screenwriter

[ skreen-rahy-ter ]

noun

1. a person who writes screenplays, especially as an occupation or profession.

screenwriter

/ ˈskriːnˌraɪtə /

noun

1. a person who writes screenplays

Other Words From

• screen·writ·ing noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of screenwriter¹

First recorded in 1920–25; screen + writer

Example Sentences

He was really the first one to take the time to treat me like a screenwriter.

From Washington Post

Housebound is writer-director Gerard Johnstone’s only feature film, but its unique tone has the confidence of an established, more experienced screenwriter.

From Vox

Mank 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.

From Vox

In the time before, he was a screenwriter in Los Angeles, but when the Arrest struck, he was visiting his sister in Maine.

From Washington Post

Austin Bunn is a screenwriter and an associate professor in the performing and media arts department at Cornell University.

From Fortune

Director Yoo Dong-hun and screenwriter Lee Jung-u were arrested for firebombing theaters.

From The Daily Beast

But when she called back, Brinsley was determined to tall her about his minted screenwriter status.

From The Daily Beast

Broyles, who served in Vietnam, later went on to become a Hollywood screenwriter, working on the films Apollo 13 and Cast Away.

From The Daily Beast

The story “pretty much just wrote itself,” Mann said, though it “helped” that he was also a novelist and (soon) a screenwriter.

From The Daily Beast

One of the ways Fincher and his screenwriter Gillian Flynn accomplished this feat of “femininity” was to give Amy agency.

From The Daily Beast

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