"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"","
"Festival. ""Match Point"" broke a streak of box office flops for Allen: it earned $85,306,374 worldwide, of which $23,151,529 was in its North American run. Allen was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The film received generally strong reviews from critics, particularly in the United States. Rotten Tomatoes reported that the film received 76% positive reviews, based on 214 reviews from American critics with an average rating of 7.1/10. The website's critical consensus states: ""Woody Allen's sharpest film in years, ""Match Point"" is a taut, philosophical thriller about class and infidelity."" Metacritic reported the film had"
"flies, she becomes invisible, she is another person. It is hilarious and romantic, serious and exuberantly satiric. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 77% ""fresh"" score with an average rating of 6.1/10. Woody Allen received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, as well as a Writers Guild of America nomination. Mia Farrow received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical and won the National Board of Review's Award for Best Actress. Alice (1990 film) Alice is a 1990 American romantic fantasy film written and directed by Woody Allen"
"gave the film a more mixed review, however, writing, ""Woody Allen ambitiously mixes his two favoured strains of cinema, melodrama and comedy, with mixed results in ""Crimes and Misdemeanours""."" In 2016, film critics Robbie Collin and Tim Robey ranked it as the second best movie by Woody Allen. The film was met with critical acclaim, and was nominated for three Academy Awards: Woody Allen for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, and Martin Landau for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In ""Empire"" magazine's poll of the 500 greatest movies of all time, ""Crimes and Misdemeanors"" was ranked number 267."
"In 2010, it was the first film to win the 20/20 Award for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay (Woody Allen), and Best Supporting Actor (Martin Landau). It also received three additional nominations, for Best Director (Woody Allen), Best Supporting Actor (Jerry Orbach) and Best Supporting Actress (Anjelica Huston). In a 2016 ""Time Out"" contributors' poll, it ranked second only to ""Annie Hall"" among Allen's efforts, with Dave Calhoun praising it as ""the film in which Woody's comic and serious sides most comfortably align"". The film achieved the same rank in an article by ""The Daily Telegraph"" critics Robbie Collin and"
"Picture. Woody Allen received two Academy Award nominations, winning one for Best Screenplay, Original and he earned a nomination for Best Director. His work on the film was also recognized with two BAFTA Awards. Michael Caine and Dianne Wiest won Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, for their portrayals of Elliot and Holly, respectively. ""Hannah and Her Sisters"" was the last film to win in both supporting acting categories until ""The Fighter"" in 2011. The film was also Oscar-nominated for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration and Best Film Editing. Allen received the 1986 award for Best Director"
"and for having drugs in the car (belonging to Cookie). Larry and Fay come from their wedding to bail Harry out of jail. Harry reluctantly gives them his blessings. Back at his apartment, a miserable Harry fantasizes that the university's ceremony is taking place. Harry realizes that he can only function in art, not in life. The film ends with Harry returning to his writing. ""Deconstructing Harry"" garnered 71% approval on Rotten Tomatoes and a 61 out of 100 on Metacritic. Woody Allen was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for ""Deconstructing"
"was nominated for two different films in the same year (1944): ""Hail the Conquering Hero"" and ""The Miracle of Morgan's Creek"". Oliver Stone achieved the same distinction in 1986, for ""Platoon"" and ""Salvador"". Maurice Richlin and Stanley Shapiro were nominated in 1959 for both ""Operation Petticoat"" and ""Pillow Talk"" and won for the latter. At the 2018 ceremony, ""Get Out"" writer-director Jordan Peele became the first African-American to win in this category. Winners are listed first in colored row, followed by the other nominees. The following individuals have received multiple Best Original Screenplay Awards: The following individuals received three or"
