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Oscars 2012: 'The Artist' sweeps 84th Academy Awards
Times of India
Original Screenplay: Oscar goes to Woody Allen for Midnight in Paris. Woody skips the Oscar. Jolie thanks Allen for accepting award on Academy's behalf Adapted Screenplay: Angelina Jolie presents Oscar for Adapted Screenplay to Alexander Payne, ...
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Hawaii-filmed "The Descendants" dramedy wins Oscar for best adapted screenplay
Hawaiimagazine.com (blog)
The Descendants, a dramedy filmed on Oahu and Kauai and packed with a cast of compelling Hawaii characters, picked up an Oscar statuette last night for best adapted screenplay. The screenplay is based on the best-selling novel by Hawaii writer Kaui ...
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Hawaiimagazine.com (blog)
Hamilton College grad wins Oscar for "The Descendants" screenplay
WKTV
Actor and screenwriter Nat Faxon, of the Class of 1997, won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Descendants during the February 26 Academy Awards. The award, which he received with co-writers Alexander Payne and Jim Rash, is given to the ...
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Screenplay Written by Faculty, Produced by Students Wins 'Best of Fest'
High Point University (press release)
27, 2012 - The screenplay for "Connected," a film written and produced by High Point University faculty and students, is the 2012 "Best of Fest" Award winner in the Short Subject Category of the Broadcast Education Association's Festival of Media Arts ...
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High Point University (press release)
Woody Allen watched hoops instead of Oscars
USA TODAY (blog)
By Reid Cherner, USA TODAY While his film "Midnight in Paris" won an Oscar for best original screenplay, Allen was at home. Allen, who never attends the Academy Awards, didn't even watch the show. "He was saying that the NBA All-Star Game was on at the ...
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USA TODAY (blog)
Woody Allen Watched NBA All Star Game, Not Oscars
Forbes
Allen last won the Screenplay award in 1987 for "Hannah and her Sisters," although pretty much of all his screenplays should have Oscars, including "Match Point," "Bullets over Broadway," and "Vicki Cristina Barcelona." His next film, "Nero Fiddles," ...
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5 Career Lessons From The 2012 Academy Awards
Forbes
In accepting the Oscar for best adapted screenplay of "The Descendants," director Alexander Payne praised Kaui Hart Hemmings, who wrote the novel. Photo: KEVIN DIETSCH/UPI/Newscom 4. Share the credit. Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash won an ...
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Forbes
Why Indian awards compare poorly with the Oscars
IBNLive.com
"Original screenplay and adapted screenplay gets judged in separate categories (in the Oscars)," she said. Filmfare for example, the 57th annual Filmfare Awards gave away the Best Screenplay to Akshat Verma for Delhi Belly. If you thought the Academy ...
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Oscars 2012: Alexander Payne Clears Up Confusion Over Descendants Script
Contactmusic.com
Last night, Alexander Payne won an Oscar for his work writing the adapted screenplay for The Descendants. The script was based on the book by Kaui Hart Hemmings and Payne told reporters backstage that he owed much to his fellow writers, Nat Faxon and ...
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Contactmusic.com
'The Descendants' Announced for Blu-ray
High-Def Digest
The Academy Award winner for Best Adapted Screenplay will say aloha to Blu-ray in March. In an early announcement to retailers, 20th Century Fox will be releasing 'The Descendants' on Blu-ray on March 13. From director Alexander Payne creator of the ...
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Oscar Winners 2012: Woody Allen Wins for 'Midnight in Paris,' No-Show Once Again
International Business Times
By Ellen Killoran: Subscribe to Ellen's RSS feed Woody Allen won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for "Midnight in Paris" at the 2012 Academy Award ceremony Sunday night. While many were expecting the win, few believed Allen would show up to accept ...
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International Business Times
Hamilton alum wins Oscar for 'The Descendants'
Utica Observer Dispatch
AP Nat Faxon, left, Jim Rash, center, and Alexander Payne pose with their awards for best adapted screenplay for "The Descendants" during the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.
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'Reno 911' invades the Oscars
Washington Post (blog)
By Dan Zak The only transcendent part of watching the Oscars, for me, was realizing that two of the three winners for best adapted screenplay are former bit players on "Reno 911!," the "COPS"-inspired Comedy Central sketch show (I'ma fan).
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Angelina Jolie's Pose Has Legs On Twitter
Sky News
The star was handing over the Best Adapted Screenplay Award when she clearly re-adjusted her stance, bending a leg out to one side to reveal as much of the limb through the slit of her Versace gown as possible. She had struck a similar pose earlier on ...
