scriptwriter

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Recent Examples of scriptwriter 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 On this occasion, there were no jostling journalists, no opportunistic influencers and no sign of the Hollywood scriptwriter looking to buy the rights to a story that has resonated around the world. Esme Nicholson, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025 Head scriptwriter Erik Ahrnbom (Thin Blue Line, Keep It Together) joins for season 2 alongside writers Maria Nygren (Meaning of Life, Love & Anarchy) and Martin Larsson (Keep It Together). Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 4 Dec. 2025 Both play it perfectly straight, which only adds to the enjoyment of a near-perfect people pleaser, and scriptwriter Ben Hopkins is clearly having a field day. Damon Wise, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for scriptwriter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scriptwriter
Noun
  • As a director and screenwriter, Spiro’s debut feature film Night Comes On premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, winning the Sundance Innovator Award and the Jury Prize at the Deauville Film Festival.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 20 May 2026
  • Ansari will be hosted in Paris by Franco-Chilean screenwriter Antonia Girardi.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • The late New Yorker writer Donald Barthleme, an absurdist, is often cited as an example.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • And yet every day writers call me from conference rooms at their day jobs, or cramped kitchens with their children, or cars sitting in their driveways—sometimes the only place quiet enough to think.
    David O’Neill, New Yorker, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • Walk in the footsteps of famous Irish authors and playwrights at Dunguaire Castle.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 22 May 2026
  • Lane is survived by his brothers Michael Lane, a former casting director, and playwright and author Eric Lane; sister Lisa Lane Crawley; their spouses, Meredith Wechter Lane, Bob Barnett and John Crawley; six nephews and one niece.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 22 May 2026
Noun
  • The theater was built by songwriter, dramatist and playwright Arthur Hammerstein to honor his father, Oscar Hammerstein I, and opened as Hammerstein’s Theater in 1927.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 22 May 2026
  • In transcripts of hearings of the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Garber finds an upwelling of voices from the literary past, among them Christopher Marlowe, the revenge dramatist Thomas Kyd, and, from first to last, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare.
    Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Director Wincer and scenarist Wittliff have created a big-hearted epic that sits tall in the saddle, a vivid video display of cowboy iconography that’s got the Emmy brand all over it, and that thrillingly shows how the West can be magnificently won by Hollywood.
    Miles Beller, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
Noun
  • In a third, detainees can be seen — foreheads to the floor of an outdoor pen — as the Israeli national anthem plays and armed guards encircle them.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2026
  • The Four-Star hotel offers elegant rooms and attentive butlers to fill your every need, including providing cribs, high chairs and play pens.
    Katie Lara, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026

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“Scriptwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scriptwriter. Accessed 25 May. 2026.

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