Update!The Golden Globe Nominations are out. Only a few of the nominated scripts are online. I’m sure that will change.

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

Simon Beaufoy – Slumdog Millionaire
David Hare – The Reader (pdf) – From Weinstein Brothers
Peter Morgan – Frost/Nixon (pdf) – from Universal
Eric Roth – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (pdf) – from Paramount
John Patrick Shanley – Doubt (pdf) – from Miramax

Thanks to Mystery Man for the heads up on two FYC scripts from Overture Films.

There is The Visitor written and directed by Tom McCarthy wherein a widowed college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple, who turn out to be illegal immigrants, living in his apartment.

There is also Last Chance Harvey written and directed by Joel Hopkins about a rumpled man who finds his romantic spirits lifted by a new woman in his life.

All the FYC screenplays available thus far on the ‘net are over on the For Your Consideration (FYC) page. – Don

LA Film Critics Association named Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky” (pdf from Miramax) best screenplay. Charlie Kaufman’s, Synecdoche, New York (pdf from Sony Classics was named runner up. – Don

Sliver remake, The Firm remake, conspiracy murders and remake of Captain Blood.

An undated,unspecified draft of Revolutionary Road – The Kate and Leo rematch is up on the For Your Consideration page.

Revolutionary Road is based on the Richard Yates novel of the same name about a 1950s couple living in a Connecticut suburb struggling to come to terms with their personal problems – Don

The National Board announced yesterday their picks for the best of 2008.

On the screenwriting side, award for best adapted screenplay was shared by Eric Roth for Benjamin Button and Simon Beaufoy for Slumdog Millionaire. Gran Torino screenwriter, Nick Schenk, won for original script.

Slumdog and Benjamin Button have not been put online by the studios, yet. The Gran Torino script was up on the Warner Brothers for a short time, but was then pulled. You might, however, still be able to read it on Google cache.

Read about the other winners. – Don

Thanks “Juha” for the heads up on these scripts up for award consideration from Focus Films.

There is the Dustin Lance Black penned biopic Milk (Spirit Award nominee for Best First Screenplay) and the Coen Brother’s Burn After Reading.

These and a bunch of other scripts up for award consideration can be found on the For Your Consideration page. – Don

Thanks for the shout-out, John.

A couple of non-FYC scripts up. Thanks to JoBlo.com you can read the 2001 shooting script of Vanilla Sky which was based on the screenplay Abre Los Ojos by Alejandro Amenabar and Mateo Gil. And, thanks to the the definitive Coen Brothers fan site Coen Brothers, “You know, for the kids” you can read the unproduced script for To The White Sea based on the novel To The White Sea by James Dicky.

These would be on the Movie Scripts page. – Don

Three more FYC scripts up. These three are from Sony Classics. There is Kaufman’s Synecdoche which has been floating around the ‘net for some time now. There is Claudel’s Il y a longtemps que je t’aime and Lumet’s Rachel Getting Married.

All the FYC (For Your Consideration) scripts that are online are up on the For Your Consideration page. You can also find them on the Movie Scripts page.

Thanks to all members who have sent me heads up on the FYC scripts on the ‘net. It is much appreciated. If you’ve gotten a postcard with URLs for FYC scripts not listed, I would appreciate it if you’d drop me a line.

Thanks to The Screenwriters League and David Lemon (Jewel Thief. Ninja. Scriptwriter. Liar) for the shout-outs. – Don

Mr. Lemon, Faintheart script. Online. Anywhere. Hmm?