Sentences with phrase «won screenplay for»

Greta Gerwig won screenplay for «Lady Bird.»

11 — 30 Frost / Nixon, a play by Peter Morgan, who also co-wrote the award - winning screenplay for The Last King of Scotland, reenacts the famous 1977 interview in which British talk - show host David Frost extracted an on - air apology from Richard Nixon regarding his role in the Watergate scandal.

There might not be a better combination of director, writer, and star than Jason Reitman, Diablo Cody and Charlize Theron, who previously collaborated on the delightfully wicked «Young Adult» (Cody also penned the Oscar - winning screenplay for Reitman's «Juno»).

Spike Jonze winning screenplay for Her.

Credit screenwriter Steve Barancik, who has written a multi-layered story so intricate it reminds me of Robert Towne's award - winning screenplay for «Chinatown.»

Affleck's writing credits are best known with such films as GONE BABY GONE, THE TOWN, and his Oscar - winning screenplay for GOOD WILL HUNTING.

Soon, Steven Spielberg and an all - star cast were on board, and Josh Singer — who'd previously co-written the Oscar - winning screenplay for Spotlight — joined the project.

But the film does come from talent in demand: it is written by John Ridley, hot off his Oscar - winning screenplay for 12 Years a Slave.

Compared to his Oscar - winning screenplay for «The Social Network,» which painted a jaundiced portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Aaron Sorkin's theatrically structured three - act «Steve Jobs» script is at once softer and more floridly verbose.

Stephen Gaghan has a broad worldview, one that is reflected in his Oscar (tm)- winning screenplay for TRAFFIC and now, even more superbly, in SYRIANA, which is also his directorial debut.

By September, UTA Fine Arts had revealed two film projects, both of them documentaries: Maura Axelrod's study of the prankster - sculptor Maurizio Cattelan, and an absurdist quest for a quite possibly fictional sculpture by Ed Ruscha, made by Pierre Bismuth, a French conceptual artist best known for co-writing the Oscar - winning screenplay for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Not exact matches

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

The adaptation of author E.L. James» erotic novel won worst screenplay, worst actor for Jamie Dornan and worst actress for Dakota Johnson during Saturday's 36th annual Golden Raspberry Awards, according to the Associated Press.

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.

The movie, about a father dealing with the aftermath of his wife falling into a coma, was nominated for five Oscars in 2012, winning one for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Catholic News Agency: «Exorcist» author prepares canon lawsuit against Georgetown The author of the best - selling book and award - winning screenplay «The Exorcist» has announced that he is leading an effort to file a canon lawsuit against Georgetown University for failures to live up to the demands of the school's Catholic identity.

Last night, the 31 - year - old won the prize for Best Screenplay and Best Director, with his film winning Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, and its stars, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, winning Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

It won Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (for Gutiérrez's harrowed ladies» man Juan), Best Original Screenplay, and more.

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 best ensemble performance award went to Straight Outta Compton, which also won for best original 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.

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.

The Ladykillers won an Oscar nomination for William Rose's screenplay, and a BFA award for veteran character actress Johnson.

Resuming his movie career with 1962's Taras Bulba, Salt went on to win an Academy Award for his screenplay for 1969's Midnight Cowboy; nine years later, Salt, Robert C. Jones, and Nancy Dowd shared an Oscar for Coming Home (1978), his final film.

Something in the Air (also known as After May) won an award for its screenplay at the Venice festival, where critics liked the film, though perhaps not as much as Carlos.

The latest from writer - director Asghar Farhadi opened the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, but it was a disappointment from a director who has consistently impressed critics and jurors, and who was only two years removed from winning best screenplay for The Salesman at Cannes in 2016.

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.

Almodóvar faces a new opportunity to win an Oscar Award for «Volver» screenplay.

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.

In 2011, she was nominated for a SAG Ensemble Award for Midnight in Paris, once again paired up with Owen Wilson (her co-star from Wedding Crashers), in a film that won Woody Allen an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

After winning the Grand Prix for The Wonders at the 2014 festival, writer - director Alice Rohrwacher returned to Cannes this year and tied for the festival's best screenplay honors with a «fully formed expression of her virtuosic talents,» according to Rory O'Connor of The Film Stage.

The film went on to win the inaugural Writers Guild of America best documentary screenplay award as well as garner an Academy Award nomination for best feature documentary.

Among the more notable recognition: winning the Golden Globe for Best Picture (Comedy or Musical), picking up BAFTA and Writers Guild nominations for Jon Lucas and Scott Moore's original screenplay, winning a comedy / musical editing award from American Cinema Editors, and having its production design nominated by the Art Directors Guild.

One of the most anticipated films of the art - house calendar, it won French Cesars for best film, actress, cinematography, adapted screenplay and costume design.

Diablo Cody won Best Original Screenplay in 2008 for «Juno».

This was something else in 1975, and though Al Pacino did not win for his career - best performance as Sonny Wortzik, Frank Pierson did for his psychologically acute Best Original Screenplay, making Dog Day Afternoon one of several Oscar - winning queer films.

«Stephanie Daley» (May 18): Director Hilary Brougher won for her screenplay at Sundance about a teenage mother (Amber Tamblyn) accused of killing her newborn; she claimed she didn't know she was pregnant, a tidbit that intrigues forensics expert Tilda Swinton.

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.

In Bruges Martin McDonagh won for screenplay.

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

It was in 1992, however, when he wrote and directed THE CRYING GAME, which was nominated for six academy awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Stephen Rea), Best Supporting Actor (Jaye Davidson) and for which Neil won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay that the wider public became aware of him as a once in a lifetime directing talent.

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.

One of the top moments from the gala came when Jordan Peele won Best Original Screenplay for Get Out

Top honors went to Spotlight, which won four EDA Awards: best film, best director, best original screenplay and tied for best ensemble.

The movie is one of two Lelio dramas heading to TIFF this year; the other is «A Fantastic Woman,» which earned acclaim at Berlin and won Lelio the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay.

Ramsay shared the screenplay prize with Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou («The Lobster»), who won for the divisive «The Killing of a Sacred Deer.»

His film would earn 8 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, winning two for its screenplay and editing.

Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy won the screenplay award for «Before Midnight.»

That massive sweep didn't allow for much wealth - spreading as the Globes often do; Manchester by the Sea won for Casey Affleck, as expected, but lost Screenplay.