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Logan, the final film in the Wolverine saga, broke the comic - book curse this year by earning a screenplay nod in this category, so anything's possible.

So one of my faves of the year, «The Big Sick,» got an original screenplay nod in a stacked category, but no best picture (I had fingers and toes crossed but wasn't expecting it) and, shockingly, horribly, no Holly Hunter in supporting!

Not exact matches

Megamind might well be loaded with big names (Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, David Cross, Brad Pitt), it does have the odd cheeky nod for the grown - ups - and it is presented in inglorious 3D - but it's also got a screenplay overflowing with charm, intelligence, wit and a real spark.

But this is a year where Kristin Scott Thomas, Daniel Kaluuya, Josh O'Connor and Florence Pugh are nominated, where Simon Farnaby and Paul King's remarkable Paddington 2 screenplay is honoured (the film deserved a Best Film / Best British Film nod too), where Saoirse Ronan is celebrated, where Jamie Bell is justly remembered for Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, and where Hugh Grant is nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a family film about a CGI bear.

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.

Hans Zimmer could contend for Best Original Score and when you toss in a possible Best Picture nod and the longshot possibility of a Director, Screenplay, or Supporting Actor nod, this could be a double - digit nominee next January 2013.

The 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations have been announced and Jordan Peele's completely different but also masterful social thriller Get Out, scored five nods in total including Best Director and Screenplay for Peele, as well as Best Picture, Actor, and Editing.

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-...]

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.

«We would like to acknowledge and congratulate the filmmakers behind Straight Outta Compton and What Happened, Miss Simone who picked up nods in Best Original Screenplay and Featured Documentary, respectively.

It was nominated for Best Drama but surprisingly missed out in Best Screenplay and Best Director (and only one of its two Best Supporting Actors got a nod instead of the two - fer from some other groups).

With six nods in total, it cements the streaming giant's place at the movie industry table, with Amazon — which won last year's race to become the first streaming player to win an Academy Award — only picking up one nomination this year: Best Original Screenplay for The Big Sick.

Women had a hand in writing four of the 10 screenplays nominated and earned nods for foreign film, animated film, documentary, editing, production design, song, makeup, costumes and sound mixing.

He gifted star Jake Gyllenhaal with his best role to date amongst many strong recent turns (one that hopefully is recognized by the Academy), but also may be in line for an original screenplay nod himself.

Damien Chazelle's homage to old Hollywood received a nod for Best Motion Picture, Musical Or Comedy; Stone and Gosling each got recognition in their respective acting categories; and Chazelle was nominated in Best Director and Best Screenplay.

«Ex Machina» and Straight Outta Compton» getting Best Original Screenplay nods — Yesterday, I knew there was room among the big hitters for one surprise entry in the Best Original Screenplay category.

Along with a best picture nod in comedy, it earned nominations for Ralph Fiennes as best actor, and Wes Anderson for screenplay and director.

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.

Earlier in the evening, McDormand's «Three Billboards» co-star Sam Rockwell was named Best Supporting Actor; the film received a total of seven nominations, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and another Best Supporting Actor nod for Woody Harrelson.

That included Steven Spielberg's Pentagon Papers drama «The Post» (best picture, best actress for Meryl Streep), the first adapted screenplay nod for a superhero movie in the Wolverine sequel «Logan» and two animated film nominations: «Ferdinand» and the much - mocked «The Boss Baby.»

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is also high on the list based in large part on its powerhouse performances, and Molly's Game, Aaron Sorkin's buzzy directorial debut, could win him more than just a guaranteed screenplay nod.

So, might we see a Best Adapted Screenplay nod for Coogler and co-writer Joe Robert Cole in 2019?

Spike Lee's provocative film about racial tensions in Brooklyn won the outspoken director a number of accolades, including Golden Globe nods for best picture, best director, best screenplay, and best supporting actor for Danny Aiello.

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.

Sharp's screenplays are marked by a narrative complexity and situations gravid with implication and doom.1 Take the moment in the Arthur Penn - helmed Night Moves where broken - down P.I. Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman, reuniting with Penn for the first time since Bonnie and Clyde), after discovering a body in a sunken wreck off the coast of Florida, watches as his two sleazeball hosts (John Crawford and Jennifer Warren)-- who've previously exchanged an odd nod and a knowing glance in which something is silently decided about how to handle this new, inquisitive element dropped in their midst — break into a broken tango to a tune on the radio.

But Disaster has already picked up some Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor nods this week and that should continue, in addition to contending in a number of categories at the Golden Globes where it will face lighter competition under the Comedy or Musical designation.

