"""Trainspotting"" was nominated for two British Academy Film Awards in 1996, Best British Film and John Hodge for Best Adapted Screenplay. Hodge won in his category. Hodge also won Best Screenplay from the Evening Standard British Film Awards. The film won the Golden Space Needle (the award for Best Film) at the 1996 Seattle International Film Festival. Ewan McGregor was named Best Actor from the London Film Critics Circle, BAFTA Scotland Awards, and ""Empire"" magazine. Hodge was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay but lost to Billy Bob Thornton's ""Sling Blade"". Music has great importance in"
"numerous awards, including Academy Awards (for 2005) for Best Adapted Screenplay (McMurtry and Ossana), Best Director (Ang Lee), and Best Original Score (Gustavo Santaolalla). It was nominated for a total of eight awards (the most that year), including Best Picture, Best Actor (Heath Ledger as Ennis), and Best Supporting Actor (Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack). Its loss of Best Picture to ""Crash"" was not generally expected, though predicted by some. Charles Wuorinen, a contemporary American composer, became interested in the story, and Proulx wrote the libretto to adapt her work. Their work was commissioned by Mortier of the New York City"
"Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay The Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the three screenwriting Writers Guild of America Awards, focused specifically for film. The Writers Guild of America began making the distinction between an original screenplay and an adapted screenplay in 1970, when Waldo Salt, screenwriter for ""Midnight Cowboy"", won for ""Best Adapted Drama"" and Arnold Schulman won ""Best Adapted Comedy"" for his screenplay of ""Goodbye, Columbus"". Separate awards for dramas and comedies continued until 1985. Best Adapted Drama Best Adapted Comedy Best Adapted Drama Best Adapted Comedy Best"
"and Best Adapted Screenplay. At the ceremony, presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty read ""La La Land"" as the winner of Best Picture. Beatty later stated that he had mistakenly been given the duplicate Best Actress envelope, for which Emma Stone had won for her role in ""La La Land"" several minutes prior. When the mistake was realized, ""La La Land"" producer Jordan Horowitz came forward to announce ""Moonlight"" as the correct winner. Because the film's screenplay was based on a play that had not previously been produced or published, different awards have had different rules about whether it qualified"
"for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and the Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. Ginger Rogers won for Best Actress. It was also nominated for Best Director (Sam Wood), Best Sound (John Aalberg). In 1951, in a series of articles examining film adaptation, Lester Asheim notes that some films ""reproduce the costume, housing, and appearance of the novel's prototypes without softening or heightening,"" but that ""Kitty Foyle"" shows the more typical ""glamorizing"" process of film adaptation: Kitty Foyle is typical, in every aspect of the adaptation, of the daydream character of film characterization. The"
"and resulted in two wins. Puzo's novel ""The Godfather"" resulted in wins in 1972 and 1974. The other is E. M. Forster, whose novels ""A Room with a View"" and ""Howards End"" resulted in wins for Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Larry McMurtry is the only person who has won (for ""Brokeback Mountain"") for adapting someone else's work and whose work has been adapted by someone else resulting in a win, ""Terms of Endearment"". Emma Thompson is the only winner who has also won for acting. Winners Billy Bob Thornton and John Huston have only received nominations (not wins) in the acting"
"Adapted Drama Best Adapted Comedy Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay The Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the three screenwriting Writers Guild of America Awards, focused specifically for film. The Writers Guild of America began making the distinction between an original screenplay and an adapted screenplay in 1970, when Waldo Salt, screenwriter for ""Midnight Cowboy"", won for ""Best Adapted Drama"" and Arnold Schulman won ""Best Adapted Comedy"" for his screenplay of ""Goodbye, Columbus"". Separate awards for dramas and comedies continued until 1985. Best Adapted Drama Best Adapted Comedy Best Adapted"
"Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. It is awarded each year to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source (usually a novel, play, short story, or TV series but sometimes another film). All sequels are automatically considered adaptations by this standard (since the sequel must be based on the original story). See also the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, a similar award for screenplays that are not adaptations. The first person to win twice in"