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Sky News
Ingmar Bergman vs. the OSCAR
Alt Film Guide (blog)
The Criterion Collection has posted (via dizzydentfilms) a May 12, 1960, letter in which Ingmar Bergman scolded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for nominating his 1957 drama Wild Strawberries for a Best Original Screenplay Academy Award ...
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Alt Film Guide (blog)
Oscars to go under hammer despite protest
FRANCE 24
Highlights of the exquisite collection estimated to sell for more than $1 million include Herman Mankiewicz's 1941 Best Screenplay Academy Award for Citizen Kane. AFP - A US auction house is selling a collection of Oscar statuettes valued at over $1 ...
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FRANCE 24
ScreenwritingU Announces New Deal with Million-Dollar Screenwriter
PR Web (press release)
ScreenwritingU has added to its award-winning online screenwriting classes the exclusive marketing and delivery of Soth's classes, including his Mini-Movie Method and intensive screenplay mentorship program. ScreenwritingU announces its collaboration ...
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PR Web (press release)
Oscars 2012: George Clooney's girlfriend Stacy Keibler is a trophy girlfriend ...
Daily Mail
By Emily Sheridan It was a nervous night for George Clooney as he went up for a Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards. And despite losing out on the Best Actor accolade, Clooney's girlfriend Stacy Keibler made sure he went home ...
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Daily Mail
Script plays villain between Anil, Priyadarshan
Hindustan Times
For Tezz apparently, Priyadarshan had no choice but to write out a full screenplay before shooting. "Priyan needed to shoot in various parts of England, including Glasgow on subway and railway stations where permission had to be taken from various ...
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Hindustan Times
Don't compare Indian awards with Oscars: Abhishek
India Today
Some lauded the ceremony for its transparent system of winner selection, while some celebrities like Mini Mathur are impressed with the right titles to the awards. "It's just so correct that an original screenplay n adapted screenplay gets judged in ...
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India Today
Dheeran scripts success story
Times of India
HAIBOWAL: A young writer from Haibowal, Dheeran Rattan, once again grabbed top honours at a recent movie award function when he won the best screenplay and dialogue in a??Jeene Mera Dil Luteyaa??. The 35-year-old has already made the city proud by ...
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This here's my leg: Angelina Jolie among Oscar best, worst
Los Angeles Times
Angelina Jolie, presenting awards for best original screenplay and best adapted screenplay, drew praise as well as condemnation for her right-leg-exposure stance at the Oscars 2012 ceremony. Tweeters who thought her too thin told her to "eat something" ...
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Mimicking Jolie's leggy pose
San Antonio Express
Winners for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) for "The Descendants," Alexander Payne (C), Nat Faxon (L) and Jim Rash accept their trophy onstage at the 84th Annual Academy Awards on February 26, 2012 in Hollywood, California.
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Rash denies mocking Jolie pose
13WHAM-TV
Screenwriter Jim Rash accepts the Best Accepted Screenplay Award for 'The Descendants onstage during the 84th Annual Academy Awards held at the Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2012 in Hollywood, California. (Kevin Winter, Getty Images) ...
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Telling Tales From Development Hell
Television Without Pity
But were you also aware that an early draft of the screenplay for the film that would become Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull featured cameos by such characters as Sallah, Marion and Short Round? That's one of the many fun pieces of ...
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Television Without Pity
Angelina Jolie's right leg gets Twitter page
The Sun
The actress again showed off her thigh-high split in her black velvet Atelier Versace number while presenting the award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The 36-year-old glided onto the stage and stood with her hand on her hip like a teapot with her leg ...
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The Sun
Jolie at the Oscars: The leg that roared
Philadelphia Inquirer
Funny guy Jim Rash, one of the recipients of the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, struck a Joliesque pose onstage in his tux. Now, it has become an Internet meme - complete with a Twitter account: @AngiesRightLeg. As of 5 pm Monday, the account had drawn ...
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Oscars 2012: No Woody Allen, So No Woody Allen Acceptance Speech; He Would ...
Movies With Butter (blog)
Wood Allen won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay last night at the 84th Academy Awards for Midnight in Paris, but he didn't show up to accept that award. So, if you're looking for Woody Allen's acceptance speech, you're out of luck.
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Is there a "Brad Pitt Curse" for current, former flames?
Chicago Tribune
Current flame Angelina Jolie's bizarre leg-baring stance during the Oscar ceremony prompted Best Adapted Screenplay winner Jim Rash to ape her sexually provocative pose while accepting his award. It also inspired a Twitter feed @AngiesRightLeg that has ...
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Angelina Jolie's leg gets its own Twitter profile
Hindustan Times
The 36-year-old actor rocked the Oscars in a black velvet Atelier Versace dress, which featured an enormous slit on the The frock was a hit on the red carpet, but when she took to the stage to present Best Adapted Screenplay she struck a saucy pose ...
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Hindustan Times
15 Oscars to be awarded to winning bidders at auction
Auction Central News
The collection of 15 of the gold-plated prizes includes one for the Best Screenplay Academy Award for iconic movie Citizen Kane, given to Herman Mankiewicz in 1941. The 1933 Best Picture Oscar for Cavalcade, a 1939 cinematography Oscar for Wuthering ...
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Hawaii tourism scores with an Oscar for "The Descendants"
Bizjournals.com (blog)
When "The Descendants" won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar at the Academy Awards on Sunday, Hawaii's tourism industry also won. USA Today reports the film, based upon the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings, herself a descendant of Grove Farm founder George ...
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'The Descendants' DVD release March 13
Cincinnati.com (blog)
"The Descendants" won one Academy Award last night (from five nominations), best adapted screenplay for director Alexander Payne. Clooney won best actor for "The Descendants" from the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards. The DVD includes two other ...
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Cincinnati.com (blog)
Angelina Jolie Leg Display, Brad Pitt
Alt Film Guide (blog)
Angelina Jolie wasn't nominated for anything, but she was a presenter of original and adapted screenplay Oscars. The absent Woody Allen won for Best Original Screenplay for Midnight in Paris, starring Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, and Marion Cotillard; ...
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Alt Film Guide (blog)
15 Oscar-Losing Sports Films
Total Pro Sports (blog)
Often cited as one of the all-time great sports films, and rightly so, Bull Durham was nominated for Best Original Screenplay in 1989. Unfortunately, it lost out to Rain Man—a good movie that got an unfair bump at the Oscars because of the ...
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Total Pro Sports (blog)
Director Daniel Zirilli Signs on to New Mass Hysteria Thriller "END OF THE GUN"
Sacramento Bee
28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mass Hysteria Entertainment Company, Inc. (OTCBB:MHYS) has optioned the rights to the action screenplay, "END OF THE GUN" written by Chuck Hustmyre and to be directed by Daniel Zirilli (LOCKED DOWN, CIRCLE OF PAIN).
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Angelina Jolie Spends the Day with Brad Pitt's Mom – and Her Twins
People Magazine
And although she was all smiles, Jolie, 36, wasn't striking any poses for the paparazzi like she did when she hit the Oscars stage to present the award for Best Adapted Screenplay Sunday night.
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Times good, bad at this year's Oscars
Kennebec Journal
Woody Allen's win for "Midnight in Paris" screenplay. Woody wasn't there because he almost never leaves Manhattan. He always says that he can't be too far away from the famous Russian Tea Room. In reality he hates the "other coast where the only ...
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The Best Book Adaptations
Huffington Post (blog)
Harry Potter aside, the time has passed when a bestselling novel or a hit play will automatically be transferred to the screen, but the brief heyday of the original screenplay in the 1970s (most gloriously represented by Robert Towne's Chinatown) has ...
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UPI NewsTrack Entertainment News
UPI.com
The absent Woody Allen won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for "Midnight in Paris," while Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash took home the prize for Best Adapted Screenplay for "The Descendants." "We bow to our fellow nominees," Payne said.
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Angelina Jolie Oscars Imitator Explains 'Loving Tribute' To Actress' Leg
MTV.com
By Jocelyn Vena (@jocelyn1212) On Sunday night at the 2012 Oscars, "The Descendants" co-writer Jim Rash hit the stage with Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon to accept the award for Best Adapted Screenplay. They were handed their prize by Angelina Jolie, ...
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Angelina at the Academy Awards: Too Thin or Fashion Win?
Everyday Health
While presenting the statues for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay, Jolie, 36, struck a fierce leg-baring stance in a custom-made Atelier Versace gown with a thigh-high slit, prompting her leg to get its own Twitter account and ...
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The Road Ahead: 10 Tips for the Screenwriter
WordandFilm.com
Robert Towne advised students at the American Film Institute, "Generally speaking, the process of writing a screenplay is figuring out how to keep the dialogue as spare as possible." Try to think of a scene first in visual terms and only resort to ...
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WordandFilm.com
The Oscars: What You Might Have Missed
The Morton Report
But then, during her presentation for Best Adapted Screenplay, she dramatically stuck out her pasty pin again, hand on hip, flubbing her lines and blinding the audience with her shiny wan countenance. Angelina has a beautiful face, but man, ...
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