scenarist

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At the time, few knew that the creators of Superman, the scenarist Jerry Siegel and the draughtsman Joe Shuster, were children of Jewish immigrants.

From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2020

For all of Sorrentino’s prodigious gifts as a scenarist, “Loro” is a disturbing movie, for all the wrong reasons and, despite its self-consciously arty pretensions, a breathtakingly callow one.

From Washington Post • Sep. 19, 2019

“The predilection of the director, producer and scenarist for the unusual in mood, background music and characterization makes this chase more confusing than suspenseful,” a film critic for The New York Times wrote in 1946.

From New York Times • May 26, 2016

The forty-eight-year-old black American playwright Tracey Scott Wilson is the real thing—a real scenarist with an ear and a solid sense of how to tell a story.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 13, 2015

Here Bradbury resurrects the place he knew as an entry-level scenarist.

From Time Magazine Archive