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

Irish author Emma Donoghue has also been announced as a contender in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for her screenplay for Room, the big screen adaptation of her best - selling novel.

Scott Frank, Michael Green and director James Mangold are nominated in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for the film, which is Hugh Jackman's last outing as Wolverine after -LSB-...]

Aaron Sorkin in the Best Screenplay category for «Molly's Game», but the HFPA loves Sorkin.

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.

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

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.

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.

Director John Michael McDonagh has received nominations in the Best Director and Best Screenplay categories for black comedy «Calvary».

Not exact matches

Here are just a few: Jordan Peele became the first African American to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out, and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won for Best Picture — a film featuring a female actor in the lead role hasn't won the category since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.

Earlier this week Bovada, one of the most popular offshore sportsbooks, posted odds for eleven of the fourteen film categories — omitting Best Screenplay, Best Original Score and Best Original Song.

The Academy really didn't like Gone Girl much, as Gillian Flynn (who has been owning this category on the awards circuit) couldn't even get a screenplay nomination for adapting her own best - seller.

So far Silver Linings has placed Lawrence and Cooper in privileged positions for Academy Award nominations and not unlikely is the possibility of the film getting recognition in the Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and of course Best Director categories.

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.

Brie Larson, who plays the lead in Lenny Abrahamson's Room, joins Saoirse Ronan in the Leading Actress category and Room «s writer, Emma Donoghue, is nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.

If Tarantino fails to gain entrance into the Original Screenplay and Director categories (which would be understandable after all the shade his controversial interviews have thrown on his peers) and the Best Picture field isn't big enough to support this, the film should likely still compete for Best Cinematography and Best Original Score honors.

Danny Boyle's Mumbai - set melodrama triumphed in all but one of the categories for which it was nominated, taking best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay, as well as five others.

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.

Best Director is an exact repeat of the Best Motion Picture — Drama category, while the Best Screenplay one is the same save for David O. Russell and «Silver Linings Playbook» ousting David Magee and «Life of Pi.»

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.

The 12 nominations for «The King's Speech» — including crucial nods in key categories such as Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay — means Tom Hooper's historical drama (and not David Fincher's Facebook film) is -LSB-...]

There's «Get Out» from Jordan Peele (which feels like a dark horse for Original Screenplay on a good day, though I'm sure many will work hard for Daniel Kaluuya and Betty Gabriel in acting categories) and «The Fate of the Furious» from F. Gary Gray («Straight Outta Compton»), but neither truly feel like they'll make a dent come awards season.

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.

Voting is open until December 12 at 11:59 p.m. Categories include Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Documentary, Best Animated Film, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent film).

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.

Writer / director Jordan Peele was recognized in the Best Original Screenplay and Best First Film categories for Get Out.

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

Gerwig is also nominated for best original screenplay, a category that includes The Big Sick co-writers Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, plus Vanessa Taylor and Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water.

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.

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.

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.

director Dee Rees will likely be seen as a best director snub, but she is nominated for best adapted screenplay - the only woman in the category this year.

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.

A new category has been added for short screenplays and is open to narrative scripts in any genre at 40 pages in length or less.

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

What It Could Win: Ang Lee, who took home the Best Director Academy Award in 2013 for Life of Pi, is a frontrunner once again, seemingly providing the movie Best Picture heft, while the rest of the categories — first - time screenwriter Jean - Christophe Castelli for Best Adapted Screenplay?

That is the proposition posed by Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, a spellbinding espionage thriller which was nominated for Academy Awards in the Best Actor (Oldman), Screenplay and Score categories.

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.

But chances are slim that it can truly impact the Oscar chances for the film, which has three nominations: Best Actress for Blanchett, Best Supporting Actress for Sally Hawkins and Best Original Screenplay for Allen, his record - breaking 18th nomination in the category.

Nominees for the 90th Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning and LOGAN writers Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green received a nomination for «Adapted Screenplay,» making it the first time a superhero (but not comic book) film has been nominated in this category.

And consider the astonishing four nominations (director, screenplay, cinematography, editing) for the Brazilian film «City of God,» which was ineligible in last year's foreign film category because the Brazilians refused to nominate their brilliant and angry film.

Not so The Grand Budapest Hotel, which dominated the craft categories, winning best original music, makeup and hair, costume design, production design, as well as best original screenplay for its absent director Wes Anderson.

The Secret of Kells was a dark horse nominee for the Best Animated Feature category, and I know some people will be excited to see In The Loop in there for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Along with Anna Paquin, the second youngest Oscar winner ever, the duo swept the Best Actress categories and Campion won for Best Original screenplay.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was the overall winner of the night, securing awards for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor in the Drama category.

Greta Gerwig's teen comedy, Lady Bird, won Best Motion Picture and Best Actress for a comedy or musical, while Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri secured awards for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor in the Drama category.

Throw in Jordan Peele becoming the first African - American screenwriter to win an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, an open endorsement of the Time's Up movement and Frances McDormand speaking very loudly, and you have an eventful evening of progressive winners, even if they didn't win in every category.

And good lord that Original Screenplay category is stacked (the other thing I could easily get wrong is seeing The Big Sick nominated over Phantom Thread, but I'm too much of a PTA homer to go for that one).

The film also won in the categories for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actress in a Supporting Role, which went to Hollywood darling Lupita Nyong» o.

«Spotlight» A contender for Best Picture, director and screenplay — as well as the supporting acting categories.