WGA's 101 Best Screenplays Part 1

While I'm sitting here bored with nothing to do until tomorrow, I thought I would look at the list of the WGA's 101 top scripts.. Cast/Crew...synopsis...discuss, discuss, discuss!

1. Casablanca (1942)
Written by: Philip G. Epstein & Julius J. Epstein and Howard Koch
Based on a play by Joan Alison and Murray Burnett

2. The Godfather (1972)
Written by: Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo (based on his novel)

3. Chinatown (1974)
Written by: Robert Towne

4. Citizen Kane (1941)
Written by: Herman Mankiewicz & Orson Welles

5. All About Eve (1950)
Written by: Joseph Mankiewicz
Based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr

6. Annie Hall (1977)
Written by: Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman

7. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Written by: Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshman Jr.

8. Network (1976)
Written by: Paddy Chayefsky

9. Some Like It Hot (1959)
Written by: Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond
Based on the German film "Fanfare of Love" written by: Robert Thoeren and M. Logan

10. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Written by: Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo (based on his novel "The Godfather")

11. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Written by: William Goldman

12. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Written by: Stanley Kubrick and Terry Southern and Peter George (based on his novel "Red Alert")

13. The Graduate (1967)
Written by: Calder Willingham and Buck Henry
Based on the novel by Charles Webb

14. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Written by: Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson
Based on the life and writings of Col. T.E. Lawrence

15. The Apartment (1960)
Written by: Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond

16. Pulp Fiction (1994)
Written by: Roger Avary & Quentin Tarantino

17. Tootsie (1982)
Written by: Don McGuire and Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal

18. On the Waterfront (1954)
Based on the articles "Crime on the Waterfront" by Malcolm Johnson
Starring: Marlon Brando, Lee J. Cobb, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, John Hamilton

19. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Written by: Horton Foote
Based on the novel by Harper Lee

20. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Written by: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, & Frank Capra with assistance by Jo Swerling and Michael Wilson
Based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren Stern

21. North by Northwest (1959)
Written by: Ernest Lehman

22. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Written by: Frank Darabont
Based on the short story "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King

23. Gone with the Wind (1939)
Written by: Sidney Howard with assistance by David O. Selznick among others
From the novel by: Margaret Mitchell

24. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Written by: Pierre Bismuth, Michel Gondry, & Charlie Kaufman


25. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Written by: Noel Langley and Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf
Based on the novel by L. Frank Baum

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