Find the Funny Awards Kick Off May 6
The 3rd Annual Find
the Funny Awards, will kick off Sunday, May 6, 2007,
from 6 to 9 PM at The Improv, Hollywood’s Original
Comedy Showcase and Restaurant.
Find the Funny will present the coveted Osgood award
to the Best Original Comedy Screenplay and Best
Adapted Comedy Screenplay of 2006. Find the Funny will
also present its Breakthrough Award to the smash hit
BORAT. Winners of the Find the Funny Screenplay
Contest will also be honored. The evening will
include an open bar, appetizers, entertainment and
networking.
Tickets are on sale at www.findthefunny.com or at
www.improv.com, or call The Improv at (323) 651-2583.
This year’s nominees are:
BEST ORIGINAL COMEDY SCREENPLAY
THE HOLIDAY, written by Nancy Meyers, Columbia
Pictures.
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, written by Michael Arndt, Fox
Searchlight Pictures.
STRANGER THAN FICTION, written by Zach Helm, Sony
Pictures Entertainment.
TALLADEGA NIGHTS: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, written
by Will Farrell & Adam McKay, Columbia Pictures.
VOLVER, written by Pedro Almodovar, Sony Pictures
Classics.
BEST ADAPTED COMEDY SCREENPLAY
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. screenplay by Aline Brosh
McKenna, based on the novel by Lauren Weisberger,
Twentieth Century Fox.
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, screenplay and screen story by
Robert Ben Garant & Thomas Lennon, from the book my
Milan Trenc, Twentieth Century Fox.
A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION, screenplay by Garrison
Keillor, story by Garrison Keillor & Ken LaZebnik,
based on the radio program, New Line Home Video.
RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, screenplay by Ryan Murphy,
based on the book Running With Scissors: A Memoir by
Augusten Burroughs, Sony Pictures Entertainment.
THANK YOU FOR SMOKING, screenplay by Jason Reitman,
based on the novel by Christopher Buckley, Fox
Searchlight Pictures.
Updated: 04/03/2007
Additional Contest Info:
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
In the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter with RUTHLESS characters, a 14 year old minister - mourns his twin sister, and scorns the GOD he once fervently praised.
DON'T GO IN
A Baton Rouge teen, haunted by a family tragedy, battles a malevolent Creolo Myth to save his brother and amend past mistakes.
The Sword's Awakening
When King Arthur’s legendary sword Excalibur is stolen from a museum, it awakens a dragon and the descendent of a legendary knight who must join forces to find the powerful relic before its dark magic falls into the wrong hands.
FAUSTIAN
After a string of suspicious celebrity deaths, an obsessed detective must protect a fragile pop starlet and other notable targets of an eccentric stalker who claims to be able to cancel deals with the devil they've unknowingly made.
THE FAT LADY SINGS
When a small time private investigator gets a chance at the big time taking on a prominent politician’s wife’s case; neither realizes they are in way over their heads, the political party has been shadowing her, and will do anything to protect her husband, a presumed future presidential candidate.
Fingertips
A Psychological Horror With a twist of a psychotic individual suffering from psychosocial issues has an imaginary friend that’s part of his hallucinations his Imaginary friend is his British father a young proud to be American, forgets his medication after collecting it from a Pharmacy he causes a lot of mayhem around his area he thinks the worlds in his fingertips he chases down social media Influencers and artists by hacking and tracking their location constantly talking to himself as he hallucinates thinking He can see his British Father is around him, Kevin ends up with a chainsaw and gets a few round kills with his Chainsaw he stole from an old granny.
A Cracker in East Harlem
JIMMY J is 50 and has lived in the same East Harlem building for more than half of his life.
Free Sports Radio
Two Filipino-American brothers purchase a radio station in a small city, dreaming of commercial free sports talk, but their ambitious, younger sister has bigger plans for herself and the station.
Desert Quarry
Two mercenaries rob a former colleague's New York jewelry shop to even a score, but after the shop’s employees are found murdered, a deadly bank heist in Iraq begins to haunt them.
Perfect Contrition
A traumatized priest haunted by visions of his violent past obligingly serves a rural parish while indulging in a long distance affair, but his vindictive compulsion is sparked when he’s wrongly blamed for the deaths of two troubled altar boys.
