- 2003 Script PIMP Writing Competition - Offers $10,000 in cash, plus $14,000 in other prizes. 85 Companies have requested the winners for their consideration. Final deadline: May 1,2003.
- ABC New Talent Development - ABC Entertainment and Walt Disney Studios sponsor an annual Writing Fellowship Program, searching for culturally and ethnically diverse new writers.
- Acclaim TV - Original, television scripts, and film scripts are sought.
- All She Wrote Screenplay Contest - Open to all non-professional screenwriters. Entered screenplays must not have been previously optioned, sold or produced.
- American Accolades Screenwriting Competition - Competition aims to find and usher emerging talent into the Hollywood mainstream marketplace.
- American Cinema Foundation - Elicits scripts which are suitable for either theatrical or television production and which tell a positive story about specific fundamental values.
- American Dreamer - Encourages new, groundbreaking writers and filmmakers to pursue careers in the fine art of scriptwriting.
- American Gem Short Script Contest - The winning screenplay will be produced, with the screenwriter sharing in the gross profits.
- American Screenwriting Competition - Promises $50,000 in cash and prizes. Minimum entry fee: $40. Deadline: September 15.
- Applause Screenwriting Competition - Prizes: 1st: $1000, 2nd: $500, 3rd: $250. Scripts must be original works and not previously optioned, purchased, or produced.
- Autumn Moon Productions - The 'Don't Get Mad; Get Produced!' screenwriting awards offer possible literary representation.
- Awesome Television Scriptwriting Contest - Offers cash prizes for spec scripts of existing television shows.
- Bare Bones - Spotlights screenplays with a budget summary of less than a million dollars.
- Big Australian International Screenwriting Competition - $30,000 in cash and prizes. Open to screenwriters worldwide. 2001 winners announced.
- BlueCat Screenplay Competition - An annual search for the best screenplay in the world. $5,000 grand prize. Deadline March 1st.
- British Short Screenplay Competition - The winning script will be produced by Kaos Films to be exhibited in UK cinemas and entered into film festivals around the world.
- Carl Sautter Memorial Scriptwriting Competition for Film and Television - Open only to members of The Scriptwriters Network. Writers are allowed to join the organization when the entry is submitted.
- Chesterfield Writer's Film Project - Writing competition open to all writers of fiction, plays, screenplays. Five winners will each receive a $20,000 fellowship, and spend 10 months completing 2 screenplays with the guidance of industry mentors. Sponsored by Paramount Pictures.
- Cinescapes Genre Screenwriting Competition - Competition to assist science fiction, fantasy, horror, and action-adventure screenwriters in becoming discovered by the film industry.
- CineStory Screenwriting Awards - Annual awards for feature-length and short scripts.
- Devilhawk Screenplay Competition - The winning screenplay will be produced by Devilhawk Productions on a budget determined by the number of entries received. Entry fee: $50. Deadline: September 15, 2003.
- Empire Screenplay Contest - Contest guidelines, entry forms, results, guidance on how to advance, story dynamics.
- eShay.com Competition - For all screenwriters who have at least one copyrighted feature length screenplay. Prizes include software and script consultation. 2001 competition winners announced.
- European Pitch Point - Script competition aimed to promote European writers. General information, deadlines, call for proposals, quotations from industry professionals, and contact details.
- Euroscript Film Story Competition - Seeks a maximum 2,000 word treatment that tells all the story. Open to European Union screenwriters only. Two competitions are held each year.
- Fade In: Screenwriting Awards - Cash prizes and industry exposure from the publishers of Fade In Magazine.
- Film Pub Screenplay Contest - A collaborative contest in which submissions are judged by other entrants. Deadline: August 1.
- filmcontest.com Screenplay Competition - The winner will receive $3000 cash and a trip to New York or Los Angeles to meet with a film production executive.
- Five and Dime Screenplay Contest - Over $10,000 in cash and prizes is offered by the only U.S. contest accepting submissions in Japanese, French, Spanish, and Italian, as well as English.
- FOE - Contest for screenplays, cash prize, production of the winning feature script.
- Heat Productions - $5,000 bonus and round trip tickets each to 3 screenwriters chosen for this experience down in South Africa.
- Hollywood "Final-Cut" Screenplay Competition - Open to new screenwriters, who have not sold a script for more than $1,000. Authors must be 18 years or older. Writers from any country are eligible to enter, but scripts must be written in English, in standard format.
- Hollywood 27 - Independent film production company offering $25,000 in prize money.
- Hollywood Gateway Screenwriting Contest - An annual contest provides a $5,000 cash prize in addition to a number of other benefits including transportation and accommodation in Hollywood, meetings with top agents and producers, plus submissions to over 70 agencies and production companies. Final deadline: September 30.
- Hollywood Screenplay and Book Awards - Submissions of original, unproduced, non-optioned screenplays, and book manuscripts, are invited monthly.
- Hollywood Symposium - Features screenplay development, film production, script consultation and screenplay contests.
- Hollywood's Next Success - Finalists and/or winners may be offered management representation.
- Hurdle Screenwriting Competition - Annual contest for independent screenwriters offers cash awards.
- igottascript.com - The winner will have their script submitted on the spec market.
