The Academy Awards is an American film accolade. It is best known as the “Oscars,” and is an annual awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements primarily in the American film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette that is officially called the “Academy Award of Merit,” but has become commonly known by its nickname, the “Oscar.” The awards were first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The Academy Awards are overseen by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
The 90th Oscars nominations in 24 categories were announced on Tuesday, January 23, 2018. Oscars for outstanding film achievements of 2017 were presented on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and was televised live on the ABC Television Network at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT. The Oscars ceremony was also televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide. Jimmy Kimmel acted as host for the ceremony.
2018 / 90th Academy Award winners (for film achievements in 2017):
Best Picture
The Shape of Water - Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale, Producers
Directing
The Shape of Water - Guillermo del Toro
Actor in a Leading Role:
Gary Oldman - Darkest Hour
Actor in a Supporting Role
Sam Rockwell - Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Actress in a Leading Role
Frances McDormand - Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Actress in a Supporting Role
Allison Janney - I, Tonya
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Call Me by Your Name - Screenplay by James Ivory
Writing (Original Screenplay)
Get Out - Written by Jordan Peele
Animated Feature Film
Coco - Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson
Cinematography
Blade Runner 2049 - Roger A. Deakins
Costume Design
Phantom Thread - Mark Bridges
Documentary (Feature)
Icarus - Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan
Documentary (Short Subject)
Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 - Frank Stiefel
Film Editing
Dunkirk - Lee Smith
Foreign Language Film
A Fantastic Woman - Chile
Makeup and Hairstyling:
Darkest Hour - Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick
Music (Original Score)
The Shape of Water - Alexandre Desplat
Music (Original Song)
Remember Me from Coco; Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
Production Design
The Shape of Water - Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeffrey A. Melvin
Short Film (Animated)
Dear Basketball - Glen Keane and Kobe Bryant
Short Film (Live Action)
The Silent Child - Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton
Sound Editing
Dunkirk - Richard King and Alex Gibson
Sound Mixing
Dunkirk - Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo and Mark Weingarten
Visual Effects
Blade Runner 2049 - John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover
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Monday, March 5, 2018
Sunday, March 4, 2018
2018 Oscars "Best Adapted Screenplay" - "Call Me by Your Name"
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Call Me by Your Name - Screenplay by James Ivory - WINNER
Nominees
The Disaster Artist - Screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
Logan - Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold
Molly's Game - Written for the screen by Aaron Sorkin
Mudbound - Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees
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Call Me by Your Name - Screenplay by James Ivory - WINNER
Nominees
The Disaster Artist - Screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
Logan - Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold
Molly's Game - Written for the screen by Aaron Sorkin
Mudbound - Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees
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Friday, February 16, 2018
"Call Me by Your Name," "The Handmaid's Tale" Top 2018 USC Libraries Scripter Award
USC Libraries Scripter Honors “Call Me by Your Name” and “Handmaid’s Tale”
Francis Ford Coppola received the libraries’ Literary Achievement Award at the 30th-annual celebration
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The authors and screenwriters behind the film “Call Me by Your Name,” and the television series “The Handmaid’s Tale” received the 30th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award in the Feb. 10, 2018 ceremony at USC’s Doheny Memorial Library.
The Scripter Award recognizes the year’s best cinematic adaptation of the written word, and includes feature film and television adaptations.
In her welcoming remarks, USC Libraries Dean Catherine Quinlan paid tribute to the legacy of the Scripter Awards, “Scripter is celebrating its 30th birthday, and whether it’s your first Scripter or your thirtieth, I am grateful to everyone who has supported this fine, enduring Trojan tradition.”
USC Provost Michael Quick hailed the importance of libraries. “More than places where students have a space to learn and faculty have collections from which to launch their scholarship, libraries are the core for what we stand for in higher education,” he said.
In the television category, the selection committee chose “Offred,” the first episode of the “The Handmaid’s Tale,” written for the screen by creator and executive producer Bruce Miller. The series, streaming on Hulu, is based on the 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood.
Miller acknowledged Doheny Library, which hosted the ceremony. “The Handmaid’s Tale has been very wonderfully and generously feted over the last few months, but there’s something about getting an award in a library that is particularly wonderful.”
