List of screenwriters

This is a list of screenwriters:

A–F

• J. J. Abrams: Mission: Impossible III, Armageddon, Regarding Henry, Alias, Lost, Felicity
• Woody Allen
• Jane Arden (film-director): Separation, The Other Side Of The Underneath, Vibration, Anti-Clock
• John August: Go, Titan A.E., Charlie's Angels, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
• Alan Ball: American Beauty, Six Feet Under
• Ronald Bass: Rain Man, The Joy Luck Club, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, What Dreams May Come
• Travis Beacham: Dog Days of Summer, [...] on Carnival Row
• Stuart Beattie Collateral, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
• David Benioff: 25th Hour, Troy
• Robert Benton: Bonnie and Clyde, Kramer vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart
• Charles Beaumont: The Twilight Zone, Queen of Outer Space
• Shane Black: Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout, Last Action Hero
• Tom W. Blackburn
• Bertrand Blier
• Darren Lynn Bousman: (co-writer) Saw II, (co-writer) Saw III
• Leigh Brackett: The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
• Ray Bradbury: Moby [...], King of Kings
• Dougie Brimson: Green Street
• Charlie Chaplin: The Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times, The Great Dictator
• Paddy Chayefsky: Marty, The Goddess, The Hospital, Network
• Larry Cohen : Phone Booth, Cellular
• Francis Ford Coppola
• A. J. Cronin: The Stars Look Down
• Cameron Crowe: Singles, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Almost Famous, Vanilla Sky, Elizabethtown, Jerry Maguire
• Richard Curtis: Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Mr. Bean
• Roald Dahl: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• Frank Daniel: Developer of the sequence paradigm of screenwriting.
• Frank Darabont: The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile
• Delmer Daves: The Petrified Forest, Love Affair, A Summer Place
• Darren DeBari and Greg Wilson "The College Murders" and "The Human Equation"(Acclaim Screenplay Contest Winner-2001)
• I.A.L. Diamond
• Robert Eagles : Los Angeles Negros (The Black Angels), Lily's Garden, The Dwellers
• Nora Ephron
• David M. Evans
• Josh Evans (film producer)
• Hampton Fancher: Blade Runner
• Timothy D. Fedorka: Taxi Driver, Casino, Goodfellas, How To Eliminate Slaves In 10 Days
• Chris Folino: Gamers: The Movie
• Ketti Frings: Come Back, Little Sheba, The File on Thelma Jordon
• Nick Oleksiw

G–L

• Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel: Splash, Parenthood, City Slickers, A League of Their Own
• Ernesto Gastaldi
• William Goldman: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men,
• Akiva Goldsman
• Michel Gondry
• David Gow: (writer/director/producer): Steel Toes (2007 film)
• Cliff Green: Picnic At Hanging Rock
• James Gunn: Dawn of the Dead (2004), Slither, Scooby-Doo
• Adam Hackbarth: Full-Time Ninjas
• Paul Haggis: Million Dollar Baby, Crash, Flags of Our Fathers
• Jake Hansen: The Payton Affair
• Shinobu Hashimoto, favorite screenwriter of Akira Kurosawa
• Ben Hecht: Scarface, His Girl Friday, Notorious
• Brian Helgeland
• John Hodge: Trainspotting,Shallow Grave,A Life Less Ordinary''
• Anthony Horowitz
• Sidney Howard
• Lew Hunter: World-renowned screenwriting instructor who teaches screenwriting for MFA students at UCLA. He also facilities screenwriting workshops in Nebraska and publishes screenwriting books.
• Stephen Hyde
• Lawrence Kasdan: Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, The Big Chill
• Charlie Kaufman: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation., Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Being John Malkovich, Human Nature
• James Kearns
• T.E. Kendall: Georgia Skies, Random Acts, Vertical Horizon
• Abbas Kiarostami
• Chris Kobin
• David Koepp
• Kadri Kousaar
• Hanif Kureishi: My Beautiful Laundrette
• Ring Lardner, Jr.
• Spike Lee
• Ernest Lehman: Sabrina, Executive Suite, North by Northwest, The Sweet Smell of Success
• Tracy Letts: Bug
• John Logan
• Anita Loos
• Sahara Lotti
• George Lucas: Star Wars, American Graffiti, Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Rod Lurie: Deterrence, The Contender
• Kurt Luedtke: Absence of Malice, Out of Africa

