Sentences with phrase «years as a screenwriter»

Shane Black (Robocop 3), who plays Hawkins, the bespectacled commando with a gift for raunchy jokes, would go on to greater success the same year as the screenwriter for Lethal Weapon, kicking off a long and lucrative career as a screenwriter and, later, an action director in his own right.

It's no surprise that début film director Alex Garland made his chops for years as a screenwriter — his script for Ex Machina is one of the best sci - fi scripts in years.

«All Our Wrong Todays» is my first novel, but I've been working for the past 15 years as a screenwriter.

Not exact matches

Screenwriter, director, producer, actress — and as of this year, second woman ever to win Best Director at Cannes — Sofia Coppola is a force to be reckoned with.

In 1996, he served as the screenwriter and executive producer for the George Clooney schlock-fest From Dusk Till Dawn, and the following year renewed some of his earlier acclaim as the director and screenwriter of Jackie Brown.

Original director Wes Craven and original screenwriter Kevin Williamson come back for more, and do so with the willingness of an entirely new cast and the old one, an unprecedented feat seeing as how the last film was made eleven years prior.

Bay and screenwriter Ehren Kruger must have noticed that amphetamine - fueled mugging tested well in Revenge of the Fallen, so the third film is graced with the brilliantly hyperactive Ken Jeong — perhaps the one actor in Bay's 17 - year directing career who perfectly embodies his outsized, everything - plus - half - again - as - much style — and John Malkovich.

The 58 - year - old star was congratulated by co-star Margot Robbie and screenwriter Steven Rogers as she took to the stage at Sunday's 90th Annual Academy Awards.

I think that novelist - now - screenwriter Emma Donoghue originally wanted to present an ironic counterpoint for a character who is manic and crazed from seven years as a sex - slave captive (five of them as a mother), oublietted away in some freak's (Sean Bridgers, who already played this role in Lucky McKee's The Woman) garden shed.

The honor makes the 39 - year - old star the first black screenwriter to ever win the award as he gave one of the best speeches of the night as he admitted he thought writing the film was «impossible.»

And considering screenwriter Selznick was also the man behind the story for Oscar juggernaut «Hugo» a few years ago, we expect this one to be a wondrous spectacle as well.

Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody has described herself as a «naked Margaret Mead,» a cultural anthropologist who for years studied the rites and rituals of the stripper tribe in lieu of the nine - to - five grind.

1988: Screenwriter and novelist William Goldman devoted an entire book, «Hype and Glory,» to the year in which he served as a Cannes juror and a judge at the Miss America pageant.

Love & Mercy, co-written by Oscar ® nominated screenwriter Oren Moverman, also stars Elizabeth Banks and Paul Giamatti, and is directed by Bill Pohlad, known as the Academy Award ® - nominated producer for such bold films as Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, Sean Penn's Into the Wild and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain.

Abandon, the directorial debut of noted screenwriter Stephen Gaghan, casts Katie Holmes as Katie Burke - a frazzled college student who must deal with the return of a former love (Charlie Hunnam), as well as an alcoholic cop's (Benjamin Bratt) investigation into said boyfriend's disappearance two years earlier.

Director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody were maintaining beautiful busy within the seven years since their 2nd collaboration, as in fact has Young Adult and Tully celebrity Charlize Theron herself.

James Vanderbilt has been primarily known as a screenwriter for many years, having written everything from superhero movies (THE AMAZING SPIDER - MAN), to serial killer thrillers (ZODIAC), to action - adventures (WHITE HOUSE DOWN).

Transformers the new movie by Michael Bay, is based not on a novel, play or screenwriter's inspiration but on a line of Hasbro toys that have been hot tickets for young boys such as myself for more than 20 years.

Mike White — «Year of the Dog» Maybe one of the purest expressions of «screenwriter - turned - director» (though he's also an actor given to appearing in character roles in some of his films) Mike White had, in years leading to 2007, carved out quite a distinctive place for himself as an indie screenwriter dealing more in low - key human dramedy than some of the more bombastic Shane Black - types, or more mainstream Steve Zaillian - types on our list.

The screenwriter David Zelag Goodman pushes Chandler's action ahead two years in order to use Joe DiMaggio's 56 - game hitting streak as a (questionable) structuring device.

With hot screenwriter Billy Ray seemingly on the same wavelength («State Of Play,» «Shattered Glass,» «The Hunger Games «-RRB-, and the no - brainer casting of Tom Hanks in the lead, we can expect «Captain Phillips» to deliver on a visceral as well as an emotional level, something achieved brilliantly in last year's underseen, thematically similar «A Hijacking.»

Screenwriter David Seidler wrote a stage treatment «as a way to work out the relationships among the characters for himself», according to his manager Jeff Aghassi in an interview last year with The New York Times, though the screenplay is believed to have come first.

Charlie Kaufman went from TV scribe to red - hot screenwriter in 1999 with «Being John Malkovich,» and his timing couldn't have been better: That's a year the industry looks back upon as being a flashpoint of American indie cinema, with rule - breaking, ambitious films like «Pi,» «Boys Don't Cry,» «The Blair Witch Project,» «Three Kings» and «Fight Club» in multiplexes.

Bryan Cranston does a great job leading us through Trumbo's later years as a cocky but very talented screenwriter.

After five years of relative obscurity Crowe has re-emerged as a screenwriter, and in the interim has definitely matured, and now that he is the director of his own material, he can see his personal vision unfold the way he sees fit with Say Anything.

I knew the film was something about water and California; I'd even heard screenwriter Robert Towne speak a few years ago, at a New Yorker Festival event, about his famous screenplay, now held up by many as the model for screenplays.

All that said, Ex Machina is easily one of the best films of the year so far and a remarkable directorial debut for Garland, who's made a name for himself as a novelist and screenwriter for some 15 years now.