The other finalists were the writers behind episodes of “Alias Grace” (distributed by Netflix), “Big Little Lies” (HBO), “Genius” (National Geographic), “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” (HBO), and “Mindhunter” (Netflix).
In the film category, the winners were writer André Aciman, author of “Call Me by Your Name,” and screenwriter-director James Ivory, who adapted Aciman’s work for the screen.
Ivory, a USC alumnus, noted that he had been to Doheny Library before. “I left this building exactly 60 years ago when I graduated from the USC film school and they had the ceremony out in front of the library, and I haven’t been back since—not to this building. It’s amazing to come back,” Ivory said. “I’m glad to be back for an adaptation of a very good book. As you know, I’ve made my career and name through adaptations.”
Due to a three-way tie in the nominating round, seven films were eligible this year. The other finalist films were “The Disaster Artist” (distributed by A24), “Logan” (20th Century Fox), “The Lost City of Z” (Amazon Studios), “Molly’s Game” (STX Entertainment), “Mudbound” (Netflix), and “Wonder Woman” (Warner Bros.).
Earlier in the evening, Quinlan honored USC trustees and longtime USC Libraries supporters Ronald and Valerie Sugar as the 2018 Ex Libris Award winners. In receiving the award, Ronald Sugar said, “The libraries are an essential underpinning of the mission of this university. And as the university grows and evolves to meet a world of social and technological change, so must its libraries. Catherine, you and your team have provided more than a decade of innovative leadership to advance and expand the reach of this precious academic resource.”
Legendary writer-director-producer Francis Ford Coppola received the 2018 Literary Achievement Award. Coppola noted that his films based on earlier written works gave possessive credit to the original author. The 1972 classic “The Godfather,” for example, which Coppola directed and adapted for the screen, was marketed as “Mario Puzo’s ‘The Godfather’”—not “Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Godfather.’” “Anyone who’s adapted screenplays,” Coppola explained, “knows the author did the heavy lifting.”
In-kind donors to the event included A24 Films, Amazon Studios, Hulu, Netflix, Picador USA, and Urth Caffé.
Scripter began in 1988, co-founded by USC Libraries board members Glenn Sonnenberg and Marjorie Lord. For more information about Scripter—including additional images from the ceremony—visit scripter.usc.edu.
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Francis Ford Coppola received the libraries’ Literary Achievement Award at the 30th-annual celebration
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The authors and screenwriters behind the film “Call Me by Your Name,” and the television series “The Handmaid’s Tale” received the 30th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award in the Feb. 10, 2018 ceremony at USC’s Doheny Memorial Library.
The Scripter Award recognizes the year’s best cinematic adaptation of the written word, and includes feature film and television adaptations.
In her welcoming remarks, USC Libraries Dean Catherine Quinlan paid tribute to the legacy of the Scripter Awards, “Scripter is celebrating its 30th birthday, and whether it’s your first Scripter or your thirtieth, I am grateful to everyone who has supported this fine, enduring Trojan tradition.”
USC Provost Michael Quick hailed the importance of libraries. “More than places where students have a space to learn and faculty have collections from which to launch their scholarship, libraries are the core for what we stand for in higher education,” he said.
In the television category, the selection committee chose “Offred,” the first episode of the “The Handmaid’s Tale,” written for the screen by creator and executive producer Bruce Miller. The series, streaming on Hulu, is based on the 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood.
Miller acknowledged Doheny Library, which hosted the ceremony. “The Handmaid’s Tale has been very wonderfully and generously feted over the last few months, but there’s something about getting an award in a library that is particularly wonderful.”
The other finalists were the writers behind episodes of “Alias Grace” (distributed by Netflix), “Big Little Lies” (HBO), “Genius” (National Geographic), “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” (HBO), and “Mindhunter” (Netflix).
In the film category, the winners were writer André Aciman, author of “Call Me by Your Name,” and screenwriter-director James Ivory, who adapted Aciman’s work for the screen.
Ivory, a USC alumnus, noted that he had been to Doheny Library before. “I left this building exactly 60 years ago when I graduated from the USC film school and they had the ceremony out in front of the library, and I haven’t been back since—not to this building. It’s amazing to come back,” Ivory said. “I’m glad to be back for an adaptation of a very good book. As you know, I’ve made my career and name through adaptations.”
