Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
Nicholl Fellowships
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Hollywood, CA 90028-8107
310-247-3010 (voice)
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nicholl@oscars.org
Contact: Academy Nicholl Fellowships staff
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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
Deadline | Date Days till: |
Entry Fee |
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Early | March 1, 2024 | $50 |
Regular | April 1, 2024 4 |
$70 |
Late | May 1, 2024 34 |
$120 |
NEW FOR 2024: A maximum number of 5,500 entries will be accepted. The competition will close to applications once the maximum number of applications are submitted or the final deadline is reached—whichever occurs first. See website for details.
Notification: 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.
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)
Web:
http://www.oscars.org/nicholl/index.html
Email:
nicholl@oscars.org
Contact: Academy Nicholl Fellowships staff
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Contest News
Nicholl Letters, Notes and the 1999 competition
by Greg Beal
All 4,150 Nicholl letters were placed in the mail on Friday, July 23.
Every single entrant was mailed a letter, whatever their status in the
competition.
Each year I write notes on some letters in the competition that let
entrants know that a particular script was close. Here are the notes
and their meaning this year:
(Remember, there were 244 quarterfinalists, which was a record number.)
*Just missed -- among the next 100 scripts.*
With ties, there were 108 scripts in this group. #245 - 352.
*Close -- in the top 10% of all scripts.*
Top 10% is exactly 415. With ties this group went just over -- #353 -
418.
*Close -- in the next 10% of all scripts.*
That means the 10% after the quarterfinalists. With ties, the group
includes #419 - 737.
It was possible to receive a triple read and not fit into the above
categories. One strong score and two weak ones would do it. Only a few
scripts fell into this group.
It was also possible to receive two decent scores or one solid score and
one weaker score and fall into a group that would have reached the next
10% in previous years. Over 300 scripts were in this group.
On a few letters I did not define *close.* In most instances, that was
because I was writing *Better news to follow* or because the writer had
multiple scripts in the close category. Sorry, but I seemed to place a
limit on the number of words I would scrawl on the bottom of a page.
And the *better news* note proved to be unnecessary as we managed to put
all the quarterfinal letters into the mail at the very end of the day on
Friday.
As I mentioned in the letters, scores were higher this year than in any
previous competition. All else being basically the same -- scoring
system, first round judges -- the higher scores suggest that the level
of screenplay writing among pre-professionals is on the rise. That
seems to me a good thing. It does, however, make the competition that
much tougher.
As always, we do not distribute any additional information about
entrants' placements, nor do we provide any notes. Please do not ask us
to do so.
If you didn't receive a note, place yourself in the double-read category
and move on from there.
Updated: 07/27/1999
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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