Sentences with phrase «very best screenplay»

Wernick added «Look, that's entirely above our heads, but we'll write the very best screenplay we can write if we're fortunate enough to get that sequel, and we'll write it as quickly as they tell us we need to write it.

Sorkin wrote a very good screenplay but IMO, Arndt wrote the more beautiful and humane of the two screenplays and would be my personal pick out of all the screenplays in Oscar contention.

Not exact matches

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.

Boasting a strong cast, but an anemic screenplay, and an enthusiastic approach to lensing in the great outdoors, The Missing might not be one of the guy's very best movies, but he sure gets points in my book for trying something a little more... grown - up... this time around.

The plot might've been something very good if the screenwriters would've written another draft of the screenplay, but they didn't.

Pearce has also written a well - carpentered screenplay; there are some very big scenes and big moments here — sometimes too big — but he gives us a carefully crafted dramatic setup, an intriguingly curated selection of suspects for the crime and all of it building to a fascinating, finely balanced ambiguity in the movie's climactic stages.

The screenplay is very good and helps us discover many secrets of the characters, unfolding more the history

Overall, the acting is very good, with a well - written, funny and engaging screenplay.

Very Bad Things likely read better as a screenplay than it plays on film because the idea of what's going on is funnier than the actual execution.

However, with its excellent performances, well - written screenplay, and engaging story, it's still a very good film.

The screenplay is sometimes very rough around the edges... but it is real as it can be... Joel Schumacher did well in that part, but the directing was too formulaic, and that is the reason for the lower rating!

Some great acting and the screenplay was definately very good.

The screenplay was adapted (very well) from a recent book so don't blame Spielberg for that either.

I'm with you on Citizen Four and Sniper could very well be the surprise of the night for adapted screenplay.

Both screenplay categories are top - heavy with Best Picture material at the moment, with Original Screenplay carrying the burden as a very packed category thscreenplay categories are top - heavy with Best Picture material at the moment, with Original Screenplay carrying the burden as a very packed category thScreenplay carrying the burden as a very packed category this season.

The screenplay, by Malick, obviously, has problems, but, at its best, it is on par with the very best of films ever made.

Perez's screenplay sets up gags and pays them off all the way through to the very end, and its core of well - established central characters allows us to follow them through some dangerous situations, laughing all the way.

The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), It Happened One Night is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the early sound era, packed with clever situations and gags that have entered the Hollywood comedy pantheon and featuring two actors at the top of their game, sparking with a chemistry that has never been bettered.

-- Best Animated Feature (locked up)-- Best Sound Editing (likely a win)-- Best Sound Mixing (very possibly a win)-- Best Original Screenplay (I can definitely see it)-- Best Original Score (Thomas Newman's GORGEOUS work)-- Best Original Song, «Down to Earth»

But, thanks in part to a very game cast, as well as an insightful screenplay, Cooties comes off instead as a cathartic (if bloody) metaphor and an energetic burst of nasty fun.

A deleted scene with commentary is a somewhat superfluous gimmick shot demonstrating vampiric night vision point - of - view, and five animated and scored storyboards are well executed but probably superfluous — though a DVD - ROM option offers a nifty Near Dark screensaver and the complete (and very cinematic) screenplay by Bigelow and Eric Red.

Even though John G. Avildsen won a Best Director Oscar, and even though his work on Rocky effectively serves the screenplay, he was never a very interesting filmmaker — he also helmed the three Karate Kid movies as well as the much - hated Rocky V.

In fact, he very nearly took Best Adapted Screenplay for «Up in the Air» almost a decade ago.

LAURA *** / **** Image B Sound B - Extras B starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson screenplay by Jay Dratler and Samuel Hoffenstein and Betty Reinhardt, based on the novel by Vera Caspary directed by Otto Preminger PINKY * / **** Image C Sound B - Extras A + starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan screenplay by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols, from a novel by Cid Ricketts Sumner directed by Elia Kazan by Walter Chaw A camp classic of a very particular variety, Otto Preminger's stylish, pedigreed Laura might best be read as a satire of Hitchcock's Rebecca, reuniting that film's Judith Anderson with another late, lamented mistress and acres more scenery to chew.

The film is very popular and well liked all around and is the only adapted screenplay that also has a Best Picture nomination, making it a shoo - in.

Throw in Jordan Peele becoming the first African - American screenwriter to win an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, an open endorsement of the Time's Up movement and Frances McDormand speaking very loudly, and you have an eventful evening of progressive winners, even if they didn't win in every category.

Among the others were Willem Dafoe, winning Best Supporting Actor for The Florida Project; Paul Thomas Anderson won the Original Screenplay prize for Phantom Thread, another very - recently screened film; and Scott Neustader and Michael H. Weber were the Adapted Screenplay winners for The Disaster Artist.

