On Monday night, November 27, at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City, the Gotham Awards presented the winners at their 33rd annual event. “All of Us Strangers” went in with a leading four bids, followed by “Past Lives,” “The Zone of Interest” and the TV limited series “Beef” with three apiece. But who prevailed? Scroll down for the full list, updated throughout the night.
The nominations were decided by panels of film and television critics, journalists, festival programmers and film curators. The winners were then selected by juries of writers, directors, actors, producers, editors and others directly involved in filmmaking. That makes these awards unique and often results in surprising winners like “The Rider” for Best Feature in 2018 over the higher-profile “The Favourite,” or Danielle Deadwyler (“Till”) for Best Lead Performance in 2022 over eventual Oscar winners Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) and Brendan Fraser (“The Whale”). So a...
The nominations were decided by panels of film and television critics, journalists, festival programmers and film curators. The winners were then selected by juries of writers, directors, actors, producers, editors and others directly involved in filmmaking. That makes these awards unique and often results in surprising winners like “The Rider” for Best Feature in 2018 over the higher-profile “The Favourite,” or Danielle Deadwyler (“Till”) for Best Lead Performance in 2022 over eventual Oscar winners Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) and Brendan Fraser (“The Whale”). So a...
- 11/28/2023
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: The Black List and Women in Film, Los Angeles have set Ana Brown (Trash Pandas), Audrey Rosenberg (Wild Animals), Christina Yr Lim (Gyopo), Rebecca Christian (Sankofa Selah), Sabeen Amanat Farooq (Burn Your Idols) and Zoey Towner (Great American Highway) as the participants for their fifth consecutive Feature Residency, which provides six promising screenwriters of underrepresented genders with a year’s worth of mentorship and career opportunities.
For the first time since 2020, the Residency will kick off in late June with an in-person weekend writing retreat in Los Angeles, which will feature intensive script and professional development sessions. Participants will then have meetings and receive feedback from working feature writers, executives, and industry leaders throughout the course of the year. Creatives participating as mentors this time around include Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith (Legally Blonde), Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy), Graham Moore (The Imitation Game), Kari Granlund (Lady and the Tramp...
For the first time since 2020, the Residency will kick off in late June with an in-person weekend writing retreat in Los Angeles, which will feature intensive script and professional development sessions. Participants will then have meetings and receive feedback from working feature writers, executives, and industry leaders throughout the course of the year. Creatives participating as mentors this time around include Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith (Legally Blonde), Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy), Graham Moore (The Imitation Game), Kari Granlund (Lady and the Tramp...
- 6/24/2022
- by Matt Grobar and Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Debra Granik (Leave No Trace) is set to direct a feature adaptation of Una Lamarche’s YA novel Like No Other.
She and Anne Rosellini of Still Rolling Productions optioned the book, in partnership with Mad Dog Film’s Alix Madigan.
Published in 2015 by Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, Like No Others is billed as a contemporary take on West Side Story. It watches as the unlikely paths of a Hasidic girl and a secular boy meet on Eastern Parkway and blossom into a forbidden romance.
Granik and Rosellini are penning the script for the film, which Rosellini and Madigan will produce. Razorbill VP & Publisher Casey McIntyre is also on board as an exec producer.
“I have so much respect for this team and their incredible body of work,” said Lamarche. “I could not be more thrilled that they are bringing Like No Other to life on screen.
She and Anne Rosellini of Still Rolling Productions optioned the book, in partnership with Mad Dog Film’s Alix Madigan.
Published in 2015 by Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, Like No Others is billed as a contemporary take on West Side Story. It watches as the unlikely paths of a Hasidic girl and a secular boy meet on Eastern Parkway and blossom into a forbidden romance.
Granik and Rosellini are penning the script for the film, which Rosellini and Madigan will produce. Razorbill VP & Publisher Casey McIntyre is also on board as an exec producer.
“I have so much respect for this team and their incredible body of work,” said Lamarche. “I could not be more thrilled that they are bringing Like No Other to life on screen.
- 7/20/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
According to our Experts and users at Gold Derby as of this writing, “Nomadland” is the front-runner to win Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars with 16/5 odds. Currently in second place is “The Father” with 39/10 odds. However, the latter movie over-performed in nominations relative to our expectations, receiving six bids altogether (including Best Picture). So could “The Father” be a real threat to beat “Nomadland” for Best Adapted Screenplay?
SEEHow to Watch ‘The Father’
In “The Father,” Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) is an aging man who refuses assistance from his daughter, Anne (Olivia Colman), as he struggles with his progressing memory loss. And if you look at each of the six Oscar nominations the film received, Best Adapted Screenplay appears to be its best shot at a win.
In the combined predictions of thousands of Gold Derby users who have already placed their bets, “The Father” is currently ranked in seventh place,...
SEEHow to Watch ‘The Father’
In “The Father,” Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) is an aging man who refuses assistance from his daughter, Anne (Olivia Colman), as he struggles with his progressing memory loss. And if you look at each of the six Oscar nominations the film received, Best Adapted Screenplay appears to be its best shot at a win.
In the combined predictions of thousands of Gold Derby users who have already placed their bets, “The Father” is currently ranked in seventh place,...
- 3/18/2021
- by Jeffrey Kare
- Gold Derby
The USC Libraries has revealed the finalists for the 33rd annual USC Libraries Scripter Award, which honors the year’s best film and television adaptations, as well as the works on which they are based. This group of academics, industry professionals, and critics (for which I vote) is often predictive of the Adapted Screenplay Oscar race.
Last year’s Scripter winners were Oscar and Emmy nominees Greta Gerwig (“Little Women”) and Phoebe Waller-Bridge (“Fleabag”). The year before was atypical, as the Scripter Award went to “Leave No Trace” screenwriters Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini (and author Peter Rock), who were not nominated for the Oscar.
Past winners of both the Scripter and the Oscar include “Call Me by Your Name,” “Moonlight,” “The Big Short,” and “The Imitation Game.” In fact, before 2019, eight Scripter Award winners went on to win Oscars. This year, streaming giant Netflix dominated, with three nominees, including “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,...
Last year’s Scripter winners were Oscar and Emmy nominees Greta Gerwig (“Little Women”) and Phoebe Waller-Bridge (“Fleabag”). The year before was atypical, as the Scripter Award went to “Leave No Trace” screenwriters Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini (and author Peter Rock), who were not nominated for the Oscar.
Past winners of both the Scripter and the Oscar include “Call Me by Your Name,” “Moonlight,” “The Big Short,” and “The Imitation Game.” In fact, before 2019, eight Scripter Award winners went on to win Oscars. This year, streaming giant Netflix dominated, with three nominees, including “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,...
- 1/26/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
The USC Libraries Scripter Awards honor the year’s best film and television adaptations, as well as the works on which they are based. This group of academics, industry professionals, and critics (for which I vote) is often predictive of the Adapted Screenplay Oscar race.
While Netflix dominated this year’s nominations with three adapted scripts, for movies “The Irishman” (Steve Zaillian adapted Charles Brandt’s “I Heard You Paint Houses”) and “The Two Popes” (Anthony McCarten adapted his own play), and Susannah Grant, Michael Chabon, and Ayelet Waldman’s limited series “Unbelievable,” the winners were Amazon’s “Fleabag” (play and series author Phoebe Waller-Bridge was in London), and Sony’s “Little Women,” whose scribe Greta Gerwig gave a heartfelt speech. This could presage another win at the WGA Awards next week and on Oscar night in the Adapted Screenplay category.
