Sentences with phrase «second screenplay»

You can't start writing the second screenplay or the third without knowing everything that happened in between.

His sci - fi thriller Inception broke through the barrier of earnestness to the best picture category in 2011 and it scored him a second screenplay nod (the first was for Memento) but it looks like he might finally get the ultimate recognition for his next film Dunkirk.

I had the chance to speak with Villeneuve about the impressions he had on his first read of the screenplay (Sons of Anarchy actor and first - time scribe Taylor Sheridan is also seeing his second screenplay Comancheria being directed by another noteworthy auteur in David MacKenzie with Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster on the scorecard) and I got a little insight on what he was looking for in Sicario's score (here he reteams with his Jóhann Jóhannsson who scored Prisoners).

While this is only Hornby's second screenplay (the first being the 1997 British adaptation of his book Fever Pitch),

Baumbach faces an uphill climb for his second screenplay nomination, not because he doesn't present a strong case — it's his best writing in years, since at least Greenberg, if not The Squid and the Whale.

Chambliss, an aspiring film writer working on his second screenplay, acknowledges that life has written a script for him: He's No Chris Chambliss.

Not exact matches

I'm in the final stages of finishing my second book, The Rules of Netiquette: How to Mind Your Manners on the Web as well as an exciting screenplay.

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.

Brackett won a second «best screenplay» Oscar for 1953's Titanic (1953); he was also president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1949 through 1955.

So, yes, I walked into «Annihilation,» Garland's second directorial effort (screenplay also by him) with a good amount of anticipation and a little trepidation.

I love this show, acting second to none, writing and screenplay fantastic.

It comes from a screenplay by the Oscar - winner Diablo Cody, who wrote Juno and Young Adult; it's her third time working with Reitman and her second time working with star Charlize Theron, who starred in Young Adult.

However, in the second half of the film, Amiel and the stately screenplay (by John Collee, «Master and Commander») turn their attention to the saga of Annie, and how her catastrophic illness shattered Charles, his marriage (Charles and Emma were first cousins, a fact that kept the scientist forever paranoid about the health of his children), and the very questions posed in the book.

It's modestly compelling for a while, with some solid genre touches, before the screenplay flies off the rails in the second half as the twists become more implausible.

Dern has a shot for Best Supporting Actress depending on the field, and Hornby could find himself with his second Best Adapted Screenplay nomination.

-- «Call Me by Your Name» adapted screenplay nominee James Ivory, on being the second oldest nominee, behind Agnes Varda by a week, in an Associated Press interview.

The French Connection helped usher in the second golden age of Hollywood (arguably the best decade in movie history) and went on to win 5 Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing) and be named on AFI's list of 100 best American movies of all - time.

Unfortunately, the screenplay by Alan J Schoolcraft and Bren Simons just doesn't function in anything above second gear with scant laughs to be had.

The same can not be said for «The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,» where coasting is all there is, in the hopes that these charismatic and talented actors can somehow make tandoori chicken salad out of a screenplay (by returning writer Ol Parker, no longer tethered to the novel by Deborah Maggoch) that's chock - full of unmotivated action, half - baked characters, and lazily - constructed conflicts so contrived they'd get booted out of the «Two and a Half Men» writer's room.

The first trailer for Dark Places, an adaptation for Gillian Flynn's second novel — she didn't write the screenplay for this one, though — was released yesterday and it looks much darker and more true crime - y than Gone Girl.

Warner Bros.» «Mad Max: Fury Road» took home three honors and came in second for another, but Open Road had a massive day as «Spotlight» won Best Screenplay and Best Film from the Los Angeles Film...

As a matter of record, I updated my predictions at the Gold Derby website late Monday night to put Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill into the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor categories, respectively; to add Scorsese to my Best Director predictions; and to move Terence Winter's screenplay into the second spot, right behind «12 Years a Slave.»

The award for Best Picture went to Steve McQueen's «12 Years a Slave,» which also took home awards for Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Lupita Nyong» o. Cate Blanchett won her second Oscar, this time as Best Actress, for her role in «Blue Jasmine.»

Like you can do something in three seconds of a screenplay that changes the entire meaning of the thing.

This is the Greek director's second English - language feature after The Lobster, which earned a much - deserved best - screenplay nomination last year.

The screenplay mixes up some of the events in the second half of the film, but all in all this is a pretty faithful remake.

