Synonyms of screenplays

screenplays

noun

plural of screenplay

as in scripts

the written form of a story prepared for film production

each actor will be given a copy of the screenplay to study

Synonyms & Similar Words

• scripts
• scenarios
• texts
• stories
• shooting scripts

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of screenplays

His subsequent screenplays for Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha (1989), Kadavu (1991), Sadayam (1992), and Parinayam (1994), each won the national award for best screenplay, the most awards for anyone in the screenplay category. —Denise Petski, Deadline, 26 Dec. 2024

Those screenplays never seemed to fully translate what Brazil was becoming [in those years]. —Damon Wise, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2024

His movies and screenplays are baked into our culture, our daily conversations, like mortar. —Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024

The 2024 Black List 20th Celebration Photo Gallery The 20th edition of the Black List spanned 83 screenplays from 91 writers, up from last year’s count of 76 feature screenplays by 80 writers. —Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2024

The movie is set to be written by John Hamburg, who wrote the screenplays for the original 2000 movie Meet the Parents as well as its sequels Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers. —Tommy McArdle, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024

See the full list of screenplays below, as separated by genre. —Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 10 Dec. 2024

The performer earned Oscar nominations for his performance in The Trial of the Chicago 7 and for his work on the screenplays for Borat and its 2020 sequel. —Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024

Quentin Tarantino writes the first drafts of his screenplays longhand; Neal Stephenson wrote The Baroque Cycle, a series of eight books set in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a fountain pen. —Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024