• Secrets of Screenplay Structure by Linda J Cowgill

    • Getting It Write by Lee Zahavi Jessup

    • Save The Cat by Blake Synder

    • You Screenplay Sucks! by William M Akers

    • My Story Can Beat Up Your Story! by Jeffrey Alan Schechter

    • Making A Good Script Great by Linda Seger

    • The Screenwriter’s Bible by David Trottier

    • The Complete Guide to Standard Script Formats by Cole/Haag

    • Mastering The Pitch by Scott Kirkpatrick

    • U.S. Copyright Office link

    • Writers Guild Association Link

  • List of Annual  Screenplay Oscar Winners – https://simplyscripts.com/Oscar_winners.html

    ‍Fun Facts ‍

    • Most Screenwriter Oscars (3)

      • Woody Allen – All Original Screenplays

      • Charles Brackett – Adapted & Original

      • Paddy Chayefsky – Adapted & Original

      • Francis Ford Coppola – Adapted & Original

      • Billy Wilder – Adapted & Original

    • Screenwriters Winning Two Consecutive Years

      • Joseph L Mankiewicz – for A Letter to Three Wives (49), All About Eve (50)

      • Robert Bolt – for Doctor Zhivago (65), A Man for All Seasons (66)

    • Oldest Oscar Winner – James Ivory (89) for Call Me By Your Name (2017)

    • Youngest Oscar Winner – Ben Affleck (25) for Good Will Hunting (1997)

    • First Woman to Win for Best Original Screenplay – Frances Marion for The Big House (1930)

    • First and Only African American to Win Oscar – Jordan Peele for Get Out (2017)

    • First Asian Writers to Win Oscar – Bong Joon -ho and Han Jin-won for Parasite (2019)

    • Screenwriters Winning Pulitzer Prize & Oscar

      • Horton Foote - Oscar for To Kill a Mockingbird (62), Tender Mercies (83) Pulitzer for Drama (95)

      • Sidney Howard – Oscar for Gone with the Wind (39) Pulitzer for Drama (1925)

      • William Inge - Oscar for Splendor in the Grass (61) Pulitzer for Drama (1953)

      • Larry McMurtry – Oscar for Brokeback Mountain (2025) Pulitzer for novel Lonesome Dove (1985)

      • William Saroyan – Oscar for The Human Comedy (43) Pulitzer for Drama (40)

      • John Patrick Shanley – Oscar for Moonstruck (87) Pulitzer for Drama (05)

      • Robert E Sherwood – Oscar for Best Years of Our Lives (46) Pulitzer for Drama (36, 38, 41) Pulitzer for Biography (49)

      • Alfred Uhry – Oscar for Driving Miss Daisy (89) Pulitzer for Drama (88)

    • Only Person to Win Oscar for Acting & Writing

      • Emma Thompson – Best Actress for Howards End (92) Best Adapted Screenplay for Sense and Sensibilities (95)

    • Only Person to Win for Directing, Editing, Writing and Producing

      • Sean Baker Winner for Directing, Best Original Screenplay, Editing and Best Picture for Anora (2024)

    • Only Person to Be Nominated for Acting, Writing, Producing and Directing the Same Film

      • Warren Beatty twice for Heavan Can Wait (78) and Reds (81)

    • Most Categories to be Nominated In

      • Kenneth Branagh - Eight Nominations One Win – Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Adapted Screenplay, Actor, Supporting Actor & Live Action Short Film

      • Alfonso Cuaron – Eleven Nominations Four Wins – Best Picture, Original Screenplay, Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Cinematography, Live Action Short Film

    • Most Nominations for Original Screenplay

      • Woody Allen – Sixteen Nominations

    • First Married Couple to Win Screenplay Oscar

      • Muriel & Sydney Box for The Seventh Viel (46)

    • First Siblings to Win Screenplay Oscar

      • Joel & Ethan Coen for Fargo (96)

    • Only Father – Daughter to Win Screenplay Oscars

      • Francis Ford Coppola for Patton (1970) and Sophia Coppola for Lost in Translation (2023)

    • Nominated for Screenplay Oscar for Two Films in the Same Year

      • Frank Butler – 1942 for Road to Morocco and Wake Island

      • Preston Sturges – 1944 for Hail the Conquering Hero and The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

      • Oliver Stone 1986 for Platoon and Salvador

      • Maurice Richlin & Stanley Shapiro 1959 for Operation Petticoat and Pillow Talk

    References:

    Writers Guild of America Top 101 Lists