Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay
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The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay is one of the annual film awards given by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
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Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association is a group of film critics based out of Washington, D.C., United States that was founded in 2003. WAFCA is composed of 34 DC-based film critics from television, radio, print and the internet...
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2000s
| Year | Winner | Writer(s) |
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| 2002 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2002 The 1st Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2002, were given on December 30, 2003.*Best Picture**Road to Perdition*Best Actor**Jack Nicholson - About Schmidt*Best Actress... |
Nia Vardalos Nia Vardalos Antonia Eugenia "Nia" Vardalos is a Canadian-American actress, screenwriter, director, singer and producer. Her most notable work is the 2002 Academy Award–nominated film My Big Fat Greek Wedding.-Personal life:... |
My Big Fat Greek Wedding My Big Fat Greek Wedding My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a 2002 Canadian and American romantic comedy film written by and starring Nia Vardalos and directed by Joel Zwick. The film is centered on Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos , a middle class Greek American woman who falls in love with a non-Greek upper middle class "White... |
| 2003 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2003 The 2nd Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2003, were given on 19 December 2003.-Winners:*Best Actor:**Bill Murray - Lost in Translation*Best Actress:**Naomi Watts - 21 Grams... |
Sofia Coppola Sofia Coppola Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American screenwriter, film director, actress, and producer.In 2003 she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation, and became the third woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing... |
Lost in Translation Lost in Translation (film) Lost in Translation is a 2003 American film written and directed by Sofia Coppola; her second feature film after The Virgin Suicides and it stars Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson... |
| Bob Peterson Bob Peterson Robert "Bob" Peterson is an American animator, screenwriter, director and voice actor who works at Pixar Animation Studios. He made his directorial debut on Up in which he voiced the character Dug. He was hired by Roger Gould in 1994 and started as an animator for commercials... , David Reynolds and Andrew Stanton Andrew Stanton Andrew Stanton is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional voice actor based at Pixar Animation Studios. His film work includes writing and directing Finding Nemo and WALL-E; both films earned him the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.-Life and career:Stanton was... |
Finding Nemo Finding Nemo Finding Nemo is a 2003 American comi-drama animated film written by Andrew Stanton, directed by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich and produced by Pixar. It tells the story of the overly protective clownfish Marlin who, along with a regal tang called Dory , searches for his abducted son Nemo... |
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| Catherine Hardwicke Catherine Hardwicke Catherine Hardwicke is an American production designer, film writer and film director. Her works include the independent film Thirteen, which she co-wrote with Nikki Reed, the film's co-star, the Biblically-themed The Nativity Story, the vampire film Twilight, and the werewolf film Red Riding Hood... and Nikki Reed Nikki Reed Nicole Houston "Nikki" Reed is an American film and television actress, and screenwriter. She became known in 2003, after the release of the film Thirteen, for which she co-wrote the screenplay. Reed has since appeared in several films, including Lords of Dogtown and Mini's First Time... |
Thirteen Thirteen (film) Thirteen is a 2003 American drama film directed by Catherine Hardwicke, and written by Hardwicke and Nikki Reed, the film's co-star. The film also stars Evan Rachel Wood and Holly Hunter. It is a semi-autobiographical film inspired by Reed's life at age 12 and 13 with Wood's character "Tracy" being... |
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| Steven Knight Steven Knight Steven Knight is a British screenwriter. Knight has written scripts for numerous British television programmes such as the British version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, BBC's Commercial Breakdown, The Detectives and others. However, he is best known for screenplays he wrote for films Dirty... |
Dirty Pretty Things Dirty Pretty Things (film) Dirty Pretty Things is a 2002 film directed by Stephen Frears and written by Steven Knight, a drama about two illegal immigrants in London... |
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| Guillermo Arriaga Guillermo Arriaga Guillermo Arriaga Jordán is a Mexican author, screenwriter, director and producer. Self-defined as “a hunter who works as a writer,” he authored Amores Perros, received a BAFTA Best Screenplay nomination for 21 Grams, and received the 2005 Cannes Best Screenplay Award for The Three Burials of... |
21 Grams 21 Grams 21 Grams is a 2003 American drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Danny Huston, and Benicio del Toro.... |
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| 2004 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2004 The 3rd Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2004, were given on 17 December 2004.-Winners:*Best Actor:**Jamie Foxx - Ray*Best Actress:**Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake*Best Animated Feature:... |
Charlie Kaufman Charlie Kaufman Charles Stuart "Charlie" Kaufman is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. His film work includes Being John Malkovich, Human Nature, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Synecdoche, New York... |
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a 2004 American romantic science fiction film about an estranged couple who have each other erased from their memories, scripted by Charlie Kaufman and directed by the French director, Michel Gondry. The film uses elements of science fiction, psychological... |
