The Black List is an annual survey of the "most liked" motion picture screenplays not yet produced. It has been published every year since 2005 on the second Friday of December by Franklin Leonard, a development executive who subsequently worked at Universal Pictures and Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment. The website states that these are not necessarily "the best" screenplays, but rather "the most liked", since it is based on a survey of studio and production company executives.
Of the approximately 1000 screenplays The Black List has included since 2005, nearly a third have been later produced as theatrical films, including successful and award-winning examples such as Argo, American Hustle, Juno, The King's Speech, Slumdog Millionaire, Spotlight, The Revenant, and Hell or High Water. The produced films have all together grossed well over $25.54 billion, and have been nominated for 241 Academy Awards and 205 Golden Globe Awards, winning 48 and 40, respectively. As of the 88th Academy Awards, four of the last eight best picture Oscars went to scripts featured on a previous Black List, as well as ten of the last 20 screenwriting Oscars (Original and Adapted Screenplays). In addition, writers whose scripts are listed often find that they are more readily hired for other jobs, even if their listed screenplays still have not been produced, such as Jim Rash and Nat Faxon, two of the writers of the Oscar-winning screenplay of The Descendants, who had an earlier screenplay make the list. Slate columnist David Haglund has written that the list's reputation as a champion for "beloved but challenging" works has been overstated, since "these are screenplays that are already making the Hollywood rounds. And while, as a rule, they have not yet been produced, many of them are already in production."
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History
The first Black List was compiled in 2005 by Franklin Leonard, at the time working as a development executive for Leonardo DiCaprio's production company, Appian Way Productions. He emailed about 75 fellow development executives and asked them to name the 10 best unproduced screenplays they read that year. To thank them for participating, he compiled the list and sent it to the respondents. The name The Black List was a nod to his heritage as an African American man, and also as a subtle reference to the writers who were barred during the McCarthy era as part of the Hollywood blacklist.
The screenplays to top The Black List, from 2005 to 2017 respectively, are: Things We Lost in the Fire; The Brigands of Rattleborge; Recount; The Beaver; The Muppet Man; College Republicans; The Imitation Game; Draft Day; Holland, Michigan; Catherine the Great; Bubbles; Blond Ambition; and Ruin.
Structure
The Black List tallies the number of "likes" various screenplays have been given by development executives. Screenplays are ranked based on how many likes each of them get. The most likes received by a single screenplay is The Imitation Game, with 133 upon topping the 2011 list; it went on to win the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Films on the Black List
More than 300 screenplays have been put into production after appearing on The Black List. These include:
2005 Black List
- 21
- The American
- Babel
- Black Snake Moan
- Blades of Glory
- Blood Diamond
- Breach
- The Brothers Solomon
- The Bucket List
- Chapter 27
- Charlie Wilson's War
- Charlie Bartlett
- Dan in Real Life
- Death at a Funeral
- Dexter
- Dream House
- Ender's Game
- Factory Girl
- Fanboys
- The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
- The Forger
- Freedomland
- Fur
- The Game Plan
- Get Low
- A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
- Hall Pass
- Hancock
- The Hawk Is Dying
- The Hoax
- Horrible Bosses
- Hot Rod
- The Hunting Party
- In Secret
- Juno
- The Kingdom
- The Kite Runner
- Lars and the Real Girl
- The Ledge
- Little Children
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Love in the Time of Cholera
- Lucky Number Slevin
- Mama's Boy
- Margaret
- Meet Bill
- Meet Dave
- Michael Clayton
- The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
- Nacho Libre
- Nebraska
- Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
- Notes on a Scandal
- The Number 23
- The Other Boleyn Girl
- Pathfinder
- Peacock
- The Prestige
- The Proposal
- The Pursuit of Happyness
- The Queen
- Reservation Road
- Righteous Kill
- Stardust
- Stop-Loss
- Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
- The Ten
- Tenure
- Things We Lost in the Fire
- The Time Traveler's Wife
- Wanted
- We Are Marshall
- The Whistleblower
- Wild Hogs
- The Words
- World Trade Center
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine
- Youth in Revolt
- Zodiac
2006 Black List
- 3:10 to Yuma
- (500) Days of Summer
- A Mighty Heart
- All About Steve
- Away We Go
- The Brothers Bloom
- Changeling
- Coup d'Etat
- Crash Pad
- Death at a Funeral
- The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Dracula Untold
- The Fighter
- Frost/Nixon
- Get Smart
- Hanna
- Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
- In Bruges
- Life of Pi
- Lions for Lambs
- The Men Who Stare at Goats
- The Messenger
- The Other Woman
- Rendition
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
- Seven Pounds
- Seven Psychopaths
- She's Out of My League
- State of Play
- Superbad
- There Will Be Blood
- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
- Year of the Dog
2007 Black List
- Adventureland
- All Good Things
- Big Eyes
- Blindness
- The Book of Eli
- Burn After Reading
- Burnt
- Charlie Countryman
- Clash of the Titans
- Dear John
- Demolition
- The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
- Doubt
- The Duchess
- Duplicity
- Eagle Eye
- Felt
- Genius
- The Hangover
- Happythankyoumoreplease
- Hitchcock
- How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
- The Ides of March
- The Invention of Lying
- Invictus
- Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
- Jennifer's Body
- Last Chance Harvey
- Love & Other Drugs
- Never Let Me Go
- Orphan
- Passengers
- Recount
- The Revenant
- The Road
- Salt
- Selma
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Source Code
- The Town
- Valkyrie
- The Wackness
- The Way, Way Back
- Whip It
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- World War Z
- The Wrestler
- Yes Man
- Zombieland
2008 Black List
- 47 Ronin
- 50/50
- A.C.O.D.
- All I Wish
- Bachelorette
- The Back-up Plan
- Bad Teacher
- The Beaver
- Broken City
- Butter
- Child 44
- The Debt
- The Descendants
- Easy A
- Everything Must Go
- The F Word
- Foxcatcher
- Going the Distance
- Hope Springs
- Inglourious Basterds
- London Boulevard
- Lovelace
- No Strings Attached
- Nowhere Boy
- The Oranges
- Our Brand Is Crisis
- Out of the Furnace
- Remember Me
- Sherlock Holmes
- Sleeping Beauty
- Up In The Air
2009 Black List
- 2 Guns
- 30 Minutes or Less
- Arthur
- Buried
- Cedar Rapids
- Celeste and Jesse Forever
- Cut Bank
- Dark Was The Night
- Due Date
- The Duel
- Hanna
- If I Stay
- The King's Speech
- The Last Stand
- Lawless
- Pawn Sacrifice
- Prisoners
- Red Riding Hood
- Restless
- Shimmer Lake
- The Sitter
- The Social Network
- The Spectacular Now
- Take This Waltz
- That's My Boy
- The To Do List
- The True Memoirs of an International Assassin
- The Vatican Tapes
- The Voices
- Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
- The Watch
- Water for Elephants
- Z for Zachariah
2010 Black List
- Abduction
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
- American Hustle
- Argo
- Better Living Through Chemistry
- The Butler
- Chronicle
- Cinema Verite
- Crazy, Stupid, Love
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Freaks of Nature
- Gangster Squad
- Get a Job
- Gold
- How It Ends
- The Hunger Games
- The Impossible
- Jackie
- The Last Witch Hunter
- Lola Versus
- Looper
- Margin Call
- One Day
- Oz the Great and Powerful
- People Like Us
- Safe House
- Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
- Serena
- Snow White and the Huntsman
- Stoker
- That Awkward Moment
- Triple 9
- What Happened to Monday
2011 Black List
- The Accountant
- Bad Words
- Before I Fall
- The Current War
- Dirty Grandpa
- Django Unchained
- The Duff
- Good Kids
- Grace of Monaco
- Hidden
- The Hitman's Bodyguard
- The Imitation Game
- Jane Got a Gun
- Maggie
- Playing It Cool
- Saving Mr. Banks
- Self/less
- Sex Tape
- St. Vincent
- Two Night Stand
2012 Black List
- Arrival
- Come and Find Me
- Draft Day
- The Equalizer
- Fathers and Daughters
- The Fault In Our Stars
- Flower
- Hell or High Water
- John Wick
- The Judge
- The Keeping Room
- Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
- Project Almanac
- Run All Night
- Sand Castle
- Shut In
- Stockholm, Pennsylvania
- Transcendence
- Whiplash
2013 Black List
- American Sniper
- The Autopsy of Jane Doe
- Cake
- Dude
- The End of the Tour
- Faults
- Hot Summer Nights
- A Monster Calls
- Pan
- Patient Zero
- The Sea of Trees
- Shovel Buddies
- Spotlight
2014 Black List
- American Made
- The Babysitter
- The Founder
- Gifted
- LBJ
- Manchester by the Sea
- Money Monster
- Morgan
- My Friend Dahmer
- The Shallows
- The Wall
2015 Black List
- All the Money in the World
- The Burning Woman
- Chappaquiddick
- LAbyrinth
- Miss Sloane
- Rough Night
- Set It Up
- Stronger
- Wish Upon
2016 Black List
- I Think We're Alone Now
- I, Tonya
- Life Itself
- The Post
- Roman J. Israel, Esq.
References
External links
- Official website
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