Sentences with phrase «took best screenplay»

Best Actor in a Drama went to Matthew McConaughey for «Dallas Buyers Club» over Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender lost the Supporting Actor award to Jared Leto, Jennifer Lawrence took the Best Supporting Actress win instead of Lupita Nyong» o, Steve McQueen lost Best Director to «Gravity's» Alfonso Cuaron, Spike Jonez took Best Screenplay for «Her» over John Ridley and Alex Ebert beat out Hans Zimmer for his work on «All Is Lost.»

And although Lanthimos and regular co-writer Efthymis Filippou took the Best Screenplay award in Cannes, it's the film's sheer all - of - a-piece execution — from pacing and composition, to brilliant use of contemporary composers including (Kubrick fave) Ligeti and Gubaidulina, and expertly modulated performances — which holds you in its steely grip and just never lets go.

So glad it took best screenplay, though.

«Her» picks up another win with Spike Jonze's taking Best Screenplay, and Disney continues its strong showing in Best Animated Feature with «Frozen».

The critically admired but little heralded Under the Shadow was a surprise success, taking best screenplay for writer - director Babak Anvari, best supporting actress for Avin Manshadi, and the Douglas Hickox award for best debut director for Anvari.

Not exact matches

«Moonlight,» the coming of age tale of a young black boy in Miami, also won the best adapted screenplay statuette, while grief - driven independent drama «Manchester by the Sea» took home original screenplay.

Notably, The Big Short won best adapted screenplay at the Writers Guild Awards and also took the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards, which has predicted the Academy's Best Picture choice 8 out of the past 10 yebest adapted screenplay at the Writers Guild Awards and also took the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards, which has predicted the Academy's Best Picture choice 8 out of the past 10 yeBest Picture choice 8 out of the past 10 years.

Fresh on the heels of his very well - received take on the life of Abraham Lincoln, Steven Spielberg is setting his sights on one of Stanley Kubrick's abandoned screenplays: a Napoleon Bonaparte biopic.

L.A. Confidential was nominated for nine Academy Awards and netted two, with Brian Helgeland honored for Best Adapted Screenplay, and Kim Basinger taking home a statuette as Best Supporting Actress.

I am grateful that the Academy Awards uncharacteristically chose not to take this film's bait, opting to reward better films like Argo (Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay) and Life of Pi (Best Director).

Alas, Tarantino didn't earn another Best Director nod, but at least he took home a trophy this time, as he won the Best Screenplay award.

The writers Andrew Adamson (screenplay), Christopher Markus (screenplay), and Stephen McFeely took the best of C.S. Lewis» work and expanded it to make it better.

Originally written and produced as a play for television, the screen version of Judgment at Nuremberg was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, with Maximilian Schell and Abby Mann taking home Oscars for (respectively) Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay.

The Phyllis Nagy — penned film based on Patricia Highsmith's novel «The Price of Salt,» took home best picture and best screenplay.

La La Land took home eight awards, the most of the night, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay (a tie) for Damien Chazelle, Best Cinematography for Linus Sandgren, Best Production Design for David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds - Wasco, Best Editing for Tom Cross, Best Song and Best Score for Justin Hurwitz.

Below is Anne Thompson's take on how things might shake down in the race for best adapted screenplay.

Neither My Week With Marilyn, the bittersweet romantic comedy about the making of The Prince and the Showgirl, or The Iron Lady, the biopic of Margaret Thatcher, did as well as their longlist positions suggested: the former picked up six nominations (including best actress for Golden Globe winner Michelle Williams) while the latter took four (including Meryl Streep for best actress and Abi Morgan for best original screenplay).

-- penned film based on Patricia Highsmith's novel «The Price of Salt,» took home best picture and best screenplay.

The winners actually lined up pretty closely with my current Oscar predictions, though most were surprised to see David O. Russell take home the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar over Lincoln and Argo.

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.

Danny Boyle's Mumbai - set melodrama triumphed in all but one of the categories for which it was nominated, taking best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay, as well as five others.

«Hillbilly Elegy» «The Shape of Water» took home the biggest award at last night's Oscars ceremony, and while it didn't take home the statue for best original screenplay, writer - director Guillermo del Toro earned a nomination, and it's no surprise that his co-writer Vanessa Taylor is already prepping to write a new script.

Beauvois's film (the French Oscar submission, which surprised many by failing to make the Academy's shortlist) took the top prize, but it was «The Ghost Writer» that netted the most wins, with four — including two for Polanski himself (Best Director and Adapted Screenplay), plus honors for editing and Alexandre Desplat's score.

