The Original Screenplay category at the 2026 Oscars is full of visionary works, from the melancholy of Blue Moon to the ...

Bugonia, Frankenstein, Hamnet, One Battle After Another, and Train Dreams are the 2026 Oscar nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay; which is the best?

Two of the easiest categories to predict on Oscar night are right here, and have been months. Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is the first screenplay to sweep all precursors ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with writer-director Cord Jefferson‘s feature film debut American Fiction. Adapted from Percival ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Yorgos Lanthimos‘ Poor Things, the darkly comedic genre-bender penned by Tony McNamara that marks ...

The Best Original Screenplay race is full of frontrunners for a Best Picture nomination, but there's still a little room for a smaller film. To say the Best Original Screenplay category is competitive ...

The screenplay, the foundation of filmmaking, is an essential element to study and soak in to learn what formed the backbone of your favorite films. While home video releases and streaming platforms ...

In an emotional acceptance speech at the 2018 Oscars, writer-director Jordan Peele said he nearly stopped scripting his debut feature, Get Out, 20 times, because he thought it was an impossible film ...

Every year when the Oscar nominations are announced, I have fun keeping an eye out for a particularly rare phenomenon: the “lone screenplay” nominee—that is, a movie that’s recognized only in the ...