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

  12. 13.
    The Graduate (Special Edition)
    by Mike Nichols

  13. 14.
    Lawrence of Arabia (Single-Disc Edition)
    by David Lean

  14. 15.
    The Apartment

  15. 16.
    Pulp Fiction
    by Quentin Tarantino

  16. 17.
    Tootsie
    by Sydney Pollack

  17. 18.
    On the Waterfront (Special Edition)
    by Elia Kazan

  18. 19.
    To Kill a Mockingbird (Collector's Edition)
    by Robert Mulligan

  19. 20.
    It's a Wonderful Life
    by Frank Capra

  20. 21.
    North by Northwest
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  21. 22.
    The Shawshank Redemption
    by Frank Darabont

  22. 23.
    Gone with the Wind (Two-Disc Edition)
    by George Cukor

  23. 24.
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [Region 2]
    by Michel Gondry

  24. 25.
    The Wizard of Oz
    by King Vidor

  25. 26.
    Double Indemnity
    by Billy Wilder

  26. 27.
    Groundhog Day (Special Edition)
    by Harold Ramis

  27. 29.
    Sullivan's Travels: The (The Criterion Collection)
    by Preston Sturges

  28. 30.
    Unforgiven (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Clint Eastwood

  29. 31.
    His Girl Friday

  30. 32.
    Fargo

  31. 33.
    The Third Man (The Criterion Collection)
    by Carol Reed

  32. 34.
    Sweet Smell of Success
    by Alexander Mackendrick

  33. 35.
    The Usual Suspects

  34. 36.
    Midnight Cowboy
    by John Schlesinger

  35. 37.
    The Philadelphia Story
    by George Cukor

  36. 38.
    American Beauty
    by Sam Mendes

  37. 39.
    The Sting (Universal Legacy Series)
    by George Roy Hill

  38. 40.
    When Harry Met Sally - Special Edition
    by Rob Reiner

  39. 41.
    GoodFellas
    by Martin Scorsese

  40. 42.

  41. 43.
    Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

  42. 44.
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler

  43. 45.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Milos Forman

  44. 46.

  45. 47.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston

  46. 48.
    The Bridge on the River Kwai
    by David Lean

  47. 49.
    Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  48. 50.
    The Sixth Sense (Collector's Edition Series)
    by M. Night Shyamalan

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Comments

Untitled — 3 years ago


Untitled — 3 years ago

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


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.




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