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Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
Nicholl Fellowships
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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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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Early | March 1, 2024 | $50 |
| Regular | April 1, 2024 | $70 |
| Late | May 1, 2024 15 |
$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)
Web:
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
Academy's Nicholl Fellowships Screenwriting Competition Receives 6,045 Entries
Beverly Hills, CA - The Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has received 6,045 entries this year, topping last year's entries by one. Entries were submitted from 49 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and a record 38 countries, including first-time entries from Bolivia, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Malta, Romania and Zimbabwe.
Fellowships for the year 2003 will be announced in October and will be presented at a ceremony in November.
Nicholl Fellowship Program Coordinator Greg Beal said the 18-year-old competition has become widely known "as the premiere screenwriting contest for new writers all over the world." In 2001, he said, past Nicholl Fellows had nine pictures in release, and one of the nominees that year for a writing Oscar, for the original screenplay of "Erin Brockovich," was Susannah Grant, a 1992 Nicholl Fellow. "That could have accounted for the increase in interest in the program in the past few years," said Beal.
The annual competition is open to any individual who has not sold or optioned a screenplay or teleplay for more than $5,000 or received a fellowship or prize that includes a "first look" clause, an option or any other quid pro quo involving the writer's work.
Up to five grants of $30,000 each will be awarded to this year's Fellows with the understanding that the recipients will each complete a feature-length screenplay during the fellowship year. The Academy acquires no rights to the works of Nicholl Fellows and does not involve itself commercially in any way with their completed scripts.
Since the program's inception in 1986, a total of 78 fellowships have been presented. Past Nicholl Fellows include Allison Anders ("Things Behind the Sun," "Gas, Food, Lodging"), Ehren Kruger ("The Ring," "Arlington Road"), Andrew Marlowe ("Hollow Man," "Air Force One"), Randall McCormick ("Titan A.E.," "Speed 2"), Mike Rich ("The Rookie," Finding Forrester") and Karen Moncrieff ("Blue Car").
Updated: 06/19/2003
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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