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Posted by: Don, January 23rd, 2018, 12:30pm
I will clean this up later, but I wanted to get it posted now.  Molly's Game and Call Me By Your Name have yet to be posted by the studios. I'm sure they will soon. Of course, you can find other scripts studios are posting for award cosideration here.

Best Adapted Screenplay

Call Me By Your Name- Undated, unspecified draft  script by James Ivory (Based on the novel by André Aciman) - hosted by: Scriptslug.Com - in pdf format

In Northern Italy in 1983, seventeen year-old Elio begins a relationship with visiting Oliver, his father's research assistant, with whom he bonds over his emerging sexuality, their Jewish heritage, and the beguiling Italian landscape.

Information courtesy of imdb.com

The Disaster Artist - Undated, unspecified draft  script by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber (Based on the book by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell) - hosted by: A24 - in pdf format

When Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true.



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Logan - undated final shooting draft  script by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green (Story by James Mangold) - hosted by: CinephiliaBeyond.org - in pdf format

In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X, somewhere on the Mexican border. However, Logan's attempts to hide from the world, and his legacy, are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.



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Molly's Game -  by Arron Sorkin (Based on the book by Molly Bloom)  hosted by: Scriptslug.Com


Mudbound - Undated, unspecified draft  script by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees (Based on the novel by Hillary Jordan) - hosted by: Netflix - in pdf format

Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.





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Best Original Screenplay



The Big Sick - Undated, unspecified draft  script by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani - hosted by: Amazon - in pdf format

Kumail, in the middle of becoming a budding stand-up comedian, meets Emily. Meanwhile, a sudden illness sets in forcing Emily to be put into a medically-induced coma. Kumail must navigate being a comedian, dealing with tragic illness, and placating his family's desire to let them fix him up with a spouse, while contemplating and figuring out who he really is and what he truly believes

Information courtesy of imdb.com

Get Out - Undated, unspecified draft  script by Jordan Peele - hosted by: Universal - in pdf format

It's time for a young African American to meet with his white girlfriend's parents for a weekend in their secluded estate in the woods, but before long, the friendly and polite ambience will give way to a nightmare.



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Lady Bird - Undated, unspecified draft  script by Greta Gerwig - hosted by: A24 - in pdf format

Christina "Lady Bird" MacPherson is a high school senior from the "wrong side of the tracks." She longs for adventure, sophistication, and opportunity, but finds none of that in her Sacramento Catholic high school. LADY BIRD follows the title character's senior year in high school, including her first romance, her participation in the school play, and most importantly, her applying for college. 

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The Shape of Water - Undated, unspecified draft  script by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor (Story by Guillermo del Toro) - hosted by: Fox Searchlight - in pdf format

An other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment.

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Undated, unspecified draft  script by Martin McDonagh - hosted by: Fox Searchlight - in pdf format

After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

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Posted by: AnthonyCawood, January 23rd, 2018, 4:18pm; Reply: 1
Thanks Don
Posted by: PrussianMosby, January 23rd, 2018, 6:04pm; Reply: 2
Logan on the list, also as the only mainstream movie… that's interesting to me. I've never been even roughly into that X men stuff but they almost had me from what I heard about it and so on…

Those seem like a strong field.

Nevertheless, something I thought about in case of the screenwriting award: it somehow irks me a bit since a long time that they publish and judge on the late drafts of the scripts.

It's the kind of point when all departments played into the script and it's all made crystal clear, technical. We hear, We see, editing references, this that, camera angles, capitalizations, partly scene numbers, fancy pages with company logos everywhere and so on... The shooting draft is surely the most important version of the script when it comes to making it real; however, I doubt it is the best, most important and groundbreaking one from the respective writer's perspective, and the perspective on screenwriting in general…

Of course, those versions of scripts are still great, I'm gonna read them, just saying that to a degree the process of Evaluation, to me mirrors the lack of attention toward storytelling as a craft.
Posted by: eldave1, January 24th, 2018, 12:24pm; Reply: 3

Quoted from PrussianMosby
Logan on the list, also as the only mainstream movie… that's interesting to me. I've never been even roughly into that X men stuff but they almost had me from what I heard about it and so on…

Those seem like a strong field.

Nevertheless, something I thought about in case of the screenwriting award: it somehow irks me a bit since a long time that they publish and judge on the late drafts of the scripts.

It's the kind of point when all departments played into the script and it's all made crystal clear, technical. We hear, We see, editing references, this that, camera angles, capitalizations, partly scene numbers, fancy pages with company logos everywhere and so on... The shooting draft is surely the most important version of the script when it comes to making it real; however, I doubt it is the best, most important and groundbreaking one from the respective writer's perspective, and the perspective on screenwriting in general…

Of course, those versions of scripts are still great, I'm gonna read them, just saying that to a degree the process of Evaluation, to me mirrors the lack of attention toward storytelling as a craft.