"events including fictional versions of Orlean and Laroche three years after the events related in ""The Orchid Thief"". ""Adaptation"" received awards at the 75th Academy Awards, 60th Golden Globe Awards, and 56th British Academy Film Awards, with Cooper winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Kaufman winning the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film was ranked in a British Film Institute poll as one of the thirty best films of the 2000s. The self-loathing Charlie Kaufman is hired to write the screenplay adaptation for Susan Orlean's ""The Orchid Thief"". Kaufman is going through depression and is"
"and playwrights who have received nominations in this category include: John Steinbeck, Noël Coward, Raymond Chandler, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Edward Bond, Arthur C. Clarke, Lillian Hellman, Neil Simon, Paddy Chayefsky, Kenneth Lonergan, Tom Stoppard, Terence Rattigan and Martin McDonagh. Woody Allen has the most nominations in this category with 16, and the most awards with 3, though Paddy Chayefsky won the Best Adapted Screenplay in 1955 for his adaptation of his teleplay, ""Marty,"" and also won for Original Screenplay for ""The Hospital"" and ""Network"". Woody Allen also holds the record as the oldest winner (at age 76 for ""Midnight in Paris"","
"this magnificent film, but the performances, especially Hepburn's, are what make the simple story so moving. There are laughs and tears aplenty in this movie, which presents a slice of American history in a way that children will find palatable. Released during the depths of the Depression, ""Little Women"" buoyed Americans' spirits. It still does."" Husband-and-wife screenwriters Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture but lost to ""Cavalcade"", and George Cukor lost the Academy Award for Best Director to Frank Lloyd for"
"Hunger Games"" sequel, """", based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins. In November 2012, Arndt was announced as the screenwriter for """". In October 2013, it was announced that Lawrence Kasdan and director J. J. Abrams were rewriting Arndt's script. Michael Arndt Michael Arndt is an American screenwriter. He is best known as the writer of the films ""Little Miss Sunshine"" (2006), ""Toy Story 3"" (2010), and """" (2015). Arndt won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for ""Little Miss Sunshine"" and was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for ""Toy Story 3"". This made"
"Robert Benton Robert Douglas Benton (born September 29, 1932) is an American screenwriter and film director. He won the Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director for ""Kramer vs. Kramer"" (1979) and won a third Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for ""Places in the Heart"" (1984). Benton also garnered three additional Oscar nominations: two for Best Original Screenplay for both ""Bonnie and Clyde"" (1967) and ""The Late Show"" (1977) and one for Best Adapted Screenplay for ""Nobody's Fool"" (1994). He has also directed ""Twilight"" (1998) and ""Feast of Love"" (2007) and co-wrote the screenplays for ""Superman"" (1978) and"
"Foote won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", he was not present at the 1963 ceremony to collect it because he did not believe he was going to win and did not attend. As a result, Foote made sure he was present for the ceremony when he was nominated for ""Tender Mercies""; he won that Oscar as well, this time for Best Original Screenplay. The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 56th Academy Awards The 56th Academy Awards"
"ranked at #84 on the AFI's ""AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers"", a list of America's most inspiring films. The original score was composed by Mikis Theodorakis, nominated for both the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music. Sidney Lumet's direction was nominated for both the BAFTA Award for Best Direction and the Directors Guild of America. The film was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. The film also received Academy Awards nominations for Best Actor (Al Pacino) and Best Adapted Screenplay. The script won the"
"co-written with Tom Epperson, including ""A Family Thing"" (1996) and ""The Gift"" (2000). After ""Sling Blade"", he directed several other films, including ""Daddy and Them"" (2001), ""All the Pretty Horses"" (2000), and ""Jayne Mansfield's Car"" (2012). Thornton has received the President's Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, a Special Achievement Award from the National Board of Review, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has also been nominated for an Emmy Award, four Golden Globes, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. In addition to film work, Thornton began a career as a"
