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68th Writers Guild Of America Awards
The 68th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best in film, television, radio and video-game writing of 2015. Winners were announced on February 13, 2016, at Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, Los Angeles, California. The nominations for Television, New Media, Radio, News and Promotional Writing were announced on December 3, 2015, while, Theatrical and Documentary Screenplay were announced on January 6, 2016, and Video-game Writing was announced the following week. There were no nominees in the Television Graphic Art and Animation. The show was hosted by Lisa Kudrow. Nominees Film Television Documentary News Radio Promotional Writing Videogaming Writing References 6. † indicates the winners of the Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay. External links Official Site {{WGAAwards 2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC_ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers Guild Of America, East
The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) is a trade union, labor union representing writers in film, television, radio, news, and online media. The WGAE and the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW), though independent entities, jointly brand themselves together as the Writers Guild of America (WGA), and cooperate on activities such as launching coordinated strike actions and administering the Writers Guild of America Awards. The WGAE is an affiliate of the AFL–CIO and the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds. History WGAE had its beginnings in 1912, when the Authors' League of America (ALA) was formed by some 350 book and magazine authors, as well as dramatists. In 1921, this group split into two branches of the League: the Dramatists Guild of America for writers of stage and, later, radio drama and the Authors Guild (AG) for novelists and nonfiction book and magazine authors. That same year, the Screen Writers Guild came into existence in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Holly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Charman
Matthew Charman (born 5 June 1979) is a British screenwriter, playwright, and producer. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his 2015 film '' Bridge of Spies'', directed by Steven Spielberg and co-written with Joel and Ethan Coen. Charman started out writing for theatre, making a breakthrough as writer-in-residence at the National Theatre in London, where then-director Nicholas Hytner described Charman as having "a priceless nose for a story". Early life Charman was born and raised around the location of Horsham, West Sussex, England, and his family were from Great House Farm in Southwater, where his father's side of the family had lived for 180 years. The family moved to the hamlet of Dragon's Green when Charman was 4 years old. Charman attended junior school in Southwater, getting involved in school plays from a young age. Charman continued his interest in drama at comprehensive secondary school at Forest School, Horsham, getting involve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film production company, production and Distribution (marketing), distribution company and the flagship namesake subsidiary of Paramount Global. It is the sixth-oldest film studio in the world, the second-oldest film studio in the United States (behind Universal Pictures), and the sole member of the Major film studio, "Big Five" film studios located within the city limits of Los Angeles. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor put 24 actors and actresses under contract and honored each with a star on the logo. In 1967, the number of stars was reduced to 22 and their hidden meaning was dropped. In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only. The company's headquarters and studios are located at 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, California. The most commercially successful film franchises from Paramount Pictu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Short (film)
''The Big Short'' is a 2015 American Biographical film, biographical comedy drama film, directed by Adam McKay, and co-written by McKay and Charles Randolph. Based on the 2010 The Big Short, book of the same name by Michael Lewis, it shows how the 2008 financial crisis was triggered by the 2000s United States housing bubble, United States housing bubble. The film stars Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, and Brad Pitt, with John Magaro, Finn Wittrock, Hamish Linklater, Rafe Spall, Jeremy Strong (actor), Jeremy Strong, and Marisa Tomei in supporting roles. To explain financial instruments, the film features cameo appearances by actress Margot Robbie, chef Anthony Bourdain, singer-songwriter Selena Gomez, economist Richard Thaler, and others who break the fourth wall to explain concepts such as Subprime lending, subprime mortgages and Synthetic CDO, synthetic collateralized debt obligations. Several of the film's characters directly address the audience, most frequently Gos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. Winners and nominees 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Writers with multiple awards ;3 Awards *Alexander Payne * Alvin Sargent ;2 Awards *Francis Ford Coppola *Blake Edwards *Mario Puzo *Waldo Salt * Jim Taylor Writers with multiple nominations The following writers have received three or more nominations: ;6 Nominations *Steven Zaillian * Eric Roth ;4 Nominations * Jay Presson Allen * Elaine May *Alexander Payne *Neil Simon * Aaron Sorkin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Schumer
Amy Beth Schumer (born June 1, 1981) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, producer, and director. Schumer ventured into comedy in the early 2000s before appearing as a contestant on the fifth season of the NBC reality competition series ''Last Comic Standing'' in 2007. From 2013 to 2016, she was the creator, co-producer, co-writer, and star of the Comedy Central sketch comedy series '' Inside Amy Schumer'', for which she received a Peabody Award and was nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards, winning Outstanding Variety Sketch Series in 2015. Schumer wrote and made her film debut in a starring role in '' Trainwreck'' (2015) earning a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. She then starred in the comedy films '' Snatched'' (2017), and '' I Feel Pretty'' (2019). She created, produced and starred in the HBO documentary series '' Expecting Amy'' (2020), and the Hulu comedy-drama series '' Life & Beth'' (2022–2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trainwreck (film)
