screenwriter

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Recent Examples of screenwriter Reville was a screenwriter and editor who collaborated with Hitchcock. Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025 Eli Fuchs’s brother Daniel, an Academy Award-winning screenwriter. David Kamp, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025 Since 1997 and Boogie Nights, Anderson’s films have earned 28 total nominations, with 11 of those nominations credited to Anderson himself, either as director, screenwriter, or producer. Joe Reid, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025 The brand, which currently operates more than 160 stores in mainland China, has been smart about curating the right mix of ambassadors to reach different demographics in China, with director, actress, screenwriter Jia Ling, as well as singer, songwriter, actress and fashion icon Chris Lee. Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for screenwriter
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Noun
  • Many people with ideas for films or music or stories may never have the resources to create them—the lyricist who wants to put music to words, the scriptwriter who craves to see their lines spoken on a screen.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The scriptwriter is Marek Epstein.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In 1963, French writer, playwright, artist and filmmaker Jean Cocteau dies.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Keaton also starred as a playwright/mother who becomes involved with a nefarious womanizer (Jack Nicholson) in Something’s Gotta Give (2003), good for her fourth best actress Oscar nomination.
    Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • When Entertainment Weekly asked the showrunner/executive producer/writer/director about a potential season 3 during a press conference on Thursday, Gunn explained the cliffhanger ending will actually have an impact on future DCU projects instead of another season of Peacemaker.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Butchard, the creator, serves as lead writer, with Robbie O’Neill writing a further episode.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Conrad Earp, Asteroid City Of the three dramatists on this list, Earp is obviously the most developed.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
  • Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 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
  • Insulin is expensive—a package of insulin pens, which may last a month, might be $25.
    Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Prep your space first - Before the puppy walks through the door, set up a crate, exercise pen and gates.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025

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