Co-writer and producer Anthony Hines describes the massive amount of material the film's eight screenwriters produced, preparing their actors for any situation. By Tyler Coates Awards Editor But what ...

When it comes to the winners for best original and adapted screenplays, the Academy highly values auteurs who write from the director’s chair. By Tyler Coates Awards Editor ...

Best Adapted Screenplay commentary (Updated Feb. 26, 2025): Unlike original screenplay — where writers start from a blank page — adapted screenplay nominees must transform existing works into ...

Screenplay writers are often the unsung heroes of the film and television industry, anonymously imbuing the shows and films they create with humor, pathos and resonance. Or, in the case of longtime ...

Bruce Jay Friedman, an author, playwright and Oscar-nominated screenplay writer for Tom Hanks’s 1984 film Splash, died today in New York City. He was 90 and no cause of death was given by his son, ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University. We're going to remember screenwriter Robert Towne, who died last week at the age of 89. In the 1970s, a ...

As China’s ultrashort TV series find fans in the U.S., bilingual screenwriters are in high demand in Hollywood — it’s just ...

Shagufta Rafique, the creative mind behind celebrated films such as Aashiqui 2 and Murder 2, has lived a life as intense and turbulent as the stories she scripted. While audiences know her for ...

Madonna has revealed that she is working on a screenplay with Oscar-winning writer Diablo Cody. The pop star announced the news in a short video posted to her Instagram on Friday with the caption, ...

“In France, there is a tradition for one person to be both the writer and director,” says French writer-director Florian Zeller, whose drama “The Father” releases from Sony Pictures Classics this week ...