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The first Oscar for Best Original Screenwriting, awarded during a brisk fifteen-minute ceremony that took place over the clinking sounds of dinner in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel ...

Each fall, students squeeze between tables at the first Student Organization Fair of the year, listening to pitches from Northwestern’s prestigious clubs with claims of famous alumni and decades of ...

Choosing to become a screenwriter is one of the biggest life decisions you’ll ever make. It takes hard work, discipline, and a willingness to hear a lot of people tell you “No” before finally hearing ...

The Drexel Westphal Screenwriting & Playwriting Program guides emerging artists in their pursuit of a career writing for the stage or screen. Our discipline is about writing for production – rather ...

This article originally appeared in the July 1991 issue of Esquire. To read every Esquire story ever published, upgrade to All Access. Several years ago my five-year-old daughter bounced into my study ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List will open submissions for the 2025 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting via its website at 9 a.m. PDT on May 15. The widely known ...

George Lucas defied many of the commandments of screenwriting, so why is the Star Wars saga so memorable? We ask a script expert. Richard Trenholm Former Movie and TV Senior Editor Richard Trenholm ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Why do we tell stories, and how are they crafted? In this series, we unpick the work of the writer on both page ...

EXCLUSIVE: Kate Winslet discusses how her son's screenwriting school project led to her directing debut in Goodbye June, which she also stars in.