WGA's top 101 screenplays

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Here is the top 25, but go to the following link to see all 101:

 

http://www.wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=1807

 

1. Casablanca

2. The Godfather

3. Chinatown

4. Citizen Kane

5. All About Eve

6. Annie Hall

7. Sunset Blvd.

8. Network

9. Some Like it Hot

10. The Godfather II

11. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

12. Dr Strangelove

13. The Graduate

14. Lawrence of Arabia

15. The Apartment

16. Pulp Fiction

17. Tootsie

18. On the Waterfront

19. To Kill a Mockingbird

20. It's a Wonderful Life

21. North by Northwest

22. The Shawshank Redemption

23. Gone with the Wind

24. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

25. The Wizard of Oz

 

This is a great list, and the fact that Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind made the top 25 along with what is mostly all time classics makes me really happy. It's only of the very few films from 1980 on that even made the list. It's just another thing that leads me to believe that ESofSM will go down in history as one of the truly great films, along with Casablaca, Citizen Kane, and all of the other well known classics.

 

Note that three of the five screenplays that Charlie Kaufman has written are on the list.

 

That said, I do hate that Memento is so far down the list at 100. I'd have it much higher, it was just such an original screenplay. I've read the Memento screenplay more than any other one.

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It's just another thing that leads me to believe that ESofSM will go down in history as one of the truly great films, along with Casablaca, Citizen Kane, and all of the other well known classics.

 

Poor Jim Carrey.

 

Also, Jerry Maguire ahead of Star Wars and Rocky? Wow, that's what I call interesting. How did Jerry Maguire even get on this list?

Groundhog Day getting props at 27 makes me happy, that's a fun movie and might end up being the only bright spot in Chris Elliott's movie career. Well, right behind Cabin Boy of course.

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Shakespeare in Love is ahead of Taxi Driver?! Bah!