Screenplays: FREE Download 2022-2023 Oscar Contenders UPDATED

UPDATED MARCH 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 add 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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• Don’t Look Up – (Netflix)
• House of Gucci – (United Artists)
• King Richard – (Warner Brothers)
• The Tragedy of MacBeth– (Apple)
• Nightmare Alley – (Fox Searchlight)
• No Time to Die – (MGM)
• Encanto – (Disney)
• Raya and The Last Dragon– (Disney)
• Respect– (United Artists)
• C’mon C’mon –(A24)
• The French Dispatch – (Fox Searchlight)
• Last Night in Soho – (Focus Features) – WATCH THE INTERVIEW

• Red Rocket – (A24) – WATCH THE INTERVIEW

• Belfast – (Focus Features)
• The Card Counter – (Focus Features)
• The Harder They Fall – (Netflix)
• The Humans – (A24) – WATCH THE INTERVIEW

• Stillwater – (Apple)
• Swan Song – (Apple)
• tick, tick, BOOM! – (Netflix)
• Passing – (Netflix)
• The Mitchells vs. The Machines – (Netflix)
• Being The Ricardos – (Amazon Studios)
• Invasion (filmed as Encounter) – (Amazon Studios)
• A Hero  – (Amazon Studios)
• Spencer – (Neon)
• The Lost Daughter– (Netflix)
• Dune – (Warner Brother) – WATCH THE INTERVIEW

• Nine Days – (Sony Classics) – WATCH THE INTERVIEW

• Coda– (Apple)
• Jocky – (Sony Classics)
• Passing –(Netflix)
• The Boss Baby: Family Business – (Universal)
• The Electric Life of Louis Wain – (Amazon Studios)
• Mass – (Bleeker Street)
• The Tender Bar – (Amazon Studios)
• Annette – (Amazon Studios)
• The Tomorrow War– (Amazon Studios)
• Spirit Untamed – (Universal)

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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)
• The Mauritanian – (STX Films)
• The Little Things – (Warner Brothers)
• Cherry – (Apple TV)
• First Cow – (A24)
• The Half Of It – (Netflix)
• I’m Your Woman – (Amazon)
• Let Him Go – (Focus Features)
• Land – (Focus Features)
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom– (Netflix)
• Malcolm & Marie– (Netflix)
• News of the World– (Universal)
• 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)
• Nomadland– (Fox Searchlight)
• One Night In Miami– (Amazon)
• On The Rocks – (Apple+)
• The Forty-Year-Old Version– (Netflix)
• Prom – (Netflix)
• Shirley– (NEON)
• Palm Springs– (Hulu)
• The Personal History of David Copperfield– (Fox Searchlight)
• Saint Frances – (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
• Sound of Metal– (Amazon)
• Tenant– (Warner Brothers)
• The Climb– (Sony Classics)
• The Father– (Sony Classics)
• The Mauritanian– (STX Films)
• The Trial Of The Chicago 7– (Netflix)
• The White Tiger– (Netflix)

2020 Oscar-Winning Screenplays

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

2020 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)
• 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)

2019 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 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)

2018 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)< >2017 Oscar Contending Screenplays
• 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 Lihttps://bulletproofscreenwriting.tv/free-screenplays-download/fe of Pets (Universal Pictures)
• Victor Frankenstein by Max Landis (David Entertainment)
• Zootopia (Walt Disney)

Screenwriter’s Screenplay Collections

We started a new weekly series where we highlight a screenwriter and post a collection of most if not all of their work in one online resource. Sign up for our weekly newsletter above to get weekly updates sent to your inbox. Here are a few recent screenwriter collections:

• Christopher Nolan
• Quentin Tarantino
• The Coen Brothers
• Aaron Sorkin
• Stanley Kubrick
• Charlie Kaufman
• Wes Anderson
• Shane Black
• William Goldman
• Guillermo del Toro
• Darren Aronofsky
• Michael Mann
• Diablo Cody
• James Cameron
• The Black List
• Max Landis
• Pixar Screenplay Collection
• Richard Linklater
• Alexander Payne
• Jason Reitman
• Sofia Coppola
• Cameron Crowe
• Walter Hill
• Joss Whedon
• Kevin Smith
• Daniel Waters
• Greta Gerwig
• Francis Ford Coppola
• David Fincher Film’s Collection
• Frank Darabont
• Steven Spielberg
• David Lynch
• Nora Ephron
• Breaking Bad Script Collection
• Paul Thomas Anderson
• Ridley Scott
• Tim Burton
• Top 10 Most Wanted TV Pilot Scripts
• M. Night Shyamalan
• Martin Scorsese

I also decided to include a bonus area where you can download some of the best screenplays of the last few years. Over 175 screenplays in all. Happy reading!

Best of 2016 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 2015 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)

Best of 2014 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 2013 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)

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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