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The screenwriter, Robert Kaplow, constructed his script based on letters between Hart and a Yale student named Elizabeth—and earned his first Oscar nomination today for his effort.
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Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 22 Jan. 2026
The screenwriter grew up near the stadium in the 1950’s and 1960’s and used to come to games with his dad.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 19 Jan. 2026
And playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney was chosen to lead the Geffen Playhouse, a more modest yet nonetheless nationally prominent venue with two stages, the Gil Cates Theater and the intimate Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026
The final aim of a screenwriter is not just a complete typescript but may also include a one-minute pitch, a ten-minute pitch, storyboards, reels, and a synopsis of the arc of the story (opening, inciting incident, first act break, midpoint reversal, second act break, and climax).
—Literary Hub, 9 Jan. 2026
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Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 22 Jan. 2026
The screenwriter grew up near the stadium in the 1950’s and 1960’s and used to come to games with his dad.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 19 Jan. 2026
And playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney was chosen to lead the Geffen Playhouse, a more modest yet nonetheless nationally prominent venue with two stages, the Gil Cates Theater and the intimate Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026
The final aim of a screenwriter is not just a complete typescript but may also include a one-minute pitch, a ten-minute pitch, storyboards, reels, and a synopsis of the arc of the story (opening, inciting incident, first act break, midpoint reversal, second act break, and climax).
—Literary Hub, 9 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for screenwriter
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All the more so in the case of the characters in the British playwright Joe White’s Blackout Songs, who can’t remember any details of their first night together.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
29 Jan. 2026
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Buckley plays the wife of a struggling playwright named William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal, whose Oscar omission was a surprise).—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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And because the scriptwriters love a good story, the Rams must return to the same field as their penance.—
Jeff Howe,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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But for all those American fans who plan to watch the Cortina Olympics, be forewarned: Hollywood’s best scriptwriters are sitting at their typewriters, pounding out the bones of a sports movie about Lindsey Vonn.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside,
23 Dec. 2025
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Brenda Looper joined the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette as a news clerk in April 1997, and worked as a feature writer, reviewer and copy editor on the news side before moving to the opinion section in July 2011.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 Jan. 2026
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Ryan Collett is a writer, animator, and knitter.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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He is known as the world's most famous playwright and England's greatest dramatist, but even William Shakespeare got writer's block.—
Gerrad Hall,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Jan. 2026
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The essential New Orleans recipe, named after French dramatist Victorien Sardou in 1908 to celebrate his trip to The Big Easy, is a close cousin to eggs Benedict.—
Amanda Stanfield,
Southern Living,
10 Jan. 2026
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The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
22 June 2023
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Presumably these dynamics played better in scenarist Sarah Alderson’s original novel (which is set in Lisbon rather than Split).—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
3 Mar. 2022
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Every morning sit down with a pen and paper and write three pages of whatever is in your head.—
Lien De Pau,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Officers arrived to find a large group of people were watching over a pen holding cash and drinking alcohol in the backyard where roosters were engaged in battle while a referee monitored the contest, the Sheriff's Office said.—
Scott Butler,
Florida Times-Union,
28 Jan. 2026
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