Due to a three-way tie in the nominating round, seven films were eligible this year. The other finalist films were “The Disaster Artist” (distributed by A24), “Logan” (20th Century Fox), “The Lost City of Z” (Amazon Studios), “Molly’s Game” (STX Entertainment), “Mudbound” (Netflix), and “Wonder Woman” (Warner Bros.).
Earlier in the evening, Quinlan honored USC trustees and longtime USC Libraries supporters Ronald and Valerie Sugar as the 2018 Ex Libris Award winners. In receiving the award, Ronald Sugar said, “The libraries are an essential underpinning of the mission of this university. And as the university grows and evolves to meet a world of social and technological change, so must its libraries. Catherine, you and your team have provided more than a decade of innovative leadership to advance and expand the reach of this precious academic resource.”
Legendary writer-director-producer Francis Ford Coppola received the 2018 Literary Achievement Award. Coppola noted that his films based on earlier written works gave possessive credit to the original author. The 1972 classic “The Godfather,” for example, which Coppola directed and adapted for the screen, was marketed as “Mario Puzo’s ‘The Godfather’”—not “Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Godfather.’” “Anyone who’s adapted screenplays,” Coppola explained, “knows the author did the heavy lifting.”
In-kind donors to the event included A24 Films, Amazon Studios, Hulu, Netflix, Picador USA, and Urth Caffé.
Scripter began in 1988, co-founded by USC Libraries board members Glenn Sonnenberg and Marjorie Lord. For more information about Scripter—including additional images from the ceremony—visit scripter.usc.edu.
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Friday, January 19, 2018
30th Annual USC Libraries Scripter Award Nominees Announced
USC Libraries Name Finalists for 30th-Annual Scripter Awards
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The USC Libraries have named the finalists for the 30th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award. In this particularly competitive year, voting resulted in ties for the film and television categories.
USC Libraries release finalists for the 30th-annual Scripter Awards, honoring the best adapted film and TV show.
Due to a three-way tie in the nomination round, the writers of seven films and the works on which the films are based will compete for the honors this year. The finalist writers for film adaptation are, in alphabetical order by film title:
--Author André Aciman and screenwriter James Ivory for “Call Me By Your Name”
--Screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber for “The Disaster Artist,” and authors Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell for their nonfiction book “The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside ‘The Room,’ the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made”
--Screenwriters Scott Frank, Michael Green, and James Mangold, and authors Roy Thomas, Len Wein, and John Romita, Sr., for “Logan”
- Screenwriter James Gray and author David Grann for “The Lost City of Z”
--Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and author Molly Bloom for “Molly’s Game”
--Screenwriters Dee Rees and Virgil Williams and author Hillary Jordan for “Mudbound”
--Screenwriter Allan Heinberg and author William Moulton Marston for “Wonder Woman”
Writers of six television shows and their printed source material will vie for the Scripter Award this year. The finalist writers—including for the first time a single author with nominations for two series in a single year—for television are, in alphabetical order by series title:
--Screenwriter Sarah Polley and author Margaret Atwood for “Alias Grace”
--David E. Kelley, for the episode “You Get What You Need” from “Big Little Lies,” and author Liane Moriarty
--Noah Pink and Ken Biller for the episode “Einstein: Chapter One” from “Genius,” and author Walter Isaacson for his book “Einstein: His Life and Word”
--Bruce Miller for the episode “Offred” from “The Handmaid’s Tale” and author Margaret Atwood
--Peter Landesman, George C. Wolfe, and Alexander Woo for the television film “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” and author Rebecca Skloot
--Joe Penhall and Jennifer Haley for “Episode 10” of “Mindhunter” and authors John Douglas and Mark Olshaker for their nonfiction book “Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit”
Chaired by USC professor and past president of the Writers Guild of America, West, Howard Rodman, the 2018 Scripter selection committee selected the finalists from a field of 91 film and 28 television adaptations.
Serving on the selection committee, among many others, are film critics Leonard Maltin, Anne Thompson and Kenneth Turan; authors Lisa Belkin, Michael Chabon and Michael Ondaatje; screenwriters Geoffrey Fletcher and Erin Cressida Wilson; producers Suzanne Todd and Mike Medavoy; and USC deans Elizabeth Daley of the School of Cinematic Arts and Catherine Quinlan of the USC Libraries.
