YC2: Your 100 Favorite Screenwriters

[Lauren]

#100-96
100 Maurice Pialat & Arlette Langmann
99 Whit Stillman
98 Jean Cocteau
97 Jean Gruault
96 Guy Maddin

#95-91
95 Agnes Varda
94 Max Ophuls, Louis Ducreux, Kurt Feltz & Jacques Natanson
93 Bill Richmond & Jerry Lewis
92 William Goldman
91 Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich

#90-86
90 Werner Herzog
89 Robert Altman
88 Harry Shearer
87 Calder Willingham
86 Harmony Korine

#85-81
85 Henri-Georges Clouzot & Jerome Geronimi
84 Roman Polanski & Gerard Brach
83 Samuel Taylor
82 Sam Peckinpah
81 Edward Yang

#80-86
80 David Lynch
79 Marguerite Duras
78 Todd Solondz
77 Harold Pinter
76 Tom Stoppard

#75-71
75 Guillermo Arriaga
74 Paul Schrader
73 Ernest Lehman
72 Oliver Stone
71 Jacques Rivette

#70-66
70 Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby
69 Robert Riskin
68 Jules Furthman & William Faulkner
67 Cyril Hume
66 Graham Greene

#65-61
65 Noah Baumbach
64 Julius & Philip Epstein
63 Leigh Brackett
62 Chris Marker
61 Peter Shaffer

#60-56
60 Mario Puzo
59 Jean-Pierre Melville
58 Eric Rohmer
57 Francois Truffaut
56 Samuel Hoffenstein & Elizabeth Reinhardt

#55-51
55 Sergio Leone
54 Lars Von Trier
53 David Cronenberg
52 Andrzej Zulawski
51 Hal Hartley

#50-46
50 David Gordon Green
49 Dudley Nichols
48 Ernest Vajda
47 Jacques Prevert
46 Quentin Tarantino

#45-41
45 Andrei Tarkovsky
44 Carl Mayer
43 Terrence Malick
42 Richard Linklater
41 Charles Bennett

#40-36
40 John Huston
39 Cesare Zavattini & Vittorio De Sica
38 Ben Hecht
37 Carl Th Dreyer
36 Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin & Terry Jones

#35-31
35 Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
34 Donald Ogden Stewart
33 Bernardo Bertolucci
32 Albert Brooks & Monica Johnson
31 Alain Robbe-Grillet

#30-26
30 Francis Ford Coppola
29 Michael Haneke
28 Fritz Lang & Thea Von Harbou
27 Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson
26 Jim Jarmusch

#25-21
25 Mike Leigh
24 Kogo Noda & Yasujiro Ozu
23 Robert Bresson
22 Samson Raphaelson
21 Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto & Hideo Oguni

#20-16
20 Orson Welles
19 Charlie Kaufman
18 Wong Kar-Wai
17 Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli & Federico Fellini
16 John Cassavetes

#15-11
15 Paul Thomas Anderson
14 Jean Renoir
13 Joel & Ethan Coen
12 Preston Sturges
11 Jean-Luc Godard

#10-6
10 Tonino Guerra & Michelangelo Antonioni
9 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
8 Krzysztof Kieslowski & Krzysztof Piesiewicz
7 Pedro Almodovar
6 Luis Bunuel & Jean-Claude Carriere

#5-1
5 Charles Chaplin
4 Stanley Kubrick
3 Ingmar Bergman
2 Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett & IAL Diamond
1 Woody Allen


The 520 who placed, but didn't make the list!

Alfonso Cuaron, Auguste le Breton, Bob Gale, Budd Schulberg, Charles Spaak, David Sherwin, Elaine May, Emir Kusturica, Ernst Lubitsch, Frank Tashlin, James Ashmore Creelman, James Schamus, John Michael Hayes, Joseph L Mankiewicz, Julio Alejandro, Larry mcMurtry, Martin Scorsese, Mel Brooks, Michael Mann, Richard Connell, Robert Zemeckis, Sidney Buchman, Sofia Coppolla, Trey Parker, Victor Erice, Yoshikata Yoda, Alec Coppel, Alma Reville, Andrew Kevin Walker, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Benjamin Glazer, Brunello Rondi, Clyde Bruckman, David Lean, David Newman, DM Marshmann Jr, Grover Jones, Hans Janowitz, Herman J Mankiewicz, Ian Hay, Jean C Havez, Joseph A Mitchell, Joseph Delteil, Kaj Munk, Paddy Chayefsky, Paul Schneider, Peter George, Richard Maibaum, Robert Benton, Robert Towne, Ronald Neame, Roy N Sickner, Rudy Wurlitzer, Sally Benson, Salvador Dali, Terry Southern, Thornton Wilder, Walon Green, Walter Reisch, Yale Udoff, Atom Egoyan, Benn Levy, Bo Wideberg, Brian Hegeland, Buster Keaton, Casey Robinson, Claude Chabrol, Dalton Trumbo, Edward F Cline, Eleanor Perry, Frank Pierson, Gus Van Sant, Jacques Natanson, John Sayles, Mardik Martin, Peter Greenaway, Robert E Sherwood, Samuel Fuller, Sylvester Stallone, Adolfo Franci, Albert Riera, Albert Valentin, Ales Adamovich, Alex Cox, Allan Scott, Alun Owen, Anders Thomas Jensen, Andre Bonzel, Andrew Niccol, Andrew Solt, Andrew Stanton, Andrzej Wajda, Angel Fernandez Santos, Anna Boden, Arthur Laurents, Ben Roberts, Benoit Poelvoorde, Berry Hines, Bertrand Tavernier, Bill Forsyth, Bo Goldman, Bob Fosse, Brian McKay, Buck Henry, Carl Foreman, Carl Koch, Caroline Thompson, Catherine Viminet, Charles Lederer, Charles McKeown, Christopher Frank, Christopher Guest, Colin Higgins, Cory McAbee, Czenzi Ormonde, Daniel Mainwaring, Danny Boyle, Dario Argento, Darren Aronofsky, David Atkins, David Dortort, David Mercer, David Peoples, Delmer Daves, Denise Leblond, Diana Ossana, Diane Johnson, Dimitri Kirasanoff, Douglas McGrath, Dustin Lance Black, Edward Neiumeier, Edwin Blum, Edwin Justus Mayer, Eleanore Griffin, Elio Bartolini, Emma Thompson, Eric Hatch, Ernest Gebler, Ethan Hawke, Felix Salten, Francois Bourlay, Frank Capra, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Frederic Tuten, Frederick Raphael, Gaspar Noe, George S Kaufman, Georges Pellerin, Gerardo Guerreri, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Gustav Hasford, Hagar Wilde, Hampton Fancher, Herbert Baker, HH Caldwell, Horace McCoy, Hua Yu, Hubert Selby, Ivan Goff, Jacques Levert, Jay Dratler, Jean Cayrol, Jean Epstein, Jean Guinee, Jean Vigo, Jeane Aurenche, Jean-Marc Vallee, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Jim Lewis, Jim Reardon, Jim Uhls, Joan Tewkesbury, John Hughes, John L Balderston, John Milius, Jorge Guerricaechevarria, Joseph Stefano, Julie Delpy, Katherine Hiliker, Ken Loach, Kim Krizan, K�b� Abe, Kurt Luedtke, Laird Doyle, Larry Clark, Lawrence Hauben, Lawrence Kasdan, Lawrence Lasker, Lesser Samuels, Liana Dognini, Lynne Ramsay, Marcel Moussy, Mary Chase, Matt Stone, Michael Cimino, Michael Herr, Michael McKean, Michael Miner, Mickey Knox, Morrie Ryskind, Neil Jordan, Nicholas Pileggi, Norman Snider, Nunnally Johnson, Oreste Biancoli, Oscar Brodney, Pam Brady, Patrick Marber, Paul D Zimmerman, Paul Osborn, Peter Asmussen, Peter Handke, Peter Stone, Philip Yordan, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ranald MacDougall, Ray Loriga, Reginald Rose, Remy Belvaux, Richard Kelly, Richard Price, Richard Reitinger, Rob Reiner, Robert Alan Arthur, Robert D Siegel, Robert Presnell Sr, Roger Avary, Roi Cooper Megrue, Ronald Harwood, Ruth Rose, Ryan Fleck, Ryuzo Kikushima, Sally Potter, Sam Shepard, Samuel G Engel, Sean Penn, Sergio Donati, Shane Black, SJ Perelman, Stewart Stern, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Sydney Boehm, Ted Tally, Tennessee Williams, Tim Burton, Todd Field, Tom Perotta, Tony Garnett, Trevor Griffiths, Ulla Isaksson, Vera Chytilova, Victor Sjostrom, Vincent Tavier, Virginia Kellogg, Waldo Salt, Walter F Parkes, Walter Hill, Walter Newman, Warren Beatty, Wei