The Queen on a silver platter
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The inflow of screeners has slowed to a trickle, with only The Queen arriving this week. That makes nine screeners so far:
- The Queen
- Little Children
- Babel
- World Trade Center
- United 93
- Notes on a Scandal
- Flags of Our Fathers
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Thank You for Smoking
The Hollywood Reporter claims its FYC has screenplays for download, but I’ve yet to find one for any of the movies it features. If any readers find links to the screenplay contenders, please pass them along.
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January 6th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
quick q, do screeners come with covers and extras or netflix style? just curious.
January 6th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
I’m a Production Designer- it’s interesting to see the difference between the screeners I have received and the ones you’ve received. They must send them out at different times because some of the ones I’ve received I couldn’t imagine them not being considered for writing.
January 6th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
johnny:
Screeners generally come in normal (long) dvd cases, with less-fancy artwork. Often just the title. The DVDs have no menus. They just play.
January 7th, 2007 at 12:03 am
So essentially it’s just the film on a disc with no strategic marketing surrounding it in the form of menus and packaging?
That sounds awesome. I love simplicity. It forces the product (in this case, art) to shine on its own.
Though I’m still a huge fan of awesome DVD cover-art and menus. Pearl Harbor has an awesome menu screen. Seriously.
January 7th, 2007 at 6:02 am
Amen to that.
January 8th, 2007 at 12:35 am
John - I am a WGA member and I recieved all the screeners you have listed, PLUS Notes on a Scandle. Did you get left out on that one? I also recieved hardcopies of the scripts for…
Children of Men
Flags of our Fthaers
Dreamgirls
World Trade Center
The History Boys
Little Miss Sunshine
Thank you for Smoking
January 8th, 2007 at 12:36 am
sorry just saw you did get notes on a scandle; so much for paying attention. But you did ask for links to virtual files the noms… because you want to share them on the site?
January 8th, 2007 at 10:00 am
There may be an obvious answer to this (read: I’m about to ask a dumb question), but:
Do you have to be a WGA member to have access to the screenplays up for consideration?
I looked around the Hollywood Reporter’s FYC page too, and Googled a bit, and couldn’t find anything. I guess that’s my answer?
January 8th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
In terms of .pdfs, my hope is that anyone who wanted to read them could. Yes, they sell paperback copies of screenplays, but it’s not like anyone is getting rich on those. The film community would be much better served by making them freely available, which is why I’ve done that with all the scripts I control.
January 8th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
The case of the missing winning screenplays (in pdf format)
Some time roughly a year or so, I saw on what I remember as the Academy site, pdf’s of the winning screenplays for roughly the last 15-20 years (with minor exceptions.)
Like a fool I didn’t save copies, assuming they’d stay up or that I’d be able to google them as needed.
In the past few weeks I’ve been all over the Academy site (oscars.org) and I can’t find them anywhere. I’ve also searched at the WGA without success.
Was this a dream? Were all/almost all of the winning screenplays up somewhere major? Does anyone else remember this?
Thanks.
January 18th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
After hearing a great podcast interview with Jason Reitman and subsequently seeing the fim, I’d love to read the screenplay for “Thank You for Smoking.” Has anyone come across it online?