Screenplays: FREE Download 2022-2023 Oscar Contenders UPDATED + Over 750 More Film Scripts

UPDATED JAN 2023: If you want to be a screenwriter, you need to read a lot of screenplays. And if you are going to read film scripts might as well read some of this year’s best. Below is an active running list of 2022-2023 Oscar Contending Screenplays. I’ll be adding new screenplays as they become available so check back often.

PLEASE NOTE: These screenplays are FREE and LEGAL to download for educational purposes. The studios will only keep them online throughout the awards season so the clock is ticking. Enjoy. 

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The Father – (Sony Classics) – OSCAR WINNER (Best Original Screenplay)
Promising Young Woman – (Focus Features) – OSCAR WINNER (Best Adapted Screenplay)

2020-2021 Oscar Contending Screenplays

• Mank – (Netflix)
• Minari – (Amazon)
• The Mauritanian – (STX Films)
• Nomadland – (Fox Searchlight)
• One Night In Miami – (Amazon)
• Sound of Metal – (Amazon)
• Tenant – (Warner Brothers)
• The Little Things – (Warner Brothers)
• Cherry – (Apple TV)
• The Half Of It – (Netflix)
• First Cow – (A24)
• The Half Of It – (Netflix)
• I’m Thinking of Ending Things – (Netflix)
• I’m Your Woman – (Amazon)
• Let Him Go – (Focus Features)
• Land – (Focus Features)
• The United States vs Billie Holiday – (Hulu)
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – (Netflix)
• Malcolm & Marie – (Netflix)
• Rocks – (Unknown)
• News of the World – (Universal)
• Over The Moon – (Unknown)
• Onward – (Pixar Studios)
• Soul – (Pixar Studios)
• Palmer – (Apple TV)
• Antebellum– (Lionsgate)
• Bill & Ted Face the Music – (Orion Pictures)
• Judas and the Black Messiah – (Warner Brothers)
• Promising Young Woman – (Focus Features)
• Borat 2 – (Amazon)
• Emma – (Fox Searchlight)
• On The Rocks – (Amazon)
• Da 5 Bloods – (Netflix)
• The Little Things – (Warner Brothers)
• Herself – (Amazon)
• French Exit– (Sony Classics)
• I’m Your Woman – (Amazon)
• Kajillionaire – (Focus Features)
• I Carry You With Me (Te Llevo Conmigo) – (Sony Classics)
• I’m Thinking of Ending Things – (Netflix)
• The King Of Staten Island – (Amazon)
• Never Rarely Sometimes Always – (Focus Features)
• The Forty-Year-Old Version– (Netflix)
• Prom – (Netflix)
• Shirley – (NEON)
• Palm Springs– (Hulu)
• The Personal History of David Copperfield – (Fox Searchlight)
• Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar – (Lionsgate)
• Saint Frances – (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
• The Climb – (Sony Classics)
• The Father – (Sony Classics)
• The Trial Of The Chicago 7 – (Netflix)
• The White Tiger – (Netflix)

2019 Oscar Winning Screenplays

Parasite – (NEON) – OSCAR WINNER (Best Original Screenplay)
Jo Jo Rabbit – (Fox Searchlight) – OSCAR WINNER (Best Adapted Screenplay)

2019 Oscar Contending Screenplays

• 1917– (Universal)
• Uncut Gems– (A24)
• Toy Story 4 – (Pixar/Disney)
• Ford v Ferrari – (Fox)
• Queen & Slim – (Universal)
• The Irishman – (Netflix)
• Marriage Story – (Netflix)
• Dolemite is My Name – (Netflix)
• I Lost My Body – (Netflix)
• The King – (Netflix)
• The Aeronauts– (Amazon Studios)
• Honey Boy– (Amazon Studios)
• The Report– (Amazon Studios)
• Little Women– (Sony)
• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood– (Sony)
• Two Popes – (Netflix)
• Avengers: Endgame– (Marvel/Disney)
• How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World – (Universal)
• Richard Jewel– (Warner Brothers)
• Just Mercy UPDATED – (Warner Brothers)
• Knives Out– (Lionsgate)
• Motherless Brooklyn– (Warner Brothers)
• Midsommar – (A24)
• Joker – (Warners Bros)
  
• Joker – UPDATED Shooting Draft – (Warners Bros)
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco – (A24)
• Uncut Gems – (A24)
• Us – (Universal)
• Rocketman – (Universal)
• Her Smell – (Gunpower Sky)
• Booksmart – (‎United Artists)
• Hustlers – (STX Films)
• A Hidden Life – (Fox Searchlight)
• Harriet – (Focus Features)
• Downton Abby – (Focus Features)
• After The Wedding – (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Frankie – (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Pain and Glory – (Sony Pictures Classics)
• The Song of Names – (Sony Pictures Classics)
• The Farewell – (A24)
• The Lighthouse – (A24)
• Ad Astra– (Fox)
• Waves – (A24)