- International Screenplay Competition - More than $10,000 in prizes. Presented by the American Screenwriters Association and Writer's Digest.
- Lighthouse Scripts - Annual teleplay and screenplay competition open to all writers worldwide.
- Maui Writers Conference - Screenwriting competition held in conjunction with the American Film Institute.
- Monterey County Film Commission - Three finalists will receive one-on-one consultations with jury members at the awards event in Monterey County.
- Nashville Screenwriting Competition - 1st place cash prize of $1,000 plus an all-access pass to the Nashville Independent Film Festival.
- National Screenplay Contest. Winning script produced as a movie - A monthly contest for movie scripts offers the winner of the Grand Finals a $1,000 Treasury Bond and the certainty that the script will be produced as a movie.
- National Screenwriting Competition - Cash awards and movie production options are offered to winners.
- Nevada Film Office - Annual screenwriters competition. 75 percent of the script's locations must be shootable in Nevada.
- Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting - An international competition, sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, seeks original screenplays from writers who have not earned more than $5,000 for film or TV scripts. Up to five $25,000 fellowships are awarded each year.
- Ohio Independent Screenplay Awards - Dedicated to freedom of expression through the art of independent media.
- One-In-Ten Screenplay Competition - Open to all writers. At least one of the primary characters in the screenplay must be a positively portrayed gay or lesbian character.
- Organization of Black Screenwriters - Categories are original screenplays, half-hour and one hour television spec scripts, and half-hour and one hour television pilot scripts.
- Outfest - Recognizes and promotes screenplays that significantly feature lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered characters and/or themes.
- People's Picture Show - A television competition for TV movie scripts and original screenplays.
- People's Pilot - Television writing competition for series ideas and pilots.
- Radmin Company Screenwriting Contest - Held in conjunction with FilmMakers Magazine, the top 50 scripts will be considered for representation by the Radmin Company.
- Screamfest - Annual horror film and screenplay competition. Finalists and winning horror screenplay finalists to be read by literary agents. 0ctober 17th - 20th.
- Screenwriter Showcase - An annual screenwriting contest, to find and promote talented new screenwriters, awards prizes in kind but not in cash. Entry fees are payable.
- Screenwriters Forum Screenplay Contest - All contest winners are announced to their entire database of agents and producers.
- Screenwriting Showcase Awards - Winners receive prizes including cash, screenwriting software, discounts on products, free script registration, or professional script analysis.
- Script Magazine Open Door Contest - Cash prizes, script notes and consideration from a legitimate management company, production company or agency.
- Script World 2002 Screenwriting Competition - Seeks original scripts, in both full-length, and short film categories. The winner receives $5,000 in cash and prizes, including mentorship, and a possible option by Zeta Entertainment.
- Scriptapalooza screenwriting competition with Screenplay.com - Annual Screenwriting Competition offers a $10,000 cash prize, plus promotion for the best thirteen scripts submitted.
- Scriptapalooza TV - Semi-annual competition that accepts pilots and spec scripts for sitcoms and one hour episodics.
- Scriptunities - A free monthly guide to competitions, script calls and other script opportunities in the UK and Europe. Subscribe to a monthly mail out or examine the web edition.
- Scriptwriters Network - Program gives the opportunity for un-agented scripts to be read by producers/ production companies. Endorsed by the WGA and offered to its members. Feedback given to all entrants.
- Short Film Script Contest - Seeks a short film script based on any book or story in the Bible. $2,500 to be won, plus possible use in a feature film.
- Slamdance Screenplay Competition - Indie-oriented competition aims to promote and support talented new writers.
- Split-Screenplay Contest - All contestants must register as a member of the Screenwriters Community.
- Steele Entertainment Group Screenplay Contest - Annual contest offers $1,500 in prize money. Deadline: May 23, 2003. Entry fee: $50.
- TalentScout TV Writing Contest - Winners are submitted to the networks and production companies to help find them work.
- Texas Filmwriters Institute - Offers an annual contest for original screenplays, allowing talented writers an entrance into the entertainment industry.
- The Austin Film Festival Heart of Film Screenplay Competition - Competition dedicated to recognizing the writer's contribution to the motion picture industry.
- The Orca Awards for Screenwriting Excellence - Celebrating excellence in screenwriting from amateur and professional writers.
- True Independent Screenplay Competition - Offers a $1500 First Prize for superior craftmanship in screenwriting. Feedback is provided on all entries for an extra $20 fee. Deadline: May 15. Entry fees: $15 for short films; $30 for features.
- WinFemme - Monthly and annual film & screenplay festival in Los Angeles. Winners receive staged readings and screenings in Hollywood on a monthly basis with top industry executives who discuss the artist's work.
- Winner Take All - Screenplays will go through three stages of scoring before a winner is chosen.
- WriteMovies.com Writing Competition - Offers a $2,000 cash prize (plus representation, and possible option money), plus submission of the top three entries to studios, production companies, and agencies in Hollywood.
- Writer´s Film Project - Originated by the Chesterfield Film Company and co-sponsored by Paramount Pictures.
- WriteSafe Writing and Art Contest - Quarterly competition for all material registered with WriteSafe for public view.
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