Sentences with phrase «screenplay of the first film»

As writers, we worked on the screenplay of the first film, but it was really about how to talk on camera without being boring.

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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.

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.

Take a Pulitzer Prize - winning author's first original screenplay, attach a respected director whose last film was considered a disappointment by many, and add a cast that includes Michael Fassbender (one of the highlights of that disappointing film), Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, and Cameron Diaz, and you have a solid formula for one of the most anticipated films of the year.

In 1968 he completed his first studio film, the box - office bomb Finian's Rainbow, followed the next year by The Rain People.When he was just 31, Coppola won his first Academy Award for his work on the screenplay of 1970's Patton.

However, in the second half of the film, Amiel and the stately screenplay (by John Collee, «Master and Commander») turn their attention to the saga of Annie, and how her catastrophic illness shattered Charles, his marriage (Charles and Emma were first cousins, a fact that kept the scientist forever paranoid about the health of his children), and the very questions posed in the book.

The Sting became one of the biggest hits of the early»70s; grossing 68.5 million dollars during its first run, the film also picked up seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Adapted Score for Marvin Hamlisch's unforgettable setting of Scott Joplin's ragtime music.

Kushner first encountered the challenge of fact - based drama when he wrote the screenplay for Spielberg's 2005 film «Munich,» which recounted the terrorist attacks at the 1972 Olympics and their aftermath.

Based on the screenplay of the acclaimed film, BULLETS OVER BROADWAY brings the talents of Woody Allen and Susan Stroman together for the first time at the St. James Theatre.

Certainly fans can rest assured that Fantastic Beasts is no conveyor - belt cash - in — with David Yates, the director of the final four Harry Potter films, at the helm and a script penned by Rowling herself (her first credited screenplay).

First, an almost flawless first time original screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski, whose only other writing credit was for his adaptation of the Icelandic film that became the Mark Wahlberg hit «Contraband.&rFirst, an almost flawless first time original screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski, whose only other writing credit was for his adaptation of the Icelandic film that became the Mark Wahlberg hit «Contraband.&rfirst time original screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski, whose only other writing credit was for his adaptation of the Icelandic film that became the Mark Wahlberg hit «Contraband.»

However, everything is done so well between the direction of Anthony and Joe Russo, a screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely with James Gunn, and music by Alan Silvestri for the first time since the first Avengers film.

It was the first film to take home all five of the big Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay (before that award was split in two).

The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), It Happened One Night is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the early sound era, packed with clever situations and gags that have entered the Hollywood comedy pantheon and featuring two actors at the top of their game, sparking with a chemistry that has never been bettered.

The films script comes from Christina Hodson, which is the first of her screenplays to be produced.

James Ivory won the adapted screenplay award for «Call Me by Your Name,» giving something of a shoutout to his cast of Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer and Michael Stuhlbarg by acknowledging that «a film like this depends on a lot of people, but first of all it depends on the actors.»

Derrickson, who co-wrote the screenplay for November 4's film, told Den of Geek that this first film is just «the tip of an iceberg.»

But Heyman hasn't forgotten the other highly anticipated fan project he's working on, namely Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first Harry Potter film not be a direct adaptation of one of the books, and the first to have a screenplay written by J.K. Rowling herself.

Her latest, Laggies, is her first directorial outing where Shelton has not also written the screenplay (Andrea Siegel gets her first credit instead), which divorces the film from a body of work largely improvised and often careening off the cuff to mostly enjoyable effect.

The screenplay sheds some interesting insights to Norman's psyche, yet somehow it is a tad boring to witness events that are of little surprise to anyone that has seen at least the first film in the series.

Following that coincidence was another, the second award of the night was given to Emma Donoghue for Best First Screenplay for her work in Room, which just happen to be presented by the adorable co-star of that film, Jacob Tremblay.

Francis Coppola's (he dropped the «Ford» in the»80s) Life Without Zoe (34:19) is the film's insignificant weak link, although it is noteworthy for being the first writing credit of Coppola's daughter Sofia, who has since blossomed into an esteemed director herself and an original screenplay Oscar winner.

Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald return to produce and Barry Sonnenfeld, who directed the first two films of the franchise, will direct the film from a screenplay written by Ethan Cohen, based on the comic book by Lowell Cunningham.

Screenwriter Carl Gottlieb (The Jerk, Jaws 2) takes his first stab at directing a feature film, based on the screenplay he co-wrote, and ends up making almost an extended version of the caveman sequence of History of the World Part I, which came out the same year.

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We have a number of LGBTQ people / films up for Oscars tonight: Dee Rees and James Ivory (both in Adapted Screenplay), the Chilean nominatee A Fantastic Woman, and the Best Pic nominee Call Me By Your Name, and Rachel Morrison, the first woman nominated in Cinematography.

Cinephilia and Beyond claims to have gotten hold of a 1999 note written by the auteur to fellow filmmaker James Brooks, who helped Anderson fund his first feature - length film, Bottle Rocket, and wrote an introduction to Anderson's Rushmore screenplay, which was published by Faber & Faber.

Josh Heald, who conceived the first film and shared screenplay credit with the duo of Sean Anders and John Morris, gets no credited help this time around.

