Sentences with phrase «screenplays for the films old»

He is best known for writing the novels The Half - Life and Rain Dragon, and for writing the short stories and screenplays for the films Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy.

Not exact matches

Last night, the 31 - year - old won the prize for Best Screenplay and Best Director, with his film winning Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, and its stars, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, winning Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

We must also give kudos to Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, who share a writing nomination for «The Big Sick,» a film that hasn't gotten enough awards season love; Kazuhiro Tsuji, who is nominated, for the third time, this year for the «Darkest Hour» makeup; and Agnès Varda and James Ivory who, at 89, are our oldest nominees this year (and the oldest on record), for the documentary «Faces Places» and adapted screenplay of «Call Me by Your Name,» respectively.

In 2007, the Coens received the TFCA's Best Director award for their film «No Country for Old Men», which also won Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay.

I personally am shocked that the film is nominated for a screenplay award and supporting actress (nothing against Melissa McCarthy because she is an awesome) but if that's all Hollywood needs from a script is a bunch of women fighting like 8 year olds and pooping in the street, please let me know and I will have my brothers write you up a screenplay in a few hours.

The screenplay, by the suddenly - ubiquitous Simon Kinberg (also the scribe behind the upcoming X-Men 3, Fantastic Four, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith — let me go on record first saying that this film does not bode well), is a foul compost of flaccid catchphrases and boggle - eyed declarations, squeezed like old cheese between action sequences so poorly conceptualized and executed that not only is it impossible to ever tell for a moment what the hell's going on, but the film also actually reminded me in its over-processed way of outtakes from Tron.

Guadagnino also touches on the long development process for his films, working with 87 - year - old James Ivory who wrote the Call Me by Your Name screenplay and was at one time going to direct, ageism in the business, his muse Tilda Swinton, and getting roundly booed in Venice with his first film.

McCarthy, whose books have been adapted into such fantastic films as No Country for Old Men and The Road, sold the spec screenplay The Counselor...

Besides a win for her screenplay, Campion's leading lady Holly Hunter and her 11 - year - old discovery, Anna Paquin, were rewarded in the actress categories for the same film — a situation that has happened just 10 times.

Cannes has been the launching pad for many successful Oscar films for decades including «L.A. Confidential» (winning 2 Academy Awards for Adapted Screenplay and Supporting Actress for Kim Basinger), «Inglourious Basterds» (netting a Supporting Actor Oscar for Christoph Waltz), and «No Country for Old Men» (which went on to win 4 Oscars including Best Picture).

Colfer previously wrote the screenplay for the big - screen adaptation of his book Struck by Lightning, the Brian Dannelly film in which he starred, as well as an episode of Glee, season 5 «s penultimate hour «Old Dog, New Tricks.»

Other notable victors included Jordan Peele for the original screenplay to his hit horror / social - metaphor film «Get Out»; Allison Janney, who won best supporting actress for her portrayal of figure skater Tonya Harding's hardhearted mother in «I, Tonya»; and 89 - year - old James Ivory, who won for adapted screenplay for «Call Me By Your Name.»