''Trainwreck'' is a 2015 American romantic sex comedy film directed and co-produced by Judd Apatow and written by and starring Amy Schumer, alongside Bill Hader, Brie Larson, Colin Quinn, John Cena, Tilda Swinton, and NBA player LeBron James, with Vanessa Bayer, Ezra Miller, Mike Birbiglia, and Norman Lloyd in supporting roles. The film is about a hard-drinking, promiscuous, free-spirited young magazine writer named Amy Townsend (Schumer) who has her first serious relationship with a prominent orthopedic surgeon named Aaron Conners (Hader). The film received positive reviews from critics, praising the performances of Schumer, Hader, James, and the screenplay. Principal photography began on May 19, 2014, in New York City. The film premiered at South by Southwest on March 15, 2015, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 17, 2015, by Universal Pictures. The film won several awards and was nominated for numerous others, including two Golden Globe A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Wenkus
Alan Wenkus is an American screenwriter, film producer, Film director, director and a former VP of programming for Premiere Networks. Wenkus has been nominated for several awards for his work in television and film including a Writers Guild of America Award, the NAACP Image Award and an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He's best known for co-writing and Executive Producing ''Straight Outta Compton (2015 film), Straight Outta Compton''. Radio career Wenkus got his start in radio out of college. While performing stand-up comedy, he was hired to work on the Hot 97 Morning Show in New York City. He wrote for the show and performed a variety of on-air characters while also helping to create nationally syndicated comedy services that included "Radio Hotline" and "The Daily Comedy Exclusive." He launched the comedy and prep radio services at Premiere Radio Networks and worked with hundreds of morning radio shows across the country helping them to stay topical and entertaini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Berloff
Andrea Berloff (born April 7, 1974) is an American screenwriter, actress, director, and producer. Berloff is best known for writing the screenplays for the drama films ''World Trade Center (film), World Trade Center'' and ''Straight Outta Compton (film), Straight Outta Compton'', receiving an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Academy Award nomination for the latter. In 2019, Berloff made her directorial debut with ''The Kitchen (2019 film), The Kitchen''. Early life Andrea Berloff was born to a American Jews, Jewish family in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1974. She attended Framingham South High School until she graduated in 1991. Upon graduating high school, Berloff attended Cornell University to study drama which she then graduated from in 1995. Career Acting Berloff's brief acting career began shortly after she graduated from college. In 1997, she played the role of the nameless sister in the Tisch School of the Arts produced film ''Growth,'' directed by Joe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Pictures
Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios or simply Universal), is an American filmmaking, film production and film distribution, distribution company headquartered at the 10 Universal City Plaza, Universal Studios complex in Universal City, California, and is the flagship studio of Universal Studios, Inc., Universal Studios, the film studio arm of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers (producer), Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane and Jules Brulatour, Universal is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States and the fifth oldest globally after Gaumont Film Company, Gaumont, Pathé, Titanus and Nordisk Film, and is one of the Major film studios, "Big Five" film studios. Universal's most commercially successful film franchises include ''Fast & Furious, Jurassic Park'', and ''Despicable Me''. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straight Outta Compton (film)
''Straight Outta Compton'' is a 2015 American Biographical film, biographical drama film that tells the story of hip-hop group N.W.A's rise and fall under manager Jerry Heller. The film, directed by F. Gary Gray, stars O'Shea Jackson Jr., O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, and Jason Mitchell as Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and Eazy-E, respectively. Released in August 2015, the film received critical acclaim and was a box office success, grossing over $201 million worldwide. ''Straight Outta Compton'' earned several awards and nominations, including an Academy Awards, Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay and a win for Outstanding Motion Picture at the 47th NAACP Image Awards. Plot In 1986, Compton, California, is chaotic and crime-ridden thanks to street gangs, drug dealers and police brutality. One night, Eazy-E narrowly evades a police raid at a crack house. The following day, Dr. Dre is struggling with what he wants to do in life and is confronted by his mother for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylor Sheridan
Sheridan Taylor Gibler Jr. (born May 21, 1970), known professionally as Taylor Sheridan, is an American writer, producer, director and actor. He is best known as the co-creator of the television series ''Yellowstone'' and creator of its prequels '' 1883'' (2021) and ''1923'' (2022). Sheridan has written several films, including the screenplay for '' Sicario'' (2015), for which he was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for '' Hell or High Water'' (2016), which was nominated for three other Oscars, including Best Picture. Sheridan also wrote and directed the 2017 neo-Western crime film '' Wind River'' and wrote the 2018 sequel to ''Sicario''. Sheridan got his start portraying Danny Boyd in ''Veronica Mars'' (2005–2007) as well as portraying David Hale in the FX television series ''Sons of Anarchy''. He has since created several series for Paramount+, including th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
