Have you been struggling to type out that script? The one you’ve sat on for the past few months/years or so? Trying to figure out how to make it work? Hell, do you need some help getting it started in the first place? If you want to look for the best of the best of the year, look no further than below. Compiled for the consideration of Oscar voters everywhere, you have the chance to download and read more than 40 of the most acclaimed, sought-after screenplays of the past year. All legal, no less, and from the comfort of your home! Indeed, Christmas has come a little early this year.
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Featuring the pages to “Fences,” “Hell Or High Water,” “Moonlight,” “Toni Erdmann,” “Lion,” “The Invitation,” “Sing Street,” “20th Century Women,” “Arrival,” “Jackie,” “Nocturnal Animals” and more, including some overlooked/less-than-praised Oscar hopefuls like “The Founder,” “I Saw The Light,” ‘The Hollars,” and “The Birth Of A Nation,” this collection from throughout the year is a diverse selection of some of the year’s most celebrated and award-hungry screenplays from 2016. Now, you have the luxury to read them yourself, to see if they deserve the praise, demand the vitriol or, hopefully, maybe even get you started on your own. Hopefully, we’ll write about your newest contribution to cinema in the years to come. For now, however, check out this list below and start reading.
“Silence” by Jay Cocks & Martin Scorsese
“Manchester By The Sea” by Kenneth Lonergan
“Hell or High Water” by Taylor Sheridan
“Moonlight” by Barry Jenkins
“Arrival” by Eric Heisserer
“Jackie” by Noah Oppenheim
“Toni Erdmann” by Maren Ade
“20th Century Women” by Mike Mills
“Elle” by David Birke
“Loving” by Jeff Nichols
“Hail, Caesar!” by Joel & Ethan Coen
“Sully” by Tom Komarnicki
“Fences” by August Wilson
“The Invitation” by Phil Hay & Matt Manfredi
“Sing Street” by John Carney
“Lion” by Luke Davies
“Kubo and the Two Strings” by Marc Haimes & Chris Butler, Story by Shannon Tindle, Marc Haimes
“Nocturnal Animals” by Tom Ford
“Captain Fantastic” by Matt Ross
“Eye in the Sky” by Guy Hibbert
“Love & Friendship” by Whit Stillman
“Little Men” by Ira Sachs & Mauricio Zacharias
“The Meddler” by Lorene Scafaria
“Miles Ahead” by Steven Baigelman & Don Cheadle
“Denial” by David Hare
“Zootopia” by Jared Bush & Phil Johnson, Story by Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush, Jim Reardon, Josie Trinidad, Phil Johnson and Jennifer Lee
“A Monster Calls” by Patrick Hess
“Sing” by Garth Jennings
“The Founder” by Robert Siegel
“Anthropoid” by Sean Ellis and Anthony Frewin
“The Birth of a Nation” by Nate Parker, Story By Nate Parker & Jean McGianni Celestin
“The Comedian” by Art Linson & Jeff Ross and Richard LaGravenese and Lewis Friedman, Story by Art Linson
“The Girl on the Train” by Erin Cressida Wilson
“The Secret Life of Pets” by Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio and Brian Lynch
“Gold” by Patrick Massett & John Zinman
“Julieta” by Pedro Almodovar
“Bridget Jones’s Baby” by Helen Fielding and Dan Mazer and Emma Thompson
“The Hollars” by James C. Strouse
“I Saw the Light” by Marc Abraham
“My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2” by Nia Vardalos
“Bridget Jones’s Baby” by Helen Fielding, Dan Mazer and Emma Thompson
“Equity” by Amy Fox
“The Red Turtle” by Michael Dudok De Wit
“Maggie’s Plan” by Rebecca Miller
“Land Of Mine” by Martin Zandvliet