scriptwriter

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Recent Examples of scriptwriter 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 Rounding out the cast is Nancy Olson as Betty Schaefer, a studio scriptwriter competing for Joe’s attention and affection, and Erich von Stroheim as Norma’s devoted butler Max, who once enjoyed earlier career success as Norma’s movie director during the silent film era. Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025 The Six Days of the Condor author — whose book became the Robert Redford film Three Days of the Condor and the current Max Irons TV series Condor — has published more than a dozen novels and three times that many short stories, and has also worked as a journalist and a scriptwriter for TV and film. Lizz Schumer, People.com, 16 July 2025 The growing awareness of feminism in the '70s spurred Houlihan's transformation from caricature to real person, but a lot of the change was due to Swit's influence on the scriptwriters. Arkansas Online, 31 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for scriptwriter
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Noun
  • First-time screenwriter Nora Garrett assembles a viper’s nest of academics and one star student, but no one is likable.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The American Independent Award will be decided by Juror #2 screenwriter Jonathan Abrams, TikTok film influencer Megan Cruz and Deadline senior film reporter Matt Grobar.
    Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This year, the four debut categories that make up the filmmaker new talent longlists include 12 first-time fiction feature directors, 13 first-time feature documentary directors, 16 first-time writers, and 16 breakthrough producers.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Palmer didn’t share her manuscript with anyone, including her husband, Estep Nagy, who is a writer.
    New York Times, New York Times, 17 Oct. 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
  • 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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