| 2005 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2005 The 4th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2005, were given on 12 December 2005.-Winners:*Best Actor:**Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote*Best Actress:**Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line... |
Paul Haggis Paul Haggis Paul Edward Haggis is a Canadian screenwriter, producer, and director. He spent his early career producing and directing various American and Canadian television network series.-Early life and education:... & Bobby Moresco |
Crash |
| George Clooney George Clooney George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. For his work as an actor, he has received two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award... and Grant Heslov Grant Heslov Grant Heslov is an American actor, film producer, screenwriter and director.-Early life:Heslov was born in Los Angeles, into a Jewish family and was raised in the Palos Verdes area of Los Angeles. He attended Palos Verdes High School, the University of Southern California along with friend Tate... |
Good Night and Good Luck | |
| Craig Brewer Craig Brewer Craig Brewer is an American film director and screenwriter. His 2005 movie Hustle & Flow won the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and achieved commercial success, along with an Academy Award for Best Original Song, "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp".- Life and career :Hustle & Flow... |
Hustle & Flow Hustle & Flow Hustle & Flow is a 2005 independent drama film written and directed by Craig Brewer and produced by John Singleton. Terrence Howard stars as a Memphis hustler and pimp who faces his aspiration to become a rapper... |
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| Angus MacLachlan Angus MacLachlan Angus MacLachlan is a playwright and screenwriter most famous for writing the screenplays for the 2005 film Junebug as well as the cult short film Tater Tomater. He graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1980 and continues to reside in Winston-Salem, North Carolina... |
Junebug Junebug (film) Junebug is a 2005 American comedy-drama film directed by Phil Morrison. It was released on August 3, 2005 and stars Amy Adams, Alessandro Nivola, Embeth Davidtz, and Benjamin McKenzie... |
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| Noah Baumbach Noah Baumbach Noah Baumbach is an American writer, director and independent filmmaker.-Background and education:Baumbach was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of novelist/film critic Jonathan Baumbach and Village Voice critic Georgia Brown. He graduated from Brooklyn's Midwood High School in 1987 and ... |
The Squid and the Whale The Squid and the Whale The Squid and the Whale is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach and produced by Wes Anderson. It tells the semi-autobiographical story of two boys in Brooklyn dealing with their parents' divorce in the 1980s. The film is named after a giant squid and sperm whale diorama... |
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| 2006 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2006 The 5th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2006, were given on 11 December 2006.-Winners:*Best Actor:**Forrest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland*Best Actress:... |
Michael Arndt Michael Arndt Michael Arndt is an American screenwriter.After graduating from New York University, Arndt was a script reader for some time before choosing to write screenplays instead... |
Little Miss Sunshine Little Miss Sunshine Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American comedy-drama film. The road movie's plot follows a family's trip to a children's beauty pageant.Little Miss Sunshine was the directorial film debut of the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The screenplay was written by first-time writer... |
| 2007 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2007 The 6th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards, honouring the best in filmmaking in 2007, were given on 10 December 2007.-Winners:*Best Actor:**George Clooney - Michael Clayton*Best Actress:... |
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Juno Juno (film) Juno is a 2007 comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. Ellen Page stars as the title character, an independent-minded teenager confronting an unplanned pregnancy and the subsequent events that put pressures of adult life onto her. Michael Cera, Olivia Thirlby, J. K.... |
| 2008 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2008 The 7th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2008 were given in December 2008.-Winners:*Best Actor:**Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler*Best Actress:**Meryl Streep - Doubt*Best Animated Film:**WALL•E... |
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| 2009 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2009 The 8th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2009 were given in December 2009.-Winners and nominees:*Best Film:**Up in the Air*The Hurt Locker*Inglourious Basterds*Precious*Up*Best Director:... |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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(500) Days of Summer | |
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| Bob Peterson Bob Peterson Robert "Bob" Peterson is an American animator, screenwriter, director and voice actor who works at Pixar Animation Studios. He made his directorial debut on Up in which he voiced the character Dug. He was hired by Roger Gould in 1994 and started as an animator for commercials... and Pete Docter |
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2010s
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| 2010 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2010 The 9th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2010 were given out on December 6, 2010.-Winners and nominees:*Best Film:**The Social Network*127 Hours*Black Swan*Inception*Toy Story 3*Best Director:... |
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| Mike Leigh Mike Leigh Michael "Mike" Leigh, OBE is a British writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied further at the Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid 1960s... |
Another Year | |
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