100 Greatest Screenwriters

These screenwriter are ranked according to their influence/impact, versatility, originality, creativity, success and writing ability.

C* : Critics votes, V* : Viewers votes. Only registred users are allowed to vote.

C*	V*	Name	Birth(b)/Death(d)	Country	Notable work
2	2	Akira Kurosawa	1910-03-23	Japan	Seven Samurai Seven Samurai Rashomon
47	47	Anita Loos	1888-04-26		Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Intolerance Blondie of the Follies
80	80	Barry Levinson	1942-04-06	U.S.	Rain Man Wag the Dog Good Morning, Vietnam
26	26	Ben Hecht	1894-02-28		Notorious The Man with the Golden Arm Strangers on a Train
17	17	Bernardo Bertolucci	1940-03-16	Italy	C'era una volta il West The Last Emperor Last Tango In Paris
1	1	Billy Wilder	1906-06-22	Austria-Hungary	Some Like It Hot The Apartment People on Sunday
92	92	Brad Bird	1957-09-11	USA	Ratatouille The Incredibles The Iron Giant
53	53	Brian Helgeland	1961-01-17	USA	Mystic River L.A. Confidential Conspiracy Theory
90	90	Budd Schulberg	1914-03-27		On the Waterfront Nothing Sacred
79	79	Calder Willingham	1922-12-23	Georgia	Paths of Glory Little Big Man The Graduate
49	49	Cameron Crowe	1957-07-13	USA	Almost Famous Vanilla Sky Say anything...
54	54	Carl Foreman	1914-07-23	USA	High Noon The Bridge on the River Kwai The Men
19	19	Charlie Chaplin	1889-04-16	UK	City Lights City Lights The Great Dictator
14	14	Charlie Kaufman	1958-11-19	New York	Human Nature Being John Malkovich Adaptation
40	40	Christopher Nolan	1970-07-30	UK	Memento The Dark Knight Batman Begins
85	85	Dalton Trumbo	1905-12-09	USA	Roman Holiday Spartacus Papillon
38	38	David Lynch	1946-01-20	USA	The Straight Story Wild at Heart Lost Highway
51	51	David Mamet	1947-11-30	USA	The Untouchables Wag the Dog Glengarry Glen Ross
98	98	David S. Ward	25 October 1945	Rhode Island	Sleepless in Seattle The Sting Flyboys
42	42	David Webb Peoples		USA	Ladyhawke Hero Unforgiven
45	45	Eric Roth	1945-03-22	USA	Forrest Gump The Horse Whisperer Munich
6	6	Ernest Lehman	1915-12-08	USA	North by Northwest Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Sweet Smell of Success
5	5	Federico Fellini	1920-01-20	Italy	Rome, Open City La Strada 8½
7	7	Francis Ford Coppola	1939-04-07	USA	Apocalypse Now Lost in Translation Rumble Fish
73	73	Frank Darabont	1959-01-28	France	The Green Mile The Mist The Majestic
88	88	Frank Pierson	May 12, 1925	New York	Cool Hand Luke Dog Day Afternoon Cat Ballou
41	41	Frank S. Nugent	1908-05-27		The Quiet Man The Searcher Mister Roberts
72	72	George Axelrod	1922-06-09		Breakfast at Tiffany's The Manchurian Candidate The Seven Year Itch
55	55	George Lucas	1944-05-14	USA	Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope
82	82	Guillermo Arriaga	1958-03-13	Mexico	Amores perros 21 Grams Babel
59	59	Harold Pinter	1930-10-10	England	French Lieutenants Woman The Go-Between The Servant
37	37	Harold Ramis	1944-11-21	United States	Groundhog Day Ghostbusters Ghostbusters II
25	25	Hayao Miyazaki	1941-01-05	Tokyo	Kaze no tani no Naushika Kaze no tani no Naushika Kaze no tani no Naushika
27	27	Herman J. Mankiewicz	1897-11-07		Duck Soup Dinner at Eight Citizen Kane
84	84	Horton Foote	1916-03-14		To Kill a Mockingbird Of Mice and Men The Trip to Bountiful
71	71	Howard Koch	1901-12-12		Casablanca Letter from an Unknown Woman The Letter
52	52	I.A.L. Diamond	1920-06-27	Romania	Some Like It Hot The Apartment One, Two, Three
8	8	Ingmar Bergman	1918-07-14	Sweden	The Seventh Seal The Seventh Seal Wild Strawberries
46	46	James Agee	1909-11-27		The African Queen The Night of the Hunter
91	91	James Cameron	1954-08-16	Canada	The Terminator Terminator 2: Judgment Day Strange Days
81	81	James L. Brooks	1940-05-09	USA	The War of the Roses Big As Good as It Gets
18	18	Joel Coen	1954-11-29	USA	The Big Lebowski O Brother, Where Art Thou? Fargo