"2011). Ben Affleck is the youngest winner, at the age of 25 for ""Good Will Hunting""; he co-wrote the screenplay with Matt Damon (age 27 at the time of their award). Richard Schweizer was the first to win for a foreign-language film, ""Marie-Louise"". Other winners for a non-English screenplay include Albert Lamorisse, Pietro Germi, Claude Lelouch, and Pedro Almodóvar. Lamorisse is additionally the only person to win or even be nominated for Best Original Screenplay for a short film (""The Red Balloon"", 1956). Muriel Box was the first woman to win in this category; she shared the award with her"
"for Best Director. McCarthy appeared in the 2009 dramas ""The Lovely Bones"" and ""2012"". In 2010, McCarthy was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the animated film ""Up"". He also co-wrote and directed 2011's ""Win Win"" based on his experiences as a wrestler at New Providence High School. McCarthy's most recent film, the independent drama film ""Spotlight"", received widespread acclaim following its release in 2015. The film received 6 Academy Awards nominations, 3 Golden Globe Awards nominations, 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations, and 8 Critics' Choice Movie Awards nominations. McCarthy directed the first two episodes"
"and was nominated for ""Match Point"" and ""Midnight in Paris"". In 2012, she was nominated for an Academy Award as producer of ""Midnight in Paris"". Letty Aronson Ellen Letty Aronson (née Konigsberg; born in 1943), is an American film producer and is the younger sister of writer and director Woody Allen. Aronson was born Ellen Letty Konigsberg in 1943 in New York City, to Nettie (née Cherry; 1906–2002) and Martin Königsberg (1900–2001), and was raised in Midwood, Brooklyn, New York. Her older brother is writer and director Woody Allen. Aronson comes from a Jewish family; her grandparents were from Russia"
"won an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. The star of ""A Beautiful Mind"", Russell Crowe, later invited Goldsman and director Ron Howard to film ""Cinderella Man"", and Goldsman wrote the film's screenplay. Goldsman has a production company at Warner Bros. called Weed Road Pictures. Goldsman produced the Universal Pictures feature ""Lone Survivor"", from writer/director Peter Berg, based on the book """" by Marcus Luttrell. It tells the story of Luttrell's Navy SEAL team in 2005 Afghanistan, on a mission to kill a terrorist leader. The movie starred Mark Wahlberg, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster and Taylor Kitsch, and was released"
"and DVD on December 20, 2011. Midnight in Paris Midnight in Paris is a 2011 fantasy comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen. Set in Paris, the film follows Gil Pender, a screenwriter, who is forced to confront the shortcomings of his relationship with his materialistic fiancée and their divergent goals, which become increasingly exaggerated as he travels back in time each night at midnight. The movie explores themes of nostalgia and modernism. Produced by the Spanish group Mediapro and Allen's US-based Gravier Productions, the film stars Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard,"
"category for a performance in a film directed by Woody Allen. Best Adapted Screenplay winner Emma Thompson was the first person to win Oscars for both acting and screenwriting. She had previously won Best Actress for her performance in the 1992 film ""Howards End"". This was the first year since the 42nd Academy Awards—and last to date—that none of the acting winners appeared in Best Picture nominees. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). The following 19 films received multiple nominations: The following five films received multiple awards: The following individuals, listed in"
"Writers Guild of America Awards 2011 The 64th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film, television, and videogame writers of 2011. Winners were announced on February 19, 2012. ""Midnight in Paris"" — Written by Woody Allen; Sony Pictures Classics ""The Descendants"" — Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash; Based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings; Fox Searchlight ""Better This World"" — Written by Katie Galloway & Kelly Duane de la Vega; Loteria Films ""Breaking Bad"" — Sam Catlin, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Gennifer Hutchison, George Mastras, Thomas Schnauz, Moira Walley-Beckett; AMC ""Modern Family"""
