Update: 2020–2021 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 4 New Scripts, 47 Total
By: Scott Myers
Tags: Screenwriting, Filmmaking, Movies, Film, Screenplay

It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.

As in years past, I will be tracking the year’s movie scripts as links become available.

Current total of 2020 scripts for download: 47. Newly added scripts (4): Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, Minari, Over the Moon, The United States vs Billie Holiday.

Antebellum (Lionsgate)

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (Lionsgate)

Borat: Subsequent Movie Film (Amazon Studios)

Cherry (Apple TV+)

The Climb (Sony Classics)

Da 5 Bloods (via Deadline Hollywood)

Emma (Focus Features)

The Father (Sony Classics)

First Cow (A24)

French Exit (Sony Classics)

The Half of It (Netflix)

Herself (Amazon Studios)

I Carry You With Me (Sony Classics)

I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Netflix)

I’m Your Woman (Amazon Studios)

Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros.)

Kajillionaire (Focus Features)

The King Of Staten Island (Universal Pictures)

Land (Focus Features)

Let Him Go (Focus Features)

The Little Things (Warner Bros.)

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix)

Malcolm & Marie (Netflix)

Mank (Netflix)

The Mauritanian (STX Films)

Minari (A24)

Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Focus Features)

News of the World (Universal Pictures)

Nomadland (Searchlight)

On the Rocks (A24)

One Night In Miami (Amazon Studios)

Onward (Pixar/Disney)

Over the Moon (Netflix)

Palm Springs (Amazon Studios)

Palmer (Apple TV+)

The Personal History of David Copperfield (Fox Searchlight)

Prom (Netflix)

Promising Young Woman (Universal Pictures)

Saint Frances (Oscilloscope)

Shirley (Neon)

Soul (Pixar/Disney)

Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios)

Tenet (Warner Bros.)

The Trial Of The Chicago 7 (DreamWorks Pictures)

The United States vs Billie Holiday (Hulu)

The White Tiger (Netflix)

You should download the scripts ASAP because these links have a way of disappearing.

To access 100+ movie scripts made available by studios and production companies since 2009, go here.

Reading movie screenplays is absolutely critical to your development as a screenwriter. Along with watching movies and writing pages, it is a fundamental practice you should put into place. Make it a goal to read at least one movie script per week.

Where can you go to get access to many of the top movie scripts from 2020? Right here!

THESE SCRIPTS ARE FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY!

NOTE: Our annual Go Into The Story Script Read and Analysis series begins this month. If a 2020 movie script becomes available and you would like to read it and provide a scene-by-scene breakdown, let me know. This is a great tradition and provides a major benefit to the online screenwriting community.

Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis Series

Movie Script Scene-By-Scene Breakdowns

Here is the current slate of volunteers:

Antebellum / Rose Banks

I’m Thinking of Ending Things / Jennifer Messineo

I’m Your Woman / Priya Gopal

The King of Staten Island / Halil Akgündüz

Palm Springs / Michael Korican

Sound of Metal / Laura Bolton

The Trial of the Chicago 7 / Karen Liu

The Trial of the Chicago 7 / Andrew Lightfoot

Thanks to everyone who participates in this annual project! Please email me your scene-by-scene breakdowns: GITSblog@gmail.com.