It’s Screenplay Season! Time to Download & Read the Best Scripts of the Year
Looking for scripts? We have the most comprehensive list of downloadable screenplay pdfs for the 2022 awards season.
Noi Sabal
Founder
We love awards season because you can download scripts (for free! Legally!), grab tons of screenplay pdfs and devour all of the best screenplays for movies released this year. Yay!
Why is Screenplay Season so amazing? Well, first of all coz all the screenplays are free. (And as struggling screenwriters, who doesn’t love free??) During this magical time of year, studios vying for the gold literally give away the best examples of screenwriting you can find, in the hope of tempting guild members into reading and voting for their screenplays in the various awards. So they all have “For Your Consideration” sites listing all manner of content: behind-the-scenes stills and videos, and, of course, what we’re most excited about, the screenplays. The only caveat: all screenplays are for educational purposes only. Speaking of which…
Since screenwriters need to read screenplays in order to write ’em, what could be better than reading screenplays written by the best screenwriters? Screenwriters who have already done what we want to do; get their screenplays finished, optioned, and made! So when you read the best, you can learn from the best, and, hopefully, become the best!
When you read screenplays, you absorb the cadence of the Action… find the patterns in the patter of Dialogue… get a feel for the succinctness of Scenes. (And! You’ll discover that all Screenwriting Rules are made to be broken — but you have to know you’re breaking them!)
I’ve been downloading and reading Awards Season screenplays for a long, long time. I have a shelf lined with every iteration of iPad (all with cracked screens!) that I keep just because they are stuffed with the many amazing screenplays I’ve downloaded over the years. And every year, my screenplay collection grows thanks to this once-a-year, studio sanctioned, bonanza of free scripts to download. And with the links below, you can start — or grow! — your own collection of scripts too!
So without further ado… Here are the links to the best movie script pdfs and screenplay downloads for the 2022 Awards Season. Enjoy!
Download these scripts now; after awards season, they’ll be gone!
45 Screenplay PDFs to Download for Free
For Educational Purposes Only
Screenplay Title |
Version |
Writer(s) |
| Annette | Undated draft | by Ron Mael and Russell Mael |
| Being The Ricardos | Undated draft | by Aaron Sorkin |
| Belfast | August 2020 (shooting draft) | by Kenneth Branagh |
| The Boss Baby: Family Business | January 7, 2021 (final draft) | by Michael McCullers (Story by Tom McGrath & Michael McCullers) |
| C’Mon C’Mon | Undated draft | by Mike Mills |
| The Card Counter | Undated draft | written by Paul Schrader |
| CODA | Undated draft | by Siân Heder (Based on La Famille Belier) |
| Cyrano | Undated draft | by Erica Schmidt, Based on the stage musical adapted and directed by Erica Schmidt from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, Music by Aaron & Bryce Dessner, Lyrics by Matt Berninger & Carin Besser |
| Don’t Look Up | Undated draft | Written by Adam McKay Story by Adam McKay and David Sirota |
| Dune | June 19, 2020 (salmon revisions, final shooting draft) | by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth (Based on the novel ‘Dune’ by Frank Herbert) |
| The Electric Life of Louis Wain | Undated draft | by Simon Stephenson and Will Sharpe |
| Encanto | Undated draft | by Charise Castro Smith & Jared Bush |
| The French Dispatch (aka “The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun”) | Undated draft | by Wes Anderson, Story by Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness, Jason Schwartzman |
| The Hand Of God — English version — (E’ Stata La Mano DiDio) | Undated draft | by Paolo Sorrentino |
| The Hand Of God — original Italian — (E’ Stata La Mano DiDio) | Undated draft | by Paolo Sorrentino |
| The Harder They Fall | Undated draft | Screen Story by Jeymes Samuel. Screenplay by Jeymes Samuel and Boaz Yakin |
| A Hero | October 2020 | Adapted by Asghar Farhadi |
| House of Gucci | Undated draft | by Becky Johnston and Roberto Bentivegna, Story by Becky Johnston, Based on the book The House of Gucci by Sara Gay Forden |
| The Humans | Undated draft | by Stephen Karam, From a play by Stephen Karam |
| Invasion (aka “Encounter”) | September 29, 2020 (white draft) | by Joe Barton and Michael Pearce |
| Jockey | Undated draft | by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar |
| King Richard | November 19, 2021 (Final as Filmed Draft) | by Zach Baylin |
| Last Night In Soho | Undated draft | by Edgar Wright & Krysty Wilson-Cairns, Story by Edgar Wright |
| The Lost Daughter | Undated FYC draft | by Maggie Gyllenhaal, based on the novel by Elena Ferrante |
| Luca | 5/10/2021 (final draft) | by Jesse Andrews Mike Jones |
| MacBeth (aka “The Tragedy of MacBeth”) | 1/16/20 (blue REVISED) | by Joel Coen. Based on the play by William Shakespeare |
| Mass | Undated draft | by Fran Kranz |
| The Mitchells Vs. The Machines | Undated draft | by Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe |
| Nightmare Alley | December 1, 2021 (Final Shooting Script) | Written by Guillermo del Toro & Kim Morgan, Based on the Novel by William Lindsay Gresham |
| Nine Days | August 2, 2019 (yellow draft) | by Edson Oda |
| No Time To Die | Undated draft | by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Cary Joji Fukunaga and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Story by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Cary Joji Fukunaga |
| Parallel Mothers | Undated draft | by Pedro Almodóvar |
| Passing | Undated draft | by Rebecca Hall, Based on the Novella by Nella Larsen |
| The Power of the Dog | Undated draft | by Jane Campion, Based on The Power of the Dog By Thomas Savage |
| Raya and The Last Dragon | Undated draft | by Qui Nguyen and Adele Lim |
| Red Rocket | October 25th, 2020 (Green Revision Draft) | by Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch |
| Respect | Undated draft | by Tracey Scott Wilson, Story by Callie Khouri and Tracey Scott Wilson |
| Spencer | Undated Shooting Script | by Steven Knight |
| Spirit Untamed | January 29, 2021 (MPAA Screening script) | by Aury Wallington and Kristin Hahn, Additional Dialogue by Katherine Nolfi |
| Stillwater | Undated draft | by Tom McCarthy & Marcus Hinchey and Thomas Bidegain & Noé Debré |
| Swan Song | Undated draft | by Benjamin Cleary |
| The Tender Bar | Undated draft | by William Monahan (based on the book by J.R. Moehringer) |
| Tick, Tick… Boom! | Undated draft | by Steven Levenson, Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson, Based on the musical by Jonathan Larson |
| The Tomorrow War | Undated draft | by Zach Dean |
| West Side Story | Undated draft | by Tony Kushner, Based on the book for the musical by Arthur Laurents |
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