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  • Nicholl Fellows

    this year
    http://www.oscars.org/awards/nicholl...s/fellows.html

    all dramas. please make a note of that.

    applications come out in Feb for next year.

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    Re: Nicholl Fellows

    Originally posted by NikeeGoddess View Post
    this year
    http://www.oscars.org/awards/nicholl...s/fellows.html

    all dramas. please make a note of that.

    applications come out in Feb for next year.
    But I think there were two comedies in the top ten finalists - so there's still clout behind your script to get reads, at least. Something else could sneak up there, too.
    "The Hollywood film business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." Hunter S Thompson

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    • #3
      Re: Nicholl Fellows

      Originally posted by NikeeGoddess View Post
      this year
      http://www.oscars.org/awards/nicholl...s/fellows.html

      all dramas. please make a note of that.

      applications come out in Feb for next year.
      The five 2010 Nicholl finalist scripts:

      adventure, comedy, comedy drama and two dramas.

      The five 2010 Nicholl fellowship-winning scripts:

      comedy drama, three dramas and a thriller.

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        Re: Nicholl Fellows

        Destin Daniel Cretton went to my alma mater. His script, Short Term 12, started out as a short film that won a jury prize at Sundance a year ago. http://shortterm12.com/

        It's definitely a Sundance/Academy type of drama.
        Nobody's perfect.

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        • #5
          Re: Nicholl Fellows

          Originally posted by gregbeal View Post
          The five 2010 Nicholl finalist scripts:

          adventure, comedy, comedy drama and two dramas.

          The five 2010 Nicholl fellowship-winning scripts:

          comedy drama, three dramas and a thriller.
          the loglines all read like dramas to me... and one thriller. i write dramas so it's a good thing for me.

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          • #6
            Re: Nicholl Fellows

            Wasn't Anthony Jawinski's Nicholl winning script INTERSTATE about a guy being chased across a lonely stretch of interstate road by a vampire? Correct me if I'm wrong, but that definitely doesn't sound like a drama. Also Michael Hare's The Fly Fisher was a horror. Lee's script Snatched was a thriller. Other genres do win the Nicholl. I just think more dramas are submitted than any other genre. There for the likely hood of a drama being selected as a fellowship script are higher.
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            • #7
              Re: Nicholl Fellows

              Great writing is not bound by a single genre.
              2011 Screenwriting Goal: 15 pages a day.

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              • #8
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                Originally posted by Lucha Scribre View Post
                Great writing is not bound by a single genre.
                Exactly.
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                • #9
                  Re: Nicholl Fellows

                  do Nicholl fellows automatically get signed to a top rep company?

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                  • #10
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                    Originally posted by lordmanji View Post
                    do Nicholl fellows automatically get signed to a top rep company?
                    no. it just opens doors for them. now that Nicholl has proven they're worthy. the prize is a fellowship where they're awarded something like $30,000 to write their next project. all the information you even need is on that site. they're very good and open about it... even the stats that show dramas lead in the genre category over there. it's kind of like saying the best sprinters in track are black... lots of proof in the opposite direction but then there's those stats.

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                    • #11
                      Re: Nicholl Fellows

                      Originally posted by lordmanji View Post
                      do Nicholl fellows automatically get signed to a top rep company?
                      Depends on if they have something salable. Everyone's looking for a project to market.
                      "I talked to a couple of yes men at Metro. To me they said no."


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