At least it was nominated, although it converted only one of its nine nods into an award (for best screenplay) and lost in the best picture category to John Ford's family saga How Green Was My Valley.

In the movie, which also won Best Screenplay from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and picked up a nod from the American Cinema Editors this week, Farrell plays a sad, paunchy man who gets sent to a hotel where he has 45 days to find a partner.

The Post garnered nominations in nearly every major category, including Best Motion Picture, Drama, Best Actor and Actress nods for Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, plus Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Original Score.

Kaluuya picked up a nod for his role in Get Out, Jordan Peele's stirring social thriller, which also picked up a slew of other nominations, including best original screenplay, best director, and best picture.

Meanwhile, the horrors - of - racism drama Get Outearned six nominations, four for writer - director Jordan Peele alone (in addition to helming and screenplay nods, he's up for «Wilde Wit» and «Wilde Artist» kudos).

I pointed out yesterday that Fox Searchlight is operating on a different plane when it comes to turning out the vote for its movies, and alongside the aforementioned surprise little hit of the final quarter of 2007 ($ 85 million and counting), further evidence arrives in the form of Tamara Jenkins» The Savages, which, despite not (yet) having connected at the box office (it's made only $ 3.6 million in a month and a half of release), garnered an expected Best Original Screenplay nomination, but also a Best Actress nod for Laura Linney, probably coming at the expense of Angelina Jolie and A Mighty Heart.

Writer - director Tony Gilroy's end - around on studio financing worked out well, with Michael Clayton racking up nods for George Clooney's lead performance, Tilda Swinton and Tom Wilkinson's supporting turns, Best Original Screenplay and, somewhat surprisingly, Best Director, in Gilroy's debut.

McDonagh also has nods in the Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay categories.

The 90th annual Oscars ceremony had everything: A historic win (Jordan Peele's Best Original Screenplay nod), Sufjan Stevens in that jacket, a star - studded field trip, as well as some not - so - surprising picks (kudos to Gary Oldman's prosthetics).

Other multiple award winners included Gone Girl (for Best Actress Rosamund Pike and Gillian Flynn's Adapted Screenplay), Interstellar (which earned nods for its Visual Effects and Cinematography), and, in a surprise considering its indie status, Damien Chazelle's Whiplash (which earned praise for Best Supporting Actor J.K. Simmons and the director himself, as the FFCC's Breakthrough Artist).

Nominations expected across the board for Picture, Director, Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (or lead) for Patricia Arquette, a possible nod for Ellar Coltrane in lead actor, editing.

However, Adapted Screenplay and Editing nods also definitely seem in play.

Nothing for its picturesque cinematography, its challenging screenplay adaptation, nor its direction by Jean - Marc Vallée, whose Dallas Buyers Club scored six Oscar nods last year, including a win in Best Actor for Matthew McConaughey.

From there it became a critical darling in the United States and earned Egoyan Oscar nods for Best Director and Best Screenplay.

They've really went for Juno and Up in the Air (and some say that he almost got a screenplay nod for Thank You For Smoking), but they've resisted him since then, feeling that neither Young Adult nor Labor Day was nom worthy, perhaps rightly so too in the latter case (even though I like the flick).

Besides in the category of Best Director, «Seven Beauties,» which benefitted from its Holocaust theme, also earned nods for Best Actor, Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Screenplay.

All three drew Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and for Russell as Best Director (in addition to Screenplay nods, the latter two of which he shared).

His sci - fi thriller Inception broke through the barrier of earnestness to the best picture category in 2011 and it scored him a second screenplay nod (the first was for Memento) but it looks like he might finally get the ultimate recognition for his next film Dunkirk.

• Samantha Morton (Best Supporting Actress), «The Messenger»: That surprise screenplay nod indicates there was keen support for the film in the Academy, so it's a shame that didn't extend to its most resonant performance — in a category, moreover, that was obviously in considerable flux.

OSCAR CHANCES: Sly did nab a Best Original Screenplay nod back in 1976 for «Rocky» but I'm not to optimistic.

Peele, who wrote and directed the film, could also slide into the best director or best screenplay category, the latter of which is usually more flexible in rewarding offbeat fare (like this year's nod for the beautifully deranged The Lobster).

The internet may still be upset that Deadpool didn't get Best Picture or Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar nods, but in 2016, the stars aligned for Ryan Reynolds.

The melancholic comedy set in the»60s New York City folk scene earned a Best Actor win for Oscar Isaac and a Best Screenplay nod for the Coen brothers.