LIST OF SCREENWRITERS

This is a 'list of screenwriters':

Contents

A–F

G–L

M–S

T–Z

A–F

★ J. J. Abrams: '', ''Armageddon'', ''Regarding Henry'', ''Alias'', ''Lost'', ''Felicity''

★ Woody Allen

★ John August: ''Go'', ''Titan A.E.'', ''Charlie's Angels'', ''

★ 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'', '', '', ''

★ 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''

★ Tom W. Blackburn

★ Bertrand Blier

★ Darren Lynn Bousman: (co-writer) ''Saw II'', (co-writer) ''Saw III''

★ Leigh Brackett: ''The Big Sleep'', ''Rio Bravo'', ''

★ Ray Bradbury: ''Moby Dick'', ''King of Kings''

★ Charlie Chaplin: ''The Gold Rush'', ''City Lights'', ''Modern Times'', ''The Great Dictator''

★ Paddy Chayefsky: ''Marty'', ''The Goddess'', ''The Hospital'', ''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''

★ Roald Dahl: ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang''

★ Frank Daniel

★ Frank Darabont: ''The Shawshank Redemption'', ''The Green Mile''

★ Delmer Daves: ''The Petrified Forest'', ''Love Affair'', ''A Summer Place''

★ I.A.L. Diamond

★ Robert Eagles : ''Los Angeles Negros (The Black Angels)'', ''Lily's Garden'', ''The Dwellers''

★ Nora Ephron

★ David M. Evans

★ Hampton Fancher: ''Blade Runner''

★ Timothy D. Fedorka: ''Taxi Driver'', ''Casino'', ''Goodfellas'', ''How To Eliminate Slaves In 10 Days''

★ Ketti Frings: ''Come Back, Little Sheba'', ''The File on Thelma Jordon''

G–L

★ Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel: ''Splash'', ''Parenthood'', ''City Slickers'', ''A League of Their Own''

★ Ernesto Gastaldi

★ William Goldman: ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'', ''All the President's Men'',

★ Akiva Goldsman

★ Michel Gondry

★ David Gow: (writer/director/producer): ''Steel Toes (2007 film)''

★ Cliff Green: ''Picnic At Hanging Rock''

★ James Gunn: ''Dawn of the Dead'' (2004), ''Slither'', ''Scooby-Doo''

★ Adam Hackbarth: ''Full-Time Ninjas''

★ Paul Haggis: ''Million Dollar Baby'', ''Crash'', ''Flags of Our Fathers''

★ Jake Hansen: ''The Payton Affair''

★ Shinobu Hashimoto, favorite screenwriter of Akira Kurosawa

★ Ben Hecht: ''Scarface'', ''His Girl Friday'', ''Notorious''

★ Brian Helgeland

★ John Hodge: ''Trainspotting, ''Shallow Grave'', ''A Life Less Ordinary''

★ Anthony Horowitz

★ 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: '', ''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''

M–S

★ 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

★ James Moran: ''Severance (film)''

★ Lisa Morton: ''Meet the Hollowheads'', ''Blood Angels''

★ Austin P. Newman: '', ''Forgotten Soul''

★ 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

★ John Ridley: ''Undercover Brother''

★ Lawrence Riley: ''Personal Appearance'' (play, basis for ''Go West, Young Man''), ''Ever Since Eve'', ''The Perfect Specimen'', ''On Your Toes'', ''You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith''

★ 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''

★ Sarah Rossetti

★ 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

★ Jane Shepard: "Freak City"

★ M. Night Shyamalan: ''The Sixth Sense'', ''Signs'', ''Unbreakable'', The Village (film), Lady in the Water, The Sixth Sense

★ Kevin Smith

★ Adam Smoluk

★ 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.

T–Z

★ 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''