One can't help but feel that the first third — easily its strongest part — is over too quickly with Wheatley and Amy Jump's screenplay concentrating most of the film's running - time on its huge shoot - out.

Directed by Mick Jackson from a screenplay by novelist / playwright Barry Hines and nominated for seven BAFTA Awards, «The most terrifying and honest portrayal of nuclear war ever filmed» (The Guardian) has now been fully restored from a 2K scan for the first time ever.

While praising Jordan Peele for becoming only the third person to be nominated for Best Directing, Screenplay and Picture for his debut film, Kimmel joked, «None other than President Trump called Get Out the best first three - quarters of a movie this year.»

Michael Mann, who directed «The Last of the Mohicans,» says that his first conscious movie memory was of the 1936 film version of the same story, starring Randolph Scott, and indeed Philip Dunne's screenplay for that movie is cited as a source for this one.

The screenplay, by the suddenly - ubiquitous Simon Kinberg (also the scribe behind the upcoming X-Men 3, Fantastic Four, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith — let me go on record first saying that this film does not bode well), is a foul compost of flaccid catchphrases and boggle - eyed declarations, squeezed like old cheese between action sequences so poorly conceptualized and executed that not only is it impossible to ever tell for a moment what the hell's going on, but the film also actually reminded me in its over-processed way of outtakes from Tron.

The complexity of the screenplay by Seth Grossman really starts to build after the first thirty minutes of the film and steps out of the calm, leading into something very dramatic and emotional, which surprised me.

Visit Carvahall and you'll find featurettes about the Inheritance Trilogy to which the novel Eragon belongs, The Storyteller's Scroll (focusing on turning the novel into a screenplay), Realizing Alagaësia (a look at storyboards, locations, scouting and character design), The Destined Roles (casting the actors), From Carvahall to Farthen Dur (behind - the - scenes footage during film production), Hatching The Dragon (the CGI process of creating the dragons), Just The Beginning (a peak at what's next in the series) and the Random House Digital Novel where you can enjoy the first two chapters of Eldest, the second novel from the Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini.

The writer and director of «Get Out» on Sunday, March 4, won an Oscar for his first film, taking a best original screenplay statue for the sociological thriller about a black man who meets his white girlfriend's family and finds a house of racial horrors.

A Brooklyn crime drama with this cast, directed by Roskam and written by Lehane in his first feature screenplay (he's written some for HBO shows The Wire and Boardwalk Empire) should have been an event film for me, but The Drop ultimately remains a little too undercooked and over-familiar to amount to more than the sum of its parts.

Schrader — who is best known for his screenplays for Martin Scorsese, but has also written and directed movies like American Gigolo, Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters, and Affliction — has never made anything as minimalist and contemplative as First Reformed, a film of empty spaces framed in boxy Academy ratio.

This original and bizarre film by written by Charlie Kaufman (his first screenplay) and first time director Spike Jonze (featured in Three Kings and director of numerous music videos) defies any conventional description.

While not likely to be a mainstream success, Jonze's fourth film and first original screenplay seems destined to be another cult favorite of the film community.

Having said that, it's foolish to start counting films out before the awards race has even kicked into first gear, so I'll just say that Sicario is certainly worthy of consideration for Best Picture, Director, and Original Screenplay for Taylor Sheridan, among others.

Arguably Spike Lee's best film (although some might make the case for She's Got ta Have It, Four Little Girls, Bamboozled, School Daze or The Original Kings of Comedy), this refreshingly - frank exploration of black - white relations earned Spike his first Academy Award nomination (in the Original Screenplay category).

How something so indebted to dozens upon dozens of other films can't get the imitation right buggers the imagination, providing a nation of yearning hacks that dulcet feeling of hope that results in a few more horrifically inept screenplays (produced and directed with commensurate incompetence) just like this one probably in the first half of 2004 alone.

Once again, the screenplay will pull from Max Brooks» popular novel of the same name, upon which the first film was based.

First - time feature director Richard Ramsey's screenplay is informed by the Song of Solomon — a reference that is hammered home throughout the overlong film courtesy of scripture - quoting voice - overs.

Although Suzanne Collins, the author of the novels on which the franchise is based, has a screenplay credit in the first of the four films (along with two male co-writers) all four films were directed by men.

Following in the footsteps of the record - breaking Marvel Studios» release, «Marvel's The Avengers,» production on the highly anticipated release, Marvel's «Captain America: The Winter Soldier» has commenced in Los Angeles, Calif., with production also including locations in Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington D.C. Directing the film is the team of Anthony and Joe Russo («Welcome to Collinwood») from a screenplay written by Christopher Markus («Captain America: The First Avenger») & Stephen McFeely («Captain America: The First Avenger»).

Alexander Payne (The Descendants, Paris I Love You) directs a decade - old Bob Nelson («The Eyes of Nye») screenplay, which marks his first time not receiving a writer credit on a film he directed.

Comprised of eight featurettes breaking down the film's pre-production (adapted screenplay and designs), production (including special effects), the cast, and more, this is your first stop for insight into the film's making.

The film has been compared to Taxi Driver (for which Schrader wrote the screenplay) in terms of following a character's descent into madness in an insane world, but First Reformed feels like the premise has been updated and refined for the 21st century.