Read the 2021 Oscar-Nominated Screenplays

Read the 2021 Oscar-Nominated Screenplays

Read the 2021 Oscar-Nominated Screenplays

Alan C. Baird
Alan C. Baird
4 years ago

The 93rd annual Academy Awards are scheduled to air live on ABC on Sunday, April 25, from multiple locations, including the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay were announced on March 15.

Click the titles below and download the scripts you find interesting - these links will expire soon!

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Judas and the Black Messiah

Screenplay by Will Berson & Shaka King
Story by Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas

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Minari

Written by Lee Isaac Chung

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Promising Young Woman

Written by Emerald Fennell

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Sound of Metal

Screenplay by Darius Marder & Abraham Marder
Story by Darius Marder & Derek Cianfrance

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The Trial of the Chicago 7

Written by Aaron Sorkin

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ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Peter Baynham & Erica Rivinoja & Dan Mazer & Jena Friedman & Lee Kern
Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Nina Pedrad

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The Father

Screenplay by Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller

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Nomadland

Written for the screen by Chloé Zhao

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One Night in Miami...

Screenplay by Kemp Powers

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The White Tiger

Written for the screen by Ramin Bahrani

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Alan C. Baird

Alan C. Baird

Playwright, Screenwriter, Author, Filmmaker

Alan enjoys referring to himself in the third person, and was inordinately pleased when ABC-TV's "Max Headroom" series purchased his debut student film, widely hailed as "the most uncommercial piece of ____ in Michigan State's history." Born down east, he now lives just a stone's throw from Phoenix....

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