“It’s the book of my life,” Gerwig said...
While Netflix dominated this year’s nominations with three adapted scripts, for movies “The Irishman” (Steve Zaillian adapted Charles Brandt’s “I Heard You Paint Houses”) and “The Two Popes” (Anthony McCarten adapted his own play), and Susannah Grant, Michael Chabon, and Ayelet Waldman’s limited series “Unbelievable,” the winners were Amazon’s “Fleabag” (play and series author Phoebe Waller-Bridge was in London), and Sony’s “Little Women,” whose scribe Greta Gerwig gave a heartfelt speech. This could presage another win at the WGA Awards next week and on Oscar night in the Adapted Screenplay category.
“It’s the book of my life,” Gerwig said...
- 1/26/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The USC Libraries Scripter Awards honor the year’s best film and television adaptations, as well as the works on which they are based. This group of academics, industry professionals, and critics (for which I vote) is often predictive of the Adapted Screenplay Oscar race.
While Netflix dominated this year’s nominations with three adapted scripts, for movies “The Irishman” (Steve Zaillian adapted Charles Brandt’s “I Heard You Paint Houses”) and “The Two Popes” (Anthony McCarten adapted his own play), and Susannah Grant, Michael Chabon, and Ayelet Waldman’s limited series “Unbelievable,” the winners were Amazon’s “Fleabag” (play and series author Phoebe Waller-Bridge was in London), and Sony’s “Little Women,” whose scribe Greta Gerwig gave a heartfelt speech. This could presage another win at the WGA Awards next week and on Oscar night in the Adapted Screenplay category.
“It’s the book of my life,” Gerwig said...
While Netflix dominated this year’s nominations with three adapted scripts, for movies “The Irishman” (Steve Zaillian adapted Charles Brandt’s “I Heard You Paint Houses”) and “The Two Popes” (Anthony McCarten adapted his own play), and Susannah Grant, Michael Chabon, and Ayelet Waldman’s limited series “Unbelievable,” the winners were Amazon’s “Fleabag” (play and series author Phoebe Waller-Bridge was in London), and Sony’s “Little Women,” whose scribe Greta Gerwig gave a heartfelt speech. This could presage another win at the WGA Awards next week and on Oscar night in the Adapted Screenplay category.
“It’s the book of my life,” Gerwig said...
- 1/26/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
The USC Libraries has revealed the finalists for the 32nd-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award, which honors the year’s best film and television adaptations, as well as the works on which they are based. This group of academics, industry professionals and critics (for which I vote) is often predictive of the Adapted Screenplay Oscar race.
Last year’s Scripter winners were the exception that prove the rule: “Leave No Trace” screenwriters Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini were not nominated for the Oscar; they adapted Peter Rock, author of “My Abandonment.”
The year before was more typical, as the Scripter Award went to “Call Me by Your Name” screenwriter James Ivory (who won the Oscar), and author André Aciman; past winners include “Moonlight,” “The Big Short,” and “The Imitation Game,” which all won Oscars. In fact, before 2019 eight Scripter Award winners went on to win Oscars.
Netflix dominated this year’s nominations with three adapted scripts,...
Last year’s Scripter winners were the exception that prove the rule: “Leave No Trace” screenwriters Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini were not nominated for the Oscar; they adapted Peter Rock, author of “My Abandonment.”
The year before was more typical, as the Scripter Award went to “Call Me by Your Name” screenwriter James Ivory (who won the Oscar), and author André Aciman; past winners include “Moonlight,” “The Big Short,” and “The Imitation Game,” which all won Oscars. In fact, before 2019 eight Scripter Award winners went on to win Oscars.
Netflix dominated this year’s nominations with three adapted scripts,...
- 12/18/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The USC Libraries has revealed the finalists for the 32nd-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award, which honors the year’s best film and television adaptations, as well as the works on which they are based. This group of academics, industry professionals and critics (for which I vote) is often predictive of the Adapted Screenplay Oscar race.
Last year’s Scripter winners were the exception that prove the rule: “Leave No Trace” screenwriters Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini were not nominated for the Oscar; they adapted Peter Rock, author of “My Abandonment.”
The year before was more typical, as the Scripter Award went to “Call Me by Your Name” screenwriter James Ivory (who won the Oscar), and author André Aciman; past winners include “Moonlight,” “The Big Short,” and “The Imitation Game,” which all won Oscars. In fact, before 2019 eight Scripter Award winners went on to win Oscars.
Netflix dominated this year’s nominations with three adapted scripts,...
Last year’s Scripter winners were the exception that prove the rule: “Leave No Trace” screenwriters Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini were not nominated for the Oscar; they adapted Peter Rock, author of “My Abandonment.”
The year before was more typical, as the Scripter Award went to “Call Me by Your Name” screenwriter James Ivory (who won the Oscar), and author André Aciman; past winners include “Moonlight,” “The Big Short,” and “The Imitation Game,” which all won Oscars. In fact, before 2019 eight Scripter Award winners went on to win Oscars.
Netflix dominated this year’s nominations with three adapted scripts,...
- 12/18/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
The 31st-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award honored the year’s best film and television adaptations, as well as the works on which they are based, at a black-tie ceremony on Saturday in the Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library at the University of Southern California. This group of academics, industry professionals, and critics (for which I vote) is often predictive of the Adapted Screenplay Oscar race.
Last year’s Scripter winners were “Call Me by Your Name” screenwriter James Ivory (who won the Oscar), and author André Aciman; past winners include “Moonlight,” “The Big Short,” and “The Imitation Game,” which all won Oscars. In fact, the past eight Scripter Award winners have gone on to win Oscars.
Not this year. Amazon Studios’ limited series “A Very English Scandal,” adapted by Russell T Davies from the book by John Preston, took home the USC Libraries Scripter Award for television, which will compete in the 2019 Emmy race.
Last year’s Scripter winners were “Call Me by Your Name” screenwriter James Ivory (who won the Oscar), and author André Aciman; past winners include “Moonlight,” “The Big Short,” and “The Imitation Game,” which all won Oscars. In fact, the past eight Scripter Award winners have gone on to win Oscars.
Not this year. Amazon Studios’ limited series “A Very English Scandal,” adapted by Russell T Davies from the book by John Preston, took home the USC Libraries Scripter Award for television, which will compete in the 2019 Emmy race.
- 2/10/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The 31st-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award honored the year’s best film and television adaptations, as well as the works on which they are based, at a black-tie ceremony on Saturday in the Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library at the University of Southern California. This group of academics, industry professionals, and critics (for which I vote) is often predictive of the Adapted Screenplay Oscar race.
Last year’s Scripter winners were “Call Me by Your Name” screenwriter James Ivory (who won the Oscar), and author André Aciman; past winners include “Moonlight,” “The Big Short,” and “The Imitation Game,” which all won Oscars. In fact, the past eight Scripter Award winners have gone on to win Oscars.
Not this year. Amazon Studios’ limited series “A Very English Scandal,” adapted by Russell T Davies from the book by John Preston, took home the USC Libraries Scripter Award for television, which already competed in the 2018 Emmy race.
