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2024 Academy Award Nominated Screenplays - The 96th Oscars

Each year studios will post the screenplays (usually shooting scripts) of films that they are putting up for award consideration aka FYC scriots. For the past 20 years SimplyScripts has been tracking those scripts as they are posted by the studios. I encourage you to download those you find interesting for personal/educational use. They usually disappear after award season has concluded. Huge thanks to Richie Solomon and Barksid and Bob and SW and Matthew for the heads up on so many award season scripts.

1/10/24 - 54 scripts - Added Poor Things and Ferrari

Air - Undated, unspecified draft script by Alex Convery (Revisions by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon (Current Revisions by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Chris Tucker)) - hosted by: Amazon MGM Studios - in pdf format

AIR reveals the unprecedented partnership between rookie Michael Jordan and Nike to create the Air Jordan brand. It follows the gamble of an unconventional team, the uncompromising vision of a mother who knows her son's worth, and one of the greatest basketball phenoms of all time.



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All of Us Strangers - Undated, unspecified draft script by Andrew Haigh (Based on the novel "Strangers" by Taichi Yamada) - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

A screenwriter drawn back to his childhood home enters into a fledgling relationship with a mysterious neighbor as he then discovers his parents appear to be living just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.



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American Fiction - Undated, unspecified draft script by Cord Jefferson (Based upon the novel 'Erasure' by Percival Everett) - hosted by: Amazon MGM Studios - in pdf format

It is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture's obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish "Black" book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.



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Anatomy Of A Fall (anatomie d'une chute) - February 16, 2022, unspecificed draft script by Justine Triet & Arthur Harari - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

The story begins when Samuel is found dead in the snow outside the isolated chalet where he lived with his wife Sandra, a German writer, and their partially-sighted 11-year-old son Daniel. An investigation leads to a conclusion of "suspicious death": it's impossible to know for sure whether he took his own life or was killed. Sandra is indicted, and we follow her trial which pulls the couple's relationship apart. Daniel is caught in the middle: between the trial and their home life, doubts take their toll on the mother-son relationship.

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Are You There God? It's Me Margaret - January 23, 2021, unspecified draft script by Kelly Fremon Craig (Based on the novel by Judy Blume) - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

Margaret Simon is just 11 going on 12 when her family moves from New York City to Fartbrook, New Jersey. Margaret's mother is Christian and her father is Jewish. Margaret has been raised without an affiliation to either faith, and does not practice an organized religion, although she frequently prays to God in her own words, beginning by saying, "Are you there God? It's me, Margaret." She is beginning to feel uncomfortable with her lack of a religious affiliation. For a school assignment, she chooses to study people's religious beliefs, hoping to resolve the question of her own religion in the process. Part of her study involves attending different places of worship to better understand religious practice and also to see if one of them might be right for her. She enjoys spending time with her Jewish paternal grandmother, Sylvia Simon, who loves her as she is, and hopes Margaret will embrace Judaism after taking her to her synagogue for Rosh Hashanah services.

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Asteriod City - Undated, unspecified draft script by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

Following a writer on his world famous fictional play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to small rural Asteroid City to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to have his world view disrupted forever.



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Barbie - Undated, unspecified draft script by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach - hosted by: Warner Bros - in pdf format

Barbie suffers a crisis that leads her to question her world and her existence.







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Blackberry - Undated shooting draft script by Matt Johnson & Matthew Miller (Based on, "Losing the Signal" by Jacquie McNish & Sean Silcoff) - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

A company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of Silicon Valley. This is not a conventional tale of modern business failure by fraud and greed. The rise and fall of BlackBerry reveals the dangerous speed at which innovators race along the information superhighway.



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Bottoms - April 14, 2022 blue revised draft script by Rachel Sennott & Emma Seligman - hosted by: Amazon MGM Studios - in pdf format

After they accidently injure their High School's star quarterback Jeff by hitting him with a car, transforming them from awkward outcasts to overnight celebrities, best friends PJ and Josie concoct an elaborate lie about having spent time in a juvenile correction facility over the summer and, along with their equally awkward friend Hazel and teacher Mr G, start a self defense club for women in an attempt to lose their virginities to Brittany and Isabel, the cheerleaders they have crushes on.

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The Burial - 4/22/2022 - Green Revised draft script by Doug Wright and Maggie Betts (Story by Doug Wright (Based on The New Yorker Article by Jonathan Harr)) - hosted by: Amazon MGM Studios - in pdf format

Inspired by true events, when a handshake deal goes sour, funeral home owner Jeremiah O'Keefe enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary to save his family business. Tempers flare and laughter ensues as the unlikely pair bond while exposing corporate corruption and racial injustice in this inspirational, triumphant story.

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Cassandro - Undated, unspecified draft script by David Teague and Roger Ross Williams - hosted by: Amazon MGM Studios - in pdf format

Saul Armendariz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso, rises to international stardom after he creates the character Cassandro, the "Liberace of Lucha Libre." In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world, but also his own life. Based on a true story.




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The Color Purple - October 31, 2023 draft script by Marcus Gardley (Based on the novel by Alice Walker (Based on the Musical Stage Play, Book (of the Musical Stage Play) by Marsha Norman Music & Lyrics by Brenda Russell Allee Willis Stephen Bray)) - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

A woman faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.




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Creed III - February 23, 2022 green revised draft script by Keenan Coogler and Zach Baylin (Story by Ryan Coogler and Keenan Coogler & Zach Baylin) - hosted by: Amazon MGM Studios - in pdf format

After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has been thriving in both his career and family life. When childhood friend and former boxing prodigy Damian resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damian--a fighter who has nothing to lose.

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Dream Scenario - Undated final draft script by Kristoffer Borgli - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

A hapless family man finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. When his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom.



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Dumb Money - Undated, unspecified draft script by Rebecca Angelo & Lauren Schuker Blum (Based on The Anti-Social Network, by Ben Mezrich) - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

Dumb Money is the ultimate David vs. Goliath tale, based on the insane true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop into the world's hottest company. In the middle of everything is regular guy Keith Gill, who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and posting about it. When his social posts start blowing up, so does his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich - until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.

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Eileen - December 2021 shooting draft script by Luke Goebel and Ottessa Moshfegh (Based on EILEEN, by Ottessa Moshfegh) - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

The stagnant waters of Eileen's dull, stifled life as a solitary worker at a juvenile detention center in 1960s Boston, are unexpectedly disrupted when the institution brings in a new psychologist, the vibrant Rebecca. The fervent enthusiasm that blossoms between the two women almost immediately gives way to a closer relationship, until their fragile connection takes a dramatic turn.

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Elemental - Undated, unspecified draft script by John Hoberg & Kat Likkel, Brenda Hsueh (Original Story by Peter Sohn, John Hoberg & Kat Likkel, Brenda Hsueh) - hosted by: The Walt Disney Studios - in pdf format

The film journeys alongside an unlikely pair, Ember and Wade, in a city where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together. The fiery young woman and the go-with-the-flow guy are about to discover something elemental: how much they actually have in common.

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Fair Play - Undated, unspecified draft script by Chloe Domont - hosted by: Netflix - in pdf format

Hot off the heels of their new engagement, thriving New York couple Emily and Luke can't get enough of each other. When a coveted promotion at a cutthroat financial firm arises, supportive exchanges between the lovers begin to sour into something more sinister. As the power dynamics irrevocably shift in their relationship, Luke and Emily must face the true price of success and the unnerving limits of ambition.

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Ferrari - Undated, unspecified draft script by Troy Kennedy Martin (Michael Mann revised draft) - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

Set in the summer of 1957, with Enzo Ferrari's auto empire in crisis, the ex-racer turned entrepreneur pushes himself and his drivers to the edge as they launch into the Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy.



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Fingernails - February 10, 2022 unspecified draft script by Christos Nikou, Sam Steiner, and Stavros Raptis - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

Anna increasingly suspects that her relationship with her longtime partner may not actually be the real thing. In an attempt to improve things, she secretly embarks on a new assignment working at a mysterious institute designed to incite and test the presence of romantic love in increasingly desperate couples.


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Flamin' Hot - July 19, 2021 full green revised script by Lewis Colick and Linda Yvette Chávez - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

This is the inspiring true story of Richard Montañez who, as a Frito Lay janitor, disrupted the food industry by channeling his Mexican heritage to turn Flamin' Hot Cheetos from a snack into an iconic global pop culture phenomenon.



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Flora and Son - Janurary 8, 2022 blue revised shooting draft script by John Carney - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

Single mom Flora is at a loss about what to do with her rebellious teenage son, Max. Encouraged by the police to find Max a hobby, Flora tries to occupy him with a beat-up acoustic guitar. With the help of a washed-up LA musician, Flora and Max discover the transformative power of music.


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Foe - 13th April, 2022, unspecified draft script by Iain Reid & Garth Davis (Based on FOE, by Iain Reid) - hosted by: Amazon MGM Studios - in pdf format

On a secluded farm in an apocalyptic world, Hen and Junior's quiet life descends into turmoil when an uninvited stranger appears with a startling proposal. Based on the novel, FOE is a portrait of marriage and identity that explores the nature of humanity, real and artificial.



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Freud's Last Session - Undated, unspecified draft script by Mark St. Germain and Matthew Brown (adapted from Mark St. Germain's play "Freud's Last Session") - hosted by: Sony Classics - in pdf format

The movie's story sees Freud invite iconic author C.S. Lewis to debate the existence of God. And his unique relationship with his daughter, and Lewis' unconventional relationship with his best friend's mother.



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A Haunting in Venice - Undated, unspecified draft script by Michael Green (based on the novel “Hallowe’en Party” by Agatha Christie) - hosted by: The Walt Disney Studios - in pdf format

In post-World War II Venice, Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a seance. But when one of the guests is murdered, it is up to the former detective to once again uncover the killer.


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The Holdovers - Undated, unspecified draft script by David Hemingson - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

A cranky history teacher at a remote prep school is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a troubled student who has no place to go.






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The Iron Claw - Undated, unspecified draft script by Sean Durkin - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.


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John Wick: Chapter Four - January 28, 2022 Salmon revised draft script by Shay Hatten (Current Revisions by Michael Finch (Based on characters created by Derek Kolstad)) - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.


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Jules - Undated, unspecified draft script by Gavin Steckler - hosted by: Bleeckerstreet Media - in pdf format

Jules follows Milton who lives a quiet life of routine in a small western Pennsylvania town, but finds his day upended when a UFO and its extra-terrestrial passenger crash land in his backyard. Before long, Milton develops a close relationship with the extra-terrestrial he calls "Jules." Things become complicated when two neighbors discover Jules and the government quickly closes in. What follows is a funny, wildly inventive ride as the three neighbors find meaning and connection later in life - thanks to this unlikely stranger.

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The Killer - Post October 4, 2022 Final draft script by Andrew Kevin Walker (based upon the graphic novel by MATZ) - hosted by: Netflix - in pdf format

A man solitary and cold, methodical and unencumbered by scruples or regrets, the killer waits in the shadows, watching for his next target. And yet the longer he waits, the more he thinks he's losing his mind, if not his cool. A brutal, bloody and stylish noir story of a professional assassin lost in a world without a moral compass, this is a case study of a man alone, armed to the teeth and slowly losing his mind.

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Killers Of The Flower Moon - August 10, 2022, Final Shooting Draft script by Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese (Based on "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI" by David Grann) - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one - until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.




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Landscape With Invisible Hand - January 9, 2020 Production Scene-Numbered Draft script by Cory Finley (Based on the Book by M.T. Anderson) - hosted by: Amazon MGM Studios - in pdf format

When an occupying alien species' bureaucratic rule and advanced technology leaves most of Earth impoverished and unemployed, two teenagers hatch a risky plan to ensure their families' futures.



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Maestro - Undated, unspecified draft script by Bradley Cooper & Josh Singer - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

Maestro tells the complex love story of Leonard and Felicia, a story that spans over 30 years-from the time they met in 1946 at a party and continuing through two engagements, a 25 year marriage, and three children: Jamie Bernstein, Alexander Bernstein and Nina Bernstein Simmons.



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May December - Undated, unspecified draft script by Samy Burch (Story by Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik) - hosted by: Netflix - in pdf format

Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.




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Memory - April 29, 2022 unspecified draft script by Michel Franco - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past.



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A Million Miles Away - Undated, unspecified draft script by Alejandra Márquez, Abella Hernán Jiménez, Bettina Gilois - hosted by: Amazon MGM Studios - in pdf format

A biopic about Jose Hernandez and his path from a farm worker to becoming an engineer and an astronaut. A tale of perseverance, community and sacrifice to accomplish a seemingly impossible dream.



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The Miracle Club - June 2, 2022 (updated July 19, 2022) Shooting draft script by Jimmy Smallhorne, Timothy Prager & Josh Maurer - hosted by: Sony Classics - in pdf format

Ballygar, Ireland, 1967. A hard-knocks community in outer Dublin marches to its own beat, rooted in traditions of loyalty, faith and togetherness. There's just one tantalising dream for the women of Ballygar to taste freedom and escape the gauntlet of domestic life: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes. And with a little benevolent interference from their cheeky and rebellious priest, close friends Lily, Eileen, Dolly and Sheila are the 'lucky' few to win this ticket of a lifetime at their riotous local raffle night

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Napoleon - Undated, unspecified draft script by David Scarpa - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.



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Nimona - February 8, 2023 final draft script by Robert L. Baird & Lloyd Taylor - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

When a knight in a futuristic medieval world is framed for a crime he didn't commit, the only one who can help him prove his innocence is Nimona -- a mischievous teen who happens to be a shapeshifting creature he's sworn to destroy.





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Nyad - Undated, unspecified draft script by Julia Cox (Based on the book "Find a Way" by Diana Nyad) - hosted by: Netflix - in pdf format

A riveting chapter in the life of world-class athlete Diana Nyad. Three decades after giving up marathon swimming in exchange for a prominent career as a sports journalist, at the age of 60, Diana becomes obsessed with completing an epic swim that always eluded her: the 110 mile trek from Cuba to Florida, often referred to as the "Mount Everest" of swims. Determined to become the first person to finish the swim without a shark cage, Diana goes on a thrilling, four-year journey with her best friend and coach Bonnie Stoll and a dedicated sailing team.

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Oppenheimer - January 3, 2022, White Revised draft script by Christopher Nolan (based on the book American Prometheus: The Triumph And Tragedy Of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin) - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

A dramatization of the life story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who had a large hand in the development of the atomic bomb, thus helping end World War 2. We see his life from university days all the way to post-WW2, where his fame saw him embroiled in political machinations.

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Origin - Undated, unspecified draft script by Ava DuVernay (Inspired by Isabel Wilkerson's CASTE) - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

The unspoken system that has shaped America and chronicles how lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.




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The Persian Version - Undated, unspecified draft script by Maryam Keshavarz - hosted by: Sony Classics - in pdf format

When a large Iranian-American family gathers, a family secret is uncovered that catapults the estranged mother and daughter into an exploration of the past, and to discover they are more alike than they know.





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Poor Things - December 2023 final draft script by Tony McNamara (Based on the novel POOR THINGS by Alasdair Gray) - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

The incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.

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Priscilla - Undated, unspecified draft script by Sofia Coppola (Based on Elvis & Me by Priscilla Presley & Sandra Harmon) - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland, in this deeply felt and ravishingly detailed portrait of love, fantasy, and fame.

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Rustin - Undated, unspecified draft script by Julian Breece and Dustin Lance Black (Story by Julian Breece) - hosted by: Netflix - in pdf format

In 1963 Bayard Rustin ,a political activist is influenced by the the speeches, thoughts and actions of Martin Luther King. When given the task of organizing and coordinating a freedom march of around 100,000 people to the White House he puts his heart and soul into it. His enthusiasm and infectious energy motivates his co workers to put in their best resulting in a successful walk for Civil rights.

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Saltburn - September 20, 2022 pink revised draft script by Emerald Fennell - hosted by: Amazon MGM Studios - in pdf format

A student at Oxford University finds himself drawn into the world of a charming and aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family's sprawling estate for a summer never to be forgotten.



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Shayda - Undated, unspecified draft script by Noora Niasari - hosted by: Sony Classics - in pdf format

A young Iranian mother and her six-year-old daughter find refuge in an Australian women's shelter during the two weeks of the Iranian New Year (Nowruz).





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Shortcomings - August 6, 2022 salmon production draft script by Adrian Tomine (based on the book by Adrian Tomine) - hosted by: Sony Classics - in pdf format

Ben, a struggling filmmaker, lives in Berkeley, California, with his girlfriend, Miko, who works for a local Asian American film festival. When he's not managing an arthouse movie theater as his day job, Ben spends his time obsessing over unavailable blonde women, watching Criterion Collection DVDs, and eating in diners with his best friend Alice, a queer grad student with a serial dating habit. When Miko moves to New York for an internship, Ben is left to his own devices, and begins to explore what he thinks he might want.

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Undated, unspecified draft script by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller & Dave Callaham (Based on The collective work of thousands of writers and artists over the last sixty or so years) - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn's full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered.

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The Teachers' Lounge - Undated, unspecified draft script by Ilker Çatak & Johannes Duncker - hosted by: Sony Classics - in pdf format

When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.




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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - Undated, unspecified draft script by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and Jeff Rowe, Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit (Story by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and Jeff Rowe, Brendan O'Brien) - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtles set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. But they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.



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Wonka - October 1, 2023 draft script by Simon Farnaby & Paul King (Story by Paul King (Based on characters created by Roald Dahl)) - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.





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The Zone of Interest - Undated, unspecified draft script by Jonathan Glazer (Based on the novel by Martin Amis) - hosted by: Deadline - in pdf format

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.





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