M–S

• Michael MacLennan: Queer as Folk, Anne of Green Gables
• Jeanie MacPherson
• Jeff Maguire
• Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• David Mamet
• Herman J. Mankiewicz
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• William Marchant: Armchair Theatre
• Frances Marion
• Richard Matheson: The Twilight Zone, The Incredible Shrinking Man
• Cheryl McKay: The Ultimate Gift
• Nancy Meyers: Something's Gotta Give (film)
• Herman Miller
• James Moran: Severance (film)
• Lisa Morton: Meet the Hollowheads, Blood Angels
• Austin P. Newman: Last Breath: The Movie, Forgotten Soul
• Walter Newman
• Jafar Panahi
• Alexander Payne: Citizen Ruth, Jurassic Park III, Election, About Schmidt, Sideways
• David Peoples: Blade Runner, Twelve Monkeys, Ladyhawke
• Harold Pinter
• Michael Radford
• Mike Rich
• John Ridley: Undercover Brother
• Lawrence Riley: Personal Appearance (play, basis for Go West, Young Man), Ever Since Eve, The Perfect Specimen, On Your Toes, You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith
• Robert Riskin: It Happened One Night, Lost Horizon
• Guy Ritchie
• Bruce Robinson: The [...] Fields, Withnail and I
• Phil Alden Robinson: Field of Dreams, All of Me, Sneakers
• Kenneth Ross: The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File
• Kenneth G. Ross: Breaker Morant, Out of the Body, Dancing on Glass
• Sarah Rossetti
• Frederica Sagor Maas
• Derek Rydall for Wildforce Rangers, Diamonds, No Turning Back and Beethoven 1 1/2
• Nancy Savoca
• John Sayles
• Paul Schrader: Taxi Driver, Raging Bull
• Rod Serling
• Robert Shane
• Jane Shepard: "Freak City"
• M. Night Shyamalan: The Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable, The Village, Lady in the Water, The Sixth Sense
• Andrew Slattery
• Kevin Smith
• Adam Smoluk
• Steven Soderbergh
• Todd Solondz
• Stephen Sommers: The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, Van Helsing
• Aaron Sorkin: A Few Good Men, The American President, Sports Night, The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
• Stewart Stern: Sybil, Rachel, Rachel. The Ugly American
• Oliver Stone: JFK, The Doors, Alexander
• Peter Stone
• Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Shakespeare in Love
• J. Michael Straczynski: Creator and writer of most of Babylon 5. He also wrote The Complete Book of Scriptwriting, a well regarded and often used guide for beginning screenwriters.

T–Z

• Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Kill Bill: Vol. 2
• Caroline Thompson: Edward Scissorhands, The Addams Family (movie)
• Robert Towne: The Last Detail, Chinatown, Shampoo
• Dalton Trumbo
• David N. Twohy: The Fugitive, G.I. Jane, Pitch Black
• Christopher J. Waild: ''Dog Days of Summer
• Randall Wallace: Braveheart, Pearl Harbor, We Were Soldiers
• Merlin Ward: Out of Bounds (2004 film)
• Leigh Whannell: Saw, (co-writer) Saw II, (co-writer) Saw III
• Joss Whedon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Toy Story, Titan A.E., Firefly''
• Jeffrey R Williams: Angel Amongst Us, In the Face of It
• Michael Wilson
• Edward D. Wood, Jr.: Plan 9 from Outer Space, Glen or Glenda?
• Charles Wood
• Rafael Yglesias: Fearless, Death and the Maiden, Les Miserables
• Philip Yordan
• Steven Zaillian: Awakenings, Schindler's List, Searching for Bobby Fischer

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