Last year’s Scripter winners were “Call Me by Your Name” screenwriter James Ivory (who won the Oscar), and author André Aciman; past winners include “Moonlight,” “The Big Short,” and “The Imitation Game,” which all won Oscars. In fact, the past eight Scripter Award winners have gone on to win Oscars.
Not this year. Amazon Studios’ limited series “A Very English Scandal,” adapted by Russell T Davies from the book by John Preston, took home the USC Libraries Scripter Award for television, which already competed in the 2018 Emmy race.
- 2/10/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Bleecker Street’s Leave No Trace took home the movie prize for best adapted screenplay and Russell T Davies and author John Preston won the TV award for BBC/Amazon’s A Very English Scandal tonight at the 31st annual USC Scripter Awards.
The awards honor the authors of printed works alongside the screenwriters who adapt their stories.
This year’s film honor, which presented to screenwriters Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini, and Peter Rock, whose novel My Abandonment the script was based, will break the Scripter’s eight-year winning streak of winners going on to victory at the Oscars: Leave No Trace can’t win an Academy Award because it wasn’t nominated in the category.
Granik directed the pic, which stars Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie as a military veteran father and his daughter living an unconventional life off-the-grid...
The awards honor the authors of printed works alongside the screenwriters who adapt their stories.
This year’s film honor, which presented to screenwriters Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini, and Peter Rock, whose novel My Abandonment the script was based, will break the Scripter’s eight-year winning streak of winners going on to victory at the Oscars: Leave No Trace can’t win an Academy Award because it wasn’t nominated in the category.
Granik directed the pic, which stars Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie as a military veteran father and his daughter living an unconventional life off-the-grid...
- 2/10/2019
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
“Leave No Trace” has won the USC Libraries Scripter Award for best movie adaptation and “A Very English Scandal” took the television award.
“Leave No Trace,” was adapted by Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini, based on the 2009 novel “My Abandonment” by Peter Rock. “A Very English Scandal” was adapted by Russell T. Davies from John Preston’s book.
Granik also directed “Leave No Trace,” which stars Ben Foster as an Iraq War veteran suffering from Ptsd and Thomasin McKenzie as his 13-year-old daughter living in isolation in a public park in Portland, Ore., and then in the trackless woods.
The winners were announced Saturday night at USC’s Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library. “Leave No Trace” topped “Black Panther,” “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” “The Death of Stalin,” and “If Beale Street Could Talk.
“A Very English Scandal,” which centers on the Jeremy Thorpe scandal of the mid 1970s,...
“Leave No Trace,” was adapted by Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini, based on the 2009 novel “My Abandonment” by Peter Rock. “A Very English Scandal” was adapted by Russell T. Davies from John Preston’s book.
Granik also directed “Leave No Trace,” which stars Ben Foster as an Iraq War veteran suffering from Ptsd and Thomasin McKenzie as his 13-year-old daughter living in isolation in a public park in Portland, Ore., and then in the trackless woods.
The winners were announced Saturday night at USC’s Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library. “Leave No Trace” topped “Black Panther,” “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” “The Death of Stalin,” and “If Beale Street Could Talk.
“A Very English Scandal,” which centers on the Jeremy Thorpe scandal of the mid 1970s,...
- 2/10/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
“Leave No Trace” has been named 2018’s best page-to-screen adaptation at the 31st Annual USC Libraries Scripter Award ceremony, which took place on the USC campus on Saturday night.
The award is given to both the screenwriters of a film and the author of the work on which the film is based, meaning the Scripter went to writer-director Debra Granik, screenwriter Anne Rosellini and author Peter Rock, who wrote the 2009 novel “Abandonment” from which the film was adapted.
The win was the result of a vote from a selection committee of critics, authors, screenwriters, producers and academics chaired by USC professor and former WGA, West president Howard Rodman. The victory for “Leave No Trace” came as something of a surprise, with the acclaimed indie beating two Oscar nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay, “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
Also Read: 'Leave No Trace' Film Review:...
The award is given to both the screenwriters of a film and the author of the work on which the film is based, meaning the Scripter went to writer-director Debra Granik, screenwriter Anne Rosellini and author Peter Rock, who wrote the 2009 novel “Abandonment” from which the film was adapted.
The win was the result of a vote from a selection committee of critics, authors, screenwriters, producers and academics chaired by USC professor and former WGA, West president Howard Rodman. The victory for “Leave No Trace” came as something of a surprise, with the acclaimed indie beating two Oscar nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay, “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
Also Read: 'Leave No Trace' Film Review:...
- 2/10/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Leave No Trace and A Very English Scandal on Saturday night took top honors at the 31st annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards, which are bestowed upon the best printed-word-to-film adaptations. Both authors and screenwriters were celebrated, as is custom at the awards, which were handed out at the Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library.
In the film category, Leave No Trace (adapted by Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini from the book My Abandonment by Peter Rock) won over fellow finalists Black Panther (adapted by Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole based on Jack Kirby and Stan Lee's original character), Can You Ever ...
In the film category, Leave No Trace (adapted by Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini from the book My Abandonment by Peter Rock) won over fellow finalists Black Panther (adapted by Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole based on Jack Kirby and Stan Lee's original character), Can You Ever ...
- 2/10/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Leave No Trace and A Very English Scandal on Saturday night took top honors at the 31st annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards, which are bestowed upon the best printed-word-to-film adaptations. Both authors and screenwriters were celebrated, as is custom at the awards, which were handed out at the Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library.
In the film category, Leave No Trace (adapted by Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini from the book My Abandonment by Peter Rock) won over fellow finalists Black Panther (adapted by Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole based on Jack Kirby and Stan Lee's original character), Can You Ever ...
In the film category, Leave No Trace (adapted by Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini from the book My Abandonment by Peter Rock) won over fellow finalists Black Panther (adapted by Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole based on Jack Kirby and Stan Lee's original character), Can You Ever ...
- 2/10/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The USC Libraries has revealed the finalists for the 31st-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award, which honors the year’s best film and television adaptations, as well as the works on which they are based. This group of academics, industry professionals and critics (for which I vote) is often predictive of the Adapted Screenplay Oscar race.
Last year’s Scripter winners were “Call Me by Your Name” screenwriter James Ivory (who won the Oscar), and author André Aciman; past winners include “Moonlight,” “The Big Short” and “The Imitation Game,” which all won Oscars. In fact the past eight Scripter Award winners have gone on to win Oscars.
The finalist writers for film adaptation (listed in alphabetical order by film title):
Screenwriters Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole for “Black Panther,” based on the character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Screenwriters Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty and author Lee Israel...
Last year’s Scripter winners were “Call Me by Your Name” screenwriter James Ivory (who won the Oscar), and author André Aciman; past winners include “Moonlight,” “The Big Short” and “The Imitation Game,” which all won Oscars. In fact the past eight Scripter Award winners have gone on to win Oscars.
The finalist writers for film adaptation (listed in alphabetical order by film title):
Screenwriters Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole for “Black Panther,” based on the character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Screenwriters Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty and author Lee Israel...
- 1/15/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The USC Libraries has revealed the finalists for the 31st-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award, which honors the year’s best film and television adaptations, as well as the works on which they are based. This group of academics, industry professionals and critics (for which I vote) is often predictive of the Adapted Screenplay Oscar race.
