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Writer - director Craig Johnson (True Adolescents) and co-writer Mark Heyman (Black Swan) won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance in January for this story about estranged siblings Milo (Bill Hader) and Maggie (Kristen Wiig), who reunite when Milo is hospitalized after attempting suicide.

Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance this year at the Sundance Film Festival was the indie comedy Safety Not Guaranteed.

Actors Zoey Deutch, Gugu Mbatha - Raw, Rodrigo Santoro and Vince Vaughn will perform a live reading of selected scenes from this year's five winning scripts at the 2017 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards Presentation & Live Read on Thursday, November 2, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

This is Element Picture's fifth film in official selection at Sundance in recent years; in 2009 Five Minutes of Heaven won the World Cinema Screenwriting Award for Guy Hibbert and the World Cinema Directing Award for Oliver Hirschbiegel.

Winner of the Directing Award Dramatic and Special Jury Prize for Vera Farmiga for Down to the Bone in (2004), and winner of the Grand Jury Prize Dramatic and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for Winter's Bone (2010), this originally had Casey Affleck in the lead, but Ben Foster might be a better casting bet for a survivalist protective father with a complicated past and will be a perfect spotlight to launch a new career for the young co-lead kiwi thesp Thomasin McKenzie.

The Academy has just announced that Zoey, Gugu Mbatha - Raw, Rodrigo Santoro and Vince Vaughn will perform a live reading of selected scenes from this year's five winning scripts at the 2017 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards Presentation & Live Read on Thursday, November 2!

The Women Film Critics Circle has chosen Lady Bird as the Best Movie About Women of 2017, also rewarding the film with their Best Movie By a Woman and Best Woman Storyteller screenwriting award.

Argentine director Ana Katz won the World Cinema Dramatic Screenwriting Award at Sundance in 2016 with this comedy.

The film legend (The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Lion King, Dead Ringers) will receive the award at the Film Society Awards Night, where Richard Linklater (Founder's Directing Award), screenwriter Stephen Gaghan (Kanbar Screenwriting Award), and the recipient of the George Gund III Craft of Cinema Award will also be honored.

The writing is stellar, and, in fact, it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award here at Sundance as well.

Spicer and co-writer David Branson Smith won the fest's Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award tonight.

BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER [Screenwriting Award] ** Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird Maggie Greenwald: Sophie And The Rising Sun Dee Reese, Mudbound Angela Workman, The Zookeeper's Wife BEST ACTRESS Sally Hawkins, Maudie Sally Hawkins, The Shape Of Water ** Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Cynthia Nixon, A Quiet Passion

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award Ingrid Goes West Matt Spicer, David Branson Smith (review, interview)

Writer / director Craig Johnson (previously of True Adolescents) won the Walt Salt Screenwriting Award along with his co-writer Mark Heyman (Black Swan) at this year's Sundance Film Festival for The Skeleton Twins, which received many positive notices including one here at Way Too Indie.

Safety Not Guaranteed, written by Derek Connolly (who won the Sundance Screenwriting Award as well) and directed by Colin Trevorrow, is about the classified ad placed in a paper looking for someone to «travel back in time with.»

Winners of numerous screenwriting awards, including two Oscars, it's difficult to think of many filmmakers more adept at their craft than Joel and Ethan Coen.

The film's official web site reveals that Vince Gilligan's screenplay won the Virginia Governor's Screenwriting Award back in 1989.

The latest name to be uncovered is Quentin Tarantino, who's being given the Hollywood Screenwriting Award for his «Django Unchained» script.

Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting award up to five fellowships of US$ 35,000 each year.

She was also a National Magazine Award Nominee in Personal Essay, a finalist in the Nickelodeon Screenwriting Awards and a finalist in the Sundance Screenwriters Lab.

Oliver Hirschbiegel's Five Minutes of Heaven, which stars Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt, has won the prestigious World Cinema Directing Award and World Cinema Screenwriting Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance this year at the Sundance Film Festival was the...

LOS ANGELES, CA — Actors John Cho, Cary Elwes, Aja Naomi King and Alia Shawkat will perform a live reading of selected scenes from this year's five winning scripts at the 2016 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards Presentation & Live Read on Thursday, November 3, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

Ava DuVerynay was honored with the US Directing Award for Middle of Nowhere and Derek Connolly won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for Safety Not Guaranteed.

