A Dog's Purpose (film)
2017
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Academy Award Makeup and Hairstyling 2018 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Make Up and Hair 2018 · Nominated
Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Awards. 2017 Nominee LAOFCS Award. Best Performance by an Actor or Actress 23 and Under. Jacob Tremblay.
Wonder is a 2017 American coming-of-age family drama film directed by Stephen Chbosky, who co-wrote the screenplay with Steven Conrad and Jack Thorne. It is based on the 2012 novel of the same name by R. J. Palacio and stars Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay, Mandy Patinkin, and Daveed Diggs .
Major award nominations and wins for Wonder, as compiled by The Los Angeles Times.
The undisputed stand-up-and-cheer book of the year follows 10-year-old Auggie. Born disfigured but blessed with intelligence and grace, he changes the lives of an ever-increasing cast of characters that first-novelist Palacio handles with a veteran’s aplomb.
Nov 17, 2017 · Based on the R.J. Palacio novel of the same name, “Wonder” follows a year in the life of August Pullman (Jacob Tremblay), Auggie, for short. He was born with a genetic abnormality that has required him to undergo surgeries and medical treatments since his earliest days.
Wonder was on The New York Times Best Seller list and was also on the Texas Bluebonnet Award master list. The book was the winner of the 2014 Maine Student Book Award, Vermont's Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, the 2015 Mark Twain Readers Award, Hawaii's 2015 Nene Award, and the Junior Young Reader's Choice Award for 2015.
Nov 17, 2017 · Wonder doesn't shy away from its bestselling source material's sentiment, but this well-acted and overall winsome drama earns its tugs at the heartstrings. Read Critics Reviews
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Summaries. Based on the New York Times bestseller, this movie tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters the fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
R.J. Palacio, author of the critically acclaimed, Wonder, speaks to us about how her bestseller was turned into an academy award-nominated film starring Owen Wilson and Julia Roberts.
90th Academy Awards. Wonder is a 2017 American comedy-drama film, directed by Stephen Chbosky, written by Jack Thorne, Steve Conrad, and Chbosky, based on the 2012 novel of the same name by R. J. Palacio. It stars Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay, Mandy Patinkin, and Daveed Diggs.