2018 Oscar Contending Screenplays

• A Star is Born – (Warners Bros) – NEW
• 22 July (provisionally titled “Norway”)– (Netflix) – LINK WORKS
• All Is True – (Sony Classics) – NEW
• BlacKKKlansmen – OSCAR WINNER
• Beautiful Boy – (Amazon)
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs– (Netflix) – LINK WORKS
• Black Panther– (Marvel/Disney) – NEW
• Boy Erased – (Focus Features) 
• Can You Ever Forgive Me? – (Fox Searchlight) – NEW
• Capernaum (Chaos) – (Sony Classics) – NEW
• Colette– (Bleeker Street)
• Crazy Rich Asians– (Warners Bros) – NEW
• Destroyer – (AnnaPurna) 
• Dumplin’– (Netflix)
• Disobedience– (Bleeker Street)
• Eighth Grade – (A24) 
• First Man– (Universal) – NEW
• First Reformed– NEW
• The Green Book– (Universal) – NEW
• If Beale Street Could Talk – (AnnaPurna) 
• Leave No Trace– (Bleeker Street)
• Mary Poppins Returns – (Disney) – NEW
• Mary Queen of Scots – (Focus Features) 
• Never Look Away – (Sony Classics) – NEW
• Old Man & The Gun – (Fox Searchlight) – NEW
• On The Basis of Sex – (Focus Features) 
• Private Life– (Netflix) – LINK WORKS
• Puzzle– (Sony Classics) – NEW
• A Quiet Place– (Paramount)
• Roma (in English)– (Netflix) 
• Roma (en Español) – (Netflix) 
• Roxanne Roxanne – (Netflix)
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse– (Sony) – NEW
• Sorry to Bother You– (Annapurna)
• The Front Runner – (Sony)
• The Green Book – (Universal) – NEW
• The Happy Prince – (Sony Classics) – NEW
• The Kindergarten Teacher – (Netflix)
• The Land of Steady Habits – (Netflix)
• The Other Side of the Wind – (Netflix)
• The Sisters Brothers – (AnnaPurna) – NEW
• The Wife – (Sony Classics) – NEW
• The Rider – (Sony Classics) – NEW
• Ruben Brandt, Collector – (Sony Classics) – NEW
• Stan & Ollie – (Sony Classics) – NEW
• Vice – (AnnaPurna) – NEW
• What They Had– (Bleeker Street)

2017 Oscar Contending Screenplays

• Battle of the Sexes – (Fox Searchlight)
• Beauty and the Beast– (Disney)
• The Beguiled– (Focus Features)
• The Big Sick– (Amazon)
• Brad’s Status– (Amazon)
• Breathe– (Bleeker Street)
• Brigsby Bear – (Sony Classics)
• Call Me By Your Name –  (Sony Classics)
• Coco – NEW (Disney/Pixar)
• Darkest Hour– NEW (Focus Features)
• The Disaster Artist – NEW (A24)
• Downsizing – NEW (Paramount)
• Dunkirk–  (Warner Brothers)
• Elizabeth Blue –  (Sony Classics)
• The Florida Project– NEW (A24)
• Foxtrot – NEW (Sony Classics)
• FTKMF (First They Killed My Father)– (Netflix)
• A Fantastic Woman – (Sony Classics)
• Films Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool – NEW (Sony Classics)
• Get Out – NEW (Universal)
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 – NEW (Marvel/Disney)
• Happy End – (Sony Classics)
• I, Tonya– (Netflix)
• Lady Bird –  NEW (A24)
• Last Flag Flying – (Amazon)
• The Leisure Seeker – NEW (Sony Classics)
• Logan – NEW (Fox)
• The Lost City of Z– (Amazon)
• Loveless  –  (Sony Classics)
• The Man Who Invented Christmas– (Bleeker Street)
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)– (Netflix)
• mother!– (Paramount)
• Maudie –  (Sony Classics)
• Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House –  (Sony Classics)
• Mudbound – (Netflix)
• Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer–  (Sony Classics)
• Novitiate – NEW (Sony Classics)
• Okja– (Netflix)
• Suburbicon– (Paramount)
• Thank You For Your Service – (Universal)
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri–  (FOX Searchlight)
• Thor: Ragnarok –  (Disney)
• The Shape of Water – NEW (FOX Searchlight)
• Victoria & Abdul –  (Focus Features)
• War for Planet of the Apes – NEW (FOX)
• Wonderstruck–  (Amazon)

