The Original Screenplay category at the 2026 Oscars is full of visionary works, from the melancholy of Blue Moon to the vampiric thrills of Sinners.

If you want to become a screenwriter, it’s so important to learn how to write action lines in a script. Action lines take up the bulk of a reader’s attention. It’s where you spell out what’s happening ...

The five-act structure is a plot formula that divides a story into five sections: the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. From these classical explorations comes our ...

There’s a way to classify screenplays for Oscar consideration that would reward creativity and make much more sense. Unlike the current system. Critic’s Notebook There’s a way to classify screenplays ...

L.A.-based filmmaker Noam Kroll is currently working on his second feature. He keeps a production blog at his website NoamKroll.com. In this blog post, he writes about focusing on characters in order ...