Not exact matches
As far as these types of films
go, Moore's
screenplay is incredibly unexceptional, pouring on the heavy - handedness unabashedly (including his
prized line «sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine, used three times), such as showing the juxtaposition of heterosexual flirtation between Matthew Goode and Tuppence Middleton.
In their third cinematic
go - round together, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy won the Best Adapted
Screenplay prize for «Before Midnight.»
The
screenplay categories are where the Academy often gives an award to a multi-nominated film that isn't
going to pick up one of the top
prizes — see Alexander Payne.
That movie, which won the festival's jury
prize and
went on to earn an Oscar nomination for its
screenplay, was a surreal and haunting satire of monogamous love — governed by a rigid speculative premise but also open, in its way, to the rich and startlingly funny possibilities of human experience.
Best Cast Ensemble
went to Greta Gerwig «s «Lady Bird,» the only win for the film despite runner - up
prizes in Supporting Actress and Original
Screenplay.
The LEGO Movie didn't
go home empty handed, however, as Lord and Miller rightfully won the Best
Screenplay prize.
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.