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Barry Jenkins Scripts Collection: Screenplays Download

Barry Jenkins was born on November 19, 1979 in Miami, Florida, USA. He is a producer and director, known for If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), Moonlight (2016) and Medicine for Melancholy (2008).

Following an eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking, Jenkins directed and co-wrote the LGBT-themed independent drama Moonlight (2016), which won numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. Jenkins received an Oscar nomination for Best Director and jointly won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay with Tarell Alvin McCraney. He became the fourth black person to be nominated for Best Director and the second black person to direct a Best Picture winner. He released his third directorial feature If Beale Street Could Talk in 2018 to critical praise, and earned nominations for his screenplay at the Academy Awards and Golden Globes.

He is also known for his work in television. Jenkins directed “Chapter V” of the Netflix series Dear White People in 2017. In 2021, he directed the Amazon Video limited series The Underground Railroad based on the novel of the same name and received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series or Movie nomination.

In 2017, Jenkins was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world

Below are all the screenplays available online. If you find any of his missing screenplays please leave the link in the comment section.

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MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY(2008)

Directed and Screenplay by Barry Jenkins – WILL POST ONCE AVAILABLE!

MOONLIGHT (2016)

Directed and Screenplay by Barry Jenkins – Read the screenplay!

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (2018)

Directed and Screenplay by Barry Jenkins – Read the screenplay!

 

 

 

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