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Recent Examples of screenwriter
Kevin Spacey made his return to the spotlight on Tuesday, comparing his plight to that of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.
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Vivian Kwarm, New York Daily News, 21 May 2025
Adapted from screenwriter Charlie Huston’s 2004 book of the same name, Caught Stealing rounds out its cast with performances from Liev Schreiber, Vincent D'Onofrio, Griffin Dunne, and Carol Kane.
—Emlyn Travis Published, EW.com, 21 May 2025
Filmmaker Eric Aronson spent 22 years in Hollywood as a screenwriter before moving back to his native Boston and deciding to take a new approach to movies.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 13 May 2025
The film, inspired by true stories, is written by screenwriters Eva Pauné and Mirjam Ziegler.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 May 2025
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Vivian Kwarm, New York Daily News, 21 May 2025
Adapted from screenwriter Charlie Huston’s 2004 book of the same name, Caught Stealing rounds out its cast with performances from Liev Schreiber, Vincent D'Onofrio, Griffin Dunne, and Carol Kane.
—Emlyn Travis Published, EW.com, 21 May 2025
Filmmaker Eric Aronson spent 22 years in Hollywood as a screenwriter before moving back to his native Boston and deciding to take a new approach to movies.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 13 May 2025
The film, inspired by true stories, is written by screenwriters Eva Pauné and Mirjam Ziegler.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for screenwriter
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Another event will feature the camp-tastic Village People origin movie, Can’t Stop the Music, featuring a discussion with original scriptwriter Bruce Vilanch.—
Kimberly Nordyke,
HollywoodReporter,
15 May 2025
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The award-winning actor remains the only artist in Golden Horse Awards history to have collected trophies for best actress, best scriptwriter and best director.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
15 May 2025
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Wright is a playwright, screenwriter and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, among other notable works.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
28 May 2025
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Later on, the English playwright Noël Coward and his partner John C. Wilson, a Broadway producer, owned the stately spread, and over the years, several stars of screen and stage used Pebbles as a summer getaway, including Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, and Richard Rodgers.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
28 May 2025
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The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board consists of Opinion Editor Steve Bousquet, Deputy Opinion Editor Dan Sweeney, editorial writers Pat Beall and Martin Dyckman, and Executive Editor Gretchen Day-Bryant.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
24 May 2025
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Connecting with fellow writers at the Northern California Writers’ Retreat provided both emotional support and practical knowledge.—
Jaclyn Westlake,
CNBC,
24 May 2025
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Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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White is simply too gifted a dramatist, and too acute an observer of human foibles, for these concerns to feel forced.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
11 Feb. 2025
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The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
22 June 2023
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Presumably these dynamics played better in scenarist Sarah Alderson’s original novel (which is set in Lisbon rather than Split).—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
3 Mar. 2022
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Inside was changa, DMT powder and vape pens, ketamine, LSD, MDMA, and mushrooms.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
22 May 2025
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In the living room her blankets made a body-nest on the sofa, layered with old tissues and legal pads scrawled with poems and open pens bleeding ink stains.—
Nicole Stanton,
Los Angeles Times,
19 May 2025
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“Screenwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/screenwriter. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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