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Recent Examples of screenwriter
The Oscar-winning screenwriter and filmmaker added a black opal, diamond and platinum necklace by Cartier to her deep red dress.
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Julia Teti, Footwear News, 5 Feb. 2026
Panahi and the screenwriter, who is also a journalist and human rights activist, actually first met in Tehran’s Evin Prison.
—Yohana Desta, Vanity Fair, 5 Feb. 2026
He is joined by Min Bahadur Bham, actor Bae Doona, director, producer, and archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, director, screenwriter, and producer Reinaldo Marcus Green, director, screenwriter, and producer HIKARI, and producer Ewa Puszczyńska.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2026
Alongside the top film of the Year award, Paul Thomas Anderson was named director of the year and screenwriter of the year, while Sean Penn won the supporting actor gong.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 1 Feb. 2026
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Julia Teti, Footwear News, 5 Feb. 2026
Panahi and the screenwriter, who is also a journalist and human rights activist, actually first met in Tehran’s Evin Prison.
—Yohana Desta, Vanity Fair, 5 Feb. 2026
He is joined by Min Bahadur Bham, actor Bae Doona, director, producer, and archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, director, screenwriter, and producer Reinaldo Marcus Green, director, screenwriter, and producer HIKARI, and producer Ewa Puszczyńska.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2026
Alongside the top film of the Year award, Paul Thomas Anderson was named director of the year and screenwriter of the year, while Sean Penn won the supporting actor gong.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 1 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for screenwriter
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Smith, the playwright, isn’t holding back her enthusiasm for the source material.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
13 Feb. 2026
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The stage version is being written by Olivier and BAFTA award-winner Stef Smith, a playwright whose credentials signal the production is in accomplished hands.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
13 Feb. 2026
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And because the scriptwriters love a good story, the Rams must return to the same field as their penance.—
Jeff Howe,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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But for all those American fans who plan to watch the Cortina Olympics, be forewarned: Hollywood’s best scriptwriters are sitting at their typewriters, pounding out the bones of a sports movie about Lindsey Vonn.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside,
23 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Brenda Looper joined the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette as a news clerk in April 1997, and worked as a feature writer, reviewer and copy editor on the news side before moving to the opinion section in July 2011.—
Brenda Looper,
Arkansas Online,
11 Feb. 2026
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An InStyle writer shares the surprisingly affordable perfume that earns her more compliments than her luxury fragrances.—
Melony Forcier,
InStyle,
10 Feb. 2026
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He is known as the world's most famous playwright and England's greatest dramatist, but even William Shakespeare got writer's block.—
Gerrad Hall,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Jan. 2026
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The essential New Orleans recipe, named after French dramatist Victorien Sardou in 1908 to celebrate his trip to The Big Easy, is a close cousin to eggs Benedict.—
Amanda Stanfield,
Southern Living,
10 Jan. 2026
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Director Wincer and scenarist Wittliff have created a big-hearted epic that sits tall in the saddle, a vivid video display of cowboy iconography that’s got the Emmy brand all over it, and that thrillingly shows how the West can be magnificently won by Hollywood.—
Miles Beller,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Feb. 2026
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The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
22 June 2023
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These tidbits of excellence suggest his pen and flow can still get the job done; why strive for greatness in a far more complicated way?—
Benny Sun,
Pitchfork,
10 Feb. 2026
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Let this be your sign to enter into some ol’ fashioned pen-to-paper correspondences in 2026.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
10 Feb. 2026
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