Sentences with phrase «screenplay prizes at»

«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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Notably, The Big Short won best adapted screenplay at the Writers Guild Awards and also took the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards, which has predicted the Academy's Best Picture choice 8 out of the past 10 years.

That didn't stop writer and director Yorgos Lanthimos from winning the prize for Best Screenplay at the festival.

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.

Gravity has become the early winner at the Bafta Awards in London, picking up a handful of top prizes, including Best Screenplay, Music,...

Spotlight won Best Picture at the 21st annual Critics» Choice Awards on Sunday night in Santa Monica, along with best original screenplay and best ensemble, but Mad Max: Fury Road took home nine prizes, with best director (George Miller) being the biggest.

After scooping up Best Screenplay and Best Actor honors for The Salesman at the Cannes Film Festival, Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi has swiftly landed two more international prizes for his next film: Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem.

Philomena's story finds its way to a prickly journalist played Steve Coogan (who also wrote the screenplay, which won him a prize at the Venice Film Festival), and the two set off in search together.

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.

Here, aided by a killer, and highly authentic screenplay by former prison psychotherapist and poet Jonathan Asser (the rightful winner of the Best Newcomer prize at the festival), Mackenzie excels.

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.

Gaspard Ulliel's mesmerizing turn at Yves Saint Laurent in Saint Laurent earned him the Best Actor prize and the supporting categories were won by Kristen Stewart for Clouds of Sils Maria (which also won Original Screenplay and a place in the top 5 films of the year) and Oscar Isaac for Ex Machina.

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.

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.

And on Monday at the I.F.P. Gotham Awards, Ronan won the actress honor, and Get Out took home a whopping three prizes — for screenplay, breakthrough director, and the audience award.

A first for Saulnier who works from a screenplay that is not his own, nonetheless, with Hold the Dark he continues the creative collaboration with Macon Blair, who after winning the U.S Dramatic Comp prize for I Don't Feel At Home in This World Anymore, wrote the adaptation.

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.