Can you name the 101 best screenplays according to the Writers Guild of America? by Arbogast

Can you name the 101 best screenplays according to the Writers Guild of America?

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Screenwriter/Director (Year)	Movie	Rank
Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein & Howard Koch/Michael Curtiz (1942)		1
Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola/Francis Ford Coppola (1972)		2
Robert Towne/Roman Polanski (1974)		3
Herman Mankiewicz & Orson Welles/Orson Welles (1941)		4
Joseph L. Mankiewicz/Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)		5
Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman/Woody Allen (1977)		6
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder & D.M. Marshman, Jr./Billy Wilder (1950)		7
Paddy Chayefsky/Sidney Lumet (1976)		8
Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond/Billy Wilder (1959)		9
Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo/Francis Ford Coppola (1974)		10
William Goldman/George Roy Hill (1969)		11
Stanley Kubrick, Peter George & Terry Southern/Stanley Kubrick (1964)		12
Calder Willingham & Buck Henry/Mike Nichols (1967)		13
Robert Bolt & Michael Wilson/David Lean (1962)		14
Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond/Billy Wilder (1960)		15
Quentin Tarantino/Quentin Tarantino (1994)		16
Larry Gelbart & Murray Schisgal/Sydney Pollack (1982)		17
Budd Schulberg/Elia Kazan (1954)		18
Horton Foote/Robert Mulligan (1962)		19
Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett & Frank Capra/Frank Capra (1946)		20
Ernest Lehman/Alfred Hitchcock (1959)		21
Frank Darabont/Frank Darabont (1994)		22
Sidney Howard/Victor Fleming (1939)		23
Charlie Kaufman/Michel Gondry (2004)		24
Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson & Edgar Allan Woolf/Victor Fleming (1939)		25
Billy Wilder & Raymond Chandler/Billy Wilder (1944)		26
Danny Rubin & Harold Ramis/Harold Ramis (1993)		27
Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard/John Madden (1998)		28
Preston Sturges/Preston Sturges (1941)		29
David Webb Peoples/Clint Eastwood (1992)		30
Charles Lederer/Howard Hawks (1940)		31
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen/Joel Coen (1996)		32
Graham Greene/Carol Reed (1949)		33
Clifford Odets & Ernest Lehman/Alexander Mackendrick (1957)		34

Screenwriter/Director (Year)	Movie	Rank
Christopher McQuarrie/Bryan Singer (1995)		35
Waldo Salt/John Schlesinger (1969)		36
David Ogden Stewart/George Cukor (1940)		37
Alan Ball/Sam Mendes (1999)		38
David S. Ward/George Roy Hill (1973)		39
Nora Ephron/Rob Reiner (1989)		40
Nicholas Pileggi & Martin Scorsese/Martin Scorsese (1990)		41
Lawrence Kasdan/Steven Spielberg (1981)		42
Paul Schrader/Martin Scorsese (1976)		43
Robert E. Sherwood/William Wyler (1946)		44
Lawrence Hauben & Bo Goldman/Milos Forman (1975)		45
John Huston/John Huston (1948)		46
John Huston/John Huston (1941)		47
Carl Foreman & Michael Wilson/David Lean (1957)		48
Steven Zaillian/Steven Spielberg (1993)		49
M. Night Shyamalan/M. Night Shyamalan (1999)		50
James L. Brooks/James L. Brooks (1987)		51
Preston Sturges/Preston Sturges (1941)		52
William Goldman/Alan J. Pakula (1976)		53
Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman/Woody Allen (1979)		54
John Milius & Francis Ford Coppola/Francis Ford Coppola (1979)		55
Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale/Robert Zemeckis (1985)		56
Woody Allen/Woody Allen (1989)		57
Alvin Sargent/Robert Redford (1980)		58
Robert Riskin/Frank Capra (1934)		59
Brian Helgeland & Curtis Hanson/