Sentences with phrase «screenplay category»

As a matter of fact, I wanted to see that movie in the original screenplay category as well.

The Best Adapted Screenplay category, however, had a less likely winner.

Like Spotlight in the other screenplay category, this could wind up being the only win for what's still a legitimate best - picture contender.

Spotlight also won in the Best Original Screenplay category.

It also finds representation in the Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay categories.

Other Irish interests include Martin McDonagh, who has been nominated in the Best Original Screenplay category for In Bruges.

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.

Top movie awards contenders like «Toy Story 3» and «The King's Speech» have been deemed ineligible for the Best Screenplay categories at The Writers Guild of America awards.

Among the other notable nominations: James Gandolfini has been shortlisted posthumously for Best Supporting Male for his performance in his last film, romantic comedy Enough Said, and the Best First Screenplay category features Lake Bell for In A World and Joseph Gordon - Levitt for Don Jon.

On the other hand their Best Screenplay category encompasses all scripts, unlike the division the Academy Awards make in order to recognize the writers for either creating an original story, or succeeding in translating a previously written source material for the screen.

Though, thanks to category inflation, both screenplay categories now boast showdowns between no less than four best picture nominees, this is by far the easier contest of the two.

Both former Oscar champs were nominated in the Globes» single screenplay category, which Sorkin won.

Irish co-production «The Lobster», starring Colin Farrell, has made it into the Best Original Screenplay category alongside «Hell or High Water», «Manchester by the Sea», «La La Land», and» 20th Century Women».

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.

Female writers have fared considerably better in the dual screenplay categories — Best Original and Best Adapted Screenplay — but still, only 16 have ever won the Oscar.

Oscar's screenplay categories habitually reserve some love for odd ducks, and as one of the year's most buzzed - about, idiosyncratic indies, Beasts surely fits the bill.

In 2017, Allison Schroeder, nominated in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for Hidden Figures, was the stand alone woman nominated for film writing last year.

Jordan Peele, Get Out As the first black writer to win in the adapted screenplay category for Get Out, Jordan Peele winning was one of the most pleasant surprises of the evening.

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.

12 Years A Slave and Nebraska are all finishing strong today with lots of attention in acting and screenplay categories with Gravity and Her wrapping up the technical nods.

The surprising snub of the unconventional Tonya Harding biopic, «I, Tonya,» from the best original screenplay category for this year's Oscar nominations was disappointing for many.

Keep an eye on the screenplay category: Wilson died in 2005, but he'll be the only credited screenwriter, even though fellow playwright Tony Kushner has since worked on the screen adaptation.

Anderson has been nominated for an Oscar five times in the directing and both original and adapted screenplay categories for Boogie Nights, Magnolia and There Will Be Blood.

Beasts of the Southern Wild was ousted from the Best Screenplay category.

Juno, No Country for Old Men, Atonement, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and Charlie Wilson's War are all competing in the best screenplay category.

Spike Lee made the presentation of the director award to Peele, who has been nominated for Oscars in the best picture, best director and best original screenplay categories.

Popular favorite «Get Out» received nominations in the best picture, actor, director, and original screenplay categories.

Both screenplay categories are top - heavy with Best Picture material at the moment, with Original Screenplay carrying the burden as a very packed category this season.

This was especially true with the writers branch in the original screenplay category.

It was snubbed by the Academy, though, most surprisingly in the original screenplay category, which picked three European dramas to join the crowd - pleasing Finding Nemo and winner Lost in Translation.

Of the eight or nine films up for Best Picture, you can bet that many of those will also be featured in the screenplay category.

The screenplay categories are where the Academy often gives an award to a multi-nominated film that isn't going to pick up one of the top prizes — see Alexander Payne.

At the very least a nomination in the adapted screenplay category had been predicted for Flynn.

When the Academy moved Barry Jenkins» script for «Moonlight» to the Adapted Screenplay category, the Oscar race for Original Screenplay became a battle between two writer - directors.

If the film's story and pacing is as good as its visual promises, Chris Butler could become a double nominee with a Screenplay nod; although if an animated film is on pace to score a Screenplay nod, look to Brave, based on Pixar's track record in the screenplay categories.

Its best shot for any awards is in the adapted screenplay category, which it may be able to corral depending on its reception and momentum.

Greta Gerwig, the first female nominee in the Best Director category in eight years, lost to del Toro as well as Jordan Peele for Get Out in the Best Original Screenplay category.

Whatever one makes of its chances in the Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay categories, the film is a surefire contender across many crafts categories.

James Ivory, 89, became the oldest winner of an Oscar for the gay coming of age drama Call Me by Your Name, in the best adapted screenplay category.

in the Best Original Screenplay category.

While cracking the acting categories is tough, there is some wiggle room in the screenplay category.

«Frozen» snagged the Best Animated Film award, «The Great Beauty» trumped the Best Foreign Language Film category and Spike Jonez took the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay while John Ridley nabbed the honor in the Best Adapted Screenplay category, but it was «Gravity» that came out the biggest winner by far.

So that means we're in a battle to the finish in the ORIGINAL screenplay category AND the Best Director category, meaning it's entirely possible Best Director and Original Screenplay will match 5/5, but probably 4/5 since Dunkirk may not get a Screenplay nod — that will put the Big Sick in there.

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...

That makes Rees the first black woman to be nominated in for adapted screenplay category.

He's never won, and his best shot this year is probably in the Original Screenplay category.

As always, watch the screenplay category and the director category as a potential indicator of what films they really liked a lot.