Writer - director Greta Gerwig took home
the top screenplay prize for penning «Lady Bird.»
Not exact matches
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 years.
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.
The
screenplay categories are where the Academy often gives an award to a multi-nominated film that isn't going to pick up one of the
top prizes — see Alexander Payne.
Gravity has become the early winner at the Bafta Awards in London, picking up a handful of
top prizes, including Best
Screenplay, Music,...
A big day: Besides the two
top prizes, Natural Selection also grabbed jury awards for best
screenplay (Pickering), best editing (Michelle Tesoro) and best score / music (iZLER, Curt Schneider).
Ramsay was the only other woman to win a
top non-acting award, earning Best
Screenplay for her film, You Were Never Really Here; she shared the
prize with Greek filmmakers Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou for their movie, The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
The victory for «The Shape of Water» is rather surprising because, for the first time in over 20 years, a Best Picture winner has won the
top prize without having a nomination for Best Cast from SAG, along with another big surprise of not winning its respective
Screenplay category on the way to the
top.
Gaspard Ulliel's mesmerizing turn at Yves Saint Laurent in Saint Laurent earned him the Best Actor
prize and the supporting categories were won by Kristen Stewart for Clouds of Sils Maria (which also won Original
Screenplay and a place in the
top 5 films of the year) and Oscar Isaac for Ex Machina.
Diane Keaton would end up taking the
top prize along with Annie Hall taking Best Picture and Woody Allen taking Best Director and original
screenplay.
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