Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting

Nicholl Fellow Micah Ranum scores a big win with Sam Raimi and Rob Savage coming on board to produce/direct his contained supernatural-horror feature. Let's join in on congratulating Micah.

Exciting news for Nicholl Fellow Geeta Malik: CAA Media Finance has purchased distribution rights to her feature INDIA SWEETS AND SPICES based on her Nicholl winning script, DINNER WITH FRIENDS. Congrats to Geeta on her writing/directing success!!

Congratulations to the 2020 #Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting finalists!

Your point of view to the situation is what makes you valuable as a writer. Screenwriter and director Tina Gordon Chism (Little, Drumline) explores where ideas come from. Tell us where your ideas come from. If you were able to purchase reader comments by the May 1st deadline, they are available starting today under Tab 7 of your application in your online account.

NICHOLL NEWS! CONGRATULATIONS to the 150 advancing Semifinalists in the 2020 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition! Notification emails have been sent to all 364 Quarterfinalists. If you did not receive your notification email, please email us at [email protected] to request a resend.

Congratulations to Nicholl Fellow S.J. Inwards! S.J. will write a musical, YA-centric Lady Macbeth feature project for Amazon Studios, with Scooter Braun and Channing Tatum among its producers.

We want to congratulate all of the entrants who submitted this year. Finishing that draft is more than half of the work. Resilience is part of the work, too. Keep writing, keep going. And let us know, how do you keep moving forward?

Nicholl Announcement: Notification emails have been sent to all entrants of the 2020 Nicholl Fellowships competition. Congratulations to the writers and their scripts that advanced to the Quarterfinal Round! No matter your placement, keep writing!

Congratulations to Academy member, and previous Nicholl Committee member, Kirsten Kiwi Smith on receiving two Daytime Emmys Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Children’s or Young Adult Program, and Outstanding Young Adult Program for her Netflix show "Trinkets"!

Reader Comment Excerpt drawn from a high-scoring 2020 entry: This screenplay is a fun and engaging X themed X with plenty of heart .written with a high level of craft across the board. Nice visuals and storytelling skills enable us to share the adventure with the characters... Characters have honest depth and dimension.

Reader Comment Excerpt drawn from a high-scoring 2020 entry: Wow, X was excellent in many different ways. Perhaps the most innovative choice was giving this the trappings of a X story. I totally bought into this... All the characters had strong arcs. A number of the more intimate personal moments were touching

Reader Comment Excerpt drawn from a high-scoring 2020 entry: This script finds a way to deliver something with depth instead of the expected. This is just a really well told story that demonstrates creative plotting and utilizes audience expectations to deliver something the audience didn’t even realize they wanted. Well done.

Reader Comment Excerpt drawn from a high-scoring 2020 entry: An absolutely killer concept. The script’s voice is crystal clear: understated humor, just enough to keep it light, which allows emotion to shine. Technically and grammatically, this is so well written and easy to read. Creative, well done, and extremely enjoyable.