The film also won the best screenplay award for Carl Joos and Felix van Groeningen.
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AIDS, who also directed the movie and wrote the screenplay, based on his own original novel.
Abrams will be directing and Academy Award-winning writer Michael Arndt will write the screenplay.
After that they were hired to adapt a novel into a screenplay and script music videos.
Colin Firth won Best Actor and writer David Seidler, 73, won for Best Original Screenplay.
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The screenplay, by Imamura and Toshiro Ishido, is based on a novel by Masuji Ibuse.
Heck, it got nominated for eight Academy Awards and won three, including Best Adapted Screenplay.
Woody Allen, whose "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" was widely praised, didn't receive his usual original screenplay nomination.
But, what happens if the artist's screenplay is critical of his government or country?
Elsewhere Mike Leigh gets a surprise nomination in the original screenplay category for Another Year.
Directed by Mark Rydell, from a screenplay by Marshall Brickman, Neal Jimenez, and Lindy Laub.
The adapted screenplay award went to Chris Terrio for Ben Affleck's Iran hostage drama.
Maybe I wanted to write a screenplay or a fiction novel or a business book.
In those more decorous days, the studio was also worried about the screenplay's salty language.
The movie directed by Stephen Frears, from a screenplay by Christopher Hampton is solemn, brooding, and lifeless.
Mr. Hooper, whose previous film was "The King's Speech, " worked from a screenplay by William Nicholson.
Fancher wrote the initial screenplay, but later revisions of the script were handed to David Peoples.
The films was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay, Best Directing and Best Picture.
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As soon as I got home I began writing a screenplay based on this epiphany.
The Anti-Defamation League has raised concerns because of what it calls "obvious historical mistakes" in the screenplay.
From a story by John Logan, who worked with Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz on the stiff-jointed screenplay.
"Oblivion" was directed by Joseph Kosinski from a screenplay he wrote with Karl Gajdusek and Michael Arndt.
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She agreed to write the screenplay and it was to mark the beginning of a fruitful partnership.
The writer's attorney said the tapes are private property for a screenplay and should not be released.
Minghella also wrote the screenplay for the film, which was adapted from the book by Charles Frazier.
Stephen King, with his book and then screenplay, helped make pet cemeteries a pop culture horror joke.
One of my five boxes always represents a long-term priority, which, for this year, contains my screenplay.
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Russell won the adapted screenplay prize for "Silver Linings Playbook, " a comedy about characters confronting mental illness.
Shadow Dancer, adapted from a novel by ITN journalist Tom Bradby, is also nominated for best screenplay.
"The four members of Connecticut's delegation ... deserved a better legacy than the screenplay portrayed, " he said.
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