screenwriter

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Recent Examples of screenwriter Harris was helped with his novel by the late English cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, who took part in the 2005 and 2013 conclaves, while the screenwriter, Peter Straughan, and the filmmakers were given a private tour of the Sistine Chapel. Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2025 Joined by star Ben Affleck and screenwriter Bill Dubuque, O’Connor told The New York Times that Kendrick is ready to return as Christian Wolff’s love interest, Dana Cummings, for a potential third film. Jack Dunn, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025 In addition to the return of Affleck, Bernthal, Addai-Robinson and J.K. Simmons, The Accountant 2 features the return of director Gavin O’Connor, screenwriter Bill Dubuque and producers Lynette Howell Taylor and Mark Williams. Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025 But Wright and screenwriter Deborah Moggach rediscovered a youthful vitality that had always been present in the original book, bringing it out in unexpected fashion. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for screenwriter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for screenwriter
Noun
  • Tatort scriptwriters ensured the characters in the game properly resembled the ones from the show.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Wei, who had a career in the U.S. as host, scriptwriter and producer, is being hailed as a major new literary talent, so there will be plenty of interest at Olympia next week.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • As a playwright, McLeod has worked with The Playwrights Realm, No Guarantees Productions, Goodman Theatre, Ashland New Plays Festival, IAMA Theatre Company, and many more.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 2 May 2025
  • In the late 2010s, while carving out her path as a playwright in New York, Celine Song found herself with a somewhat peculiar side hustle.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • Meghan Rose is an astrologer, tarot reader, and writer based in Los Angeles.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 May 2025
  • How to remove labels from packages Rebecca Morin is a newsletter writer at USA TODAY.
    Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
  • White is simply too gifted a dramatist, and too acute an observer of human foibles, for these concerns to feel forced.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • 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
Noun
  • Back at the reservation, Joe and his dad, Henry, work together to build a pen of sorts, though Henry grills Joe about who it is supposed to keep in.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Everyone else has their starter written in pen or a pretty heavy pencil.
    Jeff Howe, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025

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