Marco Ramirez, writer of several episodes of Daredevil's first season, and co-showrunner of the forthcoming second, has been given the mammoth task of Akira's latest screenplay.

It won the adapted screenplay honor, Payne's second, this time shared with Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, who seem to have handled a first draft.

That said, the film went on to become a smash hit around the world, becoming the only the second of three films to date to win the top five Oscars (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay) and is regularly enshrined in lists of the greatest American films of all time.

Along with Anna Paquin, the second youngest Oscar winner ever, the duo swept the Best Actress categories and Campion won for Best Original screenplay.

Following that coincidence was another, the second award of the night was given to Emma Donoghue for Best First Screenplay for her work in Room, which just happen to be presented by the adorable co-star of that film, Jacob Tremblay.

Dominik himself wrote the screenplay, choosing for his second project after the acclaimed debut Chopper to adapt Ron Hansen's 1983 novel of the same name.

I was most surprised to hear of Danny Boyle's involvement as a second unit director during the opening farmhouse sequence and of Alex Garland's participation in the screenplay.

Adapted from the novel by Irvine Welsh, John Hodge's (A Life Less Ordinary, The Final Curtain) screenplay is the second straight collaboration with director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later, The Beach), as well as Ewan McGregor.

The Counselor (2013) Bardem went back to the hairstylist's chair to play fun - loving drug lord Reiner in Ridley Scott's The Counselor, his second run at bringing celluloid life to a Cormac McCarthy character (the Pulitzer Prize - winning novelist wrote the screenplay).

Strong's screenplay (based on the biography by Kenneth Slawenski) doesn't start that way, which makes the second half even more disappointing.

Golden Globe winners Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling each received their second Oscar nominations for Damien Chazelle's modern movie musical «La La Land,» which dominated in 14 categories total — tying the nominations record set by «Titanic» and «All About Eve» — including directing and original screenplay for Damien Chazelle.

Visit Carvahall and you'll find featurettes about the Inheritance Trilogy to which the novel Eragon belongs, The Storyteller's Scroll (focusing on turning the novel into a screenplay), Realizing Alagaësia (a look at storyboards, locations, scouting and character design), The Destined Roles (casting the actors), From Carvahall to Farthen Dur (behind - the - scenes footage during film production), Hatching The Dragon (the CGI process of creating the dragons), Just The Beginning (a peak at what's next in the series) and the Random House Digital Novel where you can enjoy the first two chapters of Eldest, the second novel from the Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini.

This one is particularly hampered by the screenplay's need to hurry through the latter, as if the movie admits the entire second half is a perfunctory exercise in showing that, yes, our hero is important in a general sort of way.

Not only will he be attending the Academy Awards as a nominee for best original screenplay for «Moonrise Kingdom» with his frequent collaborator Wes Anderson, but it marks the release of his second film as a director, «A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III.»

The history: Surprisingly enough, this is only Lee's second shot at the Palme d'Or («The Ice Storm» was palmed off with Best Screenplay honors in 1997), though it was in an out - of - competition slot at the 2000 fest that «Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon» began its extraordinary run.

Pictures, 117 mins — Directed by Sanaa Hamri, with screenplay by Elizabeth Chandler based on Ann Brashares» novels, and produced by a team of women, this is the second installment in the ongoing story of four best girlfriends (played by Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera and Blake Lively) growing up.

Maria Bello deserves major credit for taking on such a daring role, even if the screenplay forces her character to over dramatize for much of the second half of the film.

This is Hong's seventh Original Screenplay nomination and second win (2010 for Oki's Movie).

Independent Screenwriters from Cuba or diaspora working on their first or second feature screenplay.

Starring Leslie Mann (Knocked Up), the film marks the second directorial effort from Lucas and Moore after 21 & Over, and is based on an original screenplay from the duo.

Anne Hathaway finally got hers, but arguably the biggest upset was Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained, and also great to see Tarantino walk away with his second Best Original Screenplay award.

The immensely popular and critically - acclaimed drama from Jenkins won seven Black Reel Awards, the second highest total in awards history, including Outstanding Film, Oustanding Director and Outstanding Screenplay (both for Jenkins), Outstanding Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali), Outstanding Breakthrough Actor, Male (Trevante Rhodes), Outstanding Score (Nicholas Britell) and Outstanding Ensemble.

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Chris Terrio's solid screenplay delivers many dialogue driven scenes but Affleck keeps things moving at a frantic pace and not for a second, does the film ever get dull or drawn out.