AMPAS SPONSORED NICHOLL FELLOWSHIPS
(Roughly 7,500 submissions; 300 make the quarters, 100 make the semis)
Semifinalist
BROKEN HALOS
THE FRANCHISE
AMERICANA
REMY
Top 15%
A PERIODIC OCCURRENCE
OUTSTANDING SCREENPLAYS
Winner
BROKEN HALOS
Quarterfinalist
BAR FIGHT: A LOVE STORY
REMY
FINAL DRAFT BIG BREAK
Top 10
THE FRANCHISE
Semifinalist
AMERICANA
Quarterfinalist
BROKEN HALOS
DUKE CITY
REMY
SCRIPTAPALOOZA FEATURE SCREENPLAY
Semifinalist
REMY
AMERICANA
Quarterfinalist
BROKEN HALOS
SCRIPTAPALOOZA SHORT SCREENPLAY
Semifinalist
LOVE ME, TINDER
BLUE CAT SCREENWRITING CONTEST
Quarterfinalist
REMY
BLUE CAT SHORT SCREENPLAY CONTEST
Quarterfinalist
JACKIE
TABLE READ MY SCREENPLAY
Top 10 Comedy
THE FRANCHISE
Top 100 Comedy
BAR FIGHT: A LOVE STORY
Top 25 Shorts
JACKIE
TABLE READ MY SCREENPLAY – Hollywood
Semifinalist
THE FRANCHISE
TABLE READ MY SCREENPLAY – Park City
Semifinalist
THE FRANCHISE
PAGE INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY COMPETITION
Semifinalist
THE FRANCHISE
Quarterfinalist
A PERIODIC OCCURRENCE
STORYPROS INTERNATIONAL
Finalist
A PERIODIC OCCURRENCE
EXPO SCREENPLAY COMPETITION
Semifinalist
THE FRANCHISE
FILMARTIC TV PILOT AWARDS
Semifinalist
DUKE CITY
LOS ANGELES CRIME & HORROR FILM FESTIVAL
Winner - Best Screenplay
PRODIGAL SON
Semifinalist
THE AMATEUR
DUKE CITY
BlLOOD WILL TELL
FADE IN COMEDY FEATURE SCREENPLAY
Finalist
THE BIG ASK
Semifinalist
BAR FIGHT: A LOVE STORY
FADE IN SHORT SCREENPLAY CONTEST
1st Place
JACKIE
OUTSTANDING SCREENPLAYS
Quarterfinalist
BROKEN HALOS
THE FRANCHISE
LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL
Honorable Mention
BROKEN HALOS
SCREENCRAFT TV PILOT SCRIPT COMPETITION
Quarterfinalist
DUKE CITY
SCREENCRAFT SCREENWRITING FELLOWSHIPS
Quarterfinalist
THE FRANCHISE
SCREENCRAFT COMEDY
Semifinalist
THE FRANCHISE
SCREENCRAFT FAMILY
Top 10
REMY
SCREENCRAFT ACTION & THRILLER
Quarterfinalist
THE IRON HORSEMAN
HOLLYWOOD SCREENPLAY CONTEST
Finalist
BROKEN HALOS
THE BIG ASK
THE FRANCHISE
LOS ANGELES INDIE FILM FESTIVAL
Winner
BROKEN HALOS
LOS ANGELES FILM & SCRIPT FESTIVAL
Honorable Mention
DUKE CITY
INROADS SCREENPLAY CONTEST
Finalist
THE FRANCHISE
FOR A CAUSE FILM FESTIVAL
Official Selection
BROKEN HALOS
BEVERLY HILLS FILM FESTIVAL
Official Selection
THE FRANCHISE
BROKEN HALOS
NYC INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITING CONTEST
Semifinalist
THE FRANCHISE
BROKEN HALOS
REAR NAKED CHOKE
MEXICO FILM FESTIVAL
Top 13
REAR NAKED CHOKE
FESTIVAL FOR COMEDY
Staged Reading Winner
THE FRANCHISE
SCREENPLAY REPLAY
Finalist
REMY
Semifinalist – Los Angeles Crime & Horror Film Festival
After robbing a Vegas casino, six friends learn more about greed and betrayal than loyalty.
Winner – Best Screenplay – Los Angeles Crime & Horror Film Festival
Ten years after the death of their daughter’s fraternal twin, a family welcomes a stranger into their home, unravelling a decade old secret spiritually connecting them to a violent resolution.
Semifinalist – Los Angeles Crime & Horror Film Festival
Desperate, an out of work blue collar man seeks a new occupation - contract killer.
Winner - Outstanding Screenplays
Winner – Best Screenplay – Los Angeles Indie Film Festival
Finalist – Hollywood Screenplay Contest
Semifinalist - AMPAS Sponsored Nicholl Fellowships
Semifinalist - Fade In Awards Drama
Quarterfinalist – Final Draft Big Break
Quarterfinalist – Scriptapalooza
Official Selection – Beverly Hills Film Festival
Official Selection – For A Cause Film Festival
Honorable Mention – Los Angeles International Underground Film Festival
Semifinalist – NYC Int’l Screenplay Competition
Two strangers, one a trucker in his 40's, the other a 22 year old girl with a 6 year old boy, find common ground through their individual tragedies. An unconventional story with undertones of tolerance and compassion for victims of violent crime.
