Sentence examples for screenplay from high-quality English sources.

• …Romero directed King’s screenplay for Creepshow (1982).

• We would say, ‘That’s another one for the screenplay.’ ”

• It's a great screenplay, but delivery and pace are a collaboration between director and performer.

• Marcy's screenplay Antonia and Jane was the first television film to be given cinematic distribution by Miramax and won a Gold Plaque award for best original screenplay at the 1991 Chicago Film Festival.

• It earned Kaufman his first Academy Award for best original screenplay.

• The following year Romero directed King’s screenplay for Creepshow (1982).

• Eight wrote the screenplay, and an overlapping group of four has story credit.

• Silkwood won Ephron her first Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay.

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• Silkwood won Ephron her first Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay.

• …it was produced as a film, for which Foote also wrote the Academy Award-nominated screenplay.

• Benton’s next project was cowriting the screenplay for Superman, which was directed by Richard Donner.

• Hopkins took home the award for best actor while Zeller and Hampton won the award for best adapted screenplay.

• In 1955 his screenplay for the widely acclaimed On the Waterfront won him an Academy Award for best story and screenplay.

• Waititi and Bong's screenplay wins meant both screenplay awards went to people of color for the first time in Oscar history.

• …wrote the screenplay for Malle’s Lacombe Lucien (1974), about a bored teenager who becomes an informer for the Gestapo during the German occupation of France.

• Bong won all four awards as writer, director, and producer on the film and the best original screenplay award was the first Oscar any South Korean film has ever won.

screenplay sentence examples

• With French film director Louis Malle, Modiano wrote the screenplay for Malle’s Lacombe Lucien (1974), about a bored teenager who becomes an informer for the Gestapo during the German occupation of France.

• Last week, the filmmaker Adam McKay received three Academy Award nominations—for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay—for “Vice,” his seriocomic bio-pic of the former Vice-President Dick Cheney.

• Strangelove (1964; Academy Award nominee for best screenplay), The Loved One (1965), The Cincinnati Kid (1966), Barbarella (1968), Easy Rider (1968; Academy Award nominee for best screenplay), and End of the Road (1969).

• Other openly gay Oscar winners over the years include Bill Condon (best adapted screenplay in 1998 for Gods and Monsters), Alan Ball (best original screenplay in 2000 for American Beauty) and John Schlesinger (best director in 1970 for Midnight Cowboy).