Lu, Whitfield Cook, Will B Johnstone, William Hulburt, Wim Wenders, Winston Miller, Zenzo Matsuyama, Adolph Green, Ake Sandgren, Akira Fushimi, Alain Resnais, Alan Campbell, Alan J Pakula, Alexander Payne, Alfred Hitchcock, Alison Anders, Alison Bagnall, Andrew Dominik, Angus MacPhail, Anthony Shaffer, Anthony Veiller, Antoinette Pizzorno, Arkadi Strugatsky, Arnaud Desplechin, Bengt Forslund, Benjamin Christensen, Bernard Gordon, Betty Comden, Bill Douglas, Billy Bob Thornton, Boris Strugatsky, Brad Bird, Brenda Nielson, Brian De Palma, Brown Holmes, Bruce A Evans, Bulle Ogier, Burkhard Driest, Burt Kennedy, Cameron Crowe, Carl Gottlieb, Carlos Cuaron, Celine Sciamma, Charles Burnett, Charles O'Neal, Charles Schnee, Christopher Nolan, Claire Denis, Crane Wilbur, Curtis Hanson, Daniel Clowes, Daniel Taradash, Danny Rubin, David Benioff, David McKenna, David Rayfiel, David S Ward, David Siegel, DB Wyndham Lewis, Dennis Hopper, DeWitt Bodeen, Donn Pierce, Dorothy Parker, Dusan Kovacevic, Dwight Taylor, Earl W Wallace, Edna L Lee, Eduardo Ugarte, Edward Klosinski, Emilio Carballido, Enda Walsh, Eric Roth, Erich Von Stroheim, Ermanno Olmi, Ernest Haycox, Ernest Tidyman, Evan Jones, Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck, Fran Walsh, Frances Marion, Fridrikh Gorenshtein, Fuji Yahiro, Gary Jules Jouvenat, Gary Trudeau, Gavin Lambert, Geibei Ibushiya, Gene Markey, Gene Wilder, George Axelrod, George Toles, Gordon Dawson, Guy Bolton, Guy Gallo, Gyorgy Palfi, Hanns Kraly, Hans Alfredsson, Harold Ramis, Harry Carr, Harry Lee, Harry Ruskin, Hasse Alfredson, Henrik Galeen, Hirokazu Koreeda, Hiroshi, Howard J Green, Hsiao Yeh, Hugo Butler, Hui-Ling Wang, Istvan Szabo, Ivan Moffat, Jack Moran, Jacques Demy, Jacques Lagrange, Jacques Tati, James Bridges, James Cameron, James Goldman, James Gray, James Poe, James Warner Bellah, Jan Troell, Jean Eustache, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Jerome Prieur, Jerzy Kosinski, Jim Capobianco, Jim Taylor, Joan Harrison, John Ajvide Lindqvist, John Cameron Mitchell, John Dighton, John Gay, John Mortimer, John Paxton, Jon Favreau, Jorge Semprun, Joseph Jackson, Joseph Minion, Jules Dassin, Julian Fellowes, Julian Schnabel, Justin Haythe, Karen McCullah Luts, Kathryn Scola, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kenneth Longergan, Ki-Duk Kim, Kirsten Smith, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kurt Feltz, Ladislav Fuks, Larry Karaszewski, Lenore Coffee, Leo Marks, Leonard Yakir, Leos Carax, Lorenzo Semple, Louis Ducreux, Louis Malle, Luc Moullet, Lukas Heller, Lukas Moodysson, Marcel Archard, Marcel Carne, Marcel Pagnol, Marion Parsonnet, Mark Peploe, Masato Ide, Masuji Ibuse, Maude Fulton, Max Mannix, Maxwell Anderson, Melissa Mathison, Michael Elias, Michael Fermaud, Michael Tolkin, Mike Judge, Milcho Manchevski, Munro Leaf, Nagisa Oshima, Nathan J White, Neil Simon, Ni Zhen, Niven Busch, Noel Renard, Odile Barski, Oja Kodar, Olivier Assayas, Pamela Wallace, Pascale Ogier, Paul Gegauff, Peg Fenwick, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Jackson, Peter Morgan, Peter Viertel, Peter Wollen, Philippa Boyens, Pierre Uytterhoeven, Rabindranath Tagore, Raynold Gideon, Reginald Berkeley, Rene Wheeler, Rian Johnson, Ric Menello, Richard Brooks, Richard Wormser, Robert Carson, Robert E Thompson, Robert Hill, Robert Jan Westdijk, Robert Lawson, Roberto Rossellini, Rodolfo Usigli, Roger Bohbot, Roy Andersson, Russ Meyer, Sachiko Tanaka, Sarah Polley, Satayajit Ray, Satoshi Kon, Scott Alexander, Scott Frank, Scott McGehee, Shintaro Mimura, Sidney Howard, Spike Lee, Srdjan Dragojevic, Steve Martin, Steve mcQueen, Steven Zaillian, Sumie Tanaka, Tadeusz Kwiatkowski, Tage Danielsson, Ted Allan, Terence Rattigan, Terry Zwigoff, Thomas C Ryan, T'ien-wen Chu, Tod Carroll, Tod Davies, Todd Haynes, Tom Epperson, Tom Reed, Tom Schulman, Tony Kushner, Toshiro Ide, Truman Capote, Tsai Ming Liang, Vina Delmar, Vincent Gallo, Vitaliano Brancati, Vladimir Nabokov, William Anthony McGuire, William Archibald, William Kelley, William Monahan, William Rose, Willis Goldbeck, Yoko Mizuki, Zachary Sklar.