"The film received four Academy Award nominations for the 69th Academy Awards for Best Art Direction (Tim Harvey), Best Costume Design (Alexandra Byrne), Best Original Score (Patrick Doyle), and Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) (Kenneth Branagh). The film follows the plot of the original play, and is the first adaptation to have the complete original text. Aspects of the film's staging are based on Adrian Noble's recent Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play, in which Branagh had played the title role. The film uses a conflated text based on the 1623 First Folio, with additions from the Second Quarto and"
"the Hollywood blacklist and, even though living in exile in England, could only work on the film in secret. The two did not collaborate on the script; Wilson took over after Lean was dissatisfied with Foreman's work. The official credit was given to Pierre Boulle (who did not speak English), and the resulting Oscar for Best Screenplay (Adaptation) was awarded to him. Only in 1984 did the Academy rectify the situation by retroactively awarding the Oscar to Foreman and Wilson, posthumously in both cases. Subsequent releases of the film finally gave them proper screen credit. David Lean himself also claimed"
"what's coming, but the masterful performances, especially Thornton's, will leave you riveted."" ""The Washington Post"" called it a ""masterpiece of Southern storytelling."" Kevin Thomas wrote in the ""Los Angeles Times"" that the film is ""a mesmerizing parable of good and evil and a splendid example of Southern storytelling at its most poetic and imaginative"". ""The New York Times"" critic Janet Maslin praised the performances but said that ""it drifts gradually toward climactic events that seem convenient and contrived"". Sling Blade (film) Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who also stars in"
"it was chosen by Michael Holroyd for inclusion in a list of 50 'essential' books (available in print at the time) in ""The Guardian"". ""Alan Turing: The Enigma"" formed the basis of Hugh Whitemore's 1986 stageplay ""Breaking the Code"", which was adapted by for Television in 1996, with Derek Jacobi as Turing. The book was later made into the 2014 film ""The Imitation Game"" directed by Morten Tyldum, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing. The script for ""The Imitation Game"" won Graham Moore an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015. Hodges is also the"
"won the Best Actor Oscar for ""From Here to Eternity"" instead of him. It is said that he felt he was given the award as consolation for not having previously won it for ""Sunset Boulevard"". In addition, Wilder was nominated for the Best Director Oscar, and Strauss for Best Supporting Actor. Stalag 17 Stalag 17 is a 1953 comedy-drama war film which tells the story of a group of American airmen held in a German World War II prisoner of war camp, who come to suspect that one of their number is an informant. The film was adapted by Billy"
"Chris Terrio Chris Terrio (born December 31, 1976) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing the screenplay for the 2012 film ""Argo"", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Terrio also won the Writers Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay of 2012 and was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, a BAFTA and the 2013 Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Terrio wrote the screenplay for """", the follow-up to Zack Snyder's ""Man of Steel"", based on an earlier draft by David S. Goyer, and"
"first to be nominated for a film based on superhero comic books (the X-Men). Winners are listed first in colored row, followed by the other nominees. Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. It is awarded each year to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source (usually a novel, play, short story, or TV series but sometimes another film). All sequels are automatically considered adaptations by this standard (since the sequel must be based on the original"
"a screenplay there are all these hurdles that seem to have some kind of objectivity to them. The screenplay has to work and I love that.” In 2009, Hornby adapted an autobiographical memoir by the journalist Lynn Barber for the screen as ""An Education"", a feature film starring Peter Sarsgaard and Carey Mulligan. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and for two BAFTAs for writing the screenplay. In 2014, Hornby adapted another autobiographical memoir, Cheryl Strayed's """". ""Wild"", which starred Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern, was nominated for Best Actress for Witherspoon and Best Supporting"
"Festival. The company then created ""Chrystal"", starring Billy Bob Thornton as an Arkansas ex-convict returning home after imprisonment to rekindle the relationship with the wife he left behind. McKinnon was nominated for the Grand Jury prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival for his writing and directing the film, while Blount was recognized by the 2004 Stockholm International Film Festival jurors as Best Actress for her portrayal of the title character. In 2007, ""Randy and the Mob"", a comedy written and directed by McKinnon, won both the Audience Choice and President's Awards at the Nashville Film Festival and was awarded"
