Studios Start Sharing “For Your Consideration” Screenplays, So Tuck In
Several screenplays that their distributors believe to have a shout at awards season glory have been posted online, and can be downloaded and read, legally and free.
I’m surprised to see Lionsgate pushing the script for Warrior, and I’m not sure Machine Gun Preacher is really a frontrunner, but The Descendants, Win Win and Martha Marcy May Marlene all seem like credible punts.
The Tree of Life and Shame, irrespective of their variable merits as finished motion pictures, don’t read as award winning scripts, but fair play to Fox Searchlight for getting behind so many of their titles, and their screenwriters.
Now who’s going to step up and start canvassing for Joe Cornish’s script for Attack the Block, Paddy Considine’s script for Tyrannosaur, Dan Fogelman’s script for Crazy Stupid Love, Diablo Cody’s script for Young Adult and Scott Z. Burn’s script for Contagion? They’re the ones I’d most like to see get some recognition, I think.