Sentences with phrase «screenplay winner»
The phrase "screenplay winner" refers to a written script for a movie or TV show that has been recognized as the best or most outstanding among a group of entries in a competition or award ceremony. It is a script that has been chosen as the winner based on its creativity, storytelling, and overall quality. Full definition
Call Me By Your Name was their Adapted Screenplay winner.
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You have to go back to 1998 to find a year when the Adapted Screenplay winner was not a Best Picture contender.
Best Original Screenplay winner Jordan Peele was amazed that the «Get Out» phenomenon has now lasted almost an entire year.
He's the first Globe screenplay winner to be snubbed by the Oscars since About Schmidt's Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor 13 years ago.
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.
Jordan Peele and James Ivory made a perfect pair of well - deserved screenplay winners, representing the past and the future.
Best Adapted Screenplay winner Graham Moore brought home the sole trophy for the Weinstein - backed «The Imitation Game,» and gave a startlingly rousing speech, confessing that he had attempted suicide as a teenager, and wanted his award to inspire people in their moments of hopelessness.
Statistically, this is very good for the film when it comes to Oscar; only four times in 42 years has the LAFCA screenplay winner not gone on to be Oscar nominated.
On the Oscar front, you can also rent Best Adapted Screenplay winner Call Me By Your Name and Best Supporting Actress winner I, Tonya if you're in the mood for an award - winning double feature.
Looking at the Cannes lineup and winners this year it's unlikely anyone outside of Spike Lee, who was already a top contender, will factor in the upper tiers of Best Director predictions but I am adding Jury Prize winner Nadine Labaki, whose Capernaum was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics and Screenplay winner Alice Rohrwacher, whose Happy as Lazzaro was picked up by Netflix.
Many 2018 Spirit Awards winners, including Peele (who also won best director), «Lady Bird» screenplay winner Greta Gerwig, and awards - season darling Timothée Chalamet (best actor winner for «Call Me By Your Name»), came to prominence in a post-Weinstein era, when the crass campaign - driven system was the natural order.
Recently anointed Original Screenplay winner Jordan Peele is teamed up with Spike Lee on «Black Klansman,» alongside «Get Out» producer nominee Jason Blum.
And it would be wise to keep an eye on Bohdan Sláma's «Ice Mother» (Best Screenplay winner at the Tribeca Film Festival) and Iceland's «Under the Tree,» a winner at Fantastic Fest and the Hamptons and Zurich Film Festivals.
Best Adapted Screenplay Winner: Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green, «Logan» Runner - up: Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, «Blade Runner 2049»
Part of that likely has to do with the absence of many truly great movies this year, and the fact key contenders — like «The Shape of Water» (the pick by the directors and producers guilds) and «Get Out» (the WGA's original screenplay winner)-- come from genres that seldom receive top awards recognition.
Although the screenplay contains a smattering of zingers («You've got no confidence, I like that in a man»), it's hardly vintage Allen and was never going to trouble eventual Original Screenplay winner The Usual Suspects.
He also voiced his appreciation to «Birdman» writer - director Alejandro G. Iñárritu (the night's screenplay winner), calling him a «true artist,» someone everyone in the room would work with at a moment's notice.
Best Adapted Screenplay Winner: Emma Donoghue for Room Runner - up: Charles Randolph and Adam McKay for The Big Short
Best Original Screenplay Winner: Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer for Spotlight Runner - up: Bob Petersen, Pete Docter for Inside Out
For every assured Adapted Screenplay winner, there is a Geoffrey Fletcher waiting in the wings.
To be sure, all but the Competition's worst (Paolo Sorrentino's self - indulgent, arthritic Youth) had some redeeming facet — from Tim Roth's quietly contained performance as a home nurse in Michel Franco's unpleasantly antiseptic Chronic (the Best Screenplay winner) to the everything - but - the - kitchen - sink turn by Emmanuelle Bercot (shared Best Actress prize) in Maïwenn's overwrought relationship drama Mon Roi, possibly my festival guilty pleasure, if such a thing is necessary.
But while Manchester By The Sea has the whip - smart chatter and structural ambition of an Original Screenplay winner, it's hard to shake the sneaking suspicion that La La Land's winning streak might continue here, even if the writing isn't really what anyone loves about this movie.
Best Original Screenplay Winner: Kenneth Lonergan, «Manchester by the Sea» Runner - up: Taylor Sheridan, «Hell or High Water»
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Winner: Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (Spotlight) Matt Charman, Joel & Ethan Coen (Bridge Of Spies) Alex Garland (Ex Machina) Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley (Inside Out) Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff (Straight Outta Compton)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Winner: Adam McKay and Charles Randolph, The Big Short Emma Donoghue, Room Drew Goddard, The Martian Nick Hornby, Brooklyn Phyllis Nagy, Carol
Best Screenplay Winner: Efthymis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos, THE LOBSTER Runner - up: Kenneth Lonergan, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
Accolades: Original Screenplay Winner — Phoenix Film Critics
Accolades: Best Screenplay Winner — Writers Guild of America
Accolades: Best Screenplay Winner — National Board of Review Best Screenplay Winner — Central Ohio Film Critics
Accolades: Best Original Screenplay Winner — BAFTA Best Original Screenplay Winner — New York Film Critics
Sony Pictures Classics recently snatched up the US and Canada rights to the Best Screenplay winner, «Leviathan,» and the Best Director winner, Bennett Miller, already has «Foxcatcher» set for a November debut.
I'm satisfied with the two screenplay winners, both of those usually end up going to the right films - and that's definitely the case this year.
Best Adapted Screenplay WINNER: James Ivory for «Call Me By Your Name» Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber for «The Disaster Artist» Scott Frank, James Mangold & Michael Green for «Logan» Aaron Sorkin for «Molly's Game» Virgil Williams and Dee Rees for «Mudbound»
Best Original Screenplay WINNER: Jordan Peele for «Get Out» Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani for «The Big Sick» Greta Gerwig for «Lady Bird» Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor for «The Shape of Water» Martin McDonagh for «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri»
Best Screenplay Winner: Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy, «Spotlight» Runner - Up: Charlie Kaufman, «Anomalisa» Lowdown: An important win for «Spotlight» in the adapted screenplay race.
Best Original Screenplay Winner: Lady Bird Alternate: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Though he continues to act and has been for almost fifty years now, Christopher's career kind of tapered off quickly; three of his four «Known For» credits come from 1979 to 1981 and the fourth is Django Unchained (his third time in an Original Screenplay winner, following this and Chariots of Fire) where his minor role can be chalked up to Quentin Tarantino's knack for long - memory, outside - the - box casting.
BEST SCREENPLAY Winner: Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy, Spotlight Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, Inside Out Nick Hornby, Brooklyn Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, The Big Short Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight