Earlier today The Black List unveiled its top picks for the year’s best unproduced screenplays. Holland, Michigan by Andrew Sodroski earned the most number of votes out of a pack that includes such enticingly titled projects as Randle is Benign, The Shark Is Not Working, Time & Temperature, The Boy and His Tiger, and the we’re-pretty-sure-we-know-what-this-is-about (and-we’re-excited-for-it) A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.
Since 2005 The Black List, founded by Franklin Leonard and Dino Sijamic, has compiled an annual roster of screenplays that is meant to represent the best of the industry’s exponential pile of unproduced works. The organization tends to be spot on. Of the past five Best Picture winners, three were made from Black-Listed scripts: Argo, Slumdog Millionaire, and The King’s Speech. Juno, The Social Network, The Descendants, and Django Unchained all won the Oscar for Best Screenplay, and were all once listed on The Black List.
The upcoming Fathers and Daughters, starring Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried and “Breaking Bad’s” Aaron Paul, was a Black List selection from 2012, as was the Hillary Clinton biopic, Rodham, currently in development at Lionsgate.
See if you can spot 2015’s Best Picture winner out of this year’s group of 72 (listed in no particular order) below:
MISSISSIPPI MUD by Elijah Bynum
PATIENT Z by Michael Le
MAKE A WISH by Zach Frankel
RANDLE IS BENIGN by Damien Ober
A MONSTER CALLS by Patrick Ness
QUEEN OF HEARTS by Stephanie Shannon
HOLLAND, MICHIGAN by Andrew Sodroski
HOT SUMMER NIGHTS by Elijah Bynum
DUDE by Oliva Milch
PAN by Jason Fuchs
SUPERBRAT by Eric Slovin & Leo Allen
SEED by Christina Hodson
CAKE by Patrick Tobin
DIABLO RUN by Shea Mirzai and Evan Mirzai
SEA OF TREES by Chris Sparling
FRISCO by Simon Stephenson
WHERE ANGELS DIE by Alexander Felix
SUGAR IN MY VEINS by Barbara Stepansky
SECTION 6 by Aaron Berg
LAST MINUTE MAIDS by Leo Nicholas
BROKEN COVE by Declan O'Dwyer
TIME & TEMPERATURE by Nick Santora
POX AMERICANA by Frank John Hughes
THE FIXER by Bill Kennedy
HALF HEARD IN STILLNESS by David Weil
THE LINE by Sang Kyu Kim
BEAST by Zach Dean
THE REMAINS by Meaghan Oppenheimer
TCHAIKOVSKY'S REQUIEM by Jonathan Stokes
AMERICAN SNIPER by Jason Dean Hall
THE POLITICIAN by Matthew Bass and Theodore Bressman
BEAUTY QUEEN by Annie Neal
REMINISCENCE by Lisa Joy Nolan
FREE BYRD by Jon Boyer
DIG by Adam Barker
MAN OF SORROW by Neville Kiser
THE GOLDEN RECORD by Aaron Kandell and Jordan Kandell
NICHOLAS by Leo Sardarian
FROM HERE TO ALBION by Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirivani
1969: A SPACE ODYSSEY OR HOW KUBRICK LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LAND ON THE MOON by Stephany Folsom
CLARITY by Ryan Belenzon and Jeffrey Gelber
ELSEWHERE by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis
THE KILLING FLOOR by Bac Delorme and Stephen Clarke
REVELATION by Hernany Perla
THE CROWN by Max Hurwitz
THE CIVILIAN by Rachel Long & Brian Pittman
AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE by Richard Naing and Ian Goldberg
THE SHARK IS NOT WORKING by Richard Cordiner
THE INDEPENDENT by Evan Parter
FAULTS by Riley Stearns
THE SPECIAL PROGRAM by Debora Cahn
I'M PROUD OF YOU by Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue
SOVEREIGN by Geoff Tock and Greg Weidman
DOGFIGHT by Nicole Riegel
INK AND BONE by Zak Olkewicz
A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD by Alexis C Jolly
GAY KID AND FAT CHICK by Bo Burnham
BURY THE LEAD by Justin Kremer
EXTINCTION by Spenser Cohen
SPOTLIGHT by Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy
THE MAYOR OF SHARK CITY by Nick Creature and Michael Sweeney
THE END OF THE TOUR by Donald Margulies
FULLY WRECKED by Jake Morse & Scott Wolman
PURE O by Kate Trefry
CAPSULE by Ian Shorr
SHOVEL BUDDIES by Jason Mark Hellerman
BURN SITE by Doug Simon
THE COMPANY MAN by Andrew Cypiot
SWEETHEART by Jack Stanley
INQUEST by Josh Simon
THE BOY AND HIS TIGER by Dan Dollar
LINE OF DUTY by Cory Miller
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