Robert Towne, the screenwriting icon who won an Academy Award for "Chinatown," has died. He was 89. (Bob Carey / Los Angeles Times) Robert Towne, the screenwriting icon who won an Academy Award for ...

Robert Towne, the screenwriting icon who won an Academy Award for his original script for “Chinatown,” died Monday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 89. His publicist Carri McClure announced the news ...

so if barbie goes adapted then original screenplay is very weak this year wow I guess there’ll be at least 5 deserving screenplays there, not to mention something will come up as it always does.

I don’t see Oppenheimer winning Screenplay, even if (when) it does end up winning Picture. Nolan will get his individual trophy in Directing, a la Nomadland or ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Rustin, Netflix‘s biopic of civil rights icon Bayard Rustin. Colman Domingo stars in the film, ...

He’s one of the most legendary screenwriting teachers in the business, and someone finally made a movie about him. Nebraska native Lew Hunter, 80, has been teaching the craft for decades, in addition ...

Back in September, we wrote about writer, director and producer Brian Koppelman’s six second screenwriting tips on Vine (he just posted tip #122). His #1 tip was “All screenwriting books are bullshit, ...