Read This Year's Best Scripts!
It’s awards season, and studios have released the scripts for some of the hottest 2020/21 Oscar nominated movies online - which means you have the opportunity to download and read them (at least for the next few weeks)!
Whether you want to read the screenplay for a film that inspired you, one that made you laugh, or even read a script for a film you didn’t like to see what changed from script to screen - tons of lessons can be gleaned from perusing award-nominated feature scripts (or any script for that matter).
Here’s a list of this year’s Oscar nominated feature films you can read online (as well an additional list of other notable scripts from the past year you might want to check out). Click on the movie title to read the screenplay while you still can:
Best Picture Nominees:
The Father – (Sony Classics) - Screenplay by Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton
Judas and the Black Messiah – (Warner Brothers) - Screenplay by Shaka King and Will Berson
Mank– (Netflix) - Screenplay by Jack Fincher
Minari - (A24) - Screenplay by Lee Isaac Chung
Nomadland– (Fox Searchlight) - Screenplay by Chloé Zhao
Promising Young Woman – (Focus Features) - Screenplay by Emerald Fennell
Sound of Metal – (Amazon) - Screenplay by Darius Marder and Abraham Marder
The Trial Of The Chicago 7 – (Netflix) - Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
Writing (Adapted screenplay) Nominees:
Borat 2 - (Amazon) - Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Peter Baynham, Erica Rivinoja, Dan Mazer, Jena Friedman, Lee Kern
The Father– (Sony Classics) - Screenplay by Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton
Nomadland– (Fox Searchlight) - Screenplay by Chloé Zhao
One Night In Miami – (Amazon) - Screenplay by Kemp Powers
The White Tiger – (Netflix) - Screenplay by Ramin Bahrani
Writing (Original screenplay) Nominees:
Judas and the Black Messiah – (Warner Brothers) - Screenplay by Shaka King and Will Berson
Minari - (A24) - Screenplay by Lee Isaac Chung
Promising Young Woman – (Focus Features) - Screenplay by Emerald Fennell
Sound of Metal – (Amazon) - Screenplay by Darius Marder and Abraham Marder
The Trial Of The Chicago 7 – (Netflix) - Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
Best Animated Feature Nominees:
Onward – (Pixar Studios) - Screenplay by Dan Scanlon, Jason Headley and Keith Bunin
Soul– (Pixar Studios) - Screenplay by Pete Docter, Mike Jones, and Kemp Powers
*Wolfwalkers, Over the Moon, and A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon are also nominated!
Screenplays for some other notable 2020/2021 films:
Antebellum - (Lionsgate) - Screenplay by Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz
The Climb – (Sony Classics) - Screenplay by Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin
Da 5 Bloods – (Netflix) - Screenplay by Spike Lee, Kevin Willmott, Paul De Meo, Danny Bilson
Emma – (Fox Searchlight) - Screenplay by Eleanor Catton
The Half Of It – (Netflix) - Screenplay by Alice Wu
Herself– (Amazon) - Screenplay by Clare Dunne, Malcom Campbell
I Carry You With Me (Te Llevo Conmigo) – (Sony Classics) - Screenplay by Heidi Ewing and Alan Page
I’m Thinking of Ending Things – (Netflix) - Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman and Iain Reid
Kajillionaire – (Focus Features) - Screenplay by Miranda July
The King Of Staten Island – (Amazon) - Screenplay by Pete Davidson, Judd Apatow and Dave Sirus
Land – (Focus Features) - Screenplay by Jesse Chatham and Erin Dignam
Let Him Go – (Focus Features) - Screenplay by Thomas Bezucha
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – (Netflix) - Screenplay by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Malcolm & Marie – (Netflix) - Screenplay by Sam Levinson
Never Rarely Sometimes Always – (Focus Features) - Screenplay by Eliza Hittman
News of the World – (Universal) - Screenplay by Paul Greengrass and Luke Davies
Palm Springs– (Hulu) - Screenplay by Andy Siara
The Personal History of David Copperfield – (Fox Searchlight) - Screenplay by Simon Blackwell and Armando Iannucci
Tenet - (Warner Brothers) - Screenplay by Christopher Nolan
What award nominated scripts inspire you? Let me know @CaroleKirsch!