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
  • In the decade since his first comedy special, Nanjiani has been a TV star, an Oscar-winning screenwriter, even a member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
    Rachel Brodsky, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
  • The undergrad acting program offers an annual showcase and other industry connections, including having Oscar-winning screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney as a visiting professor.
    Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 25 May 2026
Noun
  • The former president’s conversations with a ghost writer helping to write his memoir were collected as part of a probe into his handling of classified documents.
    Perry Stein, Washington Post, 27 May 2026
  • This transformation happened around the time the idea of becoming a writer had gained escape velocity in my mind.
    Ian Mackenzie, Literary Hub, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • Text assembled by the playwright Anna Deavere Smith voices the sentiments of past dancers while the current Ailey crew demonstrates its strength.
    Zoë Hopkins, New Yorker, 29 May 2026
  • Highlights include a world premiere starring acclaimed actress Judith Ivey, a fresh take on Jane Austen by popular playwright Ken Ludwig and an autobiographical one-woman show by Broadway performer Sharone Sayegh.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 28 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
  • More recently, CalRx provided $50 million in funding to the non-profit drug manufacturer Civica to produce insulin pens, which are now available for $11 each, or $55 for a five-pack.
    Wayne T Brough, Oc Register, 29 May 2026
  • The multidose Ozempic and Zepbound pens actually do allow for dosing flexibility.
    Jody Dushay, STAT, 29 May 2026

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