[Lauren]

Some of these people may get a mention alongside collaborators in the main list -- screenwriters are a huge pain.

[Ally]

screenwriters are a huge pain.

take that back missy!!

[sidehacker]

Didn't make the list: Robert Towne

Good.

[Lauren]

MAURICE PIALAT & ARLETTE LANGMANN

3pt
2pt Loulou
1pt À nos amours





WHIT STILLMAN

3pt
2pt Metropolitan
1pt Barcelona





JEAN COCTEAU

3pt
2pt Les Dames du Bois de Bologne
1pt La belle et la bête





JEAN GRUAULT

3pt
2pt Mon oncle d'Amérique
1pt Jules et Jim





GUY MADDIN

3pt
2pt My Winnipeg
1pt The Saddest Music in the World

[Ally]

scuz me, but maybe the b&w pics should have yellow lettering so we can read the "numbers" or "subtitles" better. nah, just kidding. only the cocteau one is hard to read, but I'm assuming that's #98. This is kind of exciting, because no one usually cares about screenwriters.

[Simon M.]

yep, looks like the soulless French crap that Allison would like...

[Lauren]

[Simon M.]

so it's not a big steaming pile of Binoche?

[roujin]

It's awesome. Even Olof likes a nos amours ( )

[Ally]

yep, looks like the soulless French crap that Allison would like...

yeah, I like it. Olof likes it cuz it has titties. but sidehacker likes it most of all, and he is going to Kick. Your. Ass.

