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.

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