Update: 2019 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 4 New Scripts, 24 Total

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.

Current total of 2019 scripts for download: 24. Newly added scripts: (4): Joker, Just Mercy, Motherless Brooklyn, and Richard Jewell.

After The Wedding (Sony Pictures Classics)

Avengers: Endgame (Disney Pictures)

Booksmart (United Artists)

Downton Abbey (Focus Features)

The Farewell (A24)

Frankie (Sony Pictures Classics)

Harriet (Focus Features)

A Hidden Life (Fox Searchlight)

How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Universal Pictures)

Hustlers (STX Films)

Joker (Warner Bros.)

Just Mercy (Warner Bros.)

Knives Out (Lionsgate)

The Last Black Man in San Francisco (A24)

The Lighthouse (A24)

Midsommar (A24)

Motherless Brooklyn (Warner Bros.)

Pain and Glory (Sony Pictures Classics)

Richard Jewel (Warner Bros.)

Rocketman (Paramount)

The Song of Names (Sony Pictures Classics)

Uncut Gems (A24) — link removed temporarily

Us (Universal Pictures)

Waves (A24)

You should download the scripts ASAP because these links have a way of disappearing.

To access 100+ movie scripts 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 2019? 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 2020. If a 2019 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.

Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis Series

Movie Script Scene-By-Scene Breakdowns

Here is the current slate of volunteers:

After the Wedding / Nikhil Kamkolkar
Booksmart / Andrew Semancik
The Farewell / Karen Dantas
Hustlers / Priya Gopal
The Lighthouse / Halil Akgündüz
Midsommar / Michael Duffey
Waves / Savanah Mears

Thanks to everyone who participates in this annual project! Please email me your scene-by-scene breakdowns by January 1, 2020: GITSblog@gmail.com.