screenwriter
a person who writes screenplays, especially as an occupation or profession.
Origin of screenwriter
1Other words from screenwriter
- screen·writ·ing, noun
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How to use screenwriter in a sentence
He was really the first one to take the time to treat me like a screenwriter.
Housebound is writer-director Gerard Johnstone’s only feature film, but its unique tone has the confidence of an established, more experienced screenwriter.
One Good Thing: Housebound is the perfect horror comedy for the perpetually quarantined | Aja Romano | December 31, 2020 | VoxMank tells the story of a screenwriter for whom working in Hollywood doesn’t amount to much more than taking home an easy, enormous paycheck for tossing off silly ideas.
David Fincher’s new movie Mank is a broadside against Hollywood self-congratulation | Alissa Wilkinson | December 4, 2020 | VoxIn the time before, he was a screenwriter in Los Angeles, but when the Arrest struck, he was visiting his sister in Maine.
Jonathan Lethem’s ‘The Arrest’ imagines a kinder, gentler apocalypse | Ron Charles | November 10, 2020 | Washington PostAustin Bunn is a screenwriter and an associate professor in the performing and media arts department at Cornell University.
Director Yoo Dong-hun and screenwriter Lee Jung-u were arrested for firebombing theaters.
Propaganda, Protest, and Poisonous Vipers: The Cinema War in Korea | Rich Goldstein | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut when she called back, Brinsley was determined to tall her about his minted screenwriter status.
Broyles, who served in Vietnam, later went on to become a Hollywood screenwriter, working on the films Apollo 13 and Cast Away.
The story “pretty much just wrote itself,” Mann said, though it “helped” that he was also a novelist and (soon) a screenwriter.
One of the ways Fincher and his screenwriter Gillian Flynn accomplished this feat of “femininity” was to give Amy agency.
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British Dictionary definitions for screenwriter
/ (ˈskriːnˌraɪtə) /
a person who writes screenplays
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