The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has named Jane Barr and their 2020 Grand Prize Winner for her script, An American Tale.
[Updated: 05/19/2020]
The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their 2020 Feature, TV Pilot, and Short Script finalists. Winners will be announced on May 19th, 2020.
[Updated: 05/12/2020]
The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their 2020 Feature, TV Pilot, and Short Script semifinalists. Finalists will be announced on May 12th, 2020.
[Updated: 04/14/2020]
The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their 2020 Feature, TV Pilot, and Short Script quarterfinalists. Semifinalists will be announced on April 14th, 2020.
[Updated: 03/17/2020]
Fox Hollow by Ariel Sobel has been named the Winner of the BlueCat Screenplay Contest for 2019. Benjamin Christopher won the Hour-long Pilot Category for his script Tenth Street, while Katie Blair was the Half-Hour Winner for her script, Clay.
[Updated: 05/07/2019]
BlueCat has named their top 5 Feature and TV Pilot finalists.
[Updated: 04/30/2019]
BlueCat has announced their 2019 Feature, TV, and Short Script semifinalists.
[Updated: 04/11/2019]
The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced quarterfinalists for their 2019 Feature, Short, and TV pilot contests.
[Updated: 03/26/2019]
Death of a Fool by Ismael Gomez III & Joe Leone has been named the winner of the 2018 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition.
[Updated: 07/05/2018]
BlueCat has announced their 2018 Feature, Pilot, and Short Screenplay finalists. Winners will be announced Thursday, July 5th.
[Updated: 06/28/2018]
BlueCat has announced their 2018 Feature, Short, Pilot-Hour and Half-Hour quarterfinalists.
[Updated: 06/07/2018]
Judy Soo Hoo & Isaac Ho's screenplay, CADAVER DOG, has been selected as the winner of the 2017 BlueCat Screenplay Competition. Their script was selected from 3,273 submissions and will be awarded a $10,000 cash prize.
[Updated: 09/18/2017]
BlueCat has named White-Shoe U by Beanie Barnes as the winner of their 2017 Pilot Competition, and Ageusia by Will Schneider as the winner of their Short Script Competition.
[Updated: 09/01/2017]
BlueCat has named their top 5 Finalists from a total of 3,273 submissions. The Winner will receive $10,000 and the four remaining Finalists $1,000 each.
[Updated: 08/31/2017]
BlueCat has named the Finalists for their TV Pilot and Short Screenplay Competitions. Winners will be announced on Friday, September 1st.
[Updated: 08/27/2017]
BlueCat has announced their Feature, Pilot, and Short Script Semifinalists. Finalists will be announced on Sunday, August 27th at 6PM, PST.
[Updated: 08/21/2017]
BlueCat has named their 2017 Contest Quarterfinalists for Features, Pilots, and Shorts.
[Updated: 08/15/2017]
Oreathia C. Smith's screenplay, MONA. RICHY. ROBBY. AND RAY, has been selected as the winner of the 2016 BlueCat Screenplay Competition. Smith's script was selected from 4,523 submissions and will be awarded a $15,000 cash prize. Smith received an MFA in Writing at USC in 2011.
[Updated: 04/06/2016]
Mona. Richy. Robby. And Ray. by Declan Holliman has been named the $15,000 Grand Prize Winner of the 2016 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition.
[Updated: 03/30/2016]
Apart by Elizabeth Capot has been named the 2016 BlueCat Short Screenplay Contest Winner.
[Updated: 03/28/2016]
BlueCat has announced their International Screenplay Awards for 2016.
[Updated: 03/25/2016]
BlueCat has announced the five finalists for their 2016 Screenwriting Competition. The Winner will receive $15,000 and the other four Finalists will receive $2500.
[Updated: 03/15/2016]
BlueCat has named the 2016 finalists for the Joplin, Cordelia, and Roshan Awards.
[Updated: 03/14/2016]
BlueCat has named their Short Screenplay Finalists for 2016. The Winner -to be announce March 28th - will receive $10,000, and the three Finalists receiving $2000 each.
[Updated: 03/13/2016]
BlueCat has named their 2016 semifinalists, representing the top 78 scripts from a total of 4,523 submissions. The 2016 Feature Screenplay Winner will receive a $15,000 USD cash prize. Four Finalists will receive $2,500 each.
[Updated: 03/09/2016]
BlueCat has named their feature screenplay quarterfinalists from among 4,523 submissions. Short Screenplay quarterfinalists have also been announced from among 2,086 entries.
[Updated: 02/07/2016]
Mouth by Kimi Howl Lee has been named the $15,000 Feature Length Grand Prize Winner of the 2015 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition.
[Updated: 04/16/2015]
BlueCat has named their 2015 Feature Screenplay Contest Finalists. The winner will receive a $15,000 cash prize while the remaining four finalists will receive $2,500 each.
[Updated: 04/11/2015]
Six Months of Wonder Woman by Kitty Percy has been named BlueCat $10,000 Short Script Competition winner for 2015.
[Updated: 04/09/2015]
Butter Side Up by Kitty Percy, has been named the BlueCat Screenplay Competition Cordelia Award Winner, given
each year to the best screenplay submitted by a writer residing in the U.K.
[Updated: 04/08/2015]
Leonardo Noboru de Lima's George! has been named the BlueCat Screenplay Competition Joplin Award Winner for 2015.
[Updated: 04/07/2015]
The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has named their Feature Screenplay Top Ten Finalists
[Updated: 04/06/2015]
BlueCat has named their Short Script Contest Finalists for 2015.
[Updated: 04/04/2015]
BlueCat has announced their 2015 semifinalists, representing approximately the top 2% of 4,492 submissions.
[Updated: 03/16/2015]
BlueCat has announced their Short Script Semifinalists for 2015. Finalists will be named April 4th.
[Updated: 03/15/2015]
The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has named their quarterfinalists for 2015, representing approximately the top 5% of 4,494 submissions.
[Updated: 03/02/2015]
BlueCat has announced their Short Screenplay Quarterfinalists for 2015, representing approximately the top 5 percent of 1730 entries.
[Updated: 03/01/2015]
BlueCat has announced the top 10% of more than 1730 short screenplay submissions this year:
[Updated: 02/15/2015]
BlueCat has announced the top 10% of more than 4,494 feature screenplay submissions this year:
[Updated: 02/15/2015]
BlueCat has named 3 Faces of Hunger & Thirst by HF Crum as the winner of their 2014 Feature-length Screenplay Competition.
[Updated: 04/10/2014]
BlueCat has named Winged by Jennifer Cui of Melbourne, Australia as the winner of their 2014 Short Screenplay Competition.
[Updated: 04/09/2014]
The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has named their Feature Screenplay Finalists for 2014.
[Updated: 04/05/2014]
The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has named their Short Screenplay Finalists for 2014.
[Updated: 04/03/2014]
The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has named Face to Face by Jason Pittock of Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK as their 2014 Cordelia Award Winner.
[Updated: 04/02/2014]
The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has named The Longest Birthday by Savion Einstein of Tel Aviv, Israel as their 2014 Joplin Award winner.
[Updated: 04/01/2014]
BlueCat has announced their 2014 Screenwriting Contest Semifinalists.
[Updated: 03/16/2014]
BlueCat has announced their quarterfinalists from among a record total of 4060 feature and 1602 short submissions
[Updated: 02/19/2014]
The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced the top 10 percent of their contestants for 2013.
[Updated: 02/02/2014]
Demain, Je Me Tue, by Pierre Chance, has been named the $10,000 winner of the 2013 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition.
[Updated: 04/10/2013]
Hand Lit Match by Rachael BernSousa & Mary Lusted
of Perth, Australia, has been named the winner of the 2013 Joplin Award for the Best Screenplay received by BlueCat from outside the USA, Canada and the UK.
[Updated: 04/07/2013]
Christopher Brown's Knock-Out has been given the 2013 Cordelia Award as the Best Screenplay received from the UK.
[Updated: 04/05/2013]
Five finalists have been announced for the 2013 BlueCat Screenplay Competition.
[Updated: 04/01/2013]
BlueCat has announced their 2013 Screenplay Contest Semifinalists.
[Updated: 03/01/2013]
BlueCat has announced 341 quarterfinalists from among a record 3391 submissions to their 2012 screenwriting competition.
[Updated: 02/01/2013]
Ben Cleary has been named the winner of the BlueCat Short Screenplay Competition for his script, Trumpet.
[Updated: 08/02/2012]
Semifinalists have been announced for the 2012 BlueCat Short Screenwriting Competition.
[Updated: 07/22/2012]
Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 2012 BlueCat Short Screenwriting Competition.
[Updated: 07/15/2012]
Michael Hamblin's The Emperor of Wyoming has been named the winner of the 2012 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition.
[Updated: 03/22/2012]
The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced their 2012 finalists.
[Updated: 03/16/2012]
BlueCat has announced the winners of their Cordelia and Joplin Awards for 2012. The Cordelia Award goes to the best screenplay from the UK, while the Joplin Award goes to the best screenplay outside the USA, Canada and the UK.
[Updated: 03/15/2012]
The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their 2012 semifinalists.
[Updated: 03/01/2012]
The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced their 2012 quarterfinalists.
[Updated: 02/01/2012]
Robert Ian Simpson's Below the Waist has been named the winner from among 2,970 entries to the 2010 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition.
[Updated: 08/07/2010]
The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their 2010 finalists.
[Updated: 08/02/2010]
The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their semifinalists for 2010.
[Updated: 07/16/2010]
The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their quarterfinalists for 2010.
[Updated: 06/16/2010]
The 2010 BlueCat Screenplay Competition title contest winners have been announced.
[Updated: 02/08/2010]
The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has named Jerry Mahoney as the winner of their 2009 Screenwriting Competition for his script Gladly McGee and the Damn Retarded F****t.
[Updated: 08/02/2009]
The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their five finalists for 2009
[Updated: 07/23/2009]
BlueCat has announced their 2009 semifinalists, representing approximately the top 1 percent of over 3200 submissions received this year.
[Updated: 07/16/2009]
BlueCat has announced their screenwriting contest quarterfinalists for 2009, representing approximately the top 20 percent of their 3200 entries.
[Updated: 06/15/2009]
The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced Timo E. Peltonen's The Piano Tuner as the winner of their 2008 contest.
[Updated: 10/09/2008]
The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced Timo E. Peltonen's The Piano Tuner as the winner of their 2008 screenwriting competition, which attracted nearly 2,800 entries.
[Updated: 09/02/2008]
BlueCat has announced their 2008 screenwriting competition finalists.
[Updated: 08/29/2008]
The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced their top 20 finalists for 2008.
[Updated: 08/15/2008]
The Semi-Finalist have been announced for the 2008 BlueCat Screenwriting Comeptition.
[Updated: 08/02/2008]
BlueCat has announced their 2008 BlueCat Screenplay Competition quarterfinalists from among more than 2700 entries.
[Updated: 07/01/2008]
Writing dialogue and description is writing a screenplay. You can argue about format and tab margins and what to capitalize and what not. I won’t. Dialogue and description is where the experience of screenplay for your reader lives. We write screenplays to make movies. They are not literature. They are directions for people to make motion pictures. Our story is told in the dialogue and description, and by focusing on allowing them to work for your goals of production will illuminate where how your story goes.
[Updated: 11/27/2007]
BlueCat has announced Ana Lily Amirpour's The Stones as the winner of the this year's BlueCat Screenwriting Competition.
[Updated: 08/04/2007]
The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced their 2007 Finalists.
[Updated: 07/28/2007]
BlueCat has announced their 2007 Screenwriting Contest semifinalists.
[Updated: 07/15/2007]
The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced the top 10 percent of entries for their 2007 Screenplay competition. Semi-finalists will be announced July 15th, Finalists on July 22nd and our winner on August 1.
[Updated: 07/01/2007]
BlueCat has announced the Top Five winners of their Movie Title contest. All Five will be awarded $250 in honor of their creativity.
[Updated: 02/01/2007]
BlueCat has announce the top twenty finalists in their movie title contest.
[Updated: 01/20/2007]
SCREENPLAY LIVE returns for a third year at the High Falls Film Festival with a staged reading of BEARD’S CREEK by Maureen Tilyou, a finalist of the 2006 BlueCat Screenplay Competition.
[Updated: 11/03/2006]
BEARD’S CREEK by Marilyn Tilyou has been selected for BlueCat’s 2006 Screenplay Live at the High Falls Film Festival in New York.
[Updated: 08/29/2006]
The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced HYUNG'S OVERTURE by Young Kim as their 2006 contest winner.
[Updated: 08/02/2006]
ANDY STOCK, 2005 BlueCat Screenplay Competition Winner
and one of the writers of GARY THE TENNIS COACH, shares
the journey of their screenplay going from a BlueCat submission to A-List Literary Representation and, subsequently, a sale and go picture.
[Updated: 07/30/2006]
The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their 2006 finalists.
[Updated: 07/16/2006]
Seann William Scott has signed on to star and co-produce GARY THE TENNIS COACH, the 2005 BlueCat Screenplay Competition Winner, with GreeneStreet Films (In The Bedroom, Swimfan).
[Updated: 07/11/2006]
The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their semifinalists from among 1,782 entries.
[Updated: 07/01/2006]
I’ve only finished so many screenplays in my life. Writing a script all the way to the very last page is always an extremely significant, personal achievement for me. A large part of its significance is the reality that I actually wrote an ending, or, at the very least, typed “THE END.” Trying to finish a screenplay and effectively pay something off--this is arguably the hardest part of great screenwriting and often a major breaker of screenplays.
[Updated: 02/23/2006]
Starting a screenplay can sometimes be as hard as finishing one. Impatient to pull up to the front door of a classic motion picture, I want to get everything right so quickly. This impatience challenges my trust in the work, the creative process of screenwriting. What exactly does trust mean? If I don’t trust my writing, then what am I? Frightened. This is the battle. If I’m scared that everything I’m typing is worthless, then what? My hands find something else to do. So trust is good and important and essential to beginning this journey, alone, a trip that will eventually take what comes out of you into millions of people. But it’s just you now. And your trust.
[Updated: 02/14/2006]
After cracking hundreds of screenplays sent into the BlueCat Screenplay
Competition, the same problems in the execution of the story and script
continue to emerge. Here is a general overview of these persistent
issues.
[Updated: 01/23/2006]
Kelsey Simons, 2004 BlueCat Finalist, has had her screenplay, IN THE LIVES OF BROTHERS, optioned by Eric Cubitt, a producer based in New York.
[Updated: 01/05/2006]
SCREENPLAY LIVE returned for its second year to the High Falls Film Festival in Rochester, NY, with a live reading of 2005 BlueCat Screenplay Competition Finalist, THE BREAK-IN by Ryan David Jahn.
[Updated: 01/04/2006]
The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced the signing of their 2005 contest winners, Andrew Stock and Ryan Stempson, by the United Talent Agency.
[Updated: 11/23/2005]
Man Among Boys, by Andrew Stock and Rick Stempson, has been named the winner of the 2005 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition.
[Updated: 07/26/2005]
The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced the 2005 Finalists from among 1034 entries.
[Updated: 07/01/2005]
In November, Bluecat partnered with the High Falls Film Festival for the first edition of SCREENPLAY LIVE.
[Updated: 02/10/2005]
The BlueCat Screenwriting contest has announced Justin Thomas & Andrew Panaga as the winners of their 2004 screenwriting competition for their script, "The Man in the Rearview Mirror."
[Updated: 07/16/2004]
The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced the Finalists for their 2004 competition.
[Updated: 07/01/2004]
The BlueCat Screenplay competition has announced Jon Goldman as the winner of their 2003 Screenplay Competition for his script, ESCHER.
[Updated: 07/22/2003]
Danielle Silvie Gershberg has been named the winner of the BlueCat Screenplay Competition for her high school comedy CLASS.
[Updated: 10/18/2001]
Six scripts have been named the best of more than 600 entries.
[Updated: 08/14/2001]
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An interview with Gordy Hoffman regarding the BlueCat Writing Competition. [Updated: 01/29/2007]
An interview with screenwriter Lily Amirpour regarding the BlueCat Contest Writing Competition. [Updated: 03/06/2008]
An interview with screenwriter Rick Stempson regarding the BlueCat Writing Competition. [Updated: 02/07/2007]
