Over on the Unproduced scripts page are eight original scripts for your reading pleasure. Reach out to the writers if you are interested.

– Don

Grave Mistake (Short, Drama, Crime) pdf format) by David (eldave1) Lambertson

An Indian Chief steeped in tribal traditions must use modern technology to find the killer of his granddaughter.

Dave writes,

Filmamkers are inspirational.

He completed it and asked me what I thought – told him well done other than several scenes were too dark. He replied – I know. We don’t have electricity so there was no way to light the night scenes. This made me feel spoiled and humble at the same time.

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Over on the Unproduced Scripts page are eleven original scripts for your reading pleasure.

– Don

The One Week Challenge is a writing exercise wherein one is given a week to write a short script based on a writing prompt. This month,

“What if..?”

It’s an ordinary day, you’re minding your own business when, without even thinking, you do a good deed for someone. Something selfless. Simple. Maybe you paid it forward. Maybe you helped an old lady across the street. Whatever it is, you left someone better than when you found them. Now—

“What if..?”

The powers that be of the universe take notice of your good deed and decide, somehow, some way, to return the favor by offering you a gift. A gift of extraordinary proportions. A superpower. Any superpower you so desire. Lasers from your eyes or sparks from from your lips. Anything. No questions asked. With a gift this enticing, naturally, you accept, but—

“What if?”

After you’ve done your good deed and received your chosen superpower, this day, of all days, just happens to be the day the world is going to end. A disaster of cataclysmic magnitude is hours, maybe minutes, away, and you’re literally the only one who can stop it, and you must stop it with your newfound power. So…

What are you going to do?

Find out what thirteen writers decided to do on the Unproduced Scripts page this week.

– Don

ps, any interest in these scripts? Please reach out to me or wait until the authors’ names are revealed.

Best Adapted Screenplay
Women Talking – August 16, 2021 revised draft script by Sarah Polley (Based on the book by Miriam Toews) – hosted by: United Artists – in pdf format

Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave.

In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.

Information courtesy of IMDb

Best Original Screenplay
Everything Everywhere All At Once – November 20, 2022 ‘Evelyn’ shooting draft script by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – hosted by: No Film School – in pdf format

A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.

Information courtesy of IMDb

Everything Everywhere All At Once – December 18, 2017 ‘Jackie Chan’ draft script by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – hosted by: A24 – in pdf format

A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.

Information courtesy of IMDb

 
 
Read other 2023 Oscar nominated screenplays
Read winners through the years.

Thanks to Bob and Barksid for the heads up:

Top Gun: Maverick – undated, unspecified draft script by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie (Story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks (Based on Characters Created by Jim Cash & Jack Epps, Jr.)) – hosted by: Paramount – in pdf format

After thirty years, Maverick is still pushing the envelope as a top naval aviator, but must confront ghosts of his past when he leads TOP GUN’s elite graduates on a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those chosen to fly it.

Information courtesy of IMDb

More on the Scripts studios are posting for award consideration page.

A new “Scene vs Script” YouTube channel featuring several ‘scene vs script’ from some favorite films like, There’s Something about Mary, The Ring, The Fog and more.

Talk about it on the discussion board.

Blue Jean – undated, unspecified draft script by Georgia Oakley – hosted by: Deadline – in pdf format

England, 1988 – Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government is about to pass a law stigmatizing gays and lesbians, forcing Jean, a gym teacher, to live a double life. As pressure mounts from all sides, the arrival of a new girl at school catalyses a crisis that will challenge Jean to her core.

Information courtesy of IMDb

Here are the scripts nominated for writing awards at the The 95TH Academy Awards | 2023. Find more script of nominated films on the scripts of films up for award consideration. Edit: Thanks https://www.youtube.com/@deletedscenes for the heads up on an error.

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
The Banshees of Inisherin – June 29th, 2021 unspecified draft script by Martin McDonagh
Everything Everywhere All At Once – November 20, 2022 ‘Evelyn’ shooting draft script by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
The Fabelmans – undated, unspecified draft script by Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner
Tar – undated, unspecified draft script by Todd Field
Triangle of Sadness – August 31, 2020 green revised draft script by Ruben Östlund

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
All Quiet on the Western Front – Undated, unspecified draft by Ian Stokell, Lesley Paterson, Edward Berger (Based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque)
Glass Onion – undated, unspecified draft script by Rian Johnson
Living – Undated, unspecified draft script by Kazuo Ishiguro (Based on the original screenplay “IKIRU” by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni)
Top Gun: Mavrick by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie; Story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks
Women Talking – August 16, 2021 revised draft script by Sarah Polley (Based on the book by Miriam Toews)