The most nominations at the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards in 2016 went to a coming-of-age drama film that was based on a play by Tarell Alvin McCraney, and was written and directed by who?
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Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2016 The 29th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 15, 2016. The awards honor the best in film for 2016. The nominations were announced on December 11. "Moonlight" received the most nominations (11), followed by "Jackie" (8), "Manchester by the Sea" (8), and "La La Land" (7).
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Moonlight (2016 film) Moonlight is a 2016 American coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Barry Jenkins, based on Tarell Alvin McCraney's unpublished semi-autobiographical play "In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue". It stars Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe, Ashton Sanders, Jharrel Jerome, Naomie Harris, and Mahershala Ali.
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The Humans (play) The Humans is a one-act play written by Stephen Karam. The play opened on Broadway in 2016 after an engagement Off-Broadway in 2015. "The Humans" was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play.
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The Florida Project The Florida Project is a 2017 American drama film directed by Sean Baker, from a screenplay by Baker and Chris Bergoch. It stars Willem Dafoe, Brooklynn Kimberly Prince, Bria Vinaite, Valeria Cotto, Christopher Rivera and Caleb Landry Jones. The name is derived from the early project name for the Walt Disney World Resort, located near the setting of the film.
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Youth in Oregon Youth in Oregon is a 2016 American comedy-drama film directed by Joel David Moore. The film stars Frank Langella, Billy Crudup, Christina Applegate, Nicola Peltz, Mary Kay Place, and Josh Lucas.
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Marfa Girl Marfa Girl is a 2012 drama film written and directed by Larry Clark, and released on his website. The film follows a group of young people living in the West Texas town of Marfa. It won the Marcus Aurelius Award for Best Film at the 2012 Rome Film Festival.
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The Abandoned (2015 film) The Abandoned (also known as The Confines) is a 2015 American supernatural horror film directed by Eytan Rockaway, and written by Ido Fluk. It stars Jason Patric, Louisa Krause and Mark Margolis. The film premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 13, 2015, and was released in theaters and video on demand on January 8, 2016 by IFC Films. The film concerns a struggling young woman, who tries to reacquire her normal life by taking a job as a security guard at an abandoned apartment building. "The Abandoned" marked Rockaway's debut as director.
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A Ghost and the Boy with a Box on His Head A Ghost and the Boy [with a Box on His Head] is a 2017 independent drama film written and directed by Philip Blue. The film received 35 awards in film festivals. The film was released in partnership with The Orchard.
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Mean Dreams Mean Dreams is a 2016 Canadian coming-of-age thriller film directed by Nathan Morlando and written by Kevin Coughlin and Ryan Grassby. The film stars Sophie Nélisse, Josh Wiggins, and Bill Paxton. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. It was one of Paxton's final roles before his death on February 25, 2017.
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Rob Marshall Rob Marshall (born October 17, 1960) is an American theater director, film director, and choreographer. His most noted work is the 2002 Academy Award for Best Picture winner "Chicago", for which he won a Directors Guild of America Award, as well as Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe nominations for Best Director. A five-time Tony Award nominee, he also won a Primetime Emmy Award for his choreography in the TV movie "Annie" (1999).
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Kelly Fremon Craig Kelly Fremon Craig is an American screenwriter, producer, and film director. She is known for directing, writing, and co-producing the 2016 coming-of-age comedy-drama "The Edge of Seventeen."
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Doubt (2008 film) Doubt is a 2008 American period drama film written and directed by John Patrick Shanley based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play "". Produced by Scott Rudin, the film takes place in a St. Nicholas school led by Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep). Sister James (Amy Adams) tells Aloysius that Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) might have too much personal attention with the school's only black student Donald Miller (Joseph Foster), thus leading to Aloysius starting a crusade against Flynn. The film also stars Viola Davis as Donald Miller's mother, Mrs. Miller.
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Stephen Karam Stephen Karam is an American playwright and screenwriter. His plays "Sons of the Prophet", a comedy-drama about a Lebanese-American family, and "The Humans" were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2012 and 2016, respectively. "The Humans" won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play.
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J. Samuel Cook Samuel J. Cook, III (born November 12, 1983) is an African-American playwright, journalist, educator and writer currently serving as director of the 7th Ward Neighborhood Center in New Orleans, a non-profit organization designed to improve quality of life conditions for residents of New Orleans' historic 7th Ward. His one-act play "Barren Fields" won an NAACP ACT-SO medal in 2002. Also an educator, he formerly worked with at-risk youth at Walter L. Cohen Senior High in New Orleans. He was born in Toledo, Ohio.
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Struck by Lightning (2012 film) Struck by Lightning is a 2012 coming-of-age comedy-drama film written by and starring Chris Colfer, also based on his novel, and directed by Brian Dannelly.
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List of accolades received by 20th Century Women "20th Century Women" is a 2016 American comedy-drama film directed and written by Mike Mills, based in part on Mills' childhood. Starring Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, and Lucas Jade Zumann, the film focuses on the story of three women who explore love and freedom in Southern California during the late 1970s. The film had its world premiere at the New York Film Festival as the Centerpiece on October 8, 2016, and was theatrically released on December 28, 2016 by A24. The film was released to universal acclaim, with Rotten Tomatoes listing an approval rating of 89%, based on 159 reviews, with an average rating of 7.8/10, and Metacritic scoring it at 83 out of 100, based on 40 reviews.
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The Age of Shadows The Age of Shadows (; lit. "Emissary") is a 2016 South Korean period action thriller film directed by Kim Jee-woon and written by Lee Ji-min and Park Jong-dae. The film stars Song Kang-ho and Gong Yoo. It was selected as the South Korean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.
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Sophie and the Rising Sun (film) Sophie and the Rising Sun is a 2016 American drama film written and directed by Maggie Greenwald. It is based on the 2001 novel "Sophie and the Rising Sun" by Augusta Trobaugh. The film stars Julianne Nicholson, Takashi Yamaguchi, Margo Martindale, Diane Ladd, Lorraine Toussaint and Karen Wheeling Reynolds. The film was released in theaters on January 25, 2017 by Monterey Media.
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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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Kieran Culkin Kieran Kyle Culkin (born September 30, 1982) is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor, acting alongside his older brother Macaulay in the "Home Alone" franchise (19901992) before going on to feature in films including the 1991 film "Father of the Bride" and its 1995 sequel, "My Summer Story" (1994), the sequel to "A Christmas Story", "The Mighty" (1998), "She's All That", "The Cider House Rules" (1999), "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys" (2002), "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" (2010), and "Movie 43". His breakout role in "Igby Goes Down" (2002) received critical acclaim and he was nominated for a Best Actor Golden Globe Award, as well as winning a Critics' Choice Movie Award and Satellite Award. He has also acted on-stage, most notably in several productions of the Kenneth Lonergan play "This Is Our Youth". In 2015, he portrayed Rye Gerhardt in the second season of the critically acclaimed FX series "Fargo".
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The Journey of Jared Price The Journey of Jared Price is a gay-themed coming-of-age 2000 film written, produced and directed by Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black. "The Journey of Jared Price" was Black's first feature film.
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This Is Our Youth This Is Our Youth is a play by American dramatist and screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan, which premiered Off-Broadway in 1996 and on Broadway in 2014.