2017 Independent Spirit Award screenwriting nominees

Best Screenplay and Best First Screenplay nominees announced.

It’s the start of the awards season and one I always look for is the Film Independent’s Spirit Awards. Here are the 2017 screenwriting nominees:

Best Screenplay

Barry Jenkins, “Moonlight” (story by Tarell Alvin McCraney)
Kenneth Lonergan, “Manchester by the Sea”
Mike Mills, “20th Century Women”
Ira Sachs & Mauricio Zacharias, “Little Men”
Taylor Sheridan, “Hell or High Water”

Best First Screenplay

Robert Eggers, “The Witch”
Chris Kelly, “Other People”
Adam Mansbach, “Barry”
Stella Meghie, “Jean of the Joneses”
Craig Shilowich, “Christine”

Note: Both Kenneth Lonergan and Taylor Sheridan are writers whose scripts have made the annual Black List.

You may download the script for Manchester by the Sea here.

I expect more of these scripts to become available to the public in the next two months.

Congrats, writers!

Film Independent’s Spirit Awards website

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