Sentences with phrase «screenplay prize»

A "screenplay prize" refers to winning a reward or award for writing a script for a movie or television show. Full definition
Both were nominated for Best Picture and the Best Original Screenplay prizes.
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.
Call Me By Your Name and Get Out had to settle for screenplay prizes at Critics» Choice.
He also shared the Best Screenplay prize with Being John Malkovich author Charlie Kaufman (1999).
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.
Brett Morgan won the Documentary Screenplay prize for Jane (National Geographic).
Writer - director Greta Gerwig took home the top screenplay prize for penning «Lady Bird.»
That year, the movie won a best screenplay prize from a jury headed by Tim Burton.
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.
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