Oscar season is in full swing! On Tuesday, January 23, the nominations for the 90th annual Academy Awards were announced by Academy President, John Bailey, and actors Tiffany Haddish and Andy Serkis. With all the buzz and excitement around everything nominated, wouldn't it be cool to get your hands on all the screenplays that made the cut? Look no further! Get your nominated Screenplay fix by reading the 10 screenplays nominated for the 2018 Oscars below. Download them before they're gone.
The 90th Academy Awards will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and will air live on ABC, Sunday, March 4.
Nominees for Best Original Screenplay
- The Big Sick
Written by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
The Big Sick Script Snippet
Naveed
Listen. I understand. You're in America. You wanna mow a few lawns and see what it's like. But eventually you have to marry a Pakistani girl. Like I hung out with other girls. But then I married Fatima. We hardly spoke two words to each other the first few months! But now, Kumi, she's like my best friend. You have to break up with her immediately.
Kumail
If I find someone who's as good for me as Fatima is for you, Mom would understand, right? I mean, she wouldn't love me less?
Naveed
She would definitely love you less. Slowly, you'd sort of -- what's the word when guys stop returning girls' calls?
Kumail
Ghosting?
Naveed
Yes
(dead serious)
You have to end it now or Mom will ghost you.
- Get Out
Written by Jordan Peele
Get Out Script Snippet
Chris wakes up bald. Static snow clicks fills the TV lighting the room. The image clicks to that of...
Int. Hospital Room - Day (Television)
Jim Hudson, also shaven, sits on a hospital bed. And faces Chris through the television.
Jim
Hello Chris. How's it going...? You can answer. There's an intercom in the room; I can hear you.
Chris
I need water.
Jim
Yeah, sorry about that. If it makes you feel any better, I'm thirsty too.
Chris
I need to get outta here.
Jim
Right. So, the reason I am talking to you now is so you can understand what is happening to you. I guess your 'understanding' it raises the success rate of this whole thing. Not even sure I 'understand' it.
- Lady Bird
Written by Greta Gerwig
Lady Bird Script Snippet
Father Leviatch runs auditions - there is something funny and depressed about him. An overweight woman, Miss Patty, accompanies on the piano when needed.
A boy, Greg, is up. He has a big voice for such a tiny boy:
Greg
"BEING ALIVVEEEEEEEEEE......!"
CUT TO Father Leviatch calling out from his clipboard:
Father Leviatch
Okay, Christine?
Lady Bird
Lady Bird.
Father Leviatch
Is that your given name?
Lady Bird
Yes.
Father Leviatch
Why is it in quotes?
Lady Bird
Well I gave it to myself. It's given. To me, by me.
CUT TO Lady Bird singing her song:
- The Shape of Water
Written by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor; Story by Guillermo del Toro
The Shape of Water Script Snippet
Int. Elisa's Apartment / River Footage - Night
We float at the bottom of a river. Surrounded by water.
Fish swim away. Debris floating in the water-
And, then, a lamp floats by-
A coffee pot-
A shoe.
Giles / Narrator
If I spoke about it- If I did- what would I tell you about the time...? It happened a long time ago- in the last days of a fair Prince's reign... Or would I tell you about the place? A small city near the coast but far from everything else... Or would I tell you about her? The princess without voice...
(beat)
Or perhaps I would just warn you of the about the truth of these facts and the tale of love and loss and the monster that tried to destroy it all.
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Written by Martin McDonagh
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Script Snippet
Ext. Billboard Road - Day
MILDRED HAYES, a woman in her early 50's, driving along a country road, passes an old billboard, roadside. Whatever advert was on it is long since faded and torn. MILDRED drives on, to a second billboard a few hundred feet along the road.
She notices this one a little more, though its old adverts are equally ramshackle. She slows to a stop.
After looking up at the billboard a while, she slowly reverses and stops at the first, then at all three, stretching away to the quiet horizon.
Makes a mental note of "EBBING BILLBOARD ADVERTISING," then drives on again, leaving the three old billboards alone like tombstones on the dusty road.
Nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay
- Call Me By Your Name
Screenplay by James Ivory
Call Me By Your Name Script Snippet
Int. Elio's / Oliver's Room - Perlman Villa - Day
The sound of an approaching car. ELIO, 17, barefoot and in his bathing suit, is in the process of moving his clothes from his room to the adjacent room - a wardrobe somehow refurbished into a single bedroom. The two rooms are separated by a ruined wooden door, with cracks all over it. MARZIA, a girl of about his same age, is lying on the bed. It is obvious both have been on it together.
ELIO goes to the window and looks down. A car pulls up below, blowing up clouds of dust, and stops at the villa's main entrance. A young man steps out of the car, wearing a billowy bright blue shirt with a wide-open collar, sunglasses. This is OLIVER, 25. He is followed by the handy-man and gardener of the house ANCHISE.
Elio
(in French)
L'usurpateur.
(The usurper)
- The Disaster Artist
Screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
The Disaster Artist Script Snippet
They stand there, together, a long beat.
Greg
Maybe we should make our own movie.
Isn't that a wild idea... But then his face changes. The wheels turning. Something occurs to him.
Tommy
That great idea.
And we CUT TO:
Series of Shots: Tommy Gets to Work
A - Tommy draws the curtains for complete darkness.
We hear:
Tommy (v.o.)
So it all takes place in one room...
B - Tommy sets up a typewriter on a desk. He places his copy of "Streetcar Named Desire" next to it.
Tommy (v.o.)
Everybody's happy, life is perfect.
- Logan
Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; story by James Mangold
Logan Script Snippet
Voice
Logan.
He turns to face a DISHEVELED HISPANIC WOMAN, 35. She stands about twenty paces from THE BATTERED FIAT WITH ONE HEADLIGHT, wipers on. Logan eyes the woman, wild-eyed, dirty raincoat, gets a big whiff of "crazy."
Hispanic Woman
...I knew it was you.
Logan moves past her, heads for his limo in line with others.
Hispanic Woman (Cont'd)
Please. I'm in trouble. You're the only one who can help.
Logan looks at her as THE MOURNERS (his clients) come down the hill toward the line of black vehicles.
Hispanic Woman (Cont'd)
Logan laughs as he pulls an umbrella from his trunk.
Logan
Don't we all.
- Molly's Game
Written for the screen by Aaron Sorkin
Molly's Game Script Snippet
Int. Viper Room Basement - A Moment Later
A stack of chips gets slapped on the table as an opening bet and in
a --
Series of Cuts
--we see cards being dealt, bets being raised, hands being folded, Molly making a vodka and Red Bull, the final card being flipped, hands, chips, cards, vodka and Red Bull etc.--
MOLLY's in the corner. She's standing at a small table with her laptop open, watching, listening and Googling. We push in on her slowly, cutting in the action of the game as we go, all the while hearing the thumping of the music from upstairs.
Molly (v.o.)
I'd just finished counting out ninety-thousand dollars in cash. I was in a room with movie stars, directors, rappers, boxers and business titans. They were going all-in all the time, burning through their buy-ins over and over.
- Mudbound
Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees
Mudbound Script Snippet
OVER BLACK we hear the distant rumbling of THUNDER.
Fade In:
TIGHT ON THE FACE OF JAMIE MCALLAN (Caucasian, 20's)
Black eye. Cut lip. He looks like a beaten prize fighter who is dripping in sweat and mud. WIDEN TO REVEAL we are...
Ext. The Mcallan Farm - In a Hole - Day - Continuous
The ash colored storm clouds make it look like night. Jamie scrapes the muck off his shovel blade and resumes. The mud is so thick it's like digging into raw meat.
A distant lightning flash accompanied by THUNDER. Jamie ups his urgency as he chops at the wet earth. An upside down face appears in the hole's opening. It's HENRY MCALLAN (Caucasian, late 40's), Jamie's salt-of-the-earth, older brother. Henry is a man of few words who rarely smiles. They speak with the lilting garble of the Mississippi Delta.
Find the full list of nominations for the 90th Academy Awards here!
Let the countdown to March 4th begin!