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'''Screenwriters''' or ''script writers'' are [[authors]] who write the [[screenplay]]s from which [[film]]s are made.  Many of them also work as "script doctors," attempting to change scripts to suit directors or studios; for instance studio management may have a complaint that the motivations of the characters are unclear or that the dialogue is weak. 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.

Most professional screenwriters are [[trade union|union]]ized and are represented by organisations such as the [[Writers Guild of America]].

Some notable screeenwriters:
*[[Alan Ball]]
*[[Leigh Brackett]]: ''[[The Big Sleep]]'', ''Rio Bravo'', ''[[Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back|The Empire Strikes Back]]''
*[[Ray Bradbury]]: ''Moby Dick'', ''King of Kings''
*[[Bertrand Blier]]
*[[Paddy Chayefsky]]
*[[Francis Ford Coppola]]
*[[Nora Ephron]]
*[[William Goldman]]
*[[Ben Hecht]]
*[[Brian Helgeland]]
*[[James Kearns]]
*[[David Mamet]]
*[[Nancy Meyers]]
*[[Harold Pinter]]
*[[Robert Riskin]]: ''[[It Happened One Night]]'', ''Lost Horizon''
*[[Frederica Sagor Maas]]
*[[John Sayles]]
*[[Paul Schrader]]
*[[Aaron Sorkin]]: ''[[A Few Good Men]]'', ''[[The American President]]'', ''[[Sports Night]]'', ''[[The West Wing]]''
*[[Tom Stoppard]]

''See also:'' [[Lists of authors]]

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* Adapted from the [[Wikipedia]] article, "Screenwriter" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenwriter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenwriter], used under the [[GNU Free Documentation License]]