One of the few benefits of the frenzied awards race is Hollywood’s outpouring of materials associated with the contenders. Perhaps the biggest perk is the release of full scripts one is able to download legally, directly from the studios.
Currently available are Roma, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, First Reformed, If Beale Street Could Talk, First Man, A Star Is Born, BlacKkKlansman, Eighth Grade, A Quiet Place, Leave No Trace, Sorry to Bother You, and more, but one can check back for others as they get added.
We’ll be updating this post as these and more arrive over the coming months, so bookmark the page, but one can check out everything thus far below (right click and save to download, or open in your browser by clicking the titles). To catch up on the last few years, check out the 2017 screenplays, the 2016 screenplays, 2015 screenplays, 2014 screenplays, and the 2013 screenplays, if they are still available.
22 July (Paul Greengrass – Netflix)
All is True (Ben Elton – Sony Classics)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel and Ethan Coen – Netflix)
Beautiful Boy (Luke Davies & Felix van Groeningen – Amazon Studios)
BlacKkKlansman (Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Spike Lee, Kevin Willmott – Focus Features)
Black Panther (Ryan Coogler & Joe Robert Cole – Disney)
Boy Erased (Joel Edgerton – Focus Features)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Nicole Holofcener & Jeff Whitty – Fox Searchlight)
Capernaum (Nadine Labaki, Jihad Hojeily & Michelle Keserwani – Sony Classics)
Colette (Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland – Bleecker Street)
Crazy Rich Asians (Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim – WB)
Destroyer (Phil Hay & Matt Manfredi – Annapurna)
Disobedience (Sebastian Lelio & Rebecca Lenkiewicz – Bleecker Street)
Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham – A24)
First Man (Damien Chazelle – Universal Pictures)
First Reformed (Paul Schrader – A24)
The Front Runner (Matt Bai & Jay Carson & Jason Reitman – Sony)
Green Book (Nick Vallelonga & Brian Currie & Peter Farrelly – Universal Pictures)
The Happy Prince (Rupert Everett – Sony Classics)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins – Annapurna)
Leave No Trace (Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini – Bleecker Street)
Mary Queen of Scots (Beau Willimon – Focus Features)
Mary Poppins Returns (David Magee – Disney)
Never Look Away (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck – Sony Classics)
The Old Man & the Gun (David Lowery – Fox Searchlight)
On the Basis of Sex (Daniel Stiepleman – Focus Features)
Puzzle (Oren Moverman and Polly Mann – Sony Classics)
A Quiet Place (Bryan Woods & Scott Beck and John Krasinski – Paramount)
Ruben Brandt, Collector (Milorad Krstić and Radmila Roczkov – Sony Classics)
The Rider (Chloé Zhao – Sony Classics)
Roma (Alfonso Cuarón – Netflix)
The Sisters Brothers (Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain – Annapurna)
Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley – Annapurna)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman – Sony)
Stan & Ollie (Bill Pope – Sony Classics)
A Star Is Born (Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters – WB)
Vice (Adam McKay – Annapurna)
What They Had (Elizabeth Chomko – Bleecker Street)
The Wife (Jane Anderson – Sony Classics)
Continue: Where to Stream the Best Films of 2018
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