screenplay
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"They're the best of us," said Laverty, who won best screenplay at Cannes for Ken Loach's "I, Daniel Blake" and "The Wind that Shakes the Barley".
From Barron's • May 12, 2026
Anyone showing up for a film replete with big-budget pop spectacle will be thrown for a loop by Lowery’s dialogue-heavy screenplay.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026
Gadd was cast as the lead and wrote the screenplay.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
“You, Me & Tuscany” has a screenplay by Ryan Engle, whose previous credits include two Liam Neeson thrillers and a Dwayne Johnson killer-gorilla movie, which would make him a very surprising heir to Nora Ephron.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
Once both agreed, Marvin brought James Baldwin on board to write the script and Arnold Perl to modify the screenplay.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Vocabulary lists containing screenplay
Academy Awards, List 3
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