Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
Nicholl Fellowships
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Hollywood, CA 90028-8107
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Objective
Each year, the Academy Nicholl screenwriting competition awards up to five $35,000 fellowships to amateur screenwriters. To enter, submit a feature length screenplay and entry fee via the online application when the competition is open for submissions. Fellowship winners are invited to participate in awards week ceremonies and seminars, receive individualized Academy member mentorship and are expected to complete at least one original feature film screenplay during their Fellowship year.Deadline/Entry Fees
Expired. Previous Deadline: 05/01/2024Notification: All entrants will receive notification of their status by e-mail sent by early August of each year. Quarterfinalist letters are e-mailed by early August. Semifinalist letters are e-mailed by early September.
Eligibility
Screenwriters who have not earned more than $25,000 writing fictional work for film or television. Scripts must be written originally in English. Adaptations and translated scripts are not eligible.Rules
No applicant may have earned more than $25,000 writing for film or television. Scripts should be in standard form, approximately 90-120 pages. Only PDF screenplays submitted through online application are accepted. Equal collaborations by exactly two writers are eligible. Adaptations of another person's work are not eligible, even if that work is in the public domain or if the entrant has acquired rights to the work.
Please see website for complete rules and guidelines.
Awards
Up to five $35,000 fellowships are awarded annually. Fellowship recipients are expected to complete at least one original feature film screenplay during the fellowship year. Fellowship payments are subject to satisfactory progress of the recipient’s work, as judged by the Academy Nicholl Fellowships Committee. Up to five fellowship recipients are selected from approximately 10-15 finalists in the competition. The winners are invited to participate in awards week activities.
The Academy reserves the right to grant no awards if, in the opinion of the Academy Nicholl Fellowships Committee, no entry is of sufficient merit.
Nicholl Fellowships
Contact
1313 N. Vine Street
Hollywood, CA 90028-8107
310-247-3010 (voice)
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http://www.oscars.org/nicholl/index.html
Email:
nicholl@oscars.org
Contact: Academy Nicholl Fellowships staff
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
Contact
1313 N. Vine Street
Hollywood, CA 90028-8107
310-247-3010 (voice)
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http://www.oscars.org/nicholl/index.html
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MovieBytes Readers Named Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalists
Brendan Foley, a Who's-Buying-What and Moviebytes subscriber (brendan.foley@btinternet.com), is one of some 275 quarterfinalists from a field of around 5,500 entries in this year's Nicholl Fellowship, the screenwriting contest run by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
His romantic comedy, Island Games, was selected earlier in the year as a treatment in the Euroscript awards, part of EU film body MEDIA. He describes it as "somewhere in the region of Castaway meets Notting Hill with a dash of Il Postino."
A previous script, The Riddle, a modern thriller with a Dickensian twist set along the foreshore of London's River Thames, was a winner in three competitions earlier this year. It was a top ten finalist in Final Draft, took second place in the Archer Prize and was a $1000 prizewinner in the Australian International.
"I'm delighted to have made it this far, and it would be great to progress further, but the one thing I've learned from entering competitions is to just get on with the next script, rather than stewing over the next set of results," he commented.
Other MovieBytes readers named Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinalists include:
Writer: Doug Solter (DWSolter@aol.com)
Script: Father Figure
Logline: A new high school student falls in love with a teenage femme fatale
who has other plans for him. But when she obsessively falls in love with the
boy, it becomes a struggle between life and death.
Writer: Zoje Stage
Script: The Opposite of Secret
Logline: At the age of ten Jesse was convicted of murdering two young children. Now
21 and released from prison, she seeks out her biological father, hoping for
a second chance and a better life. Her new family tries to unravel the
mysteries of Jesse's dark childhood.
Writer: James Morganelli (jamesvm@worldnet.att.net)
Script:Captive Moon
Logline: Hired to protect a high-profile China-US summit by
keeping the mother of a kidnapped Tibetan-American holy
boy from going to the Press, a disillusioned FBI agent
is drawn into an epic quest to rescue the child from the
hands of a murderous Chinese general, by his only
allies – a mysterious 640-year-old cadre of Ninja
warriors.
Updated: 08/09/2001
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
Contact
1313 N. Vine Street
Hollywood, CA 90028-8107
310-247-3010 (voice)
Web:
http://www.oscars.org/nicholl/index.html
Email:
nicholl@oscars.org
Contact: Academy Nicholl Fellowships staff
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