Last year’s Scripter winners were “Call Me by Your Name” screenwriter James Ivory (who won the Oscar), and author André Aciman; past winners include “Moonlight,” “The Big Short” and “The Imitation Game,” which all won Oscars. In fact the past eight Scripter Award winners have gone on to win Oscars.
The finalist writers for film adaptation (listed in alphabetical order by film title):
Screenwriters Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole for “Black Panther,” based on the character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Screenwriters Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty and author Lee Israel...
Last year’s Scripter winners were “Call Me by Your Name” screenwriter James Ivory (who won the Oscar), and author André Aciman; past winners include “Moonlight,” “The Big Short” and “The Imitation Game,” which all won Oscars. In fact the past eight Scripter Award winners have gone on to win Oscars.
The finalist writers for film adaptation (listed in alphabetical order by film title):
Screenwriters Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole for “Black Panther,” based on the character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Screenwriters Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty and author Lee Israel...
- 1/15/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
The USC Libraries has unveiled the finalists for the 31st annual Scripter Awards, which honor the year’s best adapted screenplays in film and television along with the works on which they are based. Winners will be announced at a ceremony February 9 at USC’s Doheny Library
This year, a tie in the TV voting resulted in six nominees. Overall, the 2019 Scripter selection committee chose finalists from a field of 90 film and 55 television adaptations.
Last year, the group chose James Ivory’s Call Me By Your Name based on André Aciman original novel on the film side, and Bruce Miller for adapting Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale in TV. The latter duo is nominated again this year.
Here’s the full list of this year’s noms:
Film
Black Panther
Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole, based on the character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Disney...
This year, a tie in the TV voting resulted in six nominees. Overall, the 2019 Scripter selection committee chose finalists from a field of 90 film and 55 television adaptations.
Last year, the group chose James Ivory’s Call Me By Your Name based on André Aciman original novel on the film side, and Bruce Miller for adapting Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale in TV. The latter duo is nominated again this year.
Here’s the full list of this year’s noms:
Film
Black Panther
Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole, based on the character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Disney...
- 1/15/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
“Black Panther,” “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” “The Death of Stalin,” “If Beale Street Could Talk,” and “Leave No Trace” have received nominations for the USC Libraries Scripter Award for best movie adaptation.
Due to a tie, six noms were announced on Tuesday in the television category for episodes of “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Looming Tower,” “Patrick Melrose,” “Sharp Objects,” and “A Very English Scandal.”
The Scripter Awards, now in their 31st year, honor the year’s best film and television adaptations, along with the works on which they are based. The USC Libraries will announce the winners on Feb. 9 at the Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library.
The scripts for “Black Panther,” “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” received nominations on Jan. 7 for the Writers Guild of America’s adapted screenplay award, along with “A Star Is Born” and “BlacKkKlansman.
Due to a tie, six noms were announced on Tuesday in the television category for episodes of “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Looming Tower,” “Patrick Melrose,” “Sharp Objects,” and “A Very English Scandal.”
The Scripter Awards, now in their 31st year, honor the year’s best film and television adaptations, along with the works on which they are based. The USC Libraries will announce the winners on Feb. 9 at the Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library.
The scripts for “Black Panther,” “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” received nominations on Jan. 7 for the Writers Guild of America’s adapted screenplay award, along with “A Star Is Born” and “BlacKkKlansman.
- 1/15/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Thirty one years after his death, esteemed author James Baldwin has been nominated for his first Hollywood award. Baldwin is now a nominee for the 31st Annual USC Libraries Scripter Award, an honor that recognizes both the author of an original work and the writer of its film or television adaptation.
“If Beale Street Could Talk” is one of five films nominated for this year’s Scripter Award, along with “Black Panther,” “Leave No Trace,” “The Death of Stalin” and “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
In addition to Baldwin and Jenkins for “Beale Street,” the nominated writers are screenwriters Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole and original character creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for “Black Panther”; screenwriters Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty and author Lee Israel for “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”; screenwriters Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin and David Schneider and graphic novelists Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin for...
“If Beale Street Could Talk” is one of five films nominated for this year’s Scripter Award, along with “Black Panther,” “Leave No Trace,” “The Death of Stalin” and “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
In addition to Baldwin and Jenkins for “Beale Street,” the nominated writers are screenwriters Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole and original character creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for “Black Panther”; screenwriters Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty and author Lee Israel for “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”; screenwriters Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin and David Schneider and graphic novelists Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin for...
- 1/15/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Bleecker Street’s “Leave No Trace” is one of 2018’s notable film achievements: 100% critics approval on Rotten Tomatoes, topical material, two excellent performances (Ben Foster and young Thomasin McKenzie), a woman director, Debra Granik, and Oscar buzz. What’s not to like?
This is the third narrative fiction feature from Granik, after “Down to the Bone” (2004), which put Vera Farmiga on the map; and “Winter’s Bone” (2010), which was young Jennifer Lawrence’s breakthrough. Granik also directed the 2014 documentary “Stray Dog,” which fed into “Leave No Trace.”
The writer-director offers visual anthropology, with insight into people who are living outside the mainstream, in worlds rarely explored in film. “That’s not a search criteria when I’m looking for stories,” she says, smiling, “but that’s always where my heart goes. I’m interested in the survival of people who are trying to figure it out, who are in the margins.
This is the third narrative fiction feature from Granik, after “Down to the Bone” (2004), which put Vera Farmiga on the map; and “Winter’s Bone” (2010), which was young Jennifer Lawrence’s breakthrough. Granik also directed the 2014 documentary “Stray Dog,” which fed into “Leave No Trace.”
The writer-director offers visual anthropology, with insight into people who are living outside the mainstream, in worlds rarely explored in film. “That’s not a search criteria when I’m looking for stories,” she says, smiling, “but that’s always where my heart goes. I’m interested in the survival of people who are trying to figure it out, who are in the margins.
- 1/7/2019
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
Debra Granik, who directed and wrote “Leave No Trace,” has received Film Independent’s second Bonnie Award, given to recognize a mid-career female director.
The trophy, which includes a $50,000 grant, was presented Saturday afternoon to “Leave No Trace” producer Anne Rosellini at the organization’s Spirit Awards brunch at Boa Steakhouse in West Hollywood. Granik could not attend.
Her film, which centers on a father (played by Ben Foster) and daughter living in the Oregon wilderness, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. “Leave No Trace” is up for three Spirits for best feature, director, and actress for Thomasin McKenzie.
The award is named after Bonnie Tiburzi Caputo, who joined American Airlines in 1973 at age 24, becoming the first female pilot to fly for a major U.S. airline. It was inaugurated last year with “The Rider” director Chloe Zhao as the first recipient. Karyn Kusama (“Destroyer”) and Tamara Jenkins (“Private Life”) were the other finalists.
The trophy, which includes a $50,000 grant, was presented Saturday afternoon to “Leave No Trace” producer Anne Rosellini at the organization’s Spirit Awards brunch at Boa Steakhouse in West Hollywood. Granik could not attend.
Her film, which centers on a father (played by Ben Foster) and daughter living in the Oregon wilderness, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. “Leave No Trace” is up for three Spirits for best feature, director, and actress for Thomasin McKenzie.
