Sentences with phrase «screenplays for years»

The script is from first time screenwriter Jack Paglen and apparently sat on a «black list» of unproduced screenplays for years.

And it was clear from the trailer that Three Billboards was a movie about a woman fed up with the world's injustice in general and her own town's specifically; McDonagh had been working on the screenplay for years, but its arrival seemed perfectly timed for the end of 2017.

Not exact matches

The surprising snub of the unconventional Tonya Harding biopic, «I, Tonya,» from the best original screenplay category for this year's Oscar nominations was disappointing for many.

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.

Bell admits she wasn't coming from an open - minded place when she started writing the screenplay (she chose a contract of seven years is because she heard about German politician Gabriele Pauli's call for a renewable seven - year contract in 2007).

Writer / Researcher (Screenplays, novels, poetry) Clinically insane.with MPO (Multiple Personality Order) Former homeless street - dweller for 12 years.

Fogelman co-wrote the screenplay for Cars (2006), worked on the story for this year's Cars 2, and wrote the screenplay for 2010's Tangled, so he knows both comedy and character.

Benefiting from the unfortunate coincidence of the Three Mile Island accident shortly after its release, The China Syndrome became one of the year's biggest successes, and garnered Bridges his second Oscar nomination for screenplay.

Resuming his movie career with 1962's Taras Bulba, Salt went on to win an Academy Award for his screenplay for 1969's Midnight Cowboy; nine years later, Salt, Robert C. Jones, and Nancy Dowd shared an Oscar for Coming Home (1978), his final film.

By the movie's midpoint, the Wachowski brothers» screenplay has gotten so bogged down in back story that it takes 40 minutes for director James McTiegue to get back to the explosions that his 16 - year - old target audience assumes will solve everything.

The latest from writer - director Asghar Farhadi opened the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, but it was a disappointment from a director who has consistently impressed critics and jurors, and who was only two years removed from winning best screenplay for The Salesman at Cannes in 2016.

Take a Pulitzer Prize - winning author's first original screenplay, attach a respected director whose last film was considered a disappointment by many, and add a cast that includes Michael Fassbender (one of the highlights of that disappointing film), Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, and Cameron Diaz, and you have a solid formula for one of the most anticipated films of the year.

A majestic Mafia epic starring Brando as well as Al Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall, The Godfather was declared an instant classic, and its stature only grew in the years following its initial appearance.Coppola's next move was to write the screenplay for the 1974 adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

In 1968 he completed his first studio film, the box - office bomb Finian's Rainbow, followed the next year by The Rain People.When he was just 31, Coppola won his first Academy Award for his work on the screenplay of 1970's Patton.

After winning the Grand Prix for The Wonders at the 2014 festival, writer - director Alice Rohrwacher returned to Cannes this year and tied for the festival's best screenplay honors with a «fully formed expression of her virtuosic talents,» according to Rory O'Connor of The Film Stage.

Paul Haggis, who spoke with such remarkable confidence through his screenplay for Million Dollar Baby, one of the best films of the past few years, seems to be his own worst enemy in Crash, his directorial debut.

* Due to the often conflicting eligibility requirements set out by various organizations for determining whether a screenplay is «original» or «adapted,» we have opted this year to combine all screenplay awards into one comprehensive list.

It could also simply mean there is an obvious choice for screenplay honors this year and everything is tracking.

The screenplay is written by Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant, the screenwriting duo responsible for one of the worst movies of last year, Taxi.

The BAFTAs have always been an important bellwether for predicting Oscar, but they may be even more in tune with the Academy this year as a rule change allowed the entire BAFTA voting body to vote on every award (like the Oscars), instead of writers only voting for screenplay, actors only voting for acting, etc..

It was the gaffe heard around the world, but when the dust finally cleared on last year's fateful Oscars and this graceful indie was crowned Best Picture (with well - deserved awards for Mahershala Ali as Supporting Actor and Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney for Best Adapted Screenplay), instead of the front - runner La La Land, liberal Hollywood breathed a collective sigh of relief.

The group also handed out nominations for Best Animated Feature, Original Screenplay, Adapted Screenplay, Foreign Film, Documentary Feature and the Vince Koehler Award, which is chosen as the year's best Science Fiction, Horror or Fantasy Film.

But this is a year where Kristin Scott Thomas, Daniel Kaluuya, Josh O'Connor and Florence Pugh are nominated, where Simon Farnaby and Paul King's remarkable Paddington 2 screenplay is honoured (the film deserved a Best Film / Best British Film nod too), where Saoirse Ronan is celebrated, where Jamie Bell is justly remembered for Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, and where Hugh Grant is nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a family film about a CGI bear.

It was kinda crazy that it took 90 years for a black screenwriter to win best Original Screenplay, but Jordan Peele accomplished that with Get Out.

The movie is one of two Lelio dramas heading to TIFF this year; the other is «A Fantastic Woman,» which earned acclaim at Berlin and won Lelio the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay.

You Are Here is said to be a personal project — in the works for the better part of a decade — and it has all the earmarks of a screenplay that Weiner kept in a back drawer for years until he suddenly had the means to get it off the ground.

With a screenplay by The Lone Ranger co-writer Justin Haythe, A Cure For Wellness arrives in our cinemas next year.

