlooked: Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids) Best Supporting Actor Will Win: Christopher Plummer (Beginners) Deserves to Win: Max von Sydow (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) Overlooked: Albert Brooks (Drive) Best Supporting Actress Will Win: Octavia Spencer (The Help) Deserves to Win: Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) Overlooked: Carey Mulligan (Drive) Best Original
Screenplay: Will Win: Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris) Deserves to Win: Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo (Bridesmaids) Overlooked: Lars von Trier (Melancholia) Best Adapted
Screenplay: Will Win: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (The Descendants) Deserves to Win: Steve Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin (Moneyball) Overlooked: Tate Tatlor and Kathryn Stockett (The Help) Predictions for Secondary
Categories Animated Feature: Rango Art Direction: Hugo Foreign Language Film: A Separation Cinematography: The Tree of Life Costume Design: The Artist Documentary Feature: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory Film Editing: The Artist Makeup: The Iron Lady Original Score: The Artist Original Song: «Man or Muppet» (The Muppets) Sound Editing: Hugo Sound Mixing: Hugo Visual Effects: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Among the nominees are Pakistani American Kumail Nanjiani for «The Big Sick» (who wrote the original
screenplay nominee
with wife Emily V. Gordon, inspired by their courtship), «Mudbound» actress Mary J. Blige (in the supporting actress and original song
categories, the latter of which she shares
with Raphael Saadiq) and three directors — Jordan Peele («Get Out»), Greta Gerwig («Lady Bird») and Guillermo del Toro («The Shape of Water»)-- who don't fit their
category's historically white male template.
Along
with Anna Paquin, the second youngest Oscar winner ever, the duo swept the Best Actress
categories and Campion won for Best Original
screenplay.
They tied
with five awards each, including a tie in one
category,
SCREENPLAY!
In most cases, the adapted
screenplay category of a given Oscar race is packed
with Best Picture nominees or contenders.
Not much change this month in the
screenplay categories from last month; Adapted Screenplay has the same top 6 and in the same order with Wonderstruck holding a commanding lead but Call Me Your Name is still strong and Lean on Pete gains
screenplay categories from last month; Adapted
Screenplay has the same top 6 and in the same order with Wonderstruck holding a commanding lead but Call Me Your Name is still strong and Lean on Pete gains
Screenplay has the same top 6 and in the same order
with Wonderstruck holding a commanding lead but Call Me Your Name is still strong and Lean on Pete gains in points.
NYFCC matched two
categories with NBR: Paul Thomas Anderson won another Best Original
Screenplay prize, and Willem Dafore again won Supporting Actor.
In total, I got 32 - of - 43 correct,
with three perfect
categories of 5 - out - of - 5 (Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Adapted
Screenplay) for 74 % accuracy.
It was no shock that Jonze won in the
category of Best Original
Screenplay with his romantic drama HER and film critics the world over are predicting the same outcome at this year's Academy Awards.
Nightcrawler did surprisingly well at the nomination stage,
with four, including one for Rene Russo's supporting role; outdoing them
with five was Whiplash,
with nods not just for JK Simmons as best supporting actor, but also in the directing, original
screenplay, editing and sound
categories.
* James Ivory, who has competed three times in the directing
category for his literary costume dramas «A Room
With a View,» «Howards End» and «The Remains of the Day,» is officially the oldest Oscar winner ever at age 89 after winning Best Adapted
Screenplay for the love story «Call Me by Your Name.»
The original
screenplay category is once again packed
with men.
Tom Ford's shocker «Nocturnal Animals» earned two awards for Ford's Best Adapted
Screenplay and Michael Shannon, who tied
with Bridges in the Best Supporting Actor
category.
Still matching each other
category by
category, CMBYN took adapted
screenplay with James Ivory's warm and delicate rendering of the beloved book, while Thread «s P.T. Anderson parlayed his witty dialogue to an original
screenplay prize.
Peele, who is nominated in the best director and best original
screenplay category for Get Out, which also got a best picture nod, arrived dressed in a white tuxedo
with wife and Brooklyn Nine - Nine star Chelsea Peretti.
Released near the end of 1985 locally and the spring of 1987 in the US, My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund in its native tongue) would earn Hallström Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted
Screenplay (the latter shared
with three co-writers), two
categories rarely recognizing foreign films.
Oscar winners and nominees highlight this
category with Spike Lee (nominated in Original
Screenplay for Do the Right Thing; Honorary Oscar winner in 2016) for Black Klansman and last season's winner in this
category — Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) for If Beale Street Could Talk.
The other bonus came in the
screenplay category,
with the jury giving the award to both The Killing Of A Sacred Deer and You Were Never Really Here in a rare tie.
It may wind up too much of a popcorn blockbuster for some of these
categories, but I think the technical ones are definitely in play,
with Picture, Actor, Actress, and Original
Screenplay potentially within reach as well.
Or they could go
with «Whiplash,» a film that hasn't found much of a theatrical audience but will likely be nominated in several other
categories, including supporting actor,
screenplay and editing.
In the last two years, wins in key
categories at the Indie Spirits have also synced
with the Oscars: At the 2014 ceremony, 12 Years a Slave took best feature, Matthew McConaughey took best actor for Dallas Buyers Club, Cate Blanchett won best actress for Blue Jasmine, Jared Leto took the best supporting actor trophy for Dallas Buyers Club, Lupita Nyong» o won best supporting actress for 12 Years a Slave as well as the film's screenwriter John Ridley for best
screenplay.
The caustic, darkly comic ballbuster Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri walked away from the Globes
with trophies in four of the six
categories it was nominated in, and the most awards of any feature film of the night: The movie took the Best Motion Picture — Drama) prize, stars Sam Rockwell and Frances McDormand both took home acting awards in their
categories, and director Martin McDonagh won for his
screenplay.
The victory for «The Shape of Water» is rather surprising because, for the first time in over 20 years, a Best Picture winner has won the top prize without having a nomination for Best Cast from SAG, along
with another big surprise of not winning its respective
Screenplay category on the way to the top.
He had previously worked
with Spielberg on Munich for which he was nominated for an Oscar in the Adapted
Screenplay category.
The adapted
Screenplay category is not as crowded as original which gives this one a pretty good shot at being considered there, along
with maybe costumes, cinematography, supporting for Pike.
Get Out was the only film centering on a person of color to score a Best Picture nomination but it showed up big in the major
categories,
with three additional nominations: Director, Lead Actor, and Original
Screenplay.
According to the site's predictions, calculated from «experts» and users, the
category with the most female representation is Best Original
Screenplay (made up of 40 percent women).
Boasting sumptuous period production design, cinematography in the irregular 2.0:1 aspect ratio by accomplished Italian cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor, and a number of Warren Beatty films), and costumes, Café Society could get recognized in some technical award
categories, even if it doesn't add to the long list of original
screenplay nominations (and wins) Allen has earned
with apparent apathy.
Original
screenplay was a much less competitive
category this year than adapted
screenplay,
with Spotlight and Inside Out the only real locks, and the former a heavy overall favorite.
James Franco was left out of the Best Actor
category, but The Disaster Artist was nominated for Best Adapted
Screenplay, news that co-writer Michael H. Weber took very well, along
with Haddish playfully butchering his name.
Despite the presence of Oscar hopefuls throughout many of the
categories, the Spirit Awards also strive to recognize emerging talents,
with categories for first feature and first
screenplay, as well as the John Cassavetes Award for a feature made for under $ 500,000.
Campaigns in Best Picture, Best Director for Zemeckis, Best Actor for Pitt, Best Actress for Cotillard, Best Supporting Actor for Goode or Harris, Best Supporting Actress for Caplan, Best Original
Screenplay for Knight, along
with the technical
categories.
An extremely competitive Original
Screenplay category was won by Quentin Tarantino for the enjoyably brash and transgressive Django Unchained, immediately followed up
with a worthy win for Christoph Waltz (pictured above right) for his supporting (show - stealing) performance in the same film.
Although support was clearly scattered,
with no film getting the vote of the majority of critics polled, «A Prophet» came out on top in every voting
category, including Best Director, Best
Screenplay and Best Performance for breakthrought star Tahar Rahim.
With three prior nominations in the acting
categories and a win in
Screenplay for Good Will Hunting, Matt Damon now has his first Best Picture nomination, as producer of the Casey Affleck - starring Manchester by the Sea.