Read The Screenplay Series

Deadline’s annual Read the Screenplay series highlights the scripts for the year’s buzziest awards-season movies. This year, we snagged all 10 Oscar-nominated adapted and original screenplays as chosen by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Click on the cover pages below to catch up on…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year's most talked-about scripts continues with Barbie, a cultural phenomenon that became 2023's highest-grossing film at $1.45 billion worldwide. It's also got eight Oscar nominations, including for Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach's screenplay, which A…

On her first feature film try, Celine Song struck gold with the time-hopping romantic drama Past Lives. A24’s semi-autobiographic pic netted two key nominations at this year's Oscars, for Best Picture and Song’s Original Screenplay — a huge coup for the tiny feature that debuted at last year's…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominations will be announced Tuesday morning, and expected to be strong contenders in the Screenplay categories are Golden Globe winner and BAFTA nominee Anatomy of a Fall in Originals and newly minted Adapted Screenplay BAFTA nominees Poor…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Elemental, the Pixar pic directed by Peter Sohn. Launching with a world premiere as the closing-night film at May’s Cannes Film Festival, Elemental was penned by John Hoberg & Kat Likkel and Brenda…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year's most talked-about scripts continues with Michael Mann's high-octane sports feature Ferrari, which was two decades in the making. Speaking at Deadline's Contenders London event last fall, the director admitted there were times he thought…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year's most talked-about scripts continues with Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, the darkly comedic genre-bender penned by Tony McNamara that marks a reunion of the Greek filmmaker with McNamara and star Emma Stone after 2018’s Oscar-nominated The Favour…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer’s historical drama that was inspired loosely by Martin Amis’ 2014 novel of the same name set outside the walls of Auschwitz during the Holocaust. The A24 film…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with The Iron Claw, which tells the saga of the wrestling Von Erich family in two hours. It begins with Fritz Von Erich (Holt McCallany), who wrestled in the ’60s. When they were old enough, Fritz got…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Napoleon, David Scarpa’s screenplay that fuels Ridley Scott’s historical epic starring Joaquin Phoenix. The screenplay details the rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor, forming the skeleton…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year's most talked-about scripts continues with The Color Purple, directed by Blitz Bazawule and written by Marcus Gardley. The music-filled film boasts a stacked cast including Fantasia Barrino, Danielle Brooks, Taraji P. Henson, Colman Domingo…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year's most talked-about scripts continues with writer-director Cord Jefferson’s feature film debut American Fiction. Adapted from Percival Everett's 2021 novel Erasure, American Fiction emerges as a hard-hitting commentary on identity…