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
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Noun
  • Michael Montemayor, the rising screenwriter with a growing social media following, has signed with CAA.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Kai Ko is separately working on a second directorial project with a new screenwriter and said the film would likely arrive in 2027 if the script comes together.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Associated Press writer David McHugh in Frankfurt, Germany, contributed to this report.
    Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • When the student was identified as White, the feedback more often focused on argument structure, evidence and clarity — the kinds of comments that can push writers to strengthen their ideas.
    Rachel del Guidice, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In classical Athens the playwright Aristophanes attacked purveyors of knowledge for being intellectually untrustworthy, essentially deceitful.
    Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Đỗ is a Vietnamese American playwright and a second-year UCSD MFA playwriting student.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The debate centers on alternate theories proposing that Shakespeare was a front for the real dramatist (or dramatists).
    Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The dramatist’s mode is broader and brasher, calculated for the sweep of the stage rather than the close-up, with splashes of color and humor that can verge on camp.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 31 Mar. 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 fact, there’s no pen or paper, either.
    Jocelyn Gecker, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The visual, which was edited by Mikayla LoBasso, was filmed inside of a stationery store, featuring the song’s lyrics written with different pens on paper scattered throughout the store.
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2026

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“Scriptwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scriptwriter. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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