Release Date: After winning Un Certain Regard for his 2009 film Dogtooth, Lanthimos premiered ALPS at Venice in 2011 (where it won Best Screenplay), before tapping into the Cannes main comp (taking the Jury Prize) in 2015.

Cirkus Columbia The fourth film from Bosnian director Danis Tanović, and his third since his debut feature No Man's Land took home the Cannes Film Festival best screenplay award in 2001 and the best

It was the first film to take home all five of the big Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay (before that award was split in two).

David Fincher's «The Social Network» took the Film / Director / Screenplay trifecta, while Christopher Nolan's «Inception» was the big winner over all, taking four awards including Best -LSB-...]

OUR TAKE: This one has a dynamite cast (Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Adam Driver, Rose Byrne, Corey Stoll, Kathryn Hahn, Connie Britton, Timothy Olyphant, Dax Shepard and Abigail Spencer), a good director in Shawn Levy (Real Steel, Night at the Museum)- and the author of novel (Jonathan Tropper) is the one writing the screenplay.

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 «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.

The two biggest question marks were Original Screenplay and Best Picture — Jordan Peele took Original Screenplay for «Get Out,» while «The Shape of Water» grabbed Best Picture as well as Best Director, Production Design and and Original Score.

Phoenix won Best Actor at Cannes, and Ramsay took home Best Screenplay at the festival as well.

«Safety Not Guaranteed» took top honors, winning Best Film as well as Best Original Screenplay (Derek Connolly).

«The Social Network» took top honors, winning Best Film as well as Aaron Sorkin for Best Screenplay.

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.

With many of the nominated films» creators taking on multiple roles, Greta Gerwig, Martin McDonagh, Jordan Peele, and Guillermo del Toro are all nominated for both Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.

«La La Land,» the most nominated film of the evening, took home eight awards, the most of the night, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay (a tie) for Damien Chazelle, Best Cinematography for Linus Sandgren, Best Production Design for David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds - Wasco, Best Editing for Tom Cross, Best Song, and Best Score for Justin Hurwitz.

Champions: The film - a musical set in modern day Tinseltown - landed 12 nominations, and took home gongs for Best Director for Damien Chazelle, Best Screenplay, Best Production, Best Score, Best Editing and Best Song

The real winner was Marielle Heller's «The Diary of a Teenage Girl» which took four nods including Best Feature, Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director, Best Actress and Best Screenplay.

Call Me By Your Name took home the gong for Best Adapted Screenplay and Daniel Kaluuya scooping the EE Rising Star award.

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...

Jordan Peele took home the statue for best original screenplay for a movie that confronts racism.

We're taking our «Beauty vs Beast» series to a film that did well but maybe not as well as expected (no director, no screenplay)- Jordan Peele's masterful horror comedy Get Out, which we just happened to re-watch last night in an effort to reaquaint ourselves with a movie that was fading from memory.

It is well known that he imagines characters and a situation, casts actors to play the characters, joins with them in workshops where the dialogue and the plot take shape, and only then writes the screenplay.

«Big Short» not only snuck into the Best Picture category but it earned McKay a Best Director nod, an Adapted Screenplay nomination (shared with Charles Randolph) and the film took an Editing slot as well.

McDormand also praised director Martin McDonagh (who took home the Best Screenplay Globe as well as Best Motion Picture, Drama) and her co-stars: «If I mention my two favorite cowboys Sam [Rockwell] and Woody [Harrelson]-- cause they are — then I will have to list the entire cast and crew because everybody brought their best game to this one.&raBest Screenplay Globe as well as Best Motion Picture, Drama) and her co-stars: «If I mention my two favorite cowboys Sam [Rockwell] and Woody [Harrelson]-- cause they are — then I will have to list the entire cast and crew because everybody brought their best game to this one.&raBest Motion Picture, Drama) and her co-stars: «If I mention my two favorite cowboys Sam [Rockwell] and Woody [Harrelson]-- cause they are — then I will have to list the entire cast and crew because everybody brought their best game to this one.&rabest game to this one.»

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.»

The lion's share of awards were split between Moonlight and Manchester by the Sea with the former winning Best Director, Supporting Actor and Cinematography and the latter taking Actor, Supporting Actress and Screenplay.

Chinese director Jia Zhangke took home the best screenplay award at Cannes last year, and many stateside critics — including the L.A. Times» Kenneth Turan — put it on their lists of top foreign films for 2013.

British writer - director Martin McDonagh, whose film «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» took the best picture honor as well as the original screenplay prize, noted the timeliness of his movie in his acceptance speech.