Agree - also very difficult to look at these and compare them to standard amateur spec scripts. Many of these are shooting scripts and many were written knowing in advance the film was going to be made - i.e., who gives a crap about the tidiness and details is you know the film is already in the can.

For me, that is the difficulty I have when folks say - hey - look at these pro scripts. They don't do this or that....Well, yeah - cause they were written under an entirely different framework.
Posted by: AnthonyCawood, January 24th, 2018, 2:16pm; Reply: 4
I agree with both comments, but only to a degree...

So whilst formatting, camera direction and other bugbears for spec screenwriters litter shooting drafts... it doesn't mean they are not strong in narrative terms, characterisation, pacing etc.

And it's these latter elements I think they have been nominated for, and it's these we can learn from.

IMHO of course ;-)
Posted by: eldave1, January 24th, 2018, 2:18pm; Reply: 5

Quoted from AnthonyCawood
I agree with both comments, but only to a degree...

So whilst formatting, camera direction and other bugbears for spec screenwriters litter shooting drafts... it doesn't mean they are not strong in narrative terms, characterisation, pacing etc.

And it's these latter elements I think they have been nominated for, and it's these we can learn from.

IMHO of course ;-)


totally agree - I would add dialogue to that list
Posted by: PrussianMosby, January 24th, 2018, 5:13pm; Reply: 6

Quoted from AnthonyCawood
So whilst formatting, camera direction and other bugbears for spec screenwriters litter shooting drafts...
And it's these latter elements I think they have been nominated for, and it's these we can learn from.

IMHO of course ;-)


And I hardly disagree.

It's "only" the director who decides where and how to cut considering what the editor did suggest him before.

And so on… Anthony, from start to finish.

It's a late draft/shooting draft contest to a degree that I'm not even convinced the author has written the final terminology and conception on his own… Not sure how often they actually use the screenwriter for that stuff. Sure, there are other interpretations and viewpoints that bring the story massively forward, with other characteristics, like how to shoot to get more emotional impact and so on… not saying at all that those are not creative story elements. It's just no screenwriting.

I say, don't fall for the effects when core is dramaturgy and character, no matter how much later additions push further. The attitude of looking on the pecliar, unrecognized spec screenwriter not using "filming conceptions", is a weak excuse, misleading other screewriters to litter their work with unnecesarry details that are not their decisions, no way. It just absorbs their resources and hinders them from what's truly heavy to lift. But a good excuse it is, to look-like and point on...

Posted by: FrankM, January 24th, 2018, 5:30pm; Reply: 7

Quoted from PrussianMosby


And I hardly disagree.

It's "only" the director who decides where and how to cut considering what the editor did suggest him before.

And so on… Anthony, from start to finish.

It's a late draft/shooting draft contest to a degree that I'm not even convinced the author has written the final terminology and conception on his own… Not sure how often they actually use the screenwriter for that stuff. Sure, there are other interpretations and viewpoints that bring the story massively forward, with other characteristics, like how to shoot to get more emotional impact and so on… not saying at all that those are not creative story elements. It's just no screenwriting.

I say, don't fall for the effects when core is dramaturgy and character, no matter how much later additions push further. The attitude of looking on the pecliar, unrecognized spec screenwriter not using "filming conceptions", is a weak excuse, misleading other screewriters to litter their work with unnecesarry details that are not their decisions, no way. It just absorbs their resources and hinders them from what's truly heavy to lift. But a good excuse it is, to look-like and point on...



Although relatively early drafts are available for quite a few scripts, what would be truly awesome would be a semi-curated pile of spec scripts that can be matched up with actual productions. Clearly not every script even had a spec stage (see Dave's point about stories predestined for production), but I'm curious if the spec script is available for any non-trivial fraction of TV/film productions... I can imagine that a studio might lock up the rights to preserve any trade secrets in their spec-to-shooting sausagemaking, but I hope not.
Posted by: PrussianMosby, January 24th, 2018, 6:03pm; Reply: 8
By the way, only The Big Sick, Call Me By Your Name, and The Disaster Artist

are no writer director movies or directors attached to the screenwriting credits

3 out of 10

which is another topic
Posted by: Don, January 25th, 2018, 1:01pm; Reply: 9
I've added links to ScriptSlug for "Call Me By Your Name" and "Molly's Game".  Just to fill out the card.  

- Don
Posted by: Don, March 4th, 2018, 11:02am; Reply: 10


In preparation for tonight's award ceremony, you can check out the scripts that studios have posted for award consideration.  Also, you can check out award winning screenplays through the ages.
Posted by: eldave1, March 4th, 2018, 11:15am; Reply: 11

Quoted from Don


In preparation for tonight's award ceremony, you can check out the scripts that studios have posted for award consideration.  Also, you can check out award winning screenplays through the ages..


Don: the link doesn't work
Posted by: Don, March 4th, 2018, 3:10pm; Reply: 12
Fixed.

Posted by: eldave1, March 4th, 2018, 4:35pm; Reply: 13
Cool
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