76	76	John Cleese	1939-10-27	UK	Monty Python's Life of Brian A Fish Called Wanda Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets
62	62	John Hughes	1950-02-18	U.S.	Home Alone Home Alone 2 Home Alone 2
12	12	John Huston	1906-08-05	USA	The African Queen Chinatown The Maltese Falcon
87	87	John Sayles	1950-09-28	USA	Lone Star City of Hope Return of the Secaucus 7
21	21	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	1909-02-11	USA	All About Eve The Philadelphia Story Sleuth
99	99	Judd Apatow	1967-12-06	U.S.	Knocked Up Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
93	93	Jules Furthman	1888-03-05		Rio Bravo Shanghai Express The Big Sleep
96	96	Kevin Smith	1970-08-02	USA	Live Free or Die Hard Dogma Chasing Amy
43	43	Lawrence Kasdan	1949-01-14	USA	Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi Dreamcatcher
56	56	Leo McCarey	1896-10-03	USA	The Awful Truth The Bells of St. Mary's Ruggles of Red Gap
67	67	Mario Puzo	1920-10-15	USA	The Godfather The Godfather Part II The Godfather Part III
9	9	Mel Brooks	1926-06-28	USA	Spaceballs Young Frankenstein Life Stinks
29	29	Michelangelo Antonioni	1912-09-29	Italy	Blowup Zabriskie Point The Passenger
66	66	Mike Leigh	1943-02-20	UK	Happy-Go-Lucky Another Year Vera Drake
60	60	Nora Ephron	1941-05-19	USA	When Harry Met Sally Sleepless in Seattle Michael
22	22	Oliver Stone	1946-09-15	New York	Scarface Natural Born Killers Platoon
20	20	Orson Welles	1915-05-06	USA	Citizen Kane Citizen Kane Citizen Kane
23	23	Paddy Chayefsky	1923-01-29		Network Altered States Marty
39	39	Paul Haggis	1953-03-10	Canada	Million Dollar Baby Letters from Iwo Jima Crash
15	15	Paul Schrader	1946-07-22	USA	Taxi Driver Raging Bull The Last Temptation of Christ
30	30	Paul Thomas Anderson	1970-06-26	USA	Magnolia Magnolia Magnolia
78	78	Peter Jackson	1961-10-31	New Zealand	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
100	100	Peter Morgan	1963-04-10	UK	The Queen The Last King of Scotland Frost/Nixon
4	4	Preston Sturges	1898-08-29	USA	The Lady Eve The Invisible Man Sullivan's Travels
16	16	Quentin Tarantino	1963-03-27	USA	Four Rooms Jackie Brown Sin City
48	48	Raymond Chandler	1888-07-23		Strangers on a Train The Big Sleep Double Indemnity
28	28	Robert Benton	1932-09-29	USA	Bonnie and Clyde What's Up, Doc? Nobody's Fool
63	63	Robert Riskin	1897-03-30	USA	It Happened One Night Lost Horizon Lady for a Day
24	24	Robert Towne	1934-11-23	USA	Chinatown Mission Impossible 2 The Last Detail
33	33	Roberto Rossellini	1906-05-08	Italy	Rome, Open City Rome, Open City Rome, Open City
89	89	Ron Shelton	1945-09-15	USA	Bull Durham Bad Boys II White Men Can't Jump
75	75	Ruth Gordon	1896-10-30	USA	Harold and Maude Rosemary's Baby Adam's Rib
57	57	Sidney Buchman	1902-03-27		Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Lost Horizon
10	10	Stanley Kubrick	1928-07-26	US	2001: A Space Odyssey A Clockwork Orange The Killing
94	94	Steven Zaillian	1953-01-30	California	The Interpreter Schindler's List Gangs of New York
95	95	Stirling Silliphant	1918-01-16	Michigan	Shaft in Africa The Poseidon Adventure Over the Top
44	44	Terry Gilliam	1940-11-22	USA	Twelve Monkeys Brazil The Fisher King
35	35	Terry Southern	1924-05-01	USA	Easy Rider The Cincinnati Kid Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
68	68	Tom Stoppard	1937-07-03	Czechoslovakia	Brazil Shakespeare in Love Empire of the Sun
65	65	Waldo Salt	1914-10-18		The Philadelphia Story Midnight Cowboy The Day of the Locust
64	64	Wes Anderson	1969-05-01	United States	The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou The Darjeeling Limited The Royal Tenenbaums
11	11	William Goldman	1931-08-12	U.S.	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid All the President's Men Misery
3	3	Woody Allen	1935-12-01	USA	Match Point Manhattan Annie Hall
13	13	Yasujirô Ozu	1903-12-12	Japan	Banshun Hitori musuko Sanma no aji

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