In 2005, his sophomore effort L'esquive — a raw, direct exploration of teenage sexual politics in the banlieues (the French suburban hoods) by way of eighteenth century playwright Marivaux - unexpectedly trumped critical favorite Kings and Queen and populist heavyweights A Very Long Engagement and Oscar nominee The Chorus at the César Awards, winning Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay.

There is a very good movie hidden somewhere in The Happening, but Shyamalan needed someone to do another rewrite of his screenplay.

The 2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards took place in Santa Monica, Los Angeles yesterday, and it was a very good night for Moonlight, with the film sweeping all five awards it was nominated for — Best Feature, Best Director (Barry Jenkins), Best Screenplay (Jenkins), Best Cinematography and Best Editing — as well as receiving the -LSB-...]

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Unlike Kris, in terms of depth and innovation, I think this is easily the year's standout set of nominees, which is perhaps why I've been so reluctant to embrace the (very strong) possibility of «Milk» winning — from where I'm standing, it would represent the least exciting possible outcome in an otherwise very exciting field.

Both films still performed very well today with two acting nominations apiece and with Hell or High Water also picking up a screenplay mention.

At best, the two seem like an ill - matched pair of idiots — and at worst, as mismatched as this very bad screenplay is with the film.

Baumbach's screenplay for «The Meyerowitz Stories» is one of the year's very best because it recognizes that success is always relative.

In terms of awards chances, the film is an outside contender for Best Picture and Best Director, but I think Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay are very likely.

With two big BAFTA wins on Sunday for screenplay and lead actor Casey Affleck, a very good shot at taking a WGA Original Screenplay award this coming Sunday, a domestic box office gross nearing $ 50 million, and six Academy Award nominations Manchester By The Sea is riding higher than even anyone expected after its smash Sundance debut over ascreenplay and lead actor Casey Affleck, a very good shot at taking a WGA Original Screenplay award this coming Sunday, a domestic box office gross nearing $ 50 million, and six Academy Award nominations Manchester By The Sea is riding higher than even anyone expected after its smash Sundance debut over aScreenplay award this coming Sunday, a domestic box office gross nearing $ 50 million, and six Academy Award nominations Manchester By The Sea is riding higher than even anyone expected after its smash Sundance debut over a year ago.

The screenplay by Gideon Defoe (based on the first two books in his series about these characters) gets far more mileage out of these characters when they are simply mucking about — getting into arguments about the best part of a pirate's life, sailing while leaving behind red dots in the water so that their progress can be seen on a map, and otherwise doing very silly things for no reason more than that they must.

The general rule of thumb with screenplay, of course, is that the hotter the Best Picture contender the more likely it is to win for its screenplay, witness the debacle of last year where Tony Kushner's marvelous screenplay was supplanted by Chris Terrio's very charming and entertaining Argo.

This is a film that has a great shot at an original screenplay nod, at the very least, for the great Bruce Wagner, whose script will be among the year's very best.

«Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,» directed by Independent Spirit Award - winner Miguel Arteta («The Good Girl,» «Cedar Rapids,» «Youth in Revolt») from a screenplay by Rob Lieber, is a 21 Laps Entertainment / Jim Henson Company production.

Phoenix's win, as well as director Lynne Ramsay's win for Screenplay could put the film very high on their priority list now.

His anti-superhero screenplay Chronicle was very good, and I'm one of the few people who thought the Landis - written American Ultra was entertaining.

James Franco was left out of the Best Actor category, but The Disaster Artist was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, news that co-writer Michael H. Weber took very well, along with Haddish playfully butchering his name.

Well, an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay later and McKay is someone to take very seriously.

In 1955, Howard Hawks made a very good epic spectacle called Land ofthe Pharaohs that depicted a slave uprising against an evil pharaoh.William Faulkner wrote the screenplay, but later expressed hisdisappointment about the project because he «didn't know how ancientEgyptians talked.»

The Oscar winning screenplay is character rich, although many of the best insights are ad - libbed by actual veterans in a very poignant opening scene.

And once or twice, the screenplay does take a wrong turn: in particularly, a Mrs. - Lovejoy - From - The - Simpsons - ish won't - someone - think - of - the - children villain played (very well) by Lisa Palfrey is barely even two - dimensional, which is disappointing given how well - drawn everyone else is.

In many ways, The Good Shepherd is very similar to screenwriter Eric Roth's previous screenplay for Munich.

Flynn launches herself in the Oscar race for Best Adapted Screenplay with a very good chance of standing on stage this year.

What is even more remarkable about the film is how it has been received; awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography at this year's Oscars is a phenomenal achievement for a film that, on paper, is very un-Hollywood.