As we previously reported, Zoey would be performing a live reading of selected scenes from this year's five winning scripts at the 2017 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards Presentation & Live Read, along with Gugu Mbatha - Raw, Rodrigo Santoro and Vince Vaughn.

The winner of this year's Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance, Love Liza is funny and subtle, marked by a trust in silence and the simple effectiveness of a good soundtrack used well.

At this year's Sundance Film Festival, the film won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize for «outstanding feature films focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character,» and screenwriter Tim Talbott took home the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic.

Last year's section of sixteen included such gems as Beach Rats (Directing Award), Brigsby Bear, Ingrid Goes West (Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award), Golden Exits and U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic winner I don't feel at home in this world anymore.

After premiering at Sundance 2013, where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, In a World... did okay business in limited release last August and earned highly favorable reviews.

(via IndieWire) Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic: Winter «Äôs Bone Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Winter «Äôs Bone Directing Award, Dramatic: 3 Backyards Dramatic Audience Award: happythankyoumoreplease Grand Jury Prize,...

The story, written by Sandler and SNL writer / actor Fred Wolf, isn't gonna win any screenwriting awards with its paper thin plot and hardly developed supporting characters, but it's entertaining.

No one mentions or talks about the screenwriting awards so I guess it's easy to miss that.

Black List scripts have won 37 Academy Awards — including three of the last six Best Pictures and eight of the last fourteen screenwriting awards — from 196 nominations.»

After securing the 2013 Sundance Film Festival's Screenwriting award, a slot on the National Board of Review's top ten list of indie films, and the vocal support of critical heavy hitters like A.O. Scott, Lake Bell's pitch - perfectly precise comedy In A World... announced itself as one of the more confident debut features in recent memory, let alone from an actor - turned - director / writer.

In Skeleton Twins, which won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, director Craig Johnson displayed a knack for finding humor and warmth in the darkest of places, which is why he was the perfect choice to bring to life this Daniel Clowes graphic novel of the same name.

Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award (U.S. Dramatic) and actress / writer / director Lake Bell's debut feature, In A World is the sassy portrait of the unsung community of voiceover artists and voice coaches, living on the fringe of the «industry», never basked in Oscar glory, but with its own rules, hierarchy and Life Achievement ceremonies.

The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic was presented to In a World..., written and directed by Lake Bell — An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie - trailer voice - overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voiceover star.

The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award was presented to Another Happy Day, directed and written by Sam Levinson, about a pair of reckless siblings who are dragged into a chaotic family wedding by their overwrought mother.

The World Cinema Screenwriting Award was presented to Restoration, directed by Yossi Madmony; written by Erez Kav - El, about an antique furniture restorer, who, aided by a young and mysterious apprentice, struggles to keep his workshop alive, while his relationship with his own estranged son, who is trying to close down the shop, begins to disintegrate.

Initially unable to secure complete funding, the project was temporarily shelved, but would thankfully go on to film nearly a year later (meanwhile, screenwriter Eskil Vogt enjoyed his own festival tour with his acclaimed directorial debut, Blind, which premiered at Sundance 2014 and picked up a Screenwriting award).

Winner of the screenwriting award...

Craig Johnson and Mark Heyman won the screenwriting award in Sundance and it is, in virtually every respect, a quintessential Sundance film.

This film won the Screenwriting Award at Sundance, and the buzz around it is vibrant.

PARK CITY, Utah — «Sunday,» the story of a homeless man who is mistaken for a movie director by a failing British actress who courts him for a day, won the Sundance Film Festival and the Waldo Salt screenwriting award.

The crowd in the backstage wings erupted when Jordan Peele won his screenwriting award, but it was «The Greatest Showman» star Keala Settle who was most excited for him.

Roadside Attractions has just announced in a press release their acquisition of the film, which won Bell the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance earlier this year.

In addition, Lonergan won the Waldo Salt screenwriting award, and Kusama was picked as best director.

The World Cinema Screenwriting Award was presented to Young & Wild, co-written by Marialy Rivas, Camila Gutiérrez, Pedro Peirano, Sebastián Sepúlveda — 17 - year - old Daniela, raised in the bosom of a strict Evangelical family and recently unmasked as a fornicator by her shocked parents, struggles to find her own path to spiritual harmony.