Script Pipeline Competitors

The Black List is where moviemakers find great scripts to make and scripts find moviemakers to make them. It began as a survey. In 2005, Franklin Leonard surveyed almost 100 film industry development executives about their favorite scripts from that year that had not been made as feature films. That first list - many of which have been made since - can be viewed here. Since then the voter pool has grown to about 500 film executives, 60% of whom typically respond. Over 200 Black List screenplays have been made as feature films. Those films have earned over $16BN in worldwide box office, have been nominated for 148 Academy Awards, and have won 25, including Best Pictures SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE and THE KING'S SPEECH and five of the last ten screenwriting Oscars. A complete list of Black List films is below. In September 2012, we launched a membership site for industry professionals that functions as a real time Black List and screenplay recommendation engine. You can learn more here and sign up for membership here. In October 2012, we extended our mission further by allowing screenwriters from the world to, for a small fee, upload their scripts to our database, have them evaluated by professional script readers, and subject to that evaluation and our recommendation algorithm, sent to our - at present - over 1000 film industry professionals. You can begin the process of being discovered here.

Final Draft, a Cast & Crew Company, has published Final Draft® software – the number-one selling screenwriting application in the world – for 27 years. Final Draft automatically paginates and formats your script to industry standards, allowing writers to focus on what they do best – writing scripts. Used by such industry giants as J.J. Abrams, James Cameron and Aaron Sorkin, Final Draft software is the professional’s choice and the entertainment industry standard. In addition to its flagship software product, Final Draft offers the annual Big Break℠ Contest – a screenwriting competition that launches careers, and awards over $80,000 in cash and prizes. Final Draft also offers the Final Draft Mobile® app for iPhone and iPad, making creativity truly portable. To learn more about Final Draft and its products and services, visit: www.finaldraft.com

ScreenCraft is more than a screenwriting competition — we are career launchers that champion merit and collaborative development above all else. Through years of experience, we've cultivated a rich understanding of the film industry and identified which tools and resources will best serve writers in honing their skills and breaking into Hollywood. We believe in making the career development process more transparent for writers, beginning with a clear path for them to reach their goals – that means hands-on career support for alumni and developmental training for those still refining their craft. Because we have real connections to top Hollywood executives, our writers have genuine, meaningful opportunities to get discovered by major networks, while the genre-specific competition structure allows them to better focus their efforts on stories they are most passionate about. We choose writers because we believe in their talent. As such, the higher-placing writers receive higher-touch attention, including dedicated time with our writer development team for career consultations, meeting setups, and pitch coaching sessions, among other offerings. ScreenCraft is where passion leads to progress – where competition meets community – where writers come first. Period.