as in scripts
the written form of a story prepared for film production
each actor will be given a copy of the screenplay to study
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Recent Examples of screenplays
Paulo Cursino wrote the films’ screenplays and Camisa Listrada produced them.
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Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
There was a lot of back and forth and a lot of outlines and even a lot of screenplays.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
His subsequent screenplays for Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha (1989), Kadavu (1991), Sadayam (1992), and Parinayam (1994), each won the national award for best screenplay, the most awards for anyone in the screenplay category.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 26 Dec. 2024
His movies and screenplays are baked into our culture, our daily conversations, like mortar.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
The movie is set to be written by John Hamburg, who wrote the screenplays for the original 2000 movie Meet the Parents as well as its sequels Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
See the full list of screenplays below, as separated by genre.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 10 Dec. 2024
The performer earned Oscar nominations for his performance in The Trial of the Chicago 7 and for his work on the screenplays for Borat and its 2020 sequel.
—Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
Quentin Tarantino writes the first drafts of his screenplays longhand; Neal Stephenson wrote The Baroque Cycle, a series of eight books set in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a fountain pen.
—Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
There was a lot of back and forth and a lot of outlines and even a lot of screenplays.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
His subsequent screenplays for Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha (1989), Kadavu (1991), Sadayam (1992), and Parinayam (1994), each won the national award for best screenplay, the most awards for anyone in the screenplay category.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 26 Dec. 2024
His movies and screenplays are baked into our culture, our daily conversations, like mortar.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
The movie is set to be written by John Hamburg, who wrote the screenplays for the original 2000 movie Meet the Parents as well as its sequels Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
See the full list of screenplays below, as separated by genre.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 10 Dec. 2024
The performer earned Oscar nominations for his performance in The Trial of the Chicago 7 and for his work on the screenplays for Borat and its 2020 sequel.
—Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
Quentin Tarantino writes the first drafts of his screenplays longhand; Neal Stephenson wrote The Baroque Cycle, a series of eight books set in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a fountain pen.
—Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for screenplays
scripts
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This is asked because amid all this Zwick had scripts that were being read by Michael Douglas, plus he could be found playing tennis at Leonard Goldberg’s house along with Sidney Poitier and Charlton Heston.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Stop companies from tracking you with email aliases The average e-commerce site uses between 15 and 30 third-party scripts, analytics trackers, ad pixels and behavioral beacons, according to a study.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Screenplays.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/screenplays. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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