Script-doctoring can be quite lucrative, especially for the better known writers. David Mamet and John Sayles , for instance, fund the movies they direct themselves, usually from their own screenplays, by writing and doctoring scripts for others. In fact, some writers make very profitable careers out of the script doctoring food chain, being the ninth or tenth writer to work on a piece. In many cases, working on projects that never see exposure to an audience of any size.
Most professional screenwriters are Unionized and are represented by organisations such as the Writers Guild Of America . The WGA is final arbiter on awarding writing credit for projects under its jurisdiction. (See Screenwriting Credit .)
Some notable screenwriters:
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- Alan Ball
- '', '' Troy ''
- '', '' Kramer Vs. Kramer '', '' Places In The Heart ''
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- Ray Bradbury : ''Moby Dick'', ''King of Kings''
- '', '' The Last Boy Scout '', '' Last Action Hero ''
- Bertrand Blier
- '', '' City Lights '', '' Modern Times '', '' The Great Dictator ''
- Paddy Chayefsky
- '', '' Cellular ''
- Francis Ford Coppola
- '', '' Almost Famous '', '' Vanilla Sky '', '' Elizabethtown '', '' Jerry Maguire '
- '', '' Notting Hill '', '' Mr. Bean ''
- '', '' The Green Mile ''
- '', '' Love Affair '', '' A Summer Place ''
- I.A.L. Diamond
- Nora Ephron
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- Ernesto Gastaldi
- '', '' Parenthood '', '' City Slickers '', '' A League Of Their Own ''
- William Goldman
- Akiva Goldsman
- '', '' Blade '' series, '' Batman Begins ''
- '' ( 2004 ), '' Scooby-Doo ''
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- Shinobu Hashimoto , favorite screenwriter of Akira Kurosawa
- Ben Hecht
- Brian Helgeland
- '', '' Shallow Grave '', '' A Life Less Ordinary ''
- Sidney Howard
- '', '' The Big Chill ''
- Charlie Kaufman
- James Kearns
- David Koepp
- Kadri Kousaar
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- Ring Lardner, Jr.
- '', '' Executive Suite '', '' North By Northwest '', '' The Sweet Smell Of Success ''
- John Logan
- Anita Loos
- '', '' The Contender ''
- '', '' Out Of Africa ''
- '', '' Anne Of Green Gables ''
- David Mamet
- Herman J. Mankiewicz
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Frances Marion
- Nancy Meyers
- Herman Miller (writer)
- Walter Newman
- '', '' Twelve Monkeys '', '' Ladyhawke ''
- Harold Pinter
- Michael Radford
- Mike Rich
- '', ''Lost Horizon''
- '', '' Withnail And I ''
- '', '' All Of Me '', '' Sneakers ''
- Frederica Sagor Maas
- John Sayles
- Paul Schrader
- Rod Serling
- Kevin Smith
- Steven Soderbergh
- '', '' The American President '', '' Sports Night '', '' The West Wing ''
- '', '' The Doors '', '' Alexander ''
- Peter Stone
- Tom Stoppard
- ''. He also wrote ''The Complete Book of Scriptwriting'', a well regarded and often used guide for beginning screenwriters.
- '', '' Reservoir Dogs '', '' True Romance '', '' Jackie Brown ''
- Dalton Trumbo
- '', '' G.I. Jane '', '' Pitch Black ''
- '', '' Pearl Harbor '', '' We Were Soldiers ''
- '', '' Toy Story '', '' Titan A.E. ''
- Michael Wilson
- '', '' Death And The Maiden '', '' Les Miserables ''
- '', '' Schindler's List '', '' Searching For Bobby Fischer ''
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