Quarterfinalist - Outstanding Screenplays
Semifinalist – Fade In Comedy Screenplay Contest
Top 100 - Table Read My Screenplay
Unofficially sponsored by Jack Daniels and Budweiser, BAR FIGHT: A LOVE STORY follows two Chicagoans searching for happiness while participating in the Windy City’s unsanctioned summer bar fight competition.
Quarterfinalist – Final Draft Big Break
Semifinalist – Los Angeles Crime & Horror Festival
Semifinalist – Filmatic TV Pilot Awards
Quarterfinalist – Screencraft TV Pilot Script Contest
Honorable Mention – Los Angeles Film & Script Festival
After a three year absence, Native American Sheriff Billy Cheveyo returns to Duke City, Texas with one desire “I just wanna make Duke City safe again….” But with an ethnically divided landscape and historically biased political system will the ends justify the means?
Top 10 – Final Draft Big Break
Top 10 - Table Read My Screenplay
Finalist – Hollywood Screenplay Contest
Semifinalist – AMPAS Sponsored Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowships
Finalist – Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship
Official Selection – Beverly Hills Film Festival
Semifinalist – Table Read My Screenplay Hollywood
Semifinalist – Table Read My Screenplay Park City
Semifinalist – EXPO Screenwriting Competition
Quarterfinalist – Page International Screenwriting Competition
Semifinalist – Screencraft Comedy
Festival For Comedy – Staged Reading Winner
Quarterfinalist – Screencraft Screenplay Fellowships
Semifinalist – NYC Int’l Screenplay Competition
Quarterfinalist - Outstanding Screenplays
On Christmas Eve, a local MTA bus driver teams up with the ne’er do well owner of Detroit’s Santa Franchise to find lost reindeer, save the holiday and win back his family.
Semi-Finalist – AMPAS Sponsored Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowships
Quarterfinalist – Final Draft Big Break Contest
Semifinalist – Scriptapalooza
Quarterfinalist – Blue Cat Screenwriting Contest
Top 10 – Screen Craft Family Friendly Contest
Finalist – Screenplay Replay Contest
Quarterfinalist - Outstanding Screenplays
A brilliant 7th Grader teams up with the new kid in school to find his long lost father and impress the pretty girl at school. Private Investigation’s a tough job, especially when you gotta be in bed by 10.
Semifinalist – NYC Int’l Screenplay Competition
Top 13 – Mexico Film Festival
A past his prime MMA fighter goes on the run with his young daughter. With no other means to support her, he climbs back into the cage of a barnstorming circuit of amateur competitions.
Top 15% – AMPAS Sponsored Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship
Finalist – StoryPros International Screenplay Contest
Quarterfinalist – Page International Screenwriting Competition
A recently divorced American finds himself part of an ill-fated love triangle with a nefarious British Ex-Pat and a beautiful Cebuano Bar Girl.
A dark comedy about a software engineer seeking restitution for wrongful termination and theft of service. Hacksaws, freezers and Shakespeare will never be the same…
Semi-Finalist – AMPAS sponsored Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowships
Semi-Finalist – Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest
Semi-Finalist – Scriptapalooza
A Los Angeles radio personality crashes and burns his career only to find his bliss deep in the heart of Americana.
Finalist – Hollywood Screenplay Contest
Semifinalist – Fade In Comedy Screenplay Contest
The lives of two best friends unravel when one pitches the big ask – “help me get rid of a body”…
Quarterfinalist – ScreenCraft Action & Thriller Screenplay Contest
In this neo-western set in the not too distant future, a group of men plan to assume control of The Last Outpost, the citizens and their hidden resources. With no one to offer defense, The Iron Horseman convinces his former partners to set aside their differences until good has been protected.
A former poker dealer returns to the casino he was brutally banned from to clear his name as well as settle a score with, and for, his surrogate father. But in life, experience counts more than talent and there’s always one card left which not all players see.
The relationship between two not so bright friends is challenged when one accidentally develops an undiscovered skill at serial killing.
A group of characters’ stories intersect through Hollywood, among them The Drifter, The Thief, The Tourists, The Lonely Heart, The Runaway, The Predator, The Fugitives, The Junkie and The Cops who try desperately to keep “the haves and have nots from trading places too quickly“.
A former High School football star loses his wife and must take a larger role with his son and daughter. Through the mourning process, he realizes he’s not the husband and father he’d perceived and must course correct or risk losing everything.
A pair of stand ins, one seeking money, the other art, settle their differences, try to overcome their respective heartbreak, ambition and professional distraction while navigating the pratfalls of a high profile action film clusterfuck.
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