screenplay
noun
screen·play
ˈskrēn-ˌplā 
: the script and often shooting directions of a story prepared for movie production
Examples of screenplay in a Sentence
an award for best screenplay
each actor will be given a copy of the screenplay to study
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His screenplay had ended with Aimée’s widowed script girl returning to Paris from Deauville after a tryst gone sour with Trintignant’s widowed racecar driver.
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Bruce Handy, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
The difference lies in how the screenplay probes the existential struggles warring inside its characters and confronts their pasts.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2025
Francis Lawrence will direct from a screenplay adaptation by Billy Ray.
—Justin Kroll, Deadline, 25 Apr. 2025
And At the Bench, directed by Yoshiyuki Okuyama, won the best screenplay award in the Forward Future program.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 25 Apr. 2025
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Bruce Handy, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
The difference lies in how the screenplay probes the existential struggles warring inside its characters and confronts their pasts.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2025
Francis Lawrence will direct from a screenplay adaptation by Billy Ray.
—Justin Kroll, Deadline, 25 Apr. 2025
And At the Bench, directed by Yoshiyuki Okuyama, won the best screenplay award in the Forward Future program.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 25 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for screenplay
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“Screenplay.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/screenplay. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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screenplay
noun
screen·play
ˈskrēn-ˌplā
: the written form of a story prepared for film production
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