Sentence examples for screenplay from high-quality English sources.

• Screenplay, written text that provides the basis for a film production.

• Someone aiming to reënact this today would have to write a ten-million-dollar screenplay.

• To mount a serious best-picture bid, “1917” will need to earn nominations for its lean screenplay and at least one member of its ensemble.

• The film won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress, earned by Lupita Nyong'o.

• Foote won an Academy Award for his screenplay for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962).

• A screenplay usually reads much like a stage play, leaving details to the imagination.

• One was a screenplay for his creative-writing class, and he acted the way he thought writers should.

• Plus, it would be the first non-English screenplay to win since Pedro Almodóvar’s “Talk to Her,” in 2003.

Use screenplay in a sentence.

• He earned two Academy Awards for best adapted screenplay for the movies Sideways (2004) and The Descendants (2011).

• He also wrote a screenplay for and directed The Business of Fancydancing, based loosely on his book of the same name.

• It won the 1975 National Book Award, and Stone cowrote the screenplay for the film adaptation, Who’ll Stop the Rain (1978).

• Crichton directed several films, including Coma (1978), for which he also wrote the screenplay, and Physical Evidence (1989).

• The film won four Academy Awards, and the Coens received Oscars for best picture, best director, and best adapted screenplay.

• Fonseca also wrote the screenplay of the book for a feature film released in North America in 1991 bearing the title Exposure.

• The film was based on the novel The Moving Target (1949) by Ross Macdonald, and the screenplay was written by William Goldman.

• Despite riding on a poorly-written screenplay, Netflix’s very first Thai original series is palatable mainly for its winning cinematography.

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• The screenplay award was shared by the Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s “Happy as Lazzaro” and the Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s “3 Faces.”

• Sorkin’s lively dialogue and classical storytelling were seen as instrumental to the movie’s success, and he won an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay.

• Released in 1999, “Election” earned Payne and Taylor an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, and won Independent Spirit Awards for Best Feature, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.

• Among the few things about the film that have remained constant are the still-ravishing performances of three actors: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable and Hattie McDaniel -- their roles defined in Sidney Howard's screenplay in scenes and dialogue often taken directly from the book.