Which movie staring Amy Adams earned Eric Heisserer a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay?
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Eric Heisserer Eric Andrew Heisserer (born 1970) is an American screenwriter. He is best known for writing scripts to the horror films "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "Final Destination 5", "The Thing" and "Lights Out". In 2016, he wrote the screenplay for "Arrival", which earned him a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination at the 89th Academy Awards.
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Arrival (film) Arrival is a 2016 American science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Eric Heisserer, based on the 1998 short story "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang. It stars Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, and Forest Whitaker, and follows linguist Louise Banks, who is enlisted by the U.S. Army to help translate communications from one of several extraterrestrial craft that have appeared across the world. She must find out why they have arrived on Earth before tensions lead into war. The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 1, 2016, and was released in the United States on November 11, 2016, in IMAX by Paramount Pictures.
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Kirk Simon Kirk Simon is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his work on various documentaries. Simon has been nominated for an Academy Award four times, winning once. Simon has produced three films nominated for the Best Documentary (Short Subject), including "" (1990), "Rehearsing a Dream" (2007), and "Strangers No More" (2010); he won the award for the latter film at the 83rd Academy Awards, and shared the win with Karen Goodman with whom he worked on all three films. Simon has also received a nomination in the category of the Best Documentary Feature for producing "" (1986). In 2016, he produced a feature documentary on the centenary of the Pulitzer prize called "The Pulitzer at 100."
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Dad's Home Dad's Home is a 2010 romantic drama film directed by Bradford May after a screenplay written by Adam Rockoff.
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Caren Lissner Caren Lissner is an American novelist, essayist, and newspaper editor. Her published novels include "Carrie Pilby" (2003) and "Starting from Square Two" (2004). She has also published essays, articles, and satire in "The New York Times," "The Philadelphia Inquirer," "The Atlantic," and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. She is editor-in-chief of the "Hudson Reporter" group of newspapers based in Hoboken, New Jersey. Her novel "Carrie Pilby" was re-released July 1, 2010 by Harlequin Teen and was made into an independent film starring Bel Powley and Nathan Lane The film debuted in theaters in March, 2017 and was scheduled to debut on Netflix in September, 2017.
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Reichenbach Falls (film) Reichenbach Falls is a 2007 British thriller television film directed by John McKay and starring Alec Newman, Alastair Mackenzie and Nina Sosanya. The script was adapted by James Mavor from a short story by Ian Rankin.
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Amy Ziering Amy Ziering (born 1962) is an American film producer and director. In 2013, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature for producing "The Invisible War".
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Amy Madigan Amy Marie Madigan (born September 11, 1950) is an American actress, producer, and singer. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1985 film "Twice in a Lifetime". Her other film credits include "Love Child" (1982), "Places in the Heart" (1984), "Field of Dreams" (1989), "Uncle Buck" (1989), "The Dark Half" (1993), "Pollock" (2000), and "Gone Baby Gone" (2007). Madigan won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her portrayal of Sarah Weddington in the 1989 television film "Roe vs. Wade".
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Amy Irving Amy Davis Irving (born September 10, 1953) is an American film, stage, and television actress. The daughter of actors Jules Irving and Priscilla Pointer, she was raised in San Francisco where her father co-founded the Actor's Workshop, and began acting onstage as a child. She began her film career with a role in the 1976 horror film "Carrie", followed by a lead role in the supernatural thriller "The Fury" (1978). She earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Yentl" (1983), and later a Golden Globe nomination for her role in the comedy "Crossing Delancey" (1988).
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Every Secret Thing (film) Every Secret Thing is a 2014 American crime film directed by Amy J. Berg and written by Nicole Holofcener, based on a 2004 novel of the same name written by Laura Lippman. The film stars Diane Lane, Elizabeth Banks, Dakota Fanning, Danielle Macdonald, and Nate Parker, and is notable for being Academy Award-winning actress Frances McDormand's debut as producer. The film was released theatrically on May 15, 2015 and on home video on August 4, 2015.
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David W. Zucker David W. Zucker is President of Television for Scott Free, and Executive Producer of the landmark series adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s classic “The Man in the High Castle” for Amazon, esteemed Civil War medical drama “Mercy Street” on PBS, the forthcoming first season of the Amazon half-hour action-comedy starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as “Jean-Claude Van Johnson,” the AMC anthological psychological thriller “The Terror,” “The Good Fight," the widely acclaimed CBS all-access spin-off of “The Good Wife,” and “Killing Reagan,” the fourth in the acclaimed National Geographic channel series of “Killing” telefilms (which include “Killing Jesus” and “Killing Kennedy,” both Emmy-nominated, plus the docudrama “Killing Lincoln”). During his tenure, Scott Free has produced a steady stream of highly acclaimed programs including the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated, Peabody-winning drama, “The Good Wife,” which recently concluded its 7th and final season on CBS, as well as “Numb3rs,” which ran for six successful seasons on the same network. Notable long form programs include “Klondike” for Discovery, the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated “The Pillars of the Earth” for Starz, “World Without End” for Reelz, Emmy-nominated “Into the Storm” for HBO, Emmy-nominated “The Andromeda Strain” and “Coma” for A&E, the Golden Globe-nominated “The Company” at TNT and a feature-length digital series for X-Box/Microsoft, “Halo: Nightfall.” Acclaimed non-fiction programs include “Crimes of the Century” and the Emmy-winning documentary special “Gettysburg” for History Channel. Previously, Zucker worked as a Story Editor on the CBS series, Judging Amy, wrote pilot scripts for CBS and ABC, as well as various stage plays, and served as VP of Drama Series for CBS in addition to VP of Drama Series & Current Programs at Warner Bros. TV.
