scriptwriter

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Recent Examples of scriptwriter The Japanese drama, based on the manga Mr. Ben and His Igloo, A View of the Seaside by Yoshiharu Tsuge, follows Lee, a scriptwriter who is processing what is happening in her life. Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 16 Aug. 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
  • The screenwriter, Nora Garrett, has achieved an amusingly florid Hollywood simulacrum—one that tilts into knowing parody—of an intensely self-regarding world.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Buzzy emerging screenwriter Morgan Lehmann has sold the pitch for an untitled WAGs comedy to Amazon MGM Studios‘ United Artists and Scott Stuber, Deadline has learned.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Coming after his success as a co-writer on partner Greta Gerwig’s billion-dollar hit Barbie (2023), Jay Kelly appears to signal a new chapter for the Baumbach, one less defined by fracture and regret than by celebration.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Every article is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors with extensive knowledge of personal finance.
    Brian Sloan, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Also like Lockwood, the narrator is working with a playwright to adapt a story about her family into a television series.
    Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Finley is an actor-playwright — a good one, too, having been recognized multiple times by the statewide Jerry Awards and Jerry Ensemble for excellence in high school musical theater.
    Kylie Volavongsa, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 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
  • So Lee and Marlon strike a deal — Lee’s freedom in exchange for his pen.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Or might a loss at Carolina next Sunday immediately spring open that pen and let the wolves back out full-throated?
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025

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