Wouldn't want to be you right now.

[Lauren]

[Lauren]

AGNES VARDA

3pt
2pt Cleo from 5 to 7
1pt Last Tango in Paris





MAX OPHULS, LOUIS DUCREUX, KURT FELTZ, JACQUES NATANSON

3pt
2pt
1pt Madame de..., Le Plaisir, La Ronde





BILL RICHMOND & JERRY LEWIS

3pt
2pt
1pt The Ladies Man, The Patsy, The Nutty Professor





WILLIAM GOLDMAN

3pt
2pt All the Presidents' Men, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
1pt





ALBERT HACKETT & FRANCES GOODRICH

3pt
2pt It's a Wonderful Life, The Thin Man
1pt

[Lauren]

But I'm gonna put more Walbrook in this thing every chance I get! Also how adorable are Albert & Frances?

[Ally]

agnes!!!

[Lauren]

WERNER HERZOG

3pt
2pt Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo
1pt





ROBERT ALTMAN

3pt
2pt 3 Women, McCabe & Mrs Miller
1pt





HARRY SHEARER

3pt
2pt This is Spinal Tap (with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Rob Reiner), Real Life (with Albert Brooks, Monica Johnson)
1pt





CALDER WILLINGHAM

3pt
2pt The Graduate (with Buck Henry), Paths of Glory (with Stanley Kubrick and Jim Thompson)
1pt





HARMONY KORINE

3pt
2pt Kids, Gummo
1pt

[Lauren]

HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT & JEROME GERONIMI

3pt
2pt Les Diaboliques, Wages of Fear
1pt





ROMAN POLANSKI & GERARD BRACH

3pt Repulsion
2pt
1pt Tess





SAMUEL TAYLOR

3pt Vertigo (with Alec Coppel)
2pt
1pt Sabrina (with Billy Wilder & Ernest Lehman)





SAM PECKINPAH

3pt The Wild Bunch (with Walon Green)
2pt
1pt Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (with Gordon Dawson)





EDWARD YANG

3pt Yi yi (a one and a two...)
2pt
1pt The Terrorizers

[warthog]

korine is so likable

[Ally]

how is that, now?

[Lauren]

DAVID LYNCH

3pt
2pt Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr
1pt





MARGUERITE DURAS

3pt Hiroshima mon amour
2pt
1pt India Song





TODD SOLONDZ

3pt
2pt Welcome to the Dollhouse
1pt Happiness, Storytelling





HAROLD PINTER

3pt
2pt Accident
1pt The Go-Between, Langrishe Go Down





TOM STOPPARD

3pt
2pt Brazil (with Terry Gilliam & Charles McKeown)
1pt Empire of the Sun, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

[Ally]

#79 needs some text below her pic.

[Lauren]

thanks!

[Lauren]

GUILLERMO ARRIAGA

3pt
2pt 21 Grams
1pt Amores perros, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada





PAUL SCHRADER

3pt
2pt Taxi Driver
1pt The Last Temptation of Christ, Raging Bull





ERNEST LEHMAN

3pt
2pt Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1pt North By Northwest, Sabrina (with Billy Wilder & Samuel Taylor)





OLIVER STONE

3pt
2pt
1pt JFK, Midnight Express, Platoon, Scarface





JACQUES RIVETTE & FRIENDS

3pt
2pt
1pt Love on the Ground, Celine & Julie vont en bateau, Le Pont du Nord, Out 1

[InHuman]

Very interesting. Yay for Lehman.

[Lauren]

BERT KALMAR & HARRY RUBY

3pt Duck Soup
2pt Horse Feathers
1pt





ROBERT RISKIN

3pt It Happened One Night
2pt Meet John Doe
1pt





JULES FURTHMAN & WILLIAM FAULKNER

3pt The Big Sleep
2pt To Have & Have Not
1pt





CYRIL HUME

3pt Bigger Than Life
2pt Forbidden Planet
1pt





GRAHAM GREENE

3pt The Third Man
2pt The Fallen Idol
1pt