screenwriter, film writer (noun)

Screenwriters or scenarists or scriptwriters are people who write the screenplays from which films and television programs are made.

Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone, nicknamed Sly Stallone, is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter.

Peter Robert Jackson, CNZM is a three-time Academy Award-winning New Zealand filmmaker, producer and screenwriter, best known for The Lord of the Rings trilogy adapted from the novel byJ.R.R. Tolkien.

Kevin Patrick Smith is an American screenwriter, director, as well as a comic book writer, author, and actor.

Ben Affleck is an American actor, film director and screenwriter.

Billy Bob Thornton is an American actor, director, musician, playwright, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.

Emma Thompson is a British actress, comedian, and screenwriter.

Lars von Trier is an Academy Award-nominated Danish film director and screenwriter.

Robert Jonathan Demme is an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter.

Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American film director, actress, producer and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.

Anthony Minghella CBE was an Academy Award-winning English film director, playwright and screenwriter.

John Thomas Sayles is an American independent film director and screenwriter who frequently plays small roles in his own and other indie films.

Mario Mattoli was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

Tony Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter.

Shyam Benegal is a prolific Indian director and screenwriter.

Constantine Alexander Payne is an American film director and screenwriter.

Richard Stuart Linklater is an Academy Award-nominated American film director and screenwriter.

Sarah Polley is a Canadian actress, singer, Genie Award-winning film director and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter.

Mahesh Bhatt, is a prominent Indian film director, producer and screenwriter.

Allan Dwan was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

Wong Jing is a Hong Kong film director, producer, actor, presenter, and screenwriter.

Charles Stuart Kaufman is an Academy Award, Bafta, and Independent Spirit Award-winning American screenwriter, producer, and director.

Drew Goddard is a film and television screenwriter best known for his collaborations with Joss Whedon andJ.J. Abrams. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2009 ceremony for his work on the fourth season of Lost.

Brannon Braga is an American television producer and screenwriter, currently working on the writing crew of 24 for Season 7, with the credit of Executive Producer.

Patrice Leconte is a French film director and screenwriter.

Lewis Gilbert CBE is an English film director, producer and screenwriter, born in London.

Subhash Ghai is an Indian director, producer and screenwriter.

Lawrence Kasdan is an American movie producer, director and screenwriter.

Robert Zigler Leonard was an American film director, actor, producer and screenwriter.

Jack Selig Yellen was a Jewish-American lyricist and screenwriter.

S. Shankar is a critically accaimed award winning Tamil film director, film producer and screenwriter.

Arthur Laurents is an award-winning American playwright, librettist, stage director, and screenwriter.

Thomas Harper Ince was an American silent film actor, director, producer and screenwriter.

Evan Hunter was a prolific American author and screenwriter.

John Farrow was an award-winning film director, producer and screenwriter.

Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an English comedian, playwright, director, actor and screenwriter.

Ira Steven Behr is an American television producer and screenwriter, most known for his work on Star Trek, especially Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, on which he served as showrunner and executive producer.

Martha Mills Noxon is a television and film writer perhaps best known for her work as a writer and executive producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Brian Francis Wynne Garfield is an American novelist and screenwriter.

Frances Walsh, Mnzm,, is a Grammy and Academy Award-winning screenwriter, film producer and musician.

Philip Kaufman is an American film director and screenwriter.

Jonah Hill is an American actor and screenwriter.

Noel Anthony Clarke is a BAFTA award winning English actor, director and screenwriter from London.

Barton Maclane was an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter.

Allan Heinberg is an American film screenwriter, who wrote Young Avengers for Marvel Comics, and has been a writer and producer on The Naked Truth, Party of Five, Sex and the City, Gilmore Girls, TheO.C., and currently Grey's Anatomy.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE is a Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter.

Jerry Wald was an Academy Award-winning American producer and screenwriter for motion pictures and radio shows.

VictorL. Schertzinger was an American composer, film director, film producer, and screenwriter.

Fred Schepisi AO is an award-winning Australian film director and screenwriter.

Frances Marion was an American journalist, author, and screenwriter often cited as the most renowned female screenwriter of the twentieth century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos.