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!In Between The River
Katie (on the spectrum) thinks her nomadic family is normal but as she transitions from child to teenager; her father Donald is frequently absent, her mother Judy tries too hard to hold them together and her older brother Kyle hides a secret that eventually surfaces to expose the family illusion.
Xanadu Shores: (PoC) The Super Spy Series
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller.
Screenplay Pilot for Xanadu Shores: The Super Spy Series
Two ex-pilots become embroiled in a kidnapping and gold heist, after an employer's scheme escalates from theft to kidnapping.
She Curses Like a Sailor
The culture of women and cursing is discussed at this art opening in New York.
Nina and Flossie
Three European sisters, in their 70's, scheme to dump a dead body that the eldest killed in the middle of the night as a result of a break-in.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante assassinating violent domestic abusers (and other wretched souls) after their third offense.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A former preacher, haunted by the tragic rape/murder of his twin sister, spirals into darkness as supernatural forces, both angelic and demonic, wage war for his soul.
The Coyote
When a Native American scholar and a graduate student unearth a mysterious tomb, they find it contains a Navajo god and soon find themselves embroiled in a cosmic battle between good and evil with the fate of humanity at stake.
The Umpire Has No Balls
A fiery young woman who has baseball running through her blood and can call the game better than anyone starts her journey through the umpire ranks to achieve her one goal in life – becoming a major league baseball umpire.
All That Glitters (excerpt) From The Novel: Xanadu Shores
The Xanadu Team in their second outing become pawns in a complicated gem heist, involving a beautiful Russian woman and her nefarious employer after a boat of stolen jewelry explodes.
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