The award is named after Bonnie Tiburzi Caputo, who joined American Airlines in 1973 at age 24, becoming the first female pilot to fly for a major U.S. airline. It was inaugurated last year with “The Rider” director Chloe Zhao as the first recipient. Karyn Kusama (“Destroyer”) and Tamara Jenkins (“Private Life”) were the other finalists.
- 1/5/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
So far the film awards season has largely been shaped by box office dollars from the moviegoing public and assessments from committees of critics, journalists and other professionals. The actual industry has only just begun to weigh in, starting with last week’s Annie Awards nominations announcement.
The Screen Actors Guild will add its collective voice Wednesday with a list of performance nominations, and next week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will narrow the field in nine categories with a bundle of shortlists. After the new year, other guilds and organizations representing various disciplines will join the party. But before that whirlwind takes hold, it’s high time for a stab at predicting the nominees in the Academy’s 21 feature film categories.
At the moment — and remember, all of this is fluid — In Contention has music-heavy studio releases “A Star Is Born” and “Mary Poppins Returns” leading...
The Screen Actors Guild will add its collective voice Wednesday with a list of performance nominations, and next week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will narrow the field in nine categories with a bundle of shortlists. After the new year, other guilds and organizations representing various disciplines will join the party. But before that whirlwind takes hold, it’s high time for a stab at predicting the nominees in the Academy’s 21 feature film categories.
At the moment — and remember, all of this is fluid — In Contention has music-heavy studio releases “A Star Is Born” and “Mary Poppins Returns” leading...
- 12/11/2018
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Variety Film + TV
After winning plaudits for Winter’s Bone and now Leave No Trace, Debra Granik tells Screen why ultra-low budgets are no barrier to effective filmmaking.
What Debra Granik describes as her “social-realist mentality” was first discovered by indie film aficionados with the release of the writer/director’s debut feature Down To The Bone in 2004. It was, however, 2010 follow-up Winter’s Bone — featuring Jennifer Lawrence in a breakthrough performance as a resolute teen trying to keep her troubled Ozark Mountains family together — that confirmed how skilfully Granik could use that mentality to infuse an intimate drama with veracity and emotional force.
What Debra Granik describes as her “social-realist mentality” was first discovered by indie film aficionados with the release of the writer/director’s debut feature Down To The Bone in 2004. It was, however, 2010 follow-up Winter’s Bone — featuring Jennifer Lawrence in a breakthrough performance as a resolute teen trying to keep her troubled Ozark Mountains family together — that confirmed how skilfully Granik could use that mentality to infuse an intimate drama with veracity and emotional force.
- 11/30/2018
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
“Leave No Trace” indeed seems to have disappeared without a trace from Oscar predictions this season, despite strong pedigree. The indie drama is director Debra Granik‘s first narrative feature since 2010’s “Winter’s Bone,” an Oscar nominee for Best Picture that also earned her a nomination in Best Adapted Screenplay. Like “Winter’s Bone,” “Leave No Trace” earned universal acclaim from critics, maintaining its perfect score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. And yet, the film is virtually missing from almost every predictions list among Oscar prognosticators.
Based on the book “My Abandonment” by Peter Rock, “Leave No Trace” tells the story of Will (Ben Foster) and Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), a father and daughter living in the woods off the grid, who are found by social services and forced to adjust to common society. The bond between Will and Tom is the cornerstone of the film, as they are both...
Based on the book “My Abandonment” by Peter Rock, “Leave No Trace” tells the story of Will (Ben Foster) and Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), a father and daughter living in the woods off the grid, who are found by social services and forced to adjust to common society. The bond between Will and Tom is the cornerstone of the film, as they are both...
- 11/25/2018
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
Ben Foster only knows one way of working. After working in Hollywood for over two decades, the rare child actor who managed to find his way to a compelling adult career has been reaping the rewards of long-term commitment. In recent years, that has included an Independent Spirit Award for his turn in “Hell or High Water,” a continued relationship with his most cherished directors, and a sustained level of intensity that might exhaust other actors but only seems to keep Foster more tuned in. He buries himself in performances to a point where, as he describes it, he’s not even acting in a traditional sense.
“For my job, the goal is to learn the thing, and then do the thing, and do it, and do it, and do it over and over until I don’t think about it,” Foster said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “You...
“For my job, the goal is to learn the thing, and then do the thing, and do it, and do it, and do it over and over until I don’t think about it,” Foster said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “You...
- 11/22/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Moments ago, the Film Independent Spirit Awards announced their nominations for 2018. Essentially the Oscars of indie film, this is a time when certain movies can see their only true moment in the sun. As you’ll see below, the nominees this year represent both some major Academy Award players as well as some tiny titles that will go no further. That’s actually part of the real appeal of the Spirits, in that they place these flicks side by side. This seems like one of those years where the Spirit Award winners won’t cross over too much with Oscar, but that remains to be seen. First up, we can just go over the nominees. The Spirit Awards, nomination wise, were led this year by, in a surprise…We the Animals. Scoring five nominations, that led the field, with Eighth Grade, First Reformed, and You Were Never Really Here next in line with four.
- 11/16/2018
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
the old adage goes, “Behind every great man is a great woman.” But a quick look at many of this year’s awards season films suggests that saying needs an update — perhaps to: “Behind every great woman is a man getting in her way.”
It’s not a stretch to look at such films as “Colette,” “Widows,” “The Favourite,” “A Private War,” “Leave No Trace” and “The Wife” that way. Each features a female protagonist struggling to make her mark in the world, in spite of the obstacles men throw in their way. And in the current societal zeitgeist of #MeToo, it lends added resonance and a higher profile to each one of them.
“There’s a huge historical culture of women being silent, and in this moment, it feels like women are roaring — and consequently, work is being made that celebrates fantastic women in the past,” says Rebecca Lenkiewicz,...
It’s not a stretch to look at such films as “Colette,” “Widows,” “The Favourite,” “A Private War,” “Leave No Trace” and “The Wife” that way. Each features a female protagonist struggling to make her mark in the world, in spite of the obstacles men throw in their way. And in the current societal zeitgeist of #MeToo, it lends added resonance and a higher profile to each one of them.
“There’s a huge historical culture of women being silent, and in this moment, it feels like women are roaring — and consequently, work is being made that celebrates fantastic women in the past,” says Rebecca Lenkiewicz,...
- 11/15/2018
- by Randee Dawn
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Ben Foster, Thomasin McKenzie, Jeffery Rifflard, Derek John Drescher, Michael Draper, Peter Simpson, Dana Millican, Alyssa McKay, Ryan Joiner, Michael J. Prosser, Jeff Kober, Spencer S. Hanley | Written by Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini | Directed by Debra Granik
Will (Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (McKenzie), have lived off the grid for years in the forests of Portland, Oregon. When their idyllic life is shattered, both are put into social services. After clashing with their new surroundings, Will and Tom set off on a harrowing journey back to their wild homeland.
Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace is a masterstroke of stoic intensity and a boiling pot of emotional performance from the two leads: in the ever so cleverly charismatic and convincing Ben Foster as Will, and the outstanding role of Tom by the reserve and emotionally compelling Thomasin McKenzie.
Granik continues her trend throughout her filmography – much like her...
Will (Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (McKenzie), have lived off the grid for years in the forests of Portland, Oregon. When their idyllic life is shattered, both are put into social services. After clashing with their new surroundings, Will and Tom set off on a harrowing journey back to their wild homeland.
Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace is a masterstroke of stoic intensity and a boiling pot of emotional performance from the two leads: in the ever so cleverly charismatic and convincing Ben Foster as Will, and the outstanding role of Tom by the reserve and emotionally compelling Thomasin McKenzie.
Granik continues her trend throughout her filmography – much like her...
- 11/12/2018
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
“Leave No Trace” director Debra Granik is always “curious about … ordinary people in our country who live against the grain,” she tells Gold Derby, so the Oscar-nominated filmmaker was drawn immediately to Peter Rock‘s book “My Abandonment,” which focuses on an Army vet (Ben Foster) raising his daughter (Thomasin McKenzie) in the woods of Portland, Or.
“It starts with a mystery about why a family is living undetected in a municipal park and how they managed to do that,” she adds. In approaching that mystery, Granik hoped to discover “the why and how.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
See Ben Foster (‘Leave No Trace’): ‘I was very tenderized to the idea of parenthood’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
“He was living in a way that he could function pretty highly,” she explains about her central character’s struggle with Ptsd. “I felt like he was in a hurry, almost, to teach everything...
“It starts with a mystery about why a family is living undetected in a municipal park and how they managed to do that,” she adds. In approaching that mystery, Granik hoped to discover “the why and how.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
See Ben Foster (‘Leave No Trace’): ‘I was very tenderized to the idea of parenthood’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
“He was living in a way that he could function pretty highly,” she explains about her central character’s struggle with Ptsd. “I felt like he was in a hurry, almost, to teach everything...
- 11/7/2018
- by Zach Laws and Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
One of the few benefits of the frenzied awards race is Hollywood’s outpouring of materials associated with the contenders. Perhaps the biggest perk is the release of full scripts one is able to download legally, directly from the studios.
Currently available are A Quiet Place, Leave No Trace, Sorry to Bother You, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and more, but one can check back for First Reformed, If Beale Street Could Talk, Widows, First Man, The Favourite, A Star is Born, BlacKkKlansman, and many more.
We’ll be updating this post as these and more arrive over the coming months, so bookmark the page, but one can check out everything thus far below. To catch up on the last few years, check out the 2017 screenplays, the 2016 screenplays, 2015 screenplays, 2014 screenplays, and the 2013 screenplays, if they are still available.
22 July (Paul Greengrass – Netflix)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel & Ethan Coen...
Currently available are A Quiet Place, Leave No Trace, Sorry to Bother You, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and more, but one can check back for First Reformed, If Beale Street Could Talk, Widows, First Man, The Favourite, A Star is Born, BlacKkKlansman, and many more.
We’ll be updating this post as these and more arrive over the coming months, so bookmark the page, but one can check out everything thus far below. To catch up on the last few years, check out the 2017 screenplays, the 2016 screenplays, 2015 screenplays, 2014 screenplays, and the 2013 screenplays, if they are still available.
22 July (Paul Greengrass – Netflix)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel & Ethan Coen...
- 10/23/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
I was going to wait until tomorrow to discuss this, but I didn’t want to make the look at the Best Supporting Actor category all about one person. That’s just not fair. So, today we consider this a Supporting Actor tease of sorts. The reason? Yesterday, Bleeker Street announced their category placements, and Ben Foster is going Supporting, as opposed to Lead. Now, Foster has gone from a possible long shot in Best Actor to arguably a likely nominee in Best Supporting Actor. That’s part of what we’ll be discussing today, with his new placement seen tomorrow in the big Supporting Actor piece… As a reminder, the movie is a character study of the highest order. Bleeker Street Media put out this plot synopsis: “Will (Ben Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), have lived off the grid for years in the forests of Portland,...
- 9/6/2018
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Returning veterans take the lead: Brad Bird could land his fifth Oscar nomination for Disney/Pixar smash sequel “Incredibles 2.” His scripts for “Incredibles” and “Ratatouille” both scored Original Screenplay nominations and the films took home Oscars for Best Animated Feature. And “In the Loop” and “Veep” creator Armando Iannucci could earn a second nomination for turning satiric comic book “The Death of Stalin” (IFC Films) into a BAFTA-nominated indie hit.
Spike Lee is another possibility. “Do the Right Thing” scored an Original Screenplay Oscar nomination, and in 2016 he won an honorary Oscar, and now has strong reviews as well as the Cannes Grand Jury Prize for “BlacKkKlansman”. Produced by Jordan Peele and Jason Blum, the outrageous and provocative true tale starring John David Washington and Adam Driver as Colorado undercover cops who join the Kkk could score some Oscar nods.
Debra Granik played both Sundance and Cannes with Directors...
Spike Lee is another possibility. “Do the Right Thing” scored an Original Screenplay Oscar nomination, and in 2016 he won an honorary Oscar, and now has strong reviews as well as the Cannes Grand Jury Prize for “BlacKkKlansman”. Produced by Jordan Peele and Jason Blum, the outrageous and provocative true tale starring John David Washington and Adam Driver as Colorado undercover cops who join the Kkk could score some Oscar nods.
Debra Granik played both Sundance and Cannes with Directors...
- 7/10/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Chicago – The temptation to “drop out” must weigh heavily on the minds of many Americans on a daily basis. “Leave No Trace” views this phenomenon through a prism of many factors, including materialism and mental illness. Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie are a father/daughter duo who drop out, then tune in.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The film was created by the writer/director team of Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini (and adapted from the Peter Cook novel “My Abandonment”), who worked on the Oscar-nominated film “Winter’s Bone.” There are similar themes to that film in “Leave No Trace,” but the main commonality is the depiction of the socio-economic class, which is poor to lower middle. They honor these noble survivors in their outward kindness, but never shy away from their problems as well, which is often associated with drug abuse and mental difficulties. Many of the characters just have a hard...
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The film was created by the writer/director team of Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini (and adapted from the Peter Cook novel “My Abandonment”), who worked on the Oscar-nominated film “Winter’s Bone.” There are similar themes to that film in “Leave No Trace,” but the main commonality is the depiction of the socio-economic class, which is poor to lower middle. They honor these noble survivors in their outward kindness, but never shy away from their problems as well, which is often associated with drug abuse and mental difficulties. Many of the characters just have a hard...
- 7/6/2018
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
While the indie box office has been up-and-down, it definitely closed out June on a high note, as two new releases, Neon’s “Three Identical Strangers” and Bleecker Street’s “Leave No Trace,” scored exceptionally high per screen averages.
“Three Identical Strangers” had the top average of the week, releasing on five screens and earning just over $163,000 for a per screen average of $32,605. The documentary from Tim Wardle follows the true story of triplets who were separated at birth and discovered each other as adults. While their reunion became a feel-good story in the press, their journey soon turns dark as the brothers discover why they were separated in the first place. The film currently has a 94 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Also Read: 'Three Identical Strangers' Film Review: Doc Follows Separated Triplets Down Tragic Life Paths
“Leave No Trace,” which stars Ben Foster and newcomer Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie,...
“Three Identical Strangers” had the top average of the week, releasing on five screens and earning just over $163,000 for a per screen average of $32,605. The documentary from Tim Wardle follows the true story of triplets who were separated at birth and discovered each other as adults. While their reunion became a feel-good story in the press, their journey soon turns dark as the brothers discover why they were separated in the first place. The film currently has a 94 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Also Read: 'Three Identical Strangers' Film Review: Doc Follows Separated Triplets Down Tragic Life Paths
“Leave No Trace,” which stars Ben Foster and newcomer Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie,...
