“Get Out” got a huge boost in its Oscar prospects when the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. awarded writer/director Jordan Peele Best Screenplay on Sunday. Of the top Oscar categories previewed by these scribes, Best Screenplay has the highest percentage of recipients (91%) who go on to contend at the Academy Awards.
In the 43-year history of the Lafca Awards, 44 films have won the prize for Best Screenplay (there was a tie in 2005 between “Capote” and “The Squid and the Whale”). Of these, only four failed to reap an Oscar bid.
See Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2017: Full list of winners
The first of these was in the first year of the awards, 1975, when the prize went to Joan Tewkesbury for “Nashville.” The country music epic did pick up five Oscar bids including Best Picture and Best Director (Robert Altman) and won the prize for Best Original Song...
In the 43-year history of the Lafca Awards, 44 films have won the prize for Best Screenplay (there was a tie in 2005 between “Capote” and “The Squid and the Whale”). Of these, only four failed to reap an Oscar bid.
See Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2017: Full list of winners
The first of these was in the first year of the awards, 1975, when the prize went to Joan Tewkesbury for “Nashville.” The country music epic did pick up five Oscar bids including Best Picture and Best Director (Robert Altman) and won the prize for Best Original Song...
- 12/6/2017
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
The Panic in Needle Park
Written by Joan Dion and John Gregory Dunne; based on the book by James Mills
Directed by Jerry Schatzberg
USA, 1971
Al Pacino gives a riveting performance as Bobby, an energetic street hustler and heroin addict who forms a bizarre, yet accepting relationship with a homeless woman, Helen, played by Kitty Winn. The Panic in Needle Park is a gut-wrenching expose into the drug culture in New York City. American films of the late sixties, such as Easy Rider, Performance and The Trip, portrayed the edgy glamour and counter-culture boom of the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll revolution, but after the release of The Panic in Needle Park, filmmakers forecast the downward spiral of addiction. Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll transgressed into heroin, prostitution and jail. To this day, no other film has topped the realistic portrayal of the drug culture. Shot in a documentary-like fashion,...
Written by Joan Dion and John Gregory Dunne; based on the book by James Mills
Directed by Jerry Schatzberg
USA, 1971
Al Pacino gives a riveting performance as Bobby, an energetic street hustler and heroin addict who forms a bizarre, yet accepting relationship with a homeless woman, Helen, played by Kitty Winn. The Panic in Needle Park is a gut-wrenching expose into the drug culture in New York City. American films of the late sixties, such as Easy Rider, Performance and The Trip, portrayed the edgy glamour and counter-culture boom of the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll revolution, but after the release of The Panic in Needle Park, filmmakers forecast the downward spiral of addiction. Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll transgressed into heroin, prostitution and jail. To this day, no other film has topped the realistic portrayal of the drug culture. Shot in a documentary-like fashion,...
- 6/23/2013
- by Yale Freedman
- SoundOnSight
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