Below is a list I compiled of Academy Award nominated scripts that have been released by studios ahead of the Awards. The links go directly to the screenplays. To download either ctrl-click or right click on them and press Save As. You may want to rename them as they have some funky names as default.
All of these are perfectly legal to download for for your consideration and educational purposes. However, please do not re-upload or redistribute these in any way or risk the wrath of the studio. The only reason I am able to do this is due to the fact that I am just linking to the studio’s website.
Download them soon as the studios do not leave them online forever! Beast of the Southern Wild has already been taken down once!
- Amour
- Anna Karenina
- Arbitrage
- Argo
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
- Celeste and Jesse Forever
- Django Unchained
- Flight
- Frankenweenie
- Hitchcock
- Hyde Park On Hudson
- Les Misérables
- Life of Pi
- Lincoln
- Looper
- The Lorax
- The Master
- Middle of Nowhere
- Moonrise Kingdom
- Promised Land
- Quartet
- Rust and Bone
- The Sessions
- Smashed
- ParaNorman
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- The Silver Linings Playbook
- Snow White and the Huntsman
- Ted
- This is 40
- Wreck-It Ralph
- Zero Dark Thirty
Is there one you wish was released that isn’t? Which is your favorite movie from a writing standpoint? How about overall? Comment and let us know!
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-Tony
Thanks, Tony, it is greatly appreciated. BTW, I love Ireland. I don’t believe in reincarnation but if I did, I think I was celtic in a past life ;P
This is great, Tony, thank you. Do you have Safety Not Guaranteed?
Unfortunately they haven’t released the screenplay for that one yet. I will post an update if they do.
One of my top five of the year. Yes.
Cheers Tony! Las Vegas the land of the prolific screenwriters indeed.
MHS
And, definitely, Seven Psychopaths.
Yes!!! Thank you very Much Tony. I am a film makes as well, and it is always and honor to receive such screenplays form someone as yourself.
RJ Pucillo
can’t find Hitchcock anymore! Do you have it?