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"screenplay prize" refers to winning a reward or award for writing a script for a movie or television show.
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Lanthimos and co-screenwriter Efthymis Filippou won the Best Original
Screenplay prize for The Lobster.
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi celebrates on stage after being awarded with the
Best Screenplay prize for the film «The Salesman (Forushande)» during the closing ceremony of the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on... More
It wasn't the steam - rolling best - picture frontrunner «The Shape of Water» that claimed the Writers Guild of America's original
screenplay prize in the absence of the ineligible «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» Sunday night.
In their third cinematic go - round together, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy won the Best
Adapted Screenplay prize for «Before Midnight.»
A Fantastic Woman (Una Mujer Fantástica) debuted at the Berlin Film Festival this year and won the Silver Bear Best
Screenplay prize which Lelio shared with frequent collaborator Gonzalo Maza.
That film did take the best
screenplay prize went to its writer / director Michel Franco, who paid tribute to jury chairs the Coen brothers, «my heroes», as well as to Roth, who chaired the Un Certain Regard jury who presented his previous film, After Lucia, with their top prize three years ago.
Showing loyalty to the Lido, meanwhile, is Italy's adopted son George Clooney, whom we already knew would be kicking off the Competition with «The Ides of March»; he took the festival's
screenplay prize in 2005 for «Good Night, and Good Luck,» and will be hoping to go at least one better this time.
«Birdman» — a visually inventive look at a washed - up movie actor seeking redemption on the Broadway stage — took best picture, director, cinematography and original
screenplay prizes at the Dolby Theatre ceremony.
Crossing Sophie's Choice with Cape Fear, and turning up the chill factor several notches, Killing met with boos no less than cheers at Cannes, where it shared the Best
Screenplay prize with You Were Never Really Here.
The five BAFTA awards «Budapest» took — score, makeup and hair, costume design, production design and an
original screenplay prize for Anderson — might all be Oscar wins too, making it the night's most celebrated movie.
Hours after James Franco won the best actor prize at the Gotham Awards, The Disaster Artist screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber won the NBR's best
adapted screenplay prize, setting up that film about The Room director Tommy Wiseau for an unlikely awards season run.
After earning six nominations from the Online Film Critics Society earlier this month, Get Out has emerged as the group's Best Picture of 2017, also grabbing the Original
Screenplay prize for Jordan Peele and a runner - up in Best Director (also Peele), Best Actor and Best Breakthrough (both Daniel Kaluuya).
Alfonso Cuarón won the Best Director prize for his groundbreaking work on the space survival thriller «Gravity»; Spike Jonze's «Her» won the
Best Screenplay prize for its near - future tale of a romance between a man and a computer operating system.
Cannes awarded her its Best
Screenplay prize and Best Actor for Phoenix, both prizes richly deserved.
His writer / director, Lynne Ramsay, shared
the screenplay prize.
Ramsay shared
the screenplay prize with Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou («The Lobster»), who won for the divisive «The Killing of a Sacred Deer.»
«The Grand Budapest Hotel» also won two awards: Ralph Fiennes was named Best Actor, and Wes Anderson earned the Best Original
Screenplay prize.
Its writing team of Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley (from an original story by Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen) also won the Best Original
Screenplay prize, an unprecedented win for the writing of an animated film.
British writer - director Martin McDonagh, whose film «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» took the best picture honor as well as the original
screenplay prize, noted the timeliness of his movie in his acceptance speech.
Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of Ben Mezrich's book «The Accidental Billionaires» won the Best
Screenplay prize.
NYFCC matched two categories with NBR: Paul Thomas Anderson won another Best Original
Screenplay prize, and Willem Dafore again won Supporting Actor.
Regarding
the Screenplay prize: If Marston's name looks familiar think Maria Full of Grace.
Among the others were Willem Dafoe, winning Best Supporting Actor for The Florida Project; Paul Thomas Anderson won the Original
Screenplay prize for Phantom Thread, another very - recently screened film; and Scott Neustader and Michael H. Weber were the Adapted Screenplay winners for The Disaster Artist.
If all goes as expected, Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner will pick up
another screenplay prize.
«Beyond the Lights» also scored a Best
Screenplay prize for its writer / director, Gina Prince - Bythewood.
(The Lobster and another A24 film, 20th Century Women, were also up for
screenplay prizes, though they did not win.)
Still matching each other category by category, CMBYN took adapted screenplay with James Ivory's warm and delicate rendering of the beloved book, while Thread «s P.T. Anderson parlayed his witty dialogue to an original
screenplay prize.
Along with the Affleck win, Manchester by the Sea also won
the Screenplay prize for Kenneth Lonergan and The Handmaiden won Cinematography and Foreign Language Film
Last year Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney of «Moonlight» took home the original
screenplay prize; at the subsequent Oscars they won for adapted screenplay.
The quirky drama, which takes a look at contemporary life in America through the lens of a grieving mother (Frances McDormand) and her frustrations with local law enforcement, won
a screenplay prize at the Venice Film Festival.
While Frances McDormand is now a best actress favourite for her portrayal of a mother erecting billboards in order to get the local sheriff to investigate her daughter's murder, writer - director Martin McDonagh can not be ignored, especially after he won Venice's best
screenplay prize.
The film won
the Screenplay prize at the Cannes Film Festival this year (tying with Lynne Ramsey's You Were Never Really There) and will also show at the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
Sweden's «The Square» won the Palme d'Or last year at Cannes, where Russia's «Loveless» earned the jury prize; Hungary's «On Body and Soul» nabbed the Golden Bear at the 2017 Berlinale, ahead of Chile's «A Fantastic Woman,» which took
the screenplay prize.
Last year at the bi-coastal WGA ceremonies, Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney of «Moonlight» took home the original
screenplay prize; at the subsequent Academy Awards they won for adapted screenplay.
While Jordan Peele's horror film did not receive any other awards, it was within one vote of
the screenplay prize and just two away from best picture.
The film walked away from the fest with
the screenplay prize and perhaps, more importantly, a distribution deal with Sony Pictures Classics.
A late surge of momentum (five stars from Peter) for Andrei Zvyagintsev's Russian drama which takes literal pot shots at the Kremlin administration was only enough, in the end, to secure
it the screenplay prize.
Cannes awarded her its Best
Screenplay prize and Best Actor for Phoenix, both prizes richly deserved» — Peter Howell, The Toronto Star
The LEGO Movie didn't go home empty handed, however, as Lord and Miller rightfully won the Best
Screenplay prize.
Jia was last at Cannes in 2013 with «A Touch of Sin» (which won the festival's
screenplay prize), and his previous films include «24 City» and «Still Life».
Other movies of theirs, such as «Fargo» (which also took the Best Original
Screenplay prize) and «A Serious Man,» have been nominated for Best Picture.