- 7/1/2018
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
It's risky calling a movie a work of art – the phrase can make audiences think they'll be taking medicine, swallowing something good for them when they'd rather be gorging on multiplex junk food. But there's no better term to describe the urgency and unbridled emotion of Leave No Trace. You don't just watch it as much as you absorb it until the film's ebb and flow become a part of you.
Writer-director Debra Granik's previous two fiction films are stripped-down versions of survival dramas with women at the forefront:...
Writer-director Debra Granik's previous two fiction films are stripped-down versions of survival dramas with women at the forefront:...
- 6/29/2018
- Rollingstone.com
Filmmaker Debra Granik made a splash at the start of this decade with Winter’s Bone and she finally returns to theaters with her Sundance debut Leave No Trace with Ben Foster and Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie. Bleecker Street hopes to replicate the box office success of Granik’s previous feature, which helped catapult the career of Jennifer Lawrence. The company is taking Leave No Trace in a number of cities this weekend. Jessica Chastain stars in A24’s Woman Walks Ahead, based on a true story. The feature was written by Who Wants to Be a Millionaire creator Steven Knight. Neon is heading out with Sundance doc Three Identical Strangers, hoping to tap some of the nonfiction success of fellow documentaries Rbg and Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, both of which also debuted at the festival. And Fip is sending out bio-drama Sanju in 355 North American theaters this weekend,...
- 6/29/2018
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
There’s a fair amount of pressure on Debra Granik’s new indie: Every film she’s taken to Sundance has been a winner, starting with her short “Snake Feed” in 1998. In 2004, her celebrated drama “Down to the Bone” brought awards for both her and then-up-and-coming actress Vera Farmiga. And 2010’s “Winter’s Bone” went on to earn four Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture and another for the film’s little-known lead, Jennifer Lawrence.
So yeah, comparisons will be made. But are they fair? Not really. It would be unlikely for any director to achieve the same sort of commercial triumph twice in a row. But it would also be understandably tempting to try.
So kudos to this subtle and intelligent filmmaker, for avoiding the enticement to lock in awards by hitting easy targets. Even the title is suggestive of Granik’s restrained approach: “Leave No Trace” is gentle and intimate and personal,...
So yeah, comparisons will be made. But are they fair? Not really. It would be unlikely for any director to achieve the same sort of commercial triumph twice in a row. But it would also be understandably tempting to try.
So kudos to this subtle and intelligent filmmaker, for avoiding the enticement to lock in awards by hitting easy targets. Even the title is suggestive of Granik’s restrained approach: “Leave No Trace” is gentle and intimate and personal,...
- 6/28/2018
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
There’s no shortage of underrated actors in the movie industry. Frankly, Hollywood is lousy with them. Few are as underrated as Ben Foster, however. Immensely talented and shockingly dedicated to not taking mere paycheck jobs, Foster offers up something special. This week, he again puts forward his huge talents in Leave No Trace, the return to feature filmmaking for Debra Granik, another underrated force. This is a captivating motion picture, one that asks questions without ever offering easy answers. Foster and Granik make a tremendous team, one that creates something deeply memorable. It won’t be for everyone, but in my humble opinion, it’s a must see. The movie is a character study of the highest order. Bleeker Street Media put out this plot synopsis: “Will (Ben Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), have lived off the grid for years in the forests of Portland,...
- 6/27/2018
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Leave No Trace Bleecker Street Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Debra Granik Screenwriter: Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini based on Peter Rock’s novel “My Abandonment” Cast: Ben Foster, Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, Jeff Kober, Dale Dickey Screened at: Park Ave., NYC, 4/26/18 Opens: June 29, 2018 A well-researched facet of child psychology states that little girls from […]
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- 6/24/2018
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Debra Granik’s complex study of an army vet and his daughter living in a vast public park is the film Captain Fantastic should have been
Debra Granik is the exceptional film-maker who directed Winter’s Bone in 2010, launching the career of Jennifer Lawrence, and now she returns with this deeply intelligent, complex, finely tuned and observed movie, adapted by Granik and her screenwriting partner, Anne Rosellini, from the novel My Abandonment by Peter Rock. Their new title alludes the rules of respect and care for the environment promoted by ecological campaigners: to minimise human impact on nature.
Weirdly, this film initially reminded me of a fatuous and naive (and bafflingly overpraised) film called Captain Fantastic, which features Viggo Mortensen as a charismatic, disciplinarian dad who has taken his children to live with him in the wilderness. Leave No Trace is everything that that movie should have been: careful, realistic,...
Debra Granik is the exceptional film-maker who directed Winter’s Bone in 2010, launching the career of Jennifer Lawrence, and now she returns with this deeply intelligent, complex, finely tuned and observed movie, adapted by Granik and her screenwriting partner, Anne Rosellini, from the novel My Abandonment by Peter Rock. Their new title alludes the rules of respect and care for the environment promoted by ecological campaigners: to minimise human impact on nature.
Weirdly, this film initially reminded me of a fatuous and naive (and bafflingly overpraised) film called Captain Fantastic, which features Viggo Mortensen as a charismatic, disciplinarian dad who has taken his children to live with him in the wilderness. Leave No Trace is everything that that movie should have been: careful, realistic,...
- 5/13/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Debra Granik likes to take her time. Since her first, award-winning short, Snake Feed, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998, the 55-year-old director has made just three features and a doc in the intervening 20 years. Indeed, in the gap between her latest movie and the last, Winter’s Bone, Granik has seen that film’s breakout star, Jennifer Lawrence, win an Oscar and get nominated for three more.
Making its international premiere in Directors’ Fortnight, the new film, Leave No Trace, stars Ben Foster as an army veteran who lives a nomadic existence with his teenage daughter (a terrific performance from newcomer Thomasin McKenzie). Unusually for Granik, the project was not self-generated.
“Two producers gave it to us,” she says. “They had loved the story—the novel My Abandonment by Peter Rock—and then passed it [to us]. They asked me and my producing partner—she’s someone I write with as well,...
Making its international premiere in Directors’ Fortnight, the new film, Leave No Trace, stars Ben Foster as an army veteran who lives a nomadic existence with his teenage daughter (a terrific performance from newcomer Thomasin McKenzie). Unusually for Granik, the project was not self-generated.
“Two producers gave it to us,” she says. “They had loved the story—the novel My Abandonment by Peter Rock—and then passed it [to us]. They asked me and my producing partner—she’s someone I write with as well,...
- 5/10/2018
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Leave No Trace was acquired by Bleecker Street at Sundance this year, and now we are getting a first-look trailer for the film that stars Ben Foster and Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie. Directed by Debra Granik (Winter’s Bone) the film was adapted by Granik and Anne Rosellini from the Peter Rock novel My Abandonment. It opens June 29.
Granik’s 2010 film Winter’s Bone, which was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture, launched Jennifer Lawrence’s career. This time the attention is on Harcourt McKenzie. This film has gotten rave reviews, and critics are doing the comparisons already, saying this is the breakout role for the young actress. Granik certainly can find and nurture talent.