• Deadpool – NEW (Fox)
• La La Land– NEW (Lionsgate)
• Hidden Figures (Fox Searchlight)
• 20th Century Women (A24) 
• Arrival (Paramount)
• Anthropoid  (Bleecker Street)
• A Monster Calls (Focus Features)
• Birth of a Nation (Fox Searchlight)
• Bridget Jones’s Baby (Bleecker Street)
• Captain Fantastic (Bleecker Street)
• Denial  (Bleecker Street)
• Eye in the Sky (Bleecker Street)
• Elle (Sony Classics)
• Fences (Paramount)
• The Girl on the Train  (Universal Pictures)
• I Saw The Light (Sony Classics)
• Hell or High Water (CBS Films) 
• Jackie (Fox Searchlight)
• Equity  (Sony Classics)
• Land of Mine  (Sony Classics)
• The Red Turtle  (Sony Classics)
• Julieta (Sony Classics)
• Kubo and The Two Strings (Focus Features)
• Loving (Focus Features)
• Land of Mine (Sony Classics)
• The Hollars (Sony Classics)
• The Comedian (Sony Classics)
• Moonlight (A24) 
• Manchester By The Sea (Amazon Studios)
• The Invitation (Drafthouse) 
• The Meddler (Sony Classics)
• The Neon Demon (Amazon Studios)
• Miles Ahead (Sony Classics)
• Maggie’s Plan (Sony Classics)
• The Founder (The Weinstein Company)
• Lion (The Weinstein Company)
• Gold (The Weinstein Company)
• Nocturnal Animals (Focus Features)
• Hail, Caesar! (Universal Pictures)
• Love and Friendship (Amazon Studios)
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (Universal Pictures)
• Silence (Universal Pictures)
• Sing (Universal Pictures)
• Sing Street (The Weinstein Company)
• Sully (Warner Brothers)
• Toni Erdmann (Sony Classics)
• The Secret Life of Pets (Universal Pictures)
• Victor Frankenstein by Max Landis (David Entertainment)
• Zootopia (Walt Disney)

Best of 2015 Screenplays

• 99 Homes (Broad Green Pictures)
• Beasts of No Nation (Netflix)
• The Big Short (Paramount Pictures)
• Bridge of Spies (Dreamworks)
• Brooklyn (Fox Searchlight)
• Concussion (Sony Pictures)
• Danny Collins (Bleecker Street)
• The Danish Girl (Focus Features)
• The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Far From The Maddenning Crowd (Fox Searchlight)
• Grandma (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Infinitely Polar Bear (Sony Pictures Classics)
• I’ll See You in My Dreams (courtesy of Bleecker Street)
• I Smile Back (Broad Green Pictures)
• The Keeping Room (Dafthouse Films)
• The Lady in the Van (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Learning To Drive (Broad Green Pictures)
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Fox Searchlight)
• The Martian (Fox)
• Minions (Universal Pictures)
• Mistress America (Fox Searchlight)
• Pawn Sacrifice (Bleecker Street)
• Son of Saul (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Spotlight (Open Road)
• Straight Outta Compton (Universal Pictures)
• Suffragette (Focus Features)
• Testament of Youth (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Trumbo (Bleecker Street)
• Truth (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Whiplash  (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Youth (Fox Searchlight)

Best of 2014 Screenplays

• Wild (Fox Searchlight)
• Boyhood (IFC)
• The Box Trolls (Focus Features)
• Birdman (Fox Searchlight)
• Calvary (Fox Searchlight)
• Belle (Fox Searchlight)
• The Theory of Everything (Focus Features)
• Kill The Messenger (Focus Features)

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Best of 2013 Screenplays

• 12 Years A Slave (Fox Searchlight)
• American Hustle (Sony Pictures)
• The Armstrong Lie (Sony Classics)
• Before Midnight (Sony Classics)
• The Croods (DreamWorks Animation)
• Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features)
• Enough Said (Fox Searchlight)
• The Invisible Woman (Sony Classics)
• Kill Your Darlings (Sony Classics)
• Labor Day (Paramount Pictures)
• Nebraska (Paramount Pictures)
• The Past (Sony Classics)
• The Place Beyond The Pines (Focus Features)
• Wadjda (Sony Pictures Classics)
• The Way, Way Back (Fox Searchlight)
• The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount Pictures)

Best of 2012 Screenplays

• Armour (Sony Classics)
• Beasts of the Southern Wild (Fox Searchlight)
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Fox Searchlight)
• Celeste And Jess Forever (Sony Classics)
• Flight (Paramount Pictures)
• Hitchcock (Fox Searchlight)
• Rust and Bone (Sony Classics)
• The Sessions (Fox Searchlight)
• Smashed (Sony Classics)

BONUS: Oscar Nominated and Winning Screenplays

• The Cider House Rules
• The Green Mile
• The Insider
• Castaway
• Gladiator
• Almost Famous
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Capote
• Good Night, and Good Luck
• Syriana
• The Prestige
• Blood Diamond