"seven 1957 Oscars, including the Best Picture, and Best Actor for Alec Guinness. Boulle himself won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay despite not having written the screenplay and, by his own admission, not even speaking English. Boulle had been credited with the screenplay because the film's actual screenwriters, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, had been blacklisted as communist sympathizers. Boulle was neither a socialist nor a communist. The Motion Picture Academy added Foreman's and Wilson's names to the award in 1984. Kim Novak accepted the Oscar on behalf of Pierre Boulle. In 1963, following several other reasonably successful novels,"
"on 99 reviews. ""Entertainment Weekly"" critic Lisa Schwarzbaum said: ""Faced with a choice of blunt instruments with which to beat a good book into a bad movie, director Billy Bob Thornton chooses heavy, random, arty imagery and a leaden pace."" ""The New York Times"" reviewer A. O. Scott thought the film ""as slick and superficial as a Marlboro advertisement"". Roger Ebert disagreed, awarding the film three-and-a-half out of a possible four. All the Pretty Horses (film) All the Pretty Horses is a 2000 American romance western film produced and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, and based on Cormac McCarthy's novel"
"on the short film ""Awake"", directed by Lori Lovoy-Goran, who won a DGA Student Film Award and a SXSW Competition Award for her documentary short film ""In Between Days"". Chris Terrio Chris Terrio (born December 31, 1976) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing the screenplay for the 2012 film ""Argo"", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Terrio also won the Writers Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay of 2012 and was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, a BAFTA and the 2013 Los Angeles Film Critics"
"massive novel ""Hawaii"" but were unable to raise the financing. (When George Roy Hill did make the film in 1965, he utilized Taradash's script with emendations by Dalton Trumbo.) By the 1970s, Taradash's efforts produced his final two scripts for the soap operas ""Doctors' Wives"" (1971) and ""The Other Side of Midnight"" (1977). Taradash won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama for ""From Here to Eternity"", and received a WGA nomination for ""Picnic"". Taradash served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1970"
"director, as well as Indiewire's 2013 Influencers List. ""Wired"" called him one of six directors who are making music videos cool again. His work has been inducted into the Museum of Modern Art on over a dozen occasions. Motion Theory was profiled in Fast Company as being one of the most innovative companies in the industry. In 2013, he designed and directed the prologue to Guillermo del Toro's film ""Pacific Rim."" In September 2013, he began directing the feature film ""London Fields"", based on the novel by Martin Amis, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Amber Heard, Jim Sturgess, Theo James, Johnny"
"Terrio wrote the script for ""Argo"", winning the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the screenplay, and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. His screenplay was also nominated for Best Screenplay awards from the Golden Globes and the BAFTA Awards. For the ""Argo"" screenplay, he also won Best Screenplay or Best Adapted Screenplay honors from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, the Online Film Critics Society Awards, the Austin Film Critics Association, the Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards, the San Diego Film Critics Society Awards, the Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards, the 2013 University"
"The movie was adapted by Grover Jones and Robert E. Sherwood from Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same title. It was directed by John Cromwell. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Raymond Massey) and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (James Wong Howe). Abe Lincoln (Raymond Massey) leaves home for the first time, having been hired along with two of his friends by Denton Offutt (Harlan Briggs) to take a load of pigs by water to New Orleans. When the boat gets stuck at a dam at the settlement of New Salem, Abe sees and"
"between N. Cahuenga Boulevard and Wilcox Avenue. Richard Brooks Richard Brooks (May 18, 1912 – March 11, 1992) was an American screenwriter, film director, novelist and film producer. Nominated for eight Oscars in his career, he was best known for ""Blackboard Jungle"" (1955), ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"" (1958) ""Elmer Gantry"" (1960; for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay), ""In Cold Blood"" (1967) and ""Looking for Mr. Goodbar"" (1977). Brooks was born as Reuben Sax to Hyman and Esther Sax, Russian Jewish immigrants. Married teenagers when they immigrated to the United States in 1908, they"