Academy Nicholl Fellowships
Posted Monday, October 23, 2017 - 14:00
Actors Zoey Deutch, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Rodrigo Santoro and Vince Vaughn will perform a live reading of selected scenes from this year’s five winning scripts at the 2017 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards Presentation & Live Read.
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Posted Thursday, September 29, 2016 - 13:15
Four individuals and one writing team have been selected as winners of the 2016 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition.
Posted Monday, September 12, 2016 - 12:00
Eleven individual screenwriters and one writing team have been shortlisted for the 2016 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. Winners to be announced in late September.
Posted Wednesday, October 28, 2015 - 09:30
Actors Kathy Baker, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Freida Pinto and Jimmy Smits will perform a live reading of selected scenes from the five winning scripts at the 2015 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards Presentation & Live Read on Wednesday, November 4, at 7:30 p.m.
Posted Monday, September 28, 2015 - 15:30
Meet this year's winners.
Posted Tuesday, September 8, 2015 - 17:45
Congratulations to our new Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting finalists!
Posted Monday, April 6, 2015 - 15:00
The regular deadline to submit entries for the 2015 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition is Friday, April 10, at 11:59 p.m. PT. In November, as many as five $35,000 fellowships will be awarded to amateur screenwriters. Deadlines and entry fees are as follows: Regular deadline: April 10, at 11:59 p.m. PT; entry fee US$55 Final deadline: May 1, at 11:59 p.m. PT; entry fee US$75Online applications and complete rules are available at www.oscars.org/nicholl.For the first time, current entrants...
Posted Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 12:00
An all-star group of Hollywood moviemakers huddled around a speakerphone in the Academy’s headquarters on an impossibly sunny day, poised to change the lives of several people around the world.
Posted Friday, October 3, 2014 - 10:30
Three individual writers and one writing team have been selected as winners of the 2014 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. Each individual winner and the combined writing team will receive a $35,000 prize, the first installment of which will be distributed at an awards presentation on Thursday, November 13, at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. For the second consecutive year, the event will also feature a live read of selected scenes from the fellows’ winning scripts by members of the Academy.
Posted Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 06:00
The 2014 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition is now underway. In November, as many as five $35,000 fellowships will be awarded.