"the form of those movies that he might have seen as a child in Coney Island—freeing the visions that he sensed to be locked up in the silver screen."" In October 2013, readers of ""The Guardian"" newspaper voted it the best film directed by Woody Allen. New York Film Critics Circle named Allen best director for ""Manhattan"". The National Society of Film Critics also named Allen best director along with Robert Benton, who directed ""Kramer vs. Kramer"". The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress (Mariel Hemingway) and Best Original Screenplay (Allen and Marshall Brickman). It also"
"Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created for 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay. In 2002, the name of the award was changed from Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) to Writing (Original Screenplay). See also the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, a similar award for screenplays that are adaptations. Noted novelists"
"Woody Allen filmography Woody Allen is an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian. He contributed to many films as either actor, director, writer or sometimes both. Allen wrote four plays for the stage, and has written sketches for the Broadway revue ""From A to Z"", and the Broadway productions ""Don't Drink the Water"" (1966) and ""Play It Again, Sam"" (1969). His first film was the 1965 comedy ""What's New Pussycat?"", which featured him as both writer and performer. Allen felt that his New Yorker humor was mismatched with the director Clive Donner's British sensibility, and decided he wished to"
"temp score for the opening scene of ""Toy Story 3"". The aliens are playing the tune in their sports car. The song was ultimately replaced by Newman's score. Music awards A sequel, titled ""Toy Story 4"", will be released on June 21, 2019. The film was originally to be directed by John Lasseter and co-directed by Josh Cooley. In July 2017, however, it was announced that Cooley would be the sole director. The film will focus on Bonnie's toys helping Woody to reunite with Bo Peep, who was given away before the events of this film. Tom Hanks, Tim Allen,"
"intellectual upper class of New York to the moneyed upper class of London. The film earned more than $23 million domestically (more than any of his films in nearly 20 years) and over $62 million in international box office sales. ""Match Point"" earned Allen his first Academy Award nomination since 1998, for Best Writing – Original Screenplay, with directing and writing nominations at the Golden Globes, his first Globe nominations since 1987. In a 2006 interview with ""Premiere Magazine"", Allen stated this was the best film he has ever made. Allen reached an agreement to film ""Vicky Cristina Barcelona"" in"
"more Best Original Screenplay nominations: Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created for 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay. In 2002, the name of the award was changed from Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) to Writing (Original Screenplay). See also the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, a similar award for screenplays"
"Sisters"", at $40 million. As of 2016, ""Midnight in Paris"" is the highest-grossing film directed by Woody Allen, with $151 million worldwide on a $17 million budget. ""Midnight in Paris"" received critical acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 93%, based on 208 reviews, with an average rating of 7.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, ""It may not boast the depth of his classic films, but the sweetly sentimental ""Midnight in Paris"" is funny and charming enough to satisfy Woody Allen fans."" The film has received Allen's best reviews and score on the site since 1994's"
"(Andy Allen). Osa Wallander won the Best Actress award. The film was also nominated for Best Feature Film at the 2007 Terror Film Festival. The writer and director Tim Pyle worked for 10 years as an animator in the visual effects industry. He worked on the Academy Award nominated ""Jimmy Neutron"", the Emmy-nominated series """", and the Emmy-winning ""Children of Dune"". He has personally won two Aegis Awards, a Telly Award, a CINE Golden Eagle, and 2006 and 2008 NASA awards for producing CG animation. The actress Denise Gossett is the founder of Shriekfest, a Los Angeles-based horror/sci-fi/fantasy film festival."
