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Poll: Greatest Screenwriters of All Time

A poll by Dibyayan_Chakravorty.
Out of these 35 of the 100 greatest screenwriters of all time chosen by the working screenwriters according to Vulture, who is in your opinion the 'Greatest Screenwriter'?

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    Billy Wilder

    Notable Scripts: Double Indemnity (1944), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960).
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    Ethan Coen

    with Joel Coen

    Notable Scripts: Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), No Country for Old Men (2007), True Grit (2010).

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    Robert Towne

    Notable Scripts: Chinatown (1974), Shampoo (1975), Days of Thunder (1990), Mission: Impossible (1996).
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    Quentin Tarantino

    Notable Scripts: Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), Inglourious Basterds (2009).
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    Francis Ford Coppola

    Notable Scripts: Patton (1970), The Godfather (1972), The Conversation (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979).
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    William Goldman

    Notable Scripts: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), All the President’s Men (1976), The Princess Bride (1987), Misery (1990).
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    Charlie Kaufman

    Notable Scripts: Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Anomalisa (2015).
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    Woody Allen

    Notable Scripts: Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Midnight in Paris (2011).
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    Nora Ephron

    Notable Scripts: Silkwood (1983), When Harry Met Sally… (1989), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), You’ve Got Mail (1998).
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    Ernest Lehman

    Notable Scripts: Sweet Smell of Success (1957), North by Northwest (1959), West Side Story (1961), The Sound of Music (1965).
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    Paul Schrader

    Notable Scripts: Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), American Gigolo (1980), Affliction (1997).
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    Oliver Stone

    Notable Scripts: Scarface (1983), Platoon (1986), JFK (1991), Natural Born Killers (1994).
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    Aaron Sorkin

    Notable Scripts: A Few Good Men (1992), The Social Network (2010), Moneyball (2011).
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    Paddy Chayefsky

    Notable Scripts: Marty (1955), Paint Your Wagon (1969), The Hospital (1971), Network (1976).
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    Spike Lee

    Notable Scripts: Do the Right Thing (1989), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Chi-Raq (2015).
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    George Lucas

    Notable Scripts: American Graffiti (1973), Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002).
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    Preston Sturges

    Notable Scripts: The Lady Eve (1941), Sullivan’s Travels (1941), The Palm Beach Story (1942), The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944).
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    Stanley Kubrick

    Notable Scripts: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987).
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    Paul Thomas Anderson

    Notable Scripts: Boogie Nights (1997), Magnolia (1999), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), There Will Be Blood (2007).
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    Frances Marion

    Notable Scripts: The Scarlet Letter (1926), The Champ (1931) The Red Mill (1927), Camille (1936).
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    Buck Henry

    Notable Scripts: The Graduate (1967), What’s Up, Doc? (1972), To Die For (1995).
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    Lawrence Kasdan

    Notable Scripts: Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), The Big Chill (1983).
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    Joseph L. Mankiewicz

    Notable Scripts: All About Eve (1950), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Guys and Dolls (1955), Cleopatra (1963).
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    James L. Brooks

    Notable Scripts: Terms of Endearment (1983), Broadcast News (1987), As Good As It Gets (1997), The Simpsons Movie (2007).
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    Akira Kurosawa

    Notable Scripts: Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), Yojimbo (1961), Ran (1985).
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    Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

    Notable Scripts: Heat and Dust (1983), A Room With a View (1985), Howards End (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993).
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    David Mamet

    Notable Scripts: The Untouchables (1987), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Wag the Dog (1997), Ronin (1998).
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    Bo Goldman

    Notable Scripts: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), Scent of a Woman (1992), City Hall (1996), Melvin and Howard (1980).
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    Eric Roth

    Notable Scripts: Forrest Gump (1994), The Insider (1999), Munich (2005), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008).
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    John Hughes

    Notable Scripts: National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983), The Breakfast Club (1985), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1996), Home Alone (1990).
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    Steven Zaillian

    Notable Scripts: Schindler’s List (1993), Gangs of New York (2002), The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Moneyball (2011).
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    James Cameron

    Notable Scripts: Aliens (1986), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Titanic (1997), Avatar (2009).
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    Nicole Holofcener

    Notable Scripts: Lovely & Amazing (2001), Friends With Money (2006), Please Give (2010), Enough Said (2013).
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    Callie Khouri

    Notable Scripts: Thelma & Louise (1991), Something to Talk About (1995), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002).
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    Alexander Payne

    with Jim Taylor

    Notable Scripts: Citizen Ruth (1996), Election (1999), About Schmidt (2002), Sideways (2004).


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