The studios distributing the finalist films and current publishers of the printed works are:
“Call Me By Your Name”—Sony Pictures Classics and Picador
“The Disaster Artist”—A24 and Simon & Schuster
“Logan”—20th Century Fox and Marvel Comics
“The Lost City of Z”—Amazon Studios and Simon & Schuster
“Molly’s Game”—STX Entertainment and Dey Street Books
“Mudbound”—Netflix and Algonquin Books
“Wonder Woman”—Warner Bros. and DC Comics
The networks airing the finalist television series and current publishers of the original printed works are:
“Alias Grace”—Netflix and Anchor
“Big Little Lies”—HBO and Berkley
“Genius”—National Geographic and Simon & Schuster
“The Handmaid’s Tale”—Hulu and Anchor
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”— HBO and Broadway Books
“Mindhunter”—Netflix and Gallery Books
The USC Libraries will announce the winning authors and screenwriters at a black-tie ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018 in the historic Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library on the University Park campus of the University of Southern California. Since 1988, Scripter has honored the authors of printed works alongside the screenwriters who adapt their stories. In 2016, the USC Libraries inaugurated a new Scripter award, for television adaptation. Television and film finalists compete in separate categories.
For more information about Scripter—including ticket availability, additional sponsorship opportunities, and an up-to-date list of sponsors—please email scripter@usc.edu or visit scripter.usc.edu.
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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The USC Libraries have named the finalists for the 30th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award. In this particularly competitive year, voting resulted in ties for the film and television categories.
USC Libraries release finalists for the 30th-annual Scripter Awards, honoring the best adapted film and TV show.
Due to a three-way tie in the nomination round, the writers of seven films and the works on which the films are based will compete for the honors this year. The finalist writers for film adaptation are, in alphabetical order by film title:
--Author André Aciman and screenwriter James Ivory for “Call Me By Your Name”
--Screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber for “The Disaster Artist,” and authors Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell for their nonfiction book “The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside ‘The Room,’ the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made”
--Screenwriters Scott Frank, Michael Green, and James Mangold, and authors Roy Thomas, Len Wein, and John Romita, Sr., for “Logan”
- Screenwriter James Gray and author David Grann for “The Lost City of Z”
--Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and author Molly Bloom for “Molly’s Game”
--Screenwriters Dee Rees and Virgil Williams and author Hillary Jordan for “Mudbound”
--Screenwriter Allan Heinberg and author William Moulton Marston for “Wonder Woman”
Writers of six television shows and their printed source material will vie for the Scripter Award this year. The finalist writers—including for the first time a single author with nominations for two series in a single year—for television are, in alphabetical order by series title:
--Screenwriter Sarah Polley and author Margaret Atwood for “Alias Grace”
--David E. Kelley, for the episode “You Get What You Need” from “Big Little Lies,” and author Liane Moriarty
--Noah Pink and Ken Biller for the episode “Einstein: Chapter One” from “Genius,” and author Walter Isaacson for his book “Einstein: His Life and Word”
--Bruce Miller for the episode “Offred” from “The Handmaid’s Tale” and author Margaret Atwood
--Peter Landesman, George C. Wolfe, and Alexander Woo for the television film “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” and author Rebecca Skloot
--Joe Penhall and Jennifer Haley for “Episode 10” of “Mindhunter” and authors John Douglas and Mark Olshaker for their nonfiction book “Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit”
Chaired by USC professor and past president of the Writers Guild of America, West, Howard Rodman, the 2018 Scripter selection committee selected the finalists from a field of 91 film and 28 television adaptations.
Serving on the selection committee, among many others, are film critics Leonard Maltin, Anne Thompson and Kenneth Turan; authors Lisa Belkin, Michael Chabon and Michael Ondaatje; screenwriters Geoffrey Fletcher and Erin Cressida Wilson; producers Suzanne Todd and Mike Medavoy; and USC deans Elizabeth Daley of the School of Cinematic Arts and Catherine Quinlan of the USC Libraries.