The film follows a guy named Will (played by Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (Harcourt McKenzie), who have lived off the grid for years in the forests around Portland, Or. When their idyllic life is shattered,...
Granik’s 2010 film Winter’s Bone, which was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture, launched Jennifer Lawrence’s career. This time the attention is on Harcourt McKenzie. This film has gotten rave reviews, and critics are doing the comparisons already, saying this is the breakout role for the young actress. Granik certainly can find and nurture talent.
The film follows a guy named Will (played by Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (Harcourt McKenzie), who have lived off the grid for years in the forests around Portland, Or. When their idyllic life is shattered,...
- 4/26/2018
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline Film + TV
After earning much acclaim for her noir-tinged drama Winter’s Bone, which served as a break-out for Jennifer Lawrence, Debra Granik is finally back with her first narrative feature since her Best Picture nominee. Leave No Trace, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, tells a father-daughter story led by Ben Foster and newcomer Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie set in the wilderness. Ahead of a stop at Cannes and June release by Bleecker Street, the first trailer has now arrived.
Dan Schindel said in his review, “Early scenes of Leave No Trace feel like The Road. Not the movie adaptation, but Cormac McCarthy’s book, which evokes familial intimacy to an almost harrowing degree. Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other’s world entire. In setting, this is that story’s pre-apocalyptic mirror, with a father and daughter...
Dan Schindel said in his review, “Early scenes of Leave No Trace feel like The Road. Not the movie adaptation, but Cormac McCarthy’s book, which evokes familial intimacy to an almost harrowing degree. Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other’s world entire. In setting, this is that story’s pre-apocalyptic mirror, with a father and daughter...
- 4/26/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Bleecker Street has acquired the North American rights to Ben Foster’s “Leave No Trace” at the Sundance Film Festival, an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap.
Debra Granik directed from a screenplay she wrote with Anne Rosellini, based on the novel “My Abandonment” by Peter Rock. Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, Jeff Kober and Dale Dickey also star.
Rosellini, Anne Harrison and Linda Reisman are producers. The film had its premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in the Premieres section.
The film follows Will (Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (McKenzie), who...
Debra Granik directed from a screenplay she wrote with Anne Rosellini, based on the novel “My Abandonment” by Peter Rock. Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, Jeff Kober and Dale Dickey also star.
Rosellini, Anne Harrison and Linda Reisman are producers. The film had its premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in the Premieres section.
The film follows Will (Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (McKenzie), who...
- 1/26/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Bleecker Street has acquired North American distribution rights to Debra Granik's Leave No Trace, which had its world premiere last weekend at the Sundance Film Festival. Bron Studios and Topic Studios were behind the film, which Anne Harrison, Linda Reisman and Anne Rosellini produced. Based on Peter Rock’s novel My Abandonment, the pic revolves around Will (Ben Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), who have lived off the grid for years in…...
- 1/26/2018
- Deadline
Buyer lands second selection after Colette.
Bleecker Street has closed its second acquisition of Sundance, acquiring North American rights to Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone follow-up Leave No Trace.
Granik and Anne Rosellini adapted the Premieres selection from Peter Rock’s novel My Abandonment. The drama stars Ben Foster and newcomer Harcourt McKenzie as a father and daughter living off the grid in the forests of Portland, Oregon, who embark on a journey back to their wilderness homeland when both are placed into social services.
Bron and Topic Studios backed the film, which Anne Harrison, Linda Reisman and Anne Rosellini produced.
Bleecker Street’s Kent Sanderson and Avy Eschenasy brokered the deal with Endeavor Content on behalf of the filmmakers.
Earlier in the festival Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions took all international rights to Leave No Trace excluding France.
Bleecker Street and 30West paid mid-seven figures for Wash Westmoreland’s Colette starring Keira Knightley.
Bleecker Street has closed its second acquisition of Sundance, acquiring North American rights to Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone follow-up Leave No Trace.
Granik and Anne Rosellini adapted the Premieres selection from Peter Rock’s novel My Abandonment. The drama stars Ben Foster and newcomer Harcourt McKenzie as a father and daughter living off the grid in the forests of Portland, Oregon, who embark on a journey back to their wilderness homeland when both are placed into social services.
Bron and Topic Studios backed the film, which Anne Harrison, Linda Reisman and Anne Rosellini produced.
Bleecker Street’s Kent Sanderson and Avy Eschenasy brokered the deal with Endeavor Content on behalf of the filmmakers.
Earlier in the festival Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions took all international rights to Leave No Trace excluding France.
Bleecker Street and 30West paid mid-seven figures for Wash Westmoreland’s Colette starring Keira Knightley.
- 1/26/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Studio deal excludes France on Debra Granik follow-up to Winter’s Bone.
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (Spwa) has pounced on all international rights excluding France to Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace.
Granik’s follow-up to Winter’s Bone premiered on Saturday night in Premieres and centres on a father and daughter living off the grid. Ben Foster and newcomer Thomasin Harcourt McKenzieas star. Bron Creative and Topic Studios produced.
Winter’s Bone won the grand jury prize back in Sundance 2010 and went on to earn four Oscar nods including one for best picture and another for the film’s then-unknown star, Jennifer Lawrence.
The deal excludes North America. Endeavor Content and Bron’s Adam Davids and Anjay Nagpal brokered the deal on behalf of the filmmakers with Spwa’s Michael Helfand and Jon Freedberg.
Anne Harrison, Linda Reisman, and Anne Rosellini served as producers, and executive producers are Michael Bloom, Adam Pincus, Aaron L. Gilbert, [link...
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (Spwa) has pounced on all international rights excluding France to Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace.
Granik’s follow-up to Winter’s Bone premiered on Saturday night in Premieres and centres on a father and daughter living off the grid. Ben Foster and newcomer Thomasin Harcourt McKenzieas star. Bron Creative and Topic Studios produced.
Winter’s Bone won the grand jury prize back in Sundance 2010 and went on to earn four Oscar nods including one for best picture and another for the film’s then-unknown star, Jennifer Lawrence.
The deal excludes North America. Endeavor Content and Bron’s Adam Davids and Anjay Nagpal brokered the deal on behalf of the filmmakers with Spwa’s Michael Helfand and Jon Freedberg.
Anne Harrison, Linda Reisman, and Anne Rosellini served as producers, and executive producers are Michael Bloom, Adam Pincus, Aaron L. Gilbert, [link...
- 1/21/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Bleecker Street has acquired the North American rights to the drama Leave No Trace.
The film stars Ben Foster as a father who has lived blissfully off the grid in a nature reserve outside Portland with his 13-year-old daughter. When a chance encounter blows their cover, they’re put into the charge of social services. They then set off on a perilous journey back to the wilderness and are forced to confront their simultaneous desires for community and solitude.
Debra Granik directs Leave No Trace — her first narrative feature since 2010's Winter's Bone — from a script she co-wrote with Anne Rosellini....
The film stars Ben Foster as a father who has lived blissfully off the grid in a nature reserve outside Portland with his 13-year-old daughter. When a chance encounter blows their cover, they’re put into the charge of social services. They then set off on a perilous journey back to the wilderness and are forced to confront their simultaneous desires for community and solitude.
Debra Granik directs Leave No Trace — her first narrative feature since 2010's Winter's Bone — from a script she co-wrote with Anne Rosellini....
- 1/19/2018
- by Tatiana Siegel,Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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