"Opening Night. ""She Will Be Mine"", an unproduced, short screenplay, was winner of Best Short Drama at the Woods Hole Film Festival Screenplay Competition and Best Overall Screenplay at the Sidewalk Film Festival's Sidewrite Screenplay Competition. ""Fixed"" has been accepted into over ninety five international film festivals across ten countries. Burleigh Smith Burleigh Smith (born Andrew Christopher Burleigh Smith, 7 January 1979) is an Australian writer, film director and actor. His work centres on relationships between men and women and often emphasises dry wit and desperate characters. His strongest influence is Woody Allen. Smith studied filmmaking at Curtin University of"
"Midnight in Paris Midnight in Paris is a 2011 fantasy comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen. Set in Paris, the film follows Gil Pender, a screenwriter, who is forced to confront the shortcomings of his relationship with his materialistic fiancée and their divergent goals, which become increasingly exaggerated as he travels back in time each night at midnight. The movie explores themes of nostalgia and modernism. Produced by the Spanish group Mediapro and Allen's US-based Gravier Productions, the film stars Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard, and Michael Sheen. It premiered at"
"grossed $877 million at the box office, making it the highest grossing animated film internationally to that point. His script ""Pan"" was listed on Hollywood's 2013 Black List, and was made into a 2015 film, which was a critical and box office failure. Fuchs co-wrote the 2017 film ""Wonder Woman"" with Zack Snyder and Allan Heinberg. In 2016, Warner Bros. hired Fuchs to write the script for a Lobo feature film, and a film adaption of the video game ""Minecraft"". Jason Fuchs Jason Isaac Fuchs (born March 5, 1986) is an American actor and screenwriter, best known for writing """""
"Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson. Helm was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay and won both the National Board of Review Award for Best Original Screenplay and PEN Center USA Screenplay Award. He also received Saturn Award and Critics' Choice Movie Award nominations. ""Good Canary"", a contemporary piece about drug addiction, mental health, and love, was given to John Malkovich who subsequently asked to direct the World Premiere of the play in French, despite the play being written in English. Helm agreed and the play was translated. The play received six Molière nominations,"
"and fourth by Zachary Wigon of Nerve. In a 2015 BBC critics' poll, it was voted the 57th greatest American film ever made. In October 2013, the film was voted by ""The Guardian"" readers as the third best film directed by Woody Allen. ""Crimes and Misdemeanors"" was released through MGM Home Entertainment on DVD on June 5, 2001. A limited edition Blu-ray of 3,000 units was later released by Twilight Time on February 11, 2014. Crimes and Misdemeanors Crimes and Misdemeanors is a 1989 American existential comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen, who stars alongside Martin Landau, Mia"
"the 89th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay, ultimately winning one award for Best Sound Editing. It was also awarded the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation and the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 2017. In February 2015, it was announced that Villeneuve would direct ""Blade Runner 2049"", the sequel to Ridley Scott's ""Blade Runner"" (1982). Scott served as the film's executive producer on behalf of Warner Bros. It was released on October 6, 2017 to overwhelming critical acclaim despite middling box office returns. Villeneuve is set to direct the adaptation of"
"supporting cast and remarked that it is a memorable film and that ""Mr. Allen has often said that he does not want or expect his own work to survive, but as modest and lighthearted as ""Midnight in Paris"" is, it suggests otherwise: Not an ambition toward immortality so much as a willingness to leave something behind—a bit of memorabilia, or art, if you like that word better—that catches the attention and solicits the admiration of lonely wanderers in some future time."" Roger Ebert gave the film stars out of 4. He ended his review thus: This is Woody Allen's 41st"
"Woody Woodpecker (2017 film) Woody Woodpecker is a 2017 American live-action/computer-animated comedy film produced by Mike Elliott and directed by Alex Zamm, based on the classic short films the cartoon character of the same name created by Walter Lantz and Ben Hardaway. The film stars the voice of Eric Bauza as Woody Woodpecker, and also stars Timothy Omundson as Lance Walters, a divorced attorney with a son and a new girlfriend who wants to build a dream home in a forest in the mountains of Washington, only to find out he is cutting down a tree in which the eponymous"
"Wonder Wheel (film) Wonder Wheel is a 2017 American period drama film written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Jim Belushi, Kate Winslet, Juno Temple, and Justin Timberlake. Set in the early 1950s at an amusement park on Coney Island, the film takes its title from the park's Ferris wheel. The story follows the second wife and the estranged daughter of a carousel operator as they both pursue affairs with a lifeguard. The film served as the closing night selection at the 55th New York Film Festival on October 14, 2017, and was released on December 1, 2017 by"
"as well as numerous accolades, including the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award at the 2017 Gotham Independent Film Awards. The film also received four nominations at the 90th Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay nominations for Peele, as well as a Best Actor nomination for Kaluuya. Peele won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, becoming the first black screenwriter to win in this category. He became the third person, after Warren Beatty and James L. Brooks, to be nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay for a debut film, and the first"