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He also told us about his experiences in Ireland, writing the Moby Dick screenplay for John Huston.

You probably know that William F. «Bill» Phillips wrote the screenplay for John Carpenter's adaptation of Christine.

Not exact matches

Its most controversial aspect was the early decision to eschew a screenplay and have the movie follow, Pasolini - like, the Good News Bible's rendition of the Gospel of John word for word.

After all, he's a man who has published more than 50 novels including that evergreen high - school requirement Fahrenheit 451, and written hundreds of short stories and a host of screenplays, including the adaptation of Moby Dick for legendary director John Huston.

John Gatins» screenplay (loosely based on a short story by Richard Matheson) is fully mindful of its limitations and also the rationale for its spectacle.

The unanimously - praised film with a modest budget of $ 23 million deservedly won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (the first for Spielberg), Best Cinematography (Janusz Kaminski), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score (John Williams), Best Editing (Michael Kahn), and Best Art Direction.

I was not one of A Beautiful Mind's historical accuracy Nazis, who used the film's marginalization of the real John Nash as a way to bash the film (for my money, it was the horrid screenplay and direction that made it such a painful film to watch, not its artistic rewriting of history), though the erasing of Turing in Enigma is rather distressing.

But it was back in sword - and - sandal territory that Franzoni fully realized his affection for historical - based adventure, collaborating with John Logan and William Nicholson on the screenplay for Ridley Scott's Gladiator, for which the trio earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Sscreenplay for Ridley Scott's Gladiator, for which the trio earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original ScreenplayScreenplay.

Director Jon Amiel — working from a screenplay by John Collee based on the book «Annie's Box» by Darwin descendant Randal Keynes — goes in for a lot of ethereal father - daughter flashbacks.

Written by Alex Ross Perry (who's maybe the last human being on Earth whose name you'd expect to see in the closing credits) and filled with all of the sincerity that he's left out of the savagely caustic screenplays he's written for himself, «Nostalgia» begins with an insurance agent named Daniel (John Ortiz) visiting Ronald, a curmudgeonly old hoarder played by Bruce Dern.

Married three times, Virginia Bruce's first husband was silent screen idol John Gilbert, with whom she costarred in Downstairs (1932), an obscure but lively melodrama for which Gilbert had written the screenplay.

Jeremy and John - Henry Butterworth were named recipients of the Writers Guild of America West's 2011 Paul Selvin Award for their screenplay for the film Fair Game (2010), directed by Doug Liman and which starred Naomi Watts and Sean Penn..

John Altschuler, Dave Krinsky, and Johnny Knoxville wrote the screenplay for the film, which is about a daredevil who designs and operates his own theme park with his friends.

Based on vague tweets featuring codenames for an upcoming project by screenwriter Max Landis (Chronicle, Victor Frankenstein), John Landis» son, the horror news site stated the remake was a forgone conclusion with Max Landis penning a new screenplay.

Director Robert Zemeckis, working from a screenplay by John Gatins, has been loitering in the creepy motion - capture vineyards for a long time: «The Polar Express» and «Beowulf» are not likely to rank high alongside his «Back to the Future» films or «Forrest Gump» or «Cast Away.»

The original story was by John Romano, an accomplished TV writer (Hill Street Blues, Party of Five) who went on to write the screenplays for Nights in Rodanthe and The Lincoln Lawyer.

John Ridley won the Best Screenplay award for 12 YEARS A SLAVE over a tie between Bob Nelson for NEBRASKA and Spike Jonze for HER.

Viewers would be forgiven for their hesitance to see another movie from the directors of the «Vacation» reboot, but John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, working from a pitch - perfect screenplay by Mark Perez («Accepted»), have crafted an ensemble comedy that lives up to its high - concept premise while giving a gang of talented actors — including the gifted Jason Bateman, so rarely employed to great effect on the big screen — fun characters and big, outrageous moments.

Steven McQueen's «12 Years a Slave» was the standout winner, with recognitions for Best Picture, Best Actor (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Best Supporting Actor (Michael Fassbender), Best Supporting Actress (Lupita Nyong» o), and Best Adapted Screenplay, for John Ridley's hand in bringing Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir to the big screen.

It's clear right from the get - go that director John Huston (who co-wrote the screenplay with Peter Viertel) isn't interested in presenting both sides of this story - said Chief of Police is almost ridiculously evil, completely devoid of any redeeming qualities - but that's not necessarily a bad thing, as the filmmaker does an effective job of establishing each of these rebels (to the point where we're genuinely rooting for them to accomplish their complicated mission).

He was in serious financial debt when John Krasinski and Matt Damon, producer of the film, went to him with the original idea for Manchester by the Sea, and asked him to write the screenplay.

Thankfully, as his fortunes improve and Brown becomes more and more demanding, the screenplay from Jez and John - Henry Butterworth inserts some actual discussion of his songwriting and groove technique, giving the man credit for virtually inventing the funk.

Charlie Kaufman — «Synecdoche, New York «Having written some of the defining screenplays of the early noughties (ok fine, «Being John Malkovich» was 1999) Charlie Kaufman became something of a brand - name screenwriter — one whose own input rivalled that of the directors he's most associated with (Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze) for authorial ownership over the finished film.

A Fish Called Wanda was an $ 8 million movie that became a $ 100 million smash worldwide, won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Kevin Kline, and earned Best Director and Best Screenplay nominations for director Charles Crichton and co-writer John Cleese.

As degrees of separation go, John Ridley, the winner of Best Adapted Screenplay for «12 Years a Slave» also wrote the screenplay for «Three KinScreenplay for «12 Years a Slave» also wrote the screenplay for «Three Kinscreenplay for «Three Kings».

The 1962 film, still chilling today, had all the ingredients for success: accomplished director J. Lee Thompson (who also made Peck's 1962 adventure classic, «The Guns of Navarone»), a near - perfect cast, top - notch material (James R. Webb's screenplay is based on John D. MacDonald's novel «The Executioners»), a Bernard Herrmann score, cinematography by Sam Leavitt, art direction by Robert Boyle and editing by George Tomasini.

The fourth movie was only made for TV and was the only one John Hughes did not write the screenplay for.

What we have here is a quite historic and rare screenplays: Oliver Stone & John Milius» scripts for Conan the Barbarian [PDF1, PDF2].

It's also $ 6m less than John Carpenter spent over three decades ago on «Starman» — the picture which Nichols freely cites as the template for his «Midnight Special» screenplay, just as he was articulately frank about the Mark Twain influences on «Mud.»

If not for the fact that the same actors are playing the same characters, one really could look at this movie as its own entity (The screenplay may have been co-written by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt, who also wrote the script for the first film, but it often feels as if the characters have been transplanted into the screenplay for an unrelated story — perhaps one written by the other co-screenwriters Christian Gudegast and Chad St. John).

The new film is written by John Hodge, who wrote the screenplay for the original movie 20 years ago, and is based on the novel Porno and its characters created by Irvine Welsh.

Though John Ridley's most recent work has been with his critically - acclaimed ABC anthology crime drama «American Crime,» he garnered quite a bit of acclaim for his screenplay for «12 Years A Slave,» for which he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Sscreenplay for «12 Years A Slave,» for which he won the Oscar for Best Adapted ScreenplayScreenplay.

«We went back to the original screenplay too and just read it, John Carpenter's draft, and timed it with watching the movie, and line for line it keeps the same clock as watching the movie, so if you're reading the pages, it's almost like a shot list.»

Almost sweeping the Oscars with seven wins, Dances With Wolves won the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Film Editing, and Best Original Score as well as Golden Globes for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Score, by John Barry.

12 Years a Slave (Fox, Blu - ray, DVD, Digital HD), coming hot off an Oscar win for Best Picture as well as Best Supporting Actress (Lupita Nyong» o, whose acceptance speech was a work of art) and Best Adapted Screenplay (by John Ridley), timed this release right.

Granted, I'm also not sure if this movie is aimed squarely at me or if I'm the last person who should see it: the screenplay by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline (based on Cline's novel) seems to be weaponizing my own personal nostalgia for John Hughes, Monty Python, «Buckaroo Banzai» and other objects of obsession from my late teens and early 20s.

John Michael McDonagh's Calvary received 4 nominations for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor.

With twenty - four career nominations — including wins for Original Screenplay (Annie Hall; 1977), Director (Annie Hall; 1977), Original Screenplay (Hannah and Her Sisters; 1986), and Original Screenplay (Midnight in Paris; 2011)-- his name is up there with the likes of Meryl Streep, Walt Disney, and John Williams when it comes to adoration.

It's a tour - de-force for actor / producer / director John Krasinski, who also co-wrote the taut screenplay with Bryan Woods and Scott Beck.

• The underdog winner of the year is the indie film «Winter's Bone,» made for less than $ 2 million, which won at Sundance just a year ago and now has nominations including Best Picture, actress (Jennifer Lawrence), supporting actor (John Hawkes) and adapted screenplay.

Esquire cool interview with the director of John Wick: Chapter 2, a former stuntman Stage Buddy on a new book about the immortal classic Casablanca Vox an excellent piece on AMC's Humans and how it differs from HBO's similarly AI themed but wildly different Westworld NYT Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy to return to the stage Indie Wire Tulip Fever gets pushed back AGAIN even though it was supposed to open in less than two weeks Silver Screening Room on the Adapted Screenplay race of 1976 for reasons I do nt know but I enjoyed

• Foxcatcher • The Way, Way Back Ryan Gosling: The Ides of March • Drive • Only God Forgives • Blue Valentine Brad Pitt: Moneyball • The Tree of Life Rafe Spall: I Give It a Year Finn Wittrock: My All American John Magaro: Not Fade Away The Wolf of Wall Street • The Campaign • The Hangover Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winners: The Imitation Game • Argo • The Descendants • No Country for Old Men

* While John Singleton was the first black screenwriter to earn an original screenplay nomination for 1991's «Boyz n the Hood,» Jordan Peele became the first African American to win Best Original Screenplay for «Get Oscreenplay nomination for 1991's «Boyz n the Hood,» Jordan Peele became the first African American to win Best Original Screenplay for «Get OScreenplay for «Get Out.»

* 1/2 / **** starring Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Jon Foster, Elle Fanning screenplay by Tod Williams, based on the novel A Widow for One Year by John Irving directed by Tod Williams

Home Alone marked the beginning of the end of John Hughes as a creative force, who has spent the remainder of his career penning screenplays for such movies as Dennis the Menace, Baby's Day Out, Beethoven, Flubber, and the two Home Alone sequels — almost all kid stuff.

Probably not in the running: John Logan's screenplay for «The Aviator» and Brad Bird for «The Incredibles.»

But there may have been too many cooks in the kitchen for his screenplay, even though they are all experienced hands: John Logan, Neil Purvis, Robert Wade, and Jez Butterworth.

«Gaslight» (1944) Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman Best Art Direction (Black - and - White): Cedric Gibbons, William Ferrari, Edwin B. Willis, and Paul Huldschinsky * Also nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (Charles Boyer), Best Supporting Actress (Angela Lansbury), Best Adapted Screenplay (John L. Balderston, Walter Reisch, and John Van Druten) and Best Black - and - White Cinematography (Joseph Ruttenberg).

Cribbing some narrative loop - de-loops from «The Terminator» and other time - travel adventures, the screenplay by Scott Mosier and director Jimmy Hayward (from a story by producers David I. Stern and John J. Strauss) initially seems headed for agreeably daffy territory.

Steve McQueen's historical drama «12 Years a Slave» won three awards: Chiwetel Ejiofor for Best Actor, Lupita Nyong» o for Best Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay by John Ridley.