«In The Soup» (1992) From the same Sundance class as «Reservoir Dogs» and «El Mariachi» (and winning the Grand Jury Prize that year, no less), this Steve Buscemi - starring flick about a struggling screenwriter, from director Alexandre Rockwell, was expected to go on to great things even before the Tarantino and Rodriguez films blew up.

Over the past couple of years, Taylor Sheridan has emerged as one of the best screenwriters working today.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Director: Alfonso Gomez - Rejon, Screenwriter: Jesse Andrews)-- Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend.

With the movie award season at full blast, Zero Dark Thirty stands as one of the year's two strongest competitors, poised to earn chances to repeat the success director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal had on their last contemporary war drama,

And while you may not have thought this was a particularly strong year for homegrown films, there are a full six nominees for Best British film, albeit that definition seems to include Saving Mr. Banks, presumably on the basis that screenwriter Kelly Marcel is British as well as producer Alison Owen.

That status has been a big question mark more than once in the past couple years as directors and screenwriters have tried to develop a new Americanized live - action version of the classic manga and anime by Katsuhiro Otomo.

Early last week, Dark Universe broke the shocking news that actor, director, and screenwriter, Nick Castle, is reprising his role in next year's Halloween film as Michael Myers!

We're back in the realm of Young Adult dystopia, in this case (as revised by screenwriter Zak Penn, working with co-adapter Cline) the miserably overcrowded year 2045 in Columbus, Ohio.

This year's Actor Tribute honoree, Ethan Hawke, is a distinguished artist, recognized the world over as a talented and versatile performer, as well as director, novelist, and screenwriter of several unforgettable films.

The directorial debut of 12 Years a Slave screenwriter and American Crime creator John Ridley, it stars Andre Benjamin (one half of Outkast) as music icon Jimi Hendrix.

As for screenwriter Koepp, he said almost a year ago that the movie would have a more feminist bent than the original, with a highly intelligent Bride character who takes control of her own destiny.

As screenwriter Ted Tally, who won Best Adapted Screenplay, told Rolling Stone in 2016,» [I] t's been embraced over the years by the horror community, which is fine with me.

Prior to their Oscar wins in respective categories, 12 Years a Slave took best feature, Matthew McConaughey took best actor for Dallas Buyers Club, Cate Blanchett won best actress for Blue Jasmine, Jared Leto took the best supporting actor trophy for Dallas Buyers Club, Lupita Nyong» o won best supporting actress for 12 Years a Slave as well as the film's screenwriter John Ridley for best screenplay.

In the last two years, wins in key categories at the Indie Spirits have also synced with the Oscars: At the 2014 ceremony, 12 Years a Slave took best feature, Matthew McConaughey took best actor for Dallas Buyers Club, Cate Blanchett won best actress for Blue Jasmine, Jared Leto took the best supporting actor trophy for Dallas Buyers Club, Lupita Nyong» o won best supporting actress for 12 Years a Slave as well as the film's screenwriter John Ridley for best screenyears, wins in key categories at the Indie Spirits have also synced with the Oscars: At the 2014 ceremony, 12 Years a Slave took best feature, Matthew McConaughey took best actor for Dallas Buyers Club, Cate Blanchett won best actress for Blue Jasmine, Jared Leto took the best supporting actor trophy for Dallas Buyers Club, Lupita Nyong» o won best supporting actress for 12 Years a Slave as well as the film's screenwriter John Ridley for best screenYears a Slave took best feature, Matthew McConaughey took best actor for Dallas Buyers Club, Cate Blanchett won best actress for Blue Jasmine, Jared Leto took the best supporting actor trophy for Dallas Buyers Club, Lupita Nyong» o won best supporting actress for 12 Years a Slave as well as the film's screenwriter John Ridley for best screenYears a Slave as well as the film's screenwriter John Ridley for best screenplay.

Back in Hollywood thereafter — the movie elides the two years he spent in Mexico with three other screenwriters and their families — he's obliged to support his family by writing screenplays under pseudonyms for low - rent producers such as the King brothers (played for laughs by John Goodman and Stephen Root).

Big names such as screenwriter / director David Ayer (Fury, Suicide Squad) and director David Yates (Harry Potter) has either worked on and / or been attached at some point to Universal's Scarface remake throughout the past few years.

This year she's back with another war - related film, the sure - to - be controversial Zero Dark Thirty (previously referred to as Kill Bin Laden), again working with her Hurt Locker screenwriter Mark Boal.

Rosemary's Baby found favour only in the Best Supporting Actress category, where Ruth Gordon — a 72 - year - old acting neophyte better known as a screenwriter — snagged the prize for her hysterical portrayal of a buttinsky neighbour who leads a coven of Upper West Side witches.

Alain Robbe - Grillet is best known as an experiment novelist in the nouvelle roman movement of the fifties and as the screenwriter of Alain Resnais» elegant yet conceptually daring French nouvelle vague landmark Last Year at Marienbad.

M. Night Shyamalan may have burst onto the scene as a strong, rising talent three years ago when he wrote and directed the wildly popular and highly celebrated ghost story The Sixth Sense and immensely improved his storytelling skills in his follow - up Unbreakable, but with Signs, he has essentially perfected his craft, both as a director and screenwriter.

First, he was listed as the world's best - paid actor in the «Guinness Book of World Records,» and then he was the not - so - lucky buyer of the world's most expensive divorce from his second wife of eighteen years, screenwriter Melissa Mathison.

Thank You for Your Service is directed by filmmaker Jason Hall, making his directorial debut after working as a screenwriter / actor for years previously.

The 35 - year - old actor was joined at the panel by his co-stars Amy Adams and Aaron Taylor - Johnson, as well as screenwriter - director Tom Ford.