Sentences with phrase «winning first screenplay»

Shanley mostly stayed away from Hollywood in the years since, scripting the occasional»90s film (including Alive and Congo) but never matching the acclaim of his Oscar - winning first screenplay, Moonstruck.

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Peele made history on Sunday as the first African - American to win an Oscar for best original screenplay.

Here are just a few: Jordan Peele became the first African American to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out, and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won for Best Picture — a film featuring a female actor in the lead role hasn't won the category since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.

At Sunday's Oscars, actor, screenwriter and director Jordan Peele made cinematic history, becoming the first black director to win an Oscar for best screenplay.

The unanimously - praised film with a modest budget of $ 23 million deservedly won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (the first for Spielberg), Best Cinematography (Janusz Kaminski), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score (John Williams), Best Editing (Michael Kahn), and Best Art Direction.

Take a Pulitzer Prize - winning author's first original screenplay, attach a respected director whose last film was considered a disappointment by many, and add a cast that includes Michael Fassbender (one of the highlights of that disappointing film), Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, and Cameron Diaz, and you have a solid formula for one of the most anticipated films of the year.

Hitchcock / Truffaut director Kent Jones» first narrative feature won Best Narrative Feature, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography in the U.S. Narrative Feature Film section of the festival.

He won an original screenplay Oscar for his work on Spotlight, and has jumped from there to The Post, Steven Spielberg's First Amendment rallying cry and account of the Washington Post's decision to defy the Nixon administration by publishing the top - secret Pentagon Papers.

In 1968 he completed his first studio film, the box - office bomb Finian's Rainbow, followed the next year by The Rain People.When he was just 31, Coppola won his first Academy Award for his work on the screenplay of 1970's Patton.

Yet, the plot feels truthful and really connected with audiences; so much so, that it won Russell the Audience Award at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, and an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.

Jordan Peele became the first black screenwriter to win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay at the 90th Academy Awards on Sunday.

For the first time in Oscar history, an African - American won for screenplay and... it wasn't much of a surprise.

Joseph was nominated for Best First Screenplay for his work on Don Jon, which was won by Bob Nelson for the highly acclaimed film Nebraska.

James Ivory won the adapted screenplay award for «Call Me by Your Name,» giving something of a shoutout to his cast of Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer and Michael Stuhlbarg by acknowledging that «a film like this depends on a lot of people, but first of all it depends on the actors.»

After winning Best First Film from the New York Film Critics Circle and Best Screenplay from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the movie's showing here is yet another indication that it will be a strong player in year - end polls and next year's various awards.

Alice Rohrwacher's follow - up to her Grand Jury Prize — winning «The Wonders» shared the Best Screenplay award with Jafar Panahi's «3 Faces,» and Lukas Dhont's film won both the Camera d'Or for best first film and Best Actor laurels in the Un Certain Regard section for Victor Polster.

On Sunday, Jordan Peele made history at the 90th Academy Awards when he became the first black screenwriter to win Best Original Screenplay.

Then, we revisit two interviews with first - time directors who could win major awards on Sunday: Yance Ford, whose film Strong Island is up for Best Documentary, and Greta Gerwig, a contender for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Lady Bird.

With the screenplay written by Sylvester Stallone, who first established worldwide recognition as a writer when his screenplay Rocky, won the Academy Award ® in 1976 for Best Picture, Homefront is based on the book by Chuck Logan.

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.

Arkin went on to secure the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, his first, and writer Michael Arndt also won for Best Original Screenplay.

Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick) could become the first writer of Asian descent to win Original Screenplay.

It won for best picture, best actress (Gabourey Sidibe), best supporting actress (Mo'Nique), best director (Lee Daniels) and best first screenplay (Geoffrey Fletcher).

With six nods in total, it cements the streaming giant's place at the movie industry table, with Amazon — which won last year's race to become the first streaming player to win an Academy Award — only picking up one nomination this year: Best Original Screenplay for The Big Sick.

«Milk» won two trophies early on, James Franco taking down a win in the Best Supporting Actor category and Dustin Lance Black's first screenplay award.

In 1983, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Booker - prize winning novel Heat and Dust was released in theatres for its first run, and in 1984, BAFTA rewarded her with a Best Adapted Screenplay award.

«Dear White People» won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and last month won a Film Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.

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.

Both films premiered in competition with «Girl» winning the best first film award, the Camera d'Or, while «Lazzaro» nabbed Best Screenplay.

Back when Ben Affleck first became a household name after winning the best original screenplay Oscar with Matt Damon for 1997's Good Will Hunting, few could have predicted the rollercoaster ride his career would go on to become.

The writer and director of «Get Out» on Sunday, March 4, won an Oscar for his first film, taking a best original screenplay statue for the sociological thriller about a black man who meets his white girlfriend's family and finds a house of racial horrors.

treatment for their Unbroken screenplay, and many are already claiming 2015 as the year that Roger Deakins will finally win his first Oscar.

It also makes him the first African - American writer ever to win Best Original Screenplay.

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The Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) announced its 2017 awards today, with Jordan Peele's «Get Out» winning Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, and Best First Film.

His script for Get Out, a movie he said he stopped writing about 20 times because he thought it «wasn't going to work,» won the award for Best Original Screenplay, making Peele the first black filmmaker to receive that honor.

Jake Gyllenhaal won Best Actor, and writer - director Dan Gilroy was honored with both Best Original Screenplay and Best First Film.

Another film that pulled off multiple wins was The Witch, which won Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay for writer - director Robert Eggers.

As for the documentary side of things, Robert Kenner & Eric Schlosser won the Best Screenplay award for their nuclear missile documentary Command and Control, which first premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2016.

Julianne Moore takes her first win of the season for Still Alice, Jack O'Connell wins Breakthrough and the NBR's other favorite, Warner Brothers, showed up with an Adapted Screenplay win for Inherent Vice.

Best Picture winner Spotlight becomes the 6th film to win BP and only one other award and the first to do so since 1952's The Greatest Show on Earth, which also just won Screenplay.

The film did not stop there though; Maggie Gyllenhaal was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and it won Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards.

With a legendary director like Scott at the helm, the highly touted first original screenplay from Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Cormac McCarthy (writer of No Country For Old Men, The Road and Blood Meridian amongst other modern classics) and that cast....

Personally would have dumped Flight, which had a screenplay that tended to drift toward schmaltz and didn't quite earn its ending, for something exciting that wouldn't win, such as Rian Johnson's Looper script, which would get the Inception treatment (i.e. nerds love that it got nominated and rage when it doesn't win, even though it never had a chance in the first place) from a couple years ago.

Jordan Peele, the first African - American to win a screenplay Oscar, speaking from the heart about what the experience has meant to him,

In this case, Spotlight's Academy Award - winning scriptwriter, Josh Singer, was tapped to tweak first timer Liz Hannah's original screenplay about the Pentagon Papers.

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.

When not angsting over her first poetry manuscript or a pilot screenplay about space samurais, Carol is cooking her own Chinese food instead of buying take - outs and dreaming of winning Hamilton lotto tickets.

The former Comedy Central star took home a historic win for Get Out, becoming the first black writer to win Best Original Screenplay.

Marshall Flores, proofreader and stats whiz and the first to call a potential win for Get Out in screenplay and its Best Picture nomination.