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101 of the Greatest Screenplays

April 10, 2006 By S. K. Sloan 1 Comment

The Writer’s Guild of America, west has released its list of the 101 Greatest Screenplays. Of the 101 listed 18 are specific to either scifi, horror, fantasy/fable or deal with the supernatural and paranormal.

Those 18 films and writers of the screenplays are:

Dr. Strangelove – Stanley Kubrick, Peter George and Terry Southern

It’s A Wonderful Life – Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett & Frank Capra

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Charlie Kaufman

Back To the Future – Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale

The Silence of the Lambs – Ted Tally

Jaws – Peter Benchley & Carl Gottlieb

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – Melissa Mathison

Star Wars IV: A New Hope (a.k.a. Star Wars)– George Lucas

The Wizard of Oz – Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf

Groundhog Day – Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis

Raiders of the Lost Ark – George Lucas, Philip Kaufman and Lawrence Kasdan

The Sixth Sense – M. Night Shyamalan

Being John Malkovich – Charlie Kaufman

Being There – Jerzy Kosinski and Robert C. Jones

The Princess Bride – William Goldman

Field of Dreams – Phil Alden Robinson

Psycho – Joseph Stefano

Memento – Christopher Nolan

Did your favorite genre screenplay make the list? To see the entire 101 screenplays chosen visit the Writer’s Guild of America listing.

Filed Under: Film News

About S. K. Sloan

Samuel K. Sloan's love of Star Trek brought him to Slice of SciFi, where he was Managing Editor from 2005-2011, and returned from 2013-2014 before retiring once again from scifi news gathering.

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  1. Keith Demko says

    April 12, 2006 at 4:04 pm

    My favorite genre screenplay, if you can call it that, is the category of political satire and is for ‘Duck Soup” starring the Marx Brothers .. I have satire on the brain right now

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