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Category: Oscar-Nominated Scripts

Oscar-Nominated Scripts

‘Barbie’: Screenwriting Takeaways

February 10, 2024April 12, 2024

Logline of Barbie: To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken. Script Can Be Found Here Barbie Summary: After Helen Mirren narrates the origin story of the beloved doll (Margot Robbie), Barbie begins…

Oscar-Nominated Scripts

‘The Zone of Interest’: Screenwriting Takeaways

February 8, 2024April 12, 2024

Logline of The Zone of Interest: The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp. Script Can Be Found Here The Zone of Interest Summary: The Zone of Interest presents a…

Oscar-Nominated Scripts

‘American Fiction’: Screenwriting Takeaways

February 3, 2024April 12, 2024

Logline of American Fiction: Fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on offensive tropes, a frustrated novelist decides to write an outlandish “Black” book of his own, one that propels him to the heart of the hypocrisy he disdains. Script Can Be Found Here American Fiction…

Oscar-Nominated Scripts

‘The Holdovers’: Screenwriting Takeaways

January 27, 2024April 12, 2024

Logline of “The Holdovers”: A curmudgeonly instructor at a prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go.  Script Can Be Found Here Summary of “The Holdovers”:  It’s December 1970, and sourpuss teacher Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti) at…

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Charlotte Winters

Hi, I’m Charlotte Winters. As an award-winning screenwriter with an MFA from UCLA who associate produced a show on behalf of The History Channel, lectured at UCLA, and freelanced at WB and FX, I am a lifelong student of the screenplay. I founded this blog because I love reading and analyzing great movies.

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