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Charlie Kaufman Charles Stuart Kaufman (born November 19, 1958) is an American screenwriter, producer, director, and lyricist. He wrote the films "Being John Malkovich" (1999), "Adaptation" (2002), and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (2004). He made his directorial debut with "Synecdoche, New York" (2008), which was also well-received; film critic Roger Ebert named it "the best movie of the decade" in 2009. It was followed by "Anomalisa" (2015).
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Adam Driver Adam Douglas Driver (born November 19, 1983) is an American actor. He rose to prominence in the supporting role of Adam Sackler in the HBO comedy-drama series "Girls" (2012–2017), for which he received three consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He made his Broadway debut in "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (2010). In 2011, he returned to Broadway in "Man and Boy" and made his feature film debut in "J. Edgar".
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Paris Barclay Paris K.C. Barclay (born June 30, 1956) is an American television director and producer, and writer. He is a two-time Emmy Award winner and is among the busiest single-camera television directors, having directed over 150 episodes of television to date, for series such as "NYPD Blue", "ER", "The West Wing", "", "Lost", "The Shield", "House", "Law & Order", "Monk", "Numb3rs", "City of Angels", "Cold Case", and more recently "Sons of Anarchy", "The Bastard Executioner", "The Mentalist", "Weeds", "", "In Treatment", "Glee", "Smash" and "The Good Wife", "Extant", and "Manhattan", "Empire", and "Scandal". Most recently, Barclay worked as an executive producer and principal director for the Fox series "Pitch", and directed the CBS pilot, "Perfect Citizen."
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Dogma (film) Dogma is a 1999 American fantasy comedy film, written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also stars along with Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Alan Rickman, Bud Cort, Salma Hayek, Chris Rock, Jason Lee, George Carlin, Janeane Garofalo, Alanis Morissette, and Jason Mewes. It is the fourth film in Smith's View Askewniverse series. Brian O'Halloran and Jeff Anderson, stars of the first Askewniverse film "Clerks", appear in the film, as do Smith regulars Scott Mosier, Dwight Ewell, Walt Flanagan, and Bryan Johnson.
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Amy Sewell Amy Sewell (born 1963) is an American author and filmmaker, best known for "Mad Hot Ballroom" (Paramount, 2005), in which she debuted as a film writer and producer.
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Just Friends Just Friends is a 2005 American romantic comedy film directed by Roger Kumble, written by Adam 'Tex' Davis and starring Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Anna Faris, Chris Klein and Christopher Marquette. The plot focuses on a formerly overweight high school nerd (Reynolds) who attempts to free himself from the friend zone after reconnecting with his lifelong crush and best friend (Smart) while visiting his hometown for Christmas.
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Altered Minds Altered Minds (originally titled The Red Robin) is a 2015 psychological thriller film directed by Michael Z. Wechsler, starring Judd Hirsch, Ryan O'Nan, C.S. Lee, Caroline Lagerfelt, Jaime Ray Newman, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Dennis Flanagan, Jake Miller, and Lily Pilblad.
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Indignation (film) Indignation is a 2016 American drama film written, produced, and directed by James Schamus, making his feature directorial debut, and based on Philip Roth's 2008 novel of the same name. The film is set mostly in Ohio, in the early 1950s, and stars Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tracy Letts, Linda Emond, Danny Burstein, Ben Rosenfield, Pico Alexander, Philip Ettinger, and Noah Robbins.
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Josh Singer Josh Singer (born 1972) is an American film and television writer and producer, whose work includes writing and producing episodes of "The West Wing", "", "Lie to Me", and the FOX science-fiction series "Fringe". In 2006, he was nominated for a WGA award. He co-wrote "Spotlight" (2015), which won him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
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Jeff VanderMeer Jeff VanderMeer (born July 7, 1968) is an American author, editor, and literary critic. Initially associated with the New Weird literary genre, VanderMeer crossed over into mainstream success with his bestselling "Southern Reach" trilogy. The trilogy's first novel, "Annihilation", won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards and has been adapted into an upcoming Hollywood film by director Alex Garland. Among VanderMeer's other novels are "" and "Borne". He has also edited with his wife Ann VanderMeer such influential and award-winning anthologies as "The New Weird", "The Weird", and "The Big Book of Science Fiction".
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Drop Dead Gorgeous (film) Drop Dead Gorgeous is a 1999 American black comedy film directed by Michael Patrick Jann and starring Kirstie Alley, Ellen Barkin, Kirsten Dunst, Allison Janney, Denise Richards, Brittany Murphy, and Amy Adams in her film debut. Shot in a mockumentary format, it follows the contestants in a beauty pageant called the "Sarah Rose Cosmetics Mount Rose American Teen Princess Pageant", held in the small fictional town of Mount Rose, Minnesota, in which various contestants die in suspicious ways.