WGA's 101 Greatest Screenplays

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From the WGA website: "101 Greatest Screenplays compiles the finest achievements in film writing, as voted upon by professional film and television writers…. Any film, past or present, English-language or otherwise, was eligible. The resulting list is like a travelogue of the greatest films of the century, with all decades from the 1930s on represented among the rankings."

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  1. 1.
    Casablanca
    by Michael Curtiz

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  2. 2.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  3. 3.
    Chinatown

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  4. 4.
    Citizen Kane
    by Orson Welles

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  5. 5.
    All About Eve
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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  6. 6.
    Annie Hall

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  7. 7.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

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  8. 8.
    Network
    by Sidney Lumet

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  10. 10.
    The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  11. 11.
    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Special Edition)
    by George Roy Hill

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  12. 13.
    The Graduate (Special Edition)
    by Mike Nichols

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  13. 15.
    The Apartment

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  14. 16.
    Pulp Fiction

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  15. 17.
    Tootsie

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  17. 19.
    To Kill a Mockingbird (Collector's Edition)
    by Robert Mulligan

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  18. 20.
    It's a Wonderful Life
    by Frank Capra

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  19. 21.
    North by Northwest

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  20. 22.
    The Shawshank Redemption
    by Frank Darabont

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  21. 23.
    Gone With the Wind (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by George Cukor

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  22. 24.
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    by Michel Gondry

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  23. 25.
    The Wizard of Oz
    by Victor Fleming

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  24. 26.
    Double Indemnity
    by Billy Wilder

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  25. 27.
    Groundhog Day (Special Edition)

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  26. 28.
    Shakespeare in Love (Miramax Collector's Series)
    by John Madden

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  27. 29.
    Sullivan's Travels
    by Preston Sturges

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  29. 31.
    His Girl Friday
    by Howard Hawks

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  30. 32.
    Fargo
    by Joel Coen

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  31. 34.
    Sweet Smell of Success
    by Alexander Mackendrick

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  32. 35.
    The Usual Suspects
    by Bryan Singer

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  33. 36.
    Midnight Cowboy
    by John Schlesinger

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  34. 37.
    The Philadelphia Story
    by George Cukor

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  35. 38.
    American Beauty
    by Sam Mendes

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  36. 39.
    The Sting (Universal Legacy Series)
    by George Roy Hill

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  37. 40.
    When Harry Met Sally...

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  38. 41.
    GoodFellas
    by Martin Scorsese

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  39. 43.
    Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)

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  40. 44.
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler

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  41. 45.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Milos Forman

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  43. 47.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston

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  44. 48.
    The Bridge on the River Kwai
    by David Lean

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  45. 49.
    Schindler's List
    by Steven Spielberg

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Comments

Untitled — 13 weeks ago

It’s unbelievable that such uneven hastily written by committee script as Casablanca’s is heading the list.


Chris Campbell
Wolfville

Untitled — 2 years ago

I made a small change and replaced the 2000 version of High Noon with the original 1952 version which was where the script first appeared.