Movie Script Scene-By-Scene Breakdowns

A great way to analyze screenplay structure is by studying a script’s scene-by-scene breakdown. Go Into The Story followers are contributing breakdowns of contemporary screenplays to an ongoing script analysis series. Here are links to 128 articles which include downloadable PDFs of each breakdown.

12 Years a Slave
1917
The Aeronauts
After the Wedding
Aftersun
All is Lost
American Hustle
Annette
Antebellum
Argo
Arrival
The Artist
Babylon
Barney’s Version
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Beasts of No Nation
Beginners
Belle
Big Eyes
The Big Short
The Big Sick
Birdman: Or (the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
BlacKkKlansman
Boyhood
Bros
Celeste & Jesse Forever
Coco
CODA
Crazy Rich Asians
Dallas Buyers Club
Destroyer
Eighth Grade
Elvis
Encounter
The End of the Tour
Enough Said
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Ex Machina
Eye in the Sky
The Farewell
The Father
The Favourite
First Cow
First Man
Flight
Ford v Ferrari
Frankenweenie
Get Out
Glass Onion
Gone Girl
The Good Dinosaur
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Gravity
Green Book
Hanna
The Harder They Fall
Hell or High Water
Honey Boy
Hustlers
I, Tonya
I’m Your Woman
The Imitation Game
The Incredibles
The Invitation
Jackie
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Knives Out
La La Land
Leviathan
The Lighthouse
Lincoln
Little Women
Living
Logan
Lone Survivor
Looper
Loving
Luca
Man Up
The Menu
Midsommar
Miles Ahead
Minari
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
A Monster Calls
Monsters University
Moonrise Kingdom
Mudbound
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Nebraska
Nightcrawler
Nightmare Alley
Nine Days
Nomadland
Nope
One Night in Miami
Parasite
Palm Springs
Prisoners
Promising Young Woman
A Quiet Place
Red Rocket
Rocketman
Roma
Short Term 12
The Silence of the Lambs
The Social Network
Sound of Metal
Spencer
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Stan & Ollie
Still Alice
Tár
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The Tender Bar
The Tomorrow War
Toy Story 4
Trainwreck
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Us
Vice
Waves
Whiplash
The White Tiger
The Wolf of Wall Street
The Woman King
Women Talking
Zootopia

For extended analysis of each of these movie scripts, go here.