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. 51.
    Broadcast News
    by James L. Brooks

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  2. 52.
    The Lady Eve - Criterion Collection
    by Preston Sturges

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  3. 53.
    All the President's Men
    by Alan J. Pakula

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  4. 54.
    Manhattan
    by Woody Allen

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  5. 55.
    Apocalypse Now

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  6. 56.
    Back to the Future

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  7. 57.
    Crimes and Misdemeanors

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  8. 58.
    Ordinary People
    by Robert Redford

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  9. 59.
    It Happened One Night
    by Frank Capra

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  10. 60.
    L.A. Confidential
    by Curtis Hanson

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  11. 61.
    The Silence of the Lambs
    by Jonathan Demme

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  12. 62.
    Moonstruck
    by Norman Jewison

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  13. 64.
    Terms of Endearment
    by James L. Brooks

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  14. 65.
    Singin' in the Rain
    by Stanley Donen

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  15. 66.
    Jerry Maguire
    by Cameron Crowe

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  16. 67.
    E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (Widesceen)
    by Steven Spielberg

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  17. 68.
    Star Wars, Episode IV- A New Hope (Widescreen Edition)
    by George Lucas

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  18. 69.
    Dog Day Afternoon
    by Sidney Lumet

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  19. 70.
    The African Queen
    by John Huston

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  20. 71.
    The Lion in Winter
    by Anthony Harvey (II)

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  21. 72.
    Thelma & Louise
    by Ridley Scott

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  22. 73.
    Amadeus
    by Milos Forman

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  23. 74.
    Being John Malkovich

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  24. 75.
    High Noon (Collector's Edition)
    by Fred Zinnemann

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  25. 76.
    Raging Bull

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  26. 77.
    Adaptation (Superbit Collection)

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  27. 78.
    Rocky

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  28. 79.
    The Producers (Deluxe Edition)
    by Mel Brooks

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  29. 80.
    Witness
    by Peter Weir

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  30. 81.
    Being There

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  31. 82.
    Cool Hand Luke
    by Stuart Rosenberg

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  32. 83.
    Rear Window (Collector's Edition)

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  33. 84.
    The Princess Bride

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  34. 85.
    Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection
    by Jean Renoir

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  35. 86.
    Harold and Maude

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  36. 87.
    8 1/2 - Criterion Collection

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  37. 88.
    Field of Dreams
    by Phil Alden Robinson

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  38. 90.
    Sideways
    by Alexander Payne

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  39. 91.
    The Verdict
    by Sidney Lumet

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  40. 92.
    Psycho (Collector's Edition)

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  41. 94.
    Patton
    by Franklin J. Schaffner

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  42. 95.
    Hannah and Her Sisters

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  43. 96.
    The Hustler
    by Robert Rossen

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  44. 97.
    The Searchers
    by John Ford

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  45. 98.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Ford

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  46. 100.
    Memento

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