Update: 2017 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 3 New Scripts, 36 Total!

Scott Myers
Go Into The Story
Published in
2 min readDec 12, 2017

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Get these PDFs now before the links disappear.

Hollywood studios and production companies are going through their annual ritual of making the year’s movie scripts available to the public. As I update them here and add them to the site’s script archive, what this means is unlike other sites, all scripts here are both free and legal.

Current total of 2017 scripts for download: 36. Newly added scripts (3): The Disaster Artist, The Florida Project, Lady Bird.

Battle of the Sexes (Fox Searchlight)
Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
The Beguiled (Focus Features)
The Big Sick (Amazon)
Brad’s Status (Amazon)
Breathe (Bleeker Street)
Brigsby Bear (Sony Classics)
Darkest Hour (Focus Features)
The Disaster Artist (A24)
Downsizing (Paramount)
Elizabeth Blue (Nittle Baby Productions)
A Fantastic Woman (Sony Classics)
First They Killed My Father (Netflix)
The Florida Project (A24) — Note: Broken Link
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Disney)
Happy End (Sony Classics)
I, Tonya (Neon)
Lady Bird (A24)
Last Flag Flying (Amazon)
Logan (20th Century Fox) — script hosted by Cinephilia & Beyond
The Lost City of Z (Amazon)
Loveless (Sony Classics)
The Man Who Invented Christmas (Bleeker Street)
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House (Sony Classics)
Maudie (Sony Classics)
The Meyerowitz Stories (Netflix)
mother! (Paramount)
Mudbound (Netflix)
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (Sony Classics)
Novitiate (Sony Classics)
Okja (Netflix)
The Shape of Water (Fox Searchlight) — Note: Broken Link
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Fox Searchlight)
Victoria and Abdul (Focus Features)
War for the Planet of the Apes (Twentieth Century Fox)
Wonderstruck (Amazon)

Last year, the studios and production companies released nearly 50 scripts, so there’s a lot more to come in the next two months.

Hitchcock with a stack of his movie scripts

Reading movie screenplays is absolutely critical to your development as a screenwriter. Along with watching movies and writing pages, it is a fundamental practice you should put into place. Make it a goal to read at least one movie script per week.

Want to up your grasp of the craft while making a valuable contribution for the online screenwriting community? Volunteer to do a scene-by-scene breakdown of a 2017 movie script. Go here for more information.

Where can you go to get access to many of the top movie scripts from 2017? Right here at Go Into The Story! And to learn when they first come online, follow me on Twitter: @GoIntoTheStory.

Thanks to Sarah Grimes for tracking the release of movie scripts this year.

Reminder: These scripts are for educational purposes only.

NOTE: These links are temporary so my advice: Download the scripts NOW!!!

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