The studios distributing the finalist films and current publishers of the printed works are:
“Call Me By Your Name”—Sony Pictures Classics and Picador
“The Disaster Artist”—A24 and Simon & Schuster
“Logan”—20th Century Fox and Marvel Comics
“The Lost City of Z”—Amazon Studios and Simon & Schuster
“Molly’s Game”—STX Entertainment and Dey Street Books
“Mudbound”—Netflix and Algonquin Books
“Wonder Woman”—Warner Bros. and DC Comics
The networks airing the finalist television series and current publishers of the original printed works are:
“Alias Grace”—Netflix and Anchor
“Big Little Lies”—HBO and Berkley
“Genius”—National Geographic and Simon & Schuster
“The Handmaid’s Tale”—Hulu and Anchor
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”— HBO and Broadway Books
“Mindhunter”—Netflix and Gallery Books
The USC Libraries will announce the winning authors and screenwriters at a black-tie ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018 in the historic Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library on the University Park campus of the University of Southern California. Since 1988, Scripter has honored the authors of printed works alongside the screenwriters who adapt their stories. In 2016, the USC Libraries inaugurated a new Scripter award, for television adaptation. Television and film finalists compete in separate categories.
For more information about Scripter—including ticket availability, additional sponsorship opportunities, and an up-to-date list of sponsors—please email scripter@usc.edu or visit scripter.usc.edu.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Review: "The White Countess" Does Not Quite Capture Old Merchant Ivory Magic (Remembering Natasha Richardson)
The White Countess (2005)
Running time: 136 minutes (2 hours, 16 minutes)
MPAA – PG-13 for some violent images and thematic elements
DIRECTOR: James Ivory
WRITER: Kazuo Ishiguro
PRODUCER: Ismail Merchant
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Christopher Doyle (director of photography)
EDITOR: John David Allen
COMPOSER: Richard Robbins
DRAMA/HISTORICAL with elements of romance
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Hiroyuki Sanada, Lynn Redgrave, Allan Corduner, Da Ying, and Madeleine Daly
The subject of this movie review is The White Countess, a 2005 period drama from director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant for their Merchant Ivory Productions. This is the last film produced by Merchant, who died during production of the film. Written by Kazuo Ishiguro, The White Countess is set in 1930s Shanghai and focuses on a blind American diplomat and a young Russian trying to support members of her dead husband’s aristocratic family.
A traumatic political event took the lives of both his wife and son, and a second one killed his daughter and blinded him. Now, 40-something, disenchanted, ex-U.S. diplomat Todd Jackson (Ralph Fiennes) lives a lonely life amid the political turmoil of 1930’s Shanghai, and dreams of owning a gentleman’s club – the kind that he can still see in his mind and quite unlike the hotels and clubs in which he currently languishes.
However, his life changes when he crosses paths with Countess Sofia Belinskya (Natasha Richardson), a widowed Russian countess living in impoverished exile with her in-laws and her daughter. Where once she lived the life of nobility, now, she accepts sordid jobs to support her family. When fortune strikes and gives Jackson the means to open his bar, he names it The White Countess, and convinces Sofia to accept a job as the club’s hostess. But will he have the strength to admit his love before a coming Japanese invasion of Shanghai separates them forever?
The team of director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant are known to the film world as Merchant Ivory Productions and have produced such Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated films as A Room with a View, Howard’s End, and Remains of the Day. The Indian born Merchant (who also directed films) died in May of 2005, and The White Countess was his final collaboration with James Ivory. The film is quiet and lacks the grandeur of the better-known Merchant Ivory Production like Howard’s End. It’s very low key, and dialogue moves the narrative. It’s almost as if The White Countess is more a historical epic made for television than it is a work for the cinema.
Ralph Fiennes and Natasha Richardson give strange, quiet performances. Fiennes is as usual quite good, and Richardson is mysterious and detached. One would think that the two couldn’t have any chemistry, but their facial expressions and subtle physical movements give their characters and their relationship a deeply evocative tone. They essentially define this slow moving, but classy period piece, as all the other actors seem to follow their tranquil acting.
In fact, there are a number of fine supporting performances including a rare appearance in the same film by famous acting sisters, Vanessa Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave (real life mother and aunt respectively of Natasha Richardson), in small but well-done roles. Hiroyuki Sanada gives an excellent turn as the mysterious Mr. Matsuda, who establishes the film’s exotic, but politically volatile setting, 1930’s Shanghai. The White Countess may seem overly serene at times, but the impeccable cast makes it a good choice for fans of fine acting and Merchant Ivory films.
6 of 10
B
Saturday, June 17, 2006
Updated: Tuesday, March 18, 2014
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