As you watch an Academy Award-nominated film, you can clearly notice the acting, editing, set design, and a variety of other categories that end up getting nominated. However, as you watch the film, there’s one thing you can’t judge – the screenplay. Sure, you can listen to dialogue, and understand the story’s structure, but for the most part, the screenplay is a mystery.
For those hoping to dive headfirst into the screenplays of many of the 2018 Oscar nominated films, No Film School has you covered. Recently, they compiled 8 of the 10 Oscar-nominated screenplays, as well as dozens of others that were in the award season conversation. Sadly, two of the more sought-after screenplays aren’t available — “Call Me By Your Name” and “Molly’s Game.” However, every Original Screenplay nom is listed.
For those wanting to be the screenplay-authority at your Oscar Watch Party, this is your chance to wow your cinephile friends. And for those who want to read highly-entertaining and awards-worthy writing, it’s a great way to spend a couple days. Prepare your eyeballs and click below.
Best Original Screenplay
- The Big Sick, written by Kumail Nanjiani & Emily V. Gordon
- Get Out, written by Jordan Peele
- Lady Bird, written by Greta Gerwig
- The Shape of Water, written by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, written by Martin McDonagh
Best Adapted Screenplay
- The Disaster Artist, screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, based on the book by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell
- Logan, screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green, story by James Mangold
- Mudbound, screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees, based on the novel by Hillary Jordan
Here are the links to other screenplays that were in awards season contention. Get ’em while they’re hot:
- Battle of the Sexes, written by Simon Beaufoy
- Beauty and the Beast, screenplay by Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos, based on 1991 animated film, written by Linda Woolverton
- The Beguiled, screenplay by Sofia Coppola, based on the novel by Thomas Cullinan
- Brad’s Status, written by Mike White
- Breathe, written by William Nicholson
- Brigsby Bear, screenplay by Kevin Costello & Kyle Mooney, story by Kyle Mooney
- Coco, screenplay by Adrian Molina and Matthew Aldrich, story by Lee Unkrich, Jason Katz, Matthew Aldrich, and Adrian Molina
- Darkest Hour, written by Anthony McCarten
- Downsizing, written by Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor
- A Fantastic Woman, screenplay by Sebastián Lelio & Gonzalo Maza
- The Florida Project, written by Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch
- Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, written by Matt Greenhalgh
- First They Killed My Father, screenplay by Loung Ung & Angelina Jolie, based on the book First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Ung
- Foxtrot, written by Samuel Maoz
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, screenplay by James Gunn
- Happy End, written by Michael Haneke
- I, Tonya, written by Steven Rogers
- Last Flag Flying, screenplay by Richard Linklater & Darryl Ponicsan, based on the novel by Darryl Ponicsan
- The Leisure Seeker, screenplay by Stephen Amidon, Francesca Archibugi, Francesco Piccolo, and Paolo Virzì
- The Lost City of Z, screenplay by James Gray, based on the book by David Grann
- Loveless, written by Oleg Negin & Andrey Zvyaginstev
- The Man Who Invented Christmas, screenplay by Susan Coyne, based on the book by Les Standiford
- Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House, written by Peter Landesman
- Maudie, written by Sherry White
- The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), written by Noah Baumbach
- mother!, written by Darren Aronofsky
- Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer, written by Joseph Cedar
- Novitiate, written by Maggie Betts
- Okja, written by Bong Joon Ho and Jon Ronson
- Thank You for Your Service, screenplay by Jason Hall, based on the book by David Finkel
- Thor: Ragnarok, screenplay by Eric Pearson and Craig Kyle & Christopher L. Yost
- War for the Planet of the Apes, screenplay by Mark Bomback & Matt Reeves
- Wonderstruck, screenplay by Brian Selznick, based on his illustrated novel