While never the most conventional screenwriter to begin with («Pulp Fiction» is a sprawling, ambitious jigsaw puzzle, for one), in recent years Tarantino's screenplays have pushed the envelope further, eschewing most cinematic narrative conventions, with his movies becoming more like filmed novels that don't bother with traditional structure.

The screenplay had originally been scripted by Edgar Wright (The World's End, Scott Pilgrim) and Joe Cornish (The Adventures of Tintin, Attack the Block), with Wright, who had cultivated the vision of Ant - Man for years, intending to direct, but creative differences saw a divorce from the project (Marvel became more controlling as they grew to massive popularity — a queen ant that expects its workers to keep the colony running smoothly), leading to rewrites by Adam McKay (Anchorman 2, Talladega Nights), and eventually Rudd himself during filming, while fluff - comedy veteran Peyton Reed had been brought in to mold it more in the shape that Marvel Studios had been seeking.

In an ordinary year, this screenplay award would belong to Greta Gerwig who would win it as Jane Campion did, as Sofia Coppola did in the years they were nominated for picture and director.

Especially good to see were screenplay nominations for two of the year's most inventive and original films, the science - fiction brain twister «Ex Machina» and the inside - the - brain animated triumph «Inside Out.»

And «Brooklyn,» this year's Little Engine That Could, took off from its Sundance premiere a year ago to take three top - drawer nominations, including lead actress for Saoirse Ronan, adapted screenplay for the veteran Nick Hornby (working from Colm Tóibín's novel) and even best picture.

Last year, Manchester by the Sea won Picture, Actor and Screenplay, while Barry Jenkins won Best Director for Moonlight.

Last Year «Äôs Big Winners: «ÄúSlumdog Millionaire «Äù took its first major best picture award of the season here, as well as honors for adapted screenplay and breakthrough actor Dev Patel.

Michel Franco, whose «Chronic» won a screenplay prize in the main competition two years ago,» received the Certain Regard jury prize for his latest, the family drama «April's Daughters» («Hijas de Abril»).

And screenwriter Graham Moore, winning Best Adapted Screenplay for The Imitation Game, turned his emotional speech toward his own suicidal teen years and a plea for outsiders to «stay weird, stay different.»

Very exciting, it's been 8 years since Primer (a science - fiction favourite in these parts), and while the writer / director's screenplay for «A Topiary» never got made into a film, he whipped out this surprise to many earlier this week by way of the festival announcement and a very shiny bit of key art which confirms that Carruth will star in the film along with Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way To Die).

«The Shape of Water» leads all films this year with 14 nominations including Best Picture, Sally Hawkins for Best Actress, Richard Jenkins for Best Supporting Actor, Octavia Spencer for Best Supporting Actress, Guillermo del Toro for both Best Director and Best Original Screenplay alongside Vanessa Taylor, Dan Laustsen for Best Cinematography, Paul Denham Austerberry, Shane Vieau, and Jeff Melvin for Best Production Design, Sidney Wolinsky for Best Editing, Luis Sequeira for Best Costume Design, Best Hair and Makeup, Best Visual Effects, Best Sci - Fi or Horror Movie, and Alexandre Desplat for Best Score.

John Ridley won the Best Screenplay award for 12 YEARS A SLAVE over a tie between Bob Nelson for NEBRASKA and Spike Jonze for HER.

One of my favorite moments was James Ivory's acceptance speech — 90 - year - old James Ivory, the oldest Oscar recipient ever, for his screenplay from my favorite movie of the year, «Call Me By Your Name.»

«Room» earned the Best Adapted Screenplay Prize, and also was recognized for the top two performances of the year: Brie Larson for Best Actress and Jacob Tremblay for Best Actor.

This year, that picture is «Get Out,» and the original screenplay nod would reward Peele for his writing and direction.

Suburbicon Rated R for violence, language, and some sexuality Rotten Tomatoes Score: 28 % Available on Disc and Streaming Years ago the Coen Brothers wrote this screenplay about chaos in the burbs during the late 50s.

Taking home three awards this year, Carol, a drama about a female clerk who falls in love with an older woman in the 1950s, claimed the awards for Best Actress (Cate Blanchett), Best Supporting Actress (Rooney Mara) and Best Adapted Screenplay.

This French drama, directed by Valerie Muller (who wrote the screenplay) and choreographer Angelin Preljocaj, follows an 8 - year - old Russian girl (Veronika Zhovnytska) who devotes her life to ballet, with little room for anything else.

Sheridan copped a well - justified Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination last year for Hell or High Water, a modern - day Western rife with carefully shaped, literate dialogue.

Four years ago, writer Alex Garland made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a critical smash that surprised with two Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Visual Effects and further surprised by winning the Visual Effects prize.

Steven McQueen's «12 Years a Slave» was the standout winner, with recognitions for Best Picture, Best Actor (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Best Supporting Actor (Michael Fassbender), Best Supporting Actress (Lupita Nyong» o), and Best Adapted Screenplay, for John Ridley's hand in bringing Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir to the big screen.

While he's an inherently warm screen presence, Colin Farrell — who won a Golden Globe for The Lobster — again proves perfect at delivering an off - puttingly deadpan script, which won best screenplay at Cannes this year.

A true career achievement award, the adapted screenplay Oscar will go to the 89 - year - old Ivory, best known for his collaborations with Ismail Merchant.