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List of screenwriters
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This is a list of screenwriters:
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- J. J. Abrams: Mission: Impossible III, Armageddon, Regarding Henry, Alias, Lost, Felicity
- Woody Allen
- John August: Go, Titan A.E., Charlie's Angels, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
- Alan Ball: American Beauty, Six Feet Under
- Ronald Bass: Rain Man, The Joy Luck Club, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, What Dreams May Come
- Stuart Beattie Collateral, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
- David Benioff: 25th Hour, Troy
- Robert Benton: Bonnie and Clyde, Kramer vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart
- Shane Black: Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout, Last Action Hero
- Bertrand Blier
- Darren Lynn Bousman: (co-writer) Saw II, (co-writer) Saw III
- Leigh Brackett: The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
- Ray Bradbury: Moby Dick, King of Kings
- Charlie Chaplin: The Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times, The Great Dictator
- Paddy Chayefsky: Network
- Larry Cohen : Phone Booth, Cellular
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Cameron Crowe: Singles, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Almost Famous, Vanilla Sky, Elizabethtown, Jerry Maguire
- Richard Curtis: Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Mr. Bean
- Frank Daniel
- Frank Darabont: The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile
- Delmer Daves: The Petrified Forest, Love Affair, A Summer Place
- I.A.L. Diamond
- Nora Ephron
- David M. Evans
- Hampton Fancher: Blade Runner
- Ketti Frings: Come Back, Little Sheba, The File on Thelma Jordon
- Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel: Splash, Parenthood, City Slickers, A League of Their Own
- Ernesto Gastaldi
- William Goldman
- Akiva Goldsman
- Michel Gondry
- Cliff Green: Picnic At Hanging Rock
- James Gunn: Dawn of the Dead (2004), Slither, Scooby-Doo
- Adam Hackbarth: Darkworld
- Paul Haggis: Million Dollar Baby, Crash, Flags of our Fathers
- Shinobu Hashimoto, favorite screenwriter of Akira Kurosawa
- Ben Hecht
- Brian Helgeland
- John Hodge: Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, A Life Less Ordinary
- Sidney Howard
- Lew Hunter: World-renowned screenwriting instructor who teaches screenwriting for MFA students at UCLA. He also facilities screenwriting workshops in Nebraska and publishes screenwriting books.
- Stephen Hyde
- Lawrence Kasdan: Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, The Big Chill
- Charlie Kaufman: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation., Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Being John Malkovich, Human Nature
- James Kearns
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Chris Kobin
- David Koepp
- Kadri Kousaar
- Hanif Kureishi: My Beautiful Laundrette
- Ring Lardner, Jr.
- Spike Lee
- Ernest Lehman: Sabrina, Executive Suite, North by Northwest, The Sweet Smell of Success
- Tracy Letts: Bug
- John Logan
- Anita Loos
- Sahara Lotti
- George Lucas: Star Wars, American Graffiti, Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Rod Lurie: Deterrence, The Contender
- Kurt Luedtke: Absence of Malice, Out of Africa
- Michael MacLennan: Queer as Folk, Anne of Green Gables
- Jeanie MacPherson
- Jeff Maguire
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- David Mamet
- Herman J. Mankiewicz
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- William Marchant: Armchair Theatre
- Frances Marion
- Nancy Meyers: Something's Gotta Give (film)
- Herman Miller
- Walter Newman
- Jafar Panahi
- Alexander Payne: Citizen Ruth, Jurassic Park III, Election, About Schmidt, Sideways
- David Peoples: Blade Runner, Twelve Monkeys, Ladyhawke
- Harold Pinter
- Joe Randazzo
- Michael Radford
- Mike Rich
- Robert Riskin: It Happened One Night, Lost Horizon
- Guy Ritchie
- Bruce Robinson: The Killing Fields, Withnail and I
- Phil Alden Robinson: Field of Dreams, All of Me, Sneakers
- Kenneth Ross: The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File
- Kenneth G. Ross: Breaker Morant, Out of the Body, Dancing on Glass
- Frederica Sagor Maas
- Derek Rydall for Wildforce Rangers, Diamonds, No Turning Back and Beethoven 1 1/2
- John Sayles
- Paul Schrader: Taxi Driver, Raging Bull
- Rod Serling
- Robert Shane
- M. Night Shyamalan: The Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable
- Kevin Smith
- Steven Soderbergh
- Todd Solondz
- Stephen Sommers: The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, Van Helsing
- Aaron Sorkin: A Few Good Men, The American President, Sports Night, The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
- Stewart Stern: Sybil, Rachel, Rachel. The Ugly American
- Oliver Stone: JFK, The Doors, Alexander
- Peter Stone
- Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Shakespeare in Love
- J. Michael Straczynski: Creator and writer of most of Babylon 5. He also wrote The Complete Book of Scriptwriting, a well regarded and often used guide for beginning screenwriters.
- Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Kill Bill: Vol. 2
- Robert Towne: The Last Detail, Chinatown, Shampoo
- Dalton Trumbo
- David N. Twohy: The Fugitive, G.I. Jane, Pitch Black
- Randall Wallace: Braveheart, Pearl Harbor, We Were Soldiers
- Merlin Ward: Out of Bounds (2004 film)
- Leigh Whannell: Saw, (co-writer) Saw II, (co-writer) Saw III
- Joss Whedon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Toy Story, Titan A.E., Firefly
- Jeffrey R Williams: Angel Amongst Us, In the Face of It
- Michael Wilson
- Charles Wood
- Rafael Yglesias: Fearless, Death and the Maiden, Les Miserables
- Philip Yordan
- Steven Zaillian: Awakenings, Schindler's List, Searching for Bobby Fischer