WGA's "101 Greatest Screenplays"

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From the WGA website: "101 Greatest Screenplays compiles the finest achievements in film writing, as voted upon by professional film and television writers…. Any film, past or present, English-language or otherwise, was eligible. The resulting list is like a travelogue of the greatest films of the century, with all decades from the 1930s on represented among the rankings."

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  1. 1.
    Casablanca (Snap Case)
    by Michael Curtiz
  2. 2.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola
  3. 3.
    Chinatown
    by Roman Polanski
  4. 4.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles
  5. 5.
    All About Eve
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  6. 6.
    Annie Hall
    by Woody Allen
  7. 7.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder
  8. 8.
    Network
    by Sidney Lumet
  9. 9.
    Some Like It Hot
    by Billy Wilder
  10. 10.
    The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola
  11. 11.
    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Special Edition)
    by George Roy Hill
  13. 13.
    The Graduate (Special Edition)
    by Mike Nichols
  14. 14.
    Lawrence of Arabia (Single-Disc Edition)
    by David Lean
  15. 15.
    The Apartment

  16. 16.
    Pulp Fiction
    by Quentin Tarantino
  17. 17.
    Tootsie
    by Sydney Pollack
  18. 18.
    On the Waterfront (Special Edition)
    by Elia Kazan
  19. 19.
    To Kill a Mockingbird (Collector's Edition)
    by Robert Mulligan
  20. 20.
    It's a Wonderful Life
    by Frank Capra
  21. 21.
    North by Northwest
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  22. 22.
    The Shawshank Redemption
    by Frank Darabont
  23. 23.
    Gone with the Wind (Two-Disc Edition)
    by George Cukor
  24. 24.
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [Region 2]
    by Michel Gondry
  25. 25.
    The Wizard of Oz
    by King Vidor
  26. 26.
    Double Indemnity
    by Billy Wilder
  27. 27.
    Groundhog Day (Special Edition)
    by Harold Ramis
  29. 29.
    Sullivan's Travels: The (The Criterion Collection)
    by Preston Sturges
  30. 30.
    Unforgiven (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Clint Eastwood
  31. 31.
    His Girl Friday

  32. 32.
    Fargo

  33. 33.
    The Third Man (The Criterion Collection)
    by Carol Reed
  34. 34.
    Sweet Smell of Success
    by Alexander Mackendrick
  35. 35.
    The Usual Suspects

  36. 36.
    Midnight Cowboy
    by John Schlesinger
  37. 37.
    The Philadelphia Story
    by George Cukor
  38. 38.
    American Beauty
    by Sam Mendes
  39. 39.
    The Sting (Universal Legacy Series)
    by George Roy Hill
  40. 40.
    When Harry Met Sally - Special Edition
    by Rob Reiner
  41. 41.
    GoodFellas
    by Martin Scorsese
  42. 42.
  43. 43.
    Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese
  44. 44.
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler
  45. 45.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Milos Forman
  46. 46.
  47. 47.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston
  48. 48.
    The Bridge on the River Kwai
    by David Lean
  49. 49.
    Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg
  50. 50.
    The Sixth Sense (Collector's Edition Series)
    by M. Night Shyamalan

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lemoxndroxps

Untitled — 3 years ago

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/63792/compare/lemoxndroxps

^^change the world and pass it on!

Mar 26, 03:24PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

WhiteFun

Untitled — 3 years ago

It’s unbelievable that such uneven hastily written by committee script as Casablanca’s is heading the list.

Jul 09, 03:04PM | 2 comments | Reply to this

Chris Campbell

Untitled — 6 years ago

I made a small change and replaced the 2000 version of High Noon with the original 1952 version which was where the script first appeared.

Apr 07, 02:37PM | 1 comment | Reply to this



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