My 30 Favorite Screenplays

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The feedback on my first list seemed pretty positive so I thought I would try another one. These are 30 screenplays that I think are standout elements of the film. A lot of them won Oscars and I think every screenplay on this list deserved at least a nomination. Here goes:

30.

Tina Fey, Mean Girls

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29.
Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin, Pillow Talk

http://classicflix.com/images/pillowtalk50th.jpg

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28.
Billy Wilder and I.A.L. DIamond, The Apartment

http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/8nrQKQjD6z0SJouKHQapXzmjFc6.jpg


27.
William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

http://www.chud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/the-exorcist-poster.jpeg

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Interesting topic.

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26.
David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross

http://www.pastposters.com/cw3/assets/product_expanded/(JamieR)__GlengarryGlenRoss(1).jpg

25.
Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard

http://www.classicmovietrivia.com/files/sunset%20blvd.jpg

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24.
Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris

http://www.woodyallenpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/midnight-in-paris-poster.jpg


23.
Blake Edwards, S.O.B.

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23.
Blake Edwards, S.O.B.

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So far, each set of two movies has had one movie that I love:

Pillow Talk
The Apartment
Sunset Boulevard
Blake Edwards' S.O.B.

BTW, your picture for S.O.B. isn't showing up.

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So far, each set of two movies has had one movie that I love:

Pillow Talk
The Apartment
Sunset Boulevard
Blake Edwards' S.O.B.

BTW, your picture for S.O.B. isn't showing up.
I just put a new picture for S.O.B. up.

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22.
Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vZq0OiMxXQI/T33qLyeqtOI/AAAAAAAAAR4/qr1vUDf0wfU/s1600/936full-one-flew-over-the-cuckoo's-nest-poster.jpg

21.
Woody Allen, Hannah and her Sisters

https://epicbuzz-cdn.storage.googleapis.com/uploads/image/image/4679/hannahposter.jpg

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20.
Joan Tewkesbury, Nashville

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/uploads/gallery_286742_24_11276.jpg

19.
Frank Pierson, Dog Day Afternoon

http://www.iceposter.com/thumbs/MOV_c64bdd0a_b.jpg

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18.
Wendell Mayes, Anatomy of a Murder

http://images.moviepostershop.com/anatomy-of-a-murder-movie-poster-1959-1020142869.jpg


17.
Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder, Young Frankenstein

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131126025148/mary-shelley/images/4/46/Young-frankenstein_poster.jpg

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16.
Warren Beatty and Elaine May, Heaven Can Wait

http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/mbF0V8mJlUHtwtJ6iWwtwE6lews.jpg

15.
Woody Allen, Broadway Danny Rose

http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/vqe83RhhFvveLLfVPQviUMBOKzL.jpg

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+ rep for Anatomy of a Murder and Heaven Can Wait. :up:

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What is it about these scripts that make you love them?

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What is it about these scripts that make you love them?
Movies that I'm attracted to always have something that stand out to me...sometimes it's the plot, sometimes it's the performances, sometimes it's the direction, sometimes it's the characters, and sometimes it's the dialogue. These are films that I remember being attracted to the scripting, the structure of the story, the dialogue that goes back and forth between characters, especially when a tapestry of words walks the line between realism and drama.

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14.
Mary Herron, American Psycho

http://images.boomsbeat.com/data/images/full/32045/72505-jpg.jpg


13.
Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

http://www.isitanygood.biz/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/when-harry-met-sally-poster.jpg

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12.
Quenten Tarantino, Django Unchained

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/tr/8/8b/Django_Unchained_Poster.jpg

11.
Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal, Tootsie

http://www.pastposters.com/cw3/assets/product_expanded/(JamieF-MAL)__Tootsie(2).jpg

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10.
Nicholas Pileggi, Goodfellas

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/Goodfellas.jpg

9.
Woody Allen, Crimes and Misdemeanors

http://pics.filmaffinity.com/Crimes_and_Misdemeanors-375487027-large.jpg

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13.Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

http://www.isitanygood.biz/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/when-harry-met-sally-poster.jpg


When Harry Met Sally is my favorite Nora Ephron movie, and one of my all-time favorite movies. :up:

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8.
Jason Reitman, Thank you for Smoking

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7.
Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis, Groundhog Day

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/Groundhog_Day_(movie_poster).jpg

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6.
Ernest Lehman, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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5.
Paul Thomas Anderson, Boogie Nights

http://images.moviepostershop.com/boogie-nights-movie-poster-1997-1020280855.jpg

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4.
Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, and Peter George, Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/63/MPW-31779

3.
Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction

http://www.cinemasterpieces.com/pulpfaug08.jpg

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2.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve

http://www.hipharp.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ALL-ABOUT-EVE-SIMPLE-R133930.jpg

Yeah, I know I missed a lot of great screenplays but these are my personal favorites...and my all-time favorite screenplay is...

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1.
Paddy Chayefsky, Network

http://images.moviepostershop.com/network-movie-poster-1976-1020465535.jpg

This story just gets more timely as the years go by and the dialogue sizzles.