Written by Michael Dance on 2/05/11 • • Filed under: Editorials, Features, Lists

Last year, noticing that studios throughout Hollywood were posting the screenplays for their “Oscar movies” online for free, I compiled the download links for every screenplay I could find and posted them to this site. The article was a hit, many of the screenplays were downloaded, and things went quiet…until a few months ago, when the page started getting a lot of traffic again, no doubt thanks to the start of this year’s Oscar season.

The problem was, a lot of those studio sites from last year have been taken down, so if, say, you try to click the link to download the Avatar script, you get an ugly Not Found error. I won’t make that same mistake again: this year, I’ve downloaded all the new screenplays and stored them here, so the links will always work.

I found quite a few this year (thirty-six, up from last year’s thirty, all PDFs), and the only really notable omission is The Fighter — you’ll find every other Best Picture nominee and plenty more below.

Most of the screenplays are the shooting scripts and not earlier drafts. (Numbered scenes are a giveaway.) Since Inside Job was a documentary, you’re actually getting a transcript of the movie with that one, not a screenplay. And if you see a bunch of asterisks on the side of a page of a script, that denotes a section that’s been added or changed since the last draft. Let’s get to it:

If anybody found something I didn’t, let me know in the comments.

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