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Top Ten Best Screenplays Ever Written

If you want to be a screenwriter you have to read screenplays. There’s no better place to start than reading the masters of the craft. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) published this list of the top ten best screenplays ever written and I would have to agree.

My personal favorites on this list are Casablanca, Chinatown, and Annie Hall. Click on the links below and start reading. Happy Reading…then get to writing.

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1. CASABLANCA

Screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. Based on the play “Everybody Comes to Rick’s” by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison

2. THE GODFATHER

Screenplay by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola.

3. CHINATOWN

Written by Robert Towne

4. CITIZEN KANE

Written by Herman Mankiewicz and Orson Welles

5. ALL ABOUT EVE

Screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

6. ANNIE HALL

Written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman

7. SUNSET BLVD.

Written by Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshman, Jr.

8. NETWORK

Written by Paddy Chayefsky

9. SOME LIKE IT HOT

Screenplay by Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond.

10. THE GODFATHER II

Screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo.

BONUS: SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION

Screenplay by Frank Darabont. I had to add this remarkable screenplay to the list.



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