Update: 2018 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 15 New Scripts, 36 Total
It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.
It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.
As in years past, I will be tracking the year’s movie scripts as links become available.
UPDATE: Current total of 2018 scripts for download: 36. Newly added scripts: All Is True, Black Panther, Capernaum, Crazy Rich Asians, First Man, The Happy Prince, Mary Poppins Returns, Never Look Away, Puzzle, The Rider, Ruben Brandt, Collector, Spider-man: Into The Spider-Verse, Stan & Ollie, A Star is Born, The Wife.
22 July (Netflix)
All Is True (Sony Classics)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Netflix)
Beautiful Boy (Amazon)
BlacKkKlansman (Focus)
Black Panther (Disney) — Not a PDF, only readable online
Boy Erased (Focus)
Capernaum (Sony Classics)
Colette (Bleecker Street)
Crazy Rich Asians (Warner Bros.)
Destroyer (Annapurna)
Disobedience (Bleecker Street)
Eighth Grade (A24)
First Man (Universal)
First Reformed (A24)
The Front Runner (Sony)
The Happy Prince (Sony Classics)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna)
Leave No Trace (Bleecker Street)
Mary Poppins Returns (Disney)
Mary Queen of Scots (Focus Features)
Never Look Away (Sony Classics)
On the Basis of Sex (Focus Features)
Puzzle (Sony Classics)
A Quiet Place (Paramount)
The Rider (Sony Classics)
Roma (Netflix)
Ruben Brandt, Collector (Sony Classics)
The Sisters Brothers (Annapurna)
Sorry to Bother You (Annapurna)
Spider-man: Into The Spider-Verse (Sony)
Stan & Ollie (Sony Classics)
A Star is Born (Warner Bros.)
Vice (Annapurna)
What They Had (Bleecker Street)
The Wife (Sony Classics)
You should download the scripts ASAP because these links have a way of disappearing.
To access 100+ movie script made available by studios and production companies since 2009, go here.
Reading movie screenplays is absolutely critical to your development as a screenwriter. Along with watching movies and writing pages, it is a fundamental practice you should put into place. Make it a goal to read at least one movie script per week.
Where can you go to get access to many of the top movie scripts from 2018? Right here!
THESE SCRIPTS ARE FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY!
NOTE: Our annual Go Into The Story Script Read and Analysis series will begin in January 2019. If a 2018 movie script becomes available and you would like to read it and provide a scene-by-scene breakdown, let me know. This is a great tradition and provides a major benefit to the online screenwriting community.