How to Use screenwriter in a Sentence

screenwriter

noun

• Your screenwriter has said the bear is not the bad guy in this movie.
  — Vulture, 1 Mar. 2023
• One was to a big-time screenwriter, and the other was to a novelist.
  — Andrew Marzoni, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• So too, is the effect of the twin strikes in Hollywood by screenwriters and actors.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Aug. 2023
• My date was a fellow screenwriter who had worn a Hawaiian shirt, smiled and asked a few good questions.
  — William Keiser, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• Frank is co-writing the script with the novelist and screenwriter Megan Abbott.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• The first-time screenwriters also developed a tight bond with Williams while filming the movie.
  — Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2023
• The industry’s rank-and-file screenwriters have been off the job for nearly 100 days, and screen actors have been on strike for more than three weeks.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 8 Aug. 2023
• Star Nia Vardalos returns as the screenwriter for the third film and, for the first time, serves as the latest entry’s director.
  — Charna Flam, Variety, 11 May 2023
• In short order, the director hits on her, a screenwriter (Jude Law) hits on her, and a heartthrob star (Diego Luna) hits on her.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2024
• The film is written by first-time feature screenwriter Sam Stefanak.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 29 Mar. 2024
• Most of the talent from this year’s lineup of films isn’t at the festival because of the twin labor strikes that have left actors and screenwriters on the picket lines.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 9 Sep. 2023
• This kid trades script notes with an Oscar-winning screenwriter over French fries at a diner in Studio City.
  — Benjamin Svetkey, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2024
• And High Noon was not only a metaphor for the blacklist, but it was written by a blacklisted screenwriter, Carl Foreman.
  — Kate Tuttle, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2023
• The movie allowed Craven, a master of the slasher form, and the screenwriter Kevin Williamson to mock the tired structure of the genre while still delivering a successful version of it.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2023
• Naomi, a screenwriter and director, is the mother of Maggie, 46, and Jake, 43.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2023
• Both Latinx and Asian Americans made up just over 3%, while Black writers made up 6.9% of screenwriters.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2023
• The project was initiated by first time screenwriter Meg Shields, who wrote the first draft some 15 years before the project was finally funded.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 7 Feb. 2024
• Jordan and his screenwriters give equal time to the emotional and psychological tolls, the pain that haunts a person when alone with one’s demons.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2023
• Film director and screenwriter Nick Castle (left) originated the role of The Shape, a.k.a.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 22 Oct. 2023
• When accounting for inflation, screenwriter pay declined 14% in the last five years, the report said.
  — Anousha Sakoui, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2023
• In July, tens of thousands of actors joined screenwriters on the picket line, bringing Hollywood to a halt.
  — Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 12 Sep. 2023
• Of course, Weiss was helped in her star vehicle by having pro’s pros as screenwriters and director.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 25 Jan. 2024
• McAdams has two children with screenwriter Jamie Linden.
  — Laura Cohen, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2023
• But keep in mind, with screenwriters and actors on strike, the movie industry is destined to feel the impact of delayed and or canceled production.
  — Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
• The ongoing strike by actors and screenwriters has taken away the studios' ability to promote films with their casts.
  — Jake Coyle, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
• The Writers Guild of America, which has been on strike since May, says the median pay for screenwriters has dropped 14% when adjusted for inflation over the past five years.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
• In 2020, the actor and Kattner (a musician and screenwriter who goes by Honus Honus) quietly welcomed a baby girl.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023
• Such is the obsession with adaptations that Young has said she’s even heard of screenwriters being asked to write a book about an original idea instead of a screenplay.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 13 Mar. 2024
• One screenwriter Michael Sarnoski (who wrote and directed Pig).
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2024
• The actors joined Hollywood screenwriters who began their own walkout in May.
  — Thomas Buckley, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024