Poll: Greatest Screenwriters of All Time
Out of these 35 of the 100 greatest screenwriters of all time chosen by the working screenwriters according to Vulture, who is in your opinion the 'Greatest Screenwriter'? After voting, you may discuss the poll here.
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Billy Wilder
Notable Scripts: Double Indemnity (1944), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960). -
Ethan Coen
with Joel Coen Notable Scripts: Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), No Country for Old Men (2007), True Grit (2010). -
Robert Towne
Notable Scripts: Chinatown (1974), Shampoo (1975), Days of Thunder (1990), Mission: Impossible (1996). -
Quentin Tarantino
Notable Scripts: Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), Inglourious Basterds (2009). -
Francis Ford Coppola
Notable Scripts: Patton (1970), The Godfather (1972), The Conversation (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979). -
William Goldman
Notable Scripts: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), All the President’s Men (1976), The Princess Bride (1987), Misery (1990). -
Charlie Kaufman
Notable Scripts: Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Anomalisa (2015). -
Woody Allen
Notable Scripts: Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Midnight in Paris (2011). -
Nora Ephron
Notable Scripts: Silkwood (1983), When Harry Met Sally… (1989), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), You’ve Got Mail (1998). -
Ernest Lehman
Notable Scripts: Sweet Smell of Success (1957), North by Northwest (1959), West Side Story (1961), The Sound of Music (1965). -
Paul Schrader
Notable Scripts: Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), American Gigolo (1980), Affliction (1997). -
Oliver Stone
Notable Scripts: Scarface (1983), Platoon (1986), JFK (1991), Natural Born Killers (1994). -
Aaron Sorkin
Notable Scripts: A Few Good Men (1992), The Social Network (2010), Moneyball (2011). -
Paddy Chayefsky
Notable Scripts: Marty (1955), Paint Your Wagon (1969), The Hospital (1971), Network (1976). -
Spike Lee
Notable Scripts: Do the Right Thing (1989), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Chi-Raq (2015). -
George Lucas
Notable Scripts: American Graffiti (1973), Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002). -
Preston Sturges
Notable Scripts: The Lady Eve (1941), Sullivan’s Travels (1941), The Palm Beach Story (1942), The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944). -
Stanley Kubrick
Notable Scripts: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987). -
Paul Thomas Anderson
Notable Scripts: Boogie Nights (1997), Magnolia (1999), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), There Will Be Blood (2007). -
Frances Marion
Notable Scripts: The Scarlet Letter (1926), The Champ (1931) The Red Mill (1927), Camille (1936). -
Buck Henry
Notable Scripts: The Graduate (1967), What’s Up, Doc? (1972), To Die For (1995). -
Lawrence Kasdan
Notable Scripts: Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), The Big Chill (1983). -
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Notable Scripts: All About Eve (1950), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Guys and Dolls (1955), Cleopatra (1963). -
James L. Brooks
Notable Scripts: Terms of Endearment (1983), Broadcast News (1987), As Good As It Gets (1997), The Simpsons Movie (2007). -
Akira Kurosawa
Notable Scripts: Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), Yojimbo (1961), Ran (1985). -
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Notable Scripts: Heat and Dust (1983), A Room With a View (1985), Howards End (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993). -
David Mamet
Notable Scripts: The Untouchables (1987), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Wag the Dog (1997), Ronin (1998). -
Bo Goldman
Notable Scripts: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), Scent of a Woman (1992), City Hall (1996), Melvin and Howard (1980). -
Eric Roth
Notable Scripts: Forrest Gump (1994), The Insider (1999), Munich (2005), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). -
John Hughes
Notable Scripts: National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983), The Breakfast Club (1985), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1996), Home Alone (1990). -
Steven Zaillian
Notable Scripts: Schindler’s List (1993), Gangs of New York (2002), The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Moneyball (2011). -
James Cameron
Notable Scripts: Aliens (1986), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Titanic (1997), Avatar (2009). -
Nicole Holofcener
Notable Scripts: Lovely & Amazing (2001), Friends With Money (2006), Please Give (2010), Enough Said (2013). -
Callie Khouri
Notable Scripts: Thelma & Louise (1991), Something to Talk About (1995), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002). -
Alexander Payne
with Jim Taylor Notable Scripts: Citizen Ruth (1996), Election (1999), About Schmidt (2002), Sideways (2004).