That film also won Best Adapted
Screenplay honors for James Ivory.
Mungiu himself won the Best
Screenplay honor for «Graduation.»
He was coming off a weekend that yielded Critics» Choice Movie Awards recognition for his film's ensemble, supporting actor Christoph Waltz and
a screenplay honor for the writer / director himself at the time, but in the week since, Waltz and the ensemble were again rewarded, this time by the Screen Actors Guild.
Not exact matches
And it's unlike any other book I've ever written,
for in addition to the memoir, it includes original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short
screenplay — all aimed at capturing the wonder and beauty of Scripture, while
honoring the best in biblical scholarship and acknowledging the challenges of its most difficult passages.
Named in
honor of film director Stanley Kubrick, who co-wrote the
screenplay for the film 2001: a Space Odyssey with Sir Arthur and directed the film version.
L.A. Confidential was nominated
for nine Academy Awards and netted two, with Brian Helgeland
honored for Best Adapted
Screenplay, and Kim Basinger taking home a statuette as Best Supporting Actress.
After winning the Grand Prix
for The Wonders at the 2014 festival, writer - director Alice Rohrwacher returned to Cannes this year and tied
for the festival's best
screenplay honors with a «fully formed expression of her virtuosic talents,» according to Rory O'Connor of The Film Stage.
It could also simply mean there is an obvious choice
for screenplay honors this year and everything is tracking.
Top
honors went to Spotlight, which won four EDA Awards: best film, best director, best original
screenplay and tied
for best ensemble.
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.
Beauvois's film (the French Oscar submission, which surprised many by failing to make the Academy's shortlist) took the top prize, but it was «The Ghost Writer» that netted the most wins, with four — including two
for Polanski himself (Best Director and Adapted
Screenplay), plus
honors for editing and Alexandre Desplat's score.
With a
screenplay by Gary Hawkins (THE ROUGH SOUTH OF LARRY BROWN), JOE is based on the novel by the late Larry Brown (Big Bad Love, Facing the Moon), the former Mississippi firefighter renowned
for his powerful, gothic storytelling and universal themes of
honor, desperation and moral rectitude.
Last Year «Äôs Big Winners: «ÄúSlumdog Millionaire «Äù took its first major best picture award of the season here, as well as
honors for adapted
screenplay and breakthrough actor Dev Patel.
«The Social Network» took top
honors, winning Best Film as well as Aaron Sorkin
for Best
Screenplay.
In addition, Hell or High Water was
honored with three other awards including Ben Foster
for Best Supporting Actor, David Mackenzie
for Best Director, and Taylor Sheridan
for Original
Screenplay.
The Writers Guild of America has just finished handing out their awards
for 2017, resulting in James Ivory («Call Me by Your Name») and Jordan Peele («Get Out») taking top
honors for Adapted and Original
Screenplays, respectively.
Screenplay honors went to Wes Anderson
for «The Grand Budapest Hotel» and Darius Khondji won the cinematographer award
for «The Immigrant.»
The Martian is one of the most talked about films of the year and has been named one of the best movies of the year by groups such as National Board of Review, which also awarded top
honors to Ridley Scott
for Best Director, Matt Damon
for Best Actor and Drew Goddard
for Best Adapted
Screenplay.
Warner Bros.» «Mad Max: Fury Road» took home three
honors and came in second
for another, but Open Road had a massive day as «Spotlight» won Best
Screenplay and Best Film from the Los Angeles Film...
The Writers Guild of America
honored Spike Jonze
for his future - set love story «Her» with its award
for original
screenplay and Billy Ray
for «Captain Phillips,» the true story of a hijacking at sea,
for adapted
screenplay on Saturday night.
With a
screenplay by Gary Hawkins, JOE is based on the novel by the late Larry Brown (Big Bad Love, Facing the Moon), the former Mississippi firefighter renowned
for his powerful, gothic storytelling and universal themes of
honor, desperation and moral rectitude.
In
honor of the movie's home video release (and before this weekend's Academy Awards, where it's nominated
for Best Animated Feature), I spoke with Molina about the power of the film's music, how physically visiting a place like Monte Alban actually translates into a movie's
screenplay, and much more.
«The Past» star Bérénice Bejo won the festival's best actress prize, while «The Salesman» took home
honors for best actor (Shahab Hosseini) and best
screenplay (Farhadi).
To further muddy the waters, I can't disagree with its success at the 69th Academy Awards ceremony, being nominated
for an impressive seven awards and winning two — one
for its original
screenplay and another
honoring McDormand's lead performance.
Mann was
honored to see her work used as the central piece of a film like this, and besides the critics» praise, her work gained recognition in the form of an Oscar nomination
for Best Original Song («Save Me»), one of three Academy nominations the film received (Best Original
Screenplay for Anderson, Best Supporting Actor
for Cruise).
The Writers Guild of America bestowed the Best Original
Screenplay honor upon Spike Jonze
for «Her,» further suggesting that Jonze could be on his way to an Oscar win.
After the film's premiere at Cannes in May, it was
honored with awards
for its
screenplay and Hosseini's performance.
He's won two Best Original
Screenplay awards so far, while Oscar has also
honored Christoph Waltz twice in Best Supporting Actor
for working with him.
Moonlight went home with Oscar's top
honor, along with two other statuettes —
for best supporting actor and best adapted
screenplay.
After scooping up Best
Screenplay and Best Actor
honors for The Salesman at the Cannes Film Festival, Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi has swiftly landed two more international prizes
for his next film: Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem.
«Birdman» scored top
honors for best picture, best director, cinematography and original
screenplay.
The
screenplay received a Bradbury Award nomination from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and the film received, among other
honors, the Empire Award
for Best Director; a Comedy Central Comedy Award
for Best Director; two Scream Awards; a GLAAD Media Award nomination
for Outstanding Film — Wide Release; and two Satellite Awards including Best Picture — Comedy or Musical.
His script
for Get Out, a movie he said he stopped writing about 20 times because he thought it «wasn't going to work,» won the award
for Best Original
Screenplay, making Peele the first black filmmaker to receive that
honor.
McDonagh has already won an Oscar
for his short film Six Shooter in 2006 (and was nominated
for Best
Screenplay for In Bruges in 2008), and along with his stellar cast, he is surely in line
for more
honors in the coming year.
Here's where «Brokeback Mountain» will be
honored,
for the
screenplay by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana.
Spike Jonze's Her beat out David O. Russell's American Hustle
for the Writers Guild's highest
honor for original
screenplays and set itself up
for a potential upset on Oscar night.
’12 Years a Slave» and «Her» were also
honored for their
screenplays.
«Lion» won no more awards from the Gotham crix that year, with current Oscar nominee Alan Arkin («The Heart is a Lonely Hunter») and Joanne Woodward («Rachel, Rachel») taking acting
honors (instead of Peter O'Toole or Katharine Hepburn), and the
screenplay award went to Lorenzo Semple, Jr.
for «Pretty Poison.»
«Up in the Air» took top
honors, winning Best Film as well as Best
Screenplay and Best Actor
for George Clooney.
Gerwig in particular has been in contention
for Best Director prizes from critics» groups throughout the end of the year, including winning that
honor (along with Best
Screenplay and Best Picture) the day before the Globes by the National Society of Film Critics.
As expected, Cate Blanchett snagged the Best Leading Actress
honor, but surprisingly, it was Steve Coogan who made off with the Best Adapted
Screenplay award
for «Philomena,» beating out «12 Years a Slave,» «Behind the Candelabra,» «Captain Phillips» and «Wolf of Wall Street» while Will Poulter took the EE Rising Star award over Dane DeHaan, George MacKay, Lupita Nyong» o and Lea Seydoux.
While its cast, from its talented young leads to a never - better Ben Kingsley as Méliès, was regrettably snubbed, the film vied
for Best Picture, Director, and Adapted
Screenplay honors and likely wound up the runner - up in the first two of those categories to The Artist, a kindred French production which took its love
for early cinema in a drastically different direction (full - on emulation) to nonetheless comparably delightful results.
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The
screenplay honor was presented to South Korean director Lee Chang - dong
for «Poetry,» his gentle portrait of a grandmother (Yun Junghee) struggling to write a poem as she copes with the onset of Alzheimer's and her troublesome grandson.
Though Sound of Music took home top
honors, Zhivago ended up claiming the same number of Oscars, five in total, winning
for adapted
screenplay, costume design, cinematography, art decoration, and original score.
Warner Bros.» «Mad Max: Fury Road» took home three
honors and came in second
for another, but Open Road had a massive day as «Spotlight» won Best
Screenplay and Best Film from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
Jordan Peele's «Get Out» took home top
honors for Best Feature and Best Director, while Greta Gerwig snagged the award
for Best
Screenplay for «Lady Bird.»
Last year Focus Features» parent Universal Pictures sneaked the Blumhouse title Get Out at midnight Tuesday last year, which kicked off a roaring box office whirlwind of $ 255M worldwide
for the socially - conscious horror title and a year long - plus awards season march which hasn't stopped including two Golden Globe noms (comedy, lead actor), two SAG noms (ensemble cast and lead actor Daniel Kaluuya), Critics Choice wins
for best horror film and Jordan Peele's
screenplay, two DGA nominations
for best picture and first time feature by Peele, as well as the Stanley Kramer
honor at last night's PGAs.
«The Past» star Bérénice Bejo won the best actress prize, while «The Salesman» took home
honors for best actor (Shahab Hosseini) and best
screenplay (Farhadi).
The 17th Annual Hollywood Film Awards announced today that it will be
honoring Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater, with the «Hollywood Screenwriters Award,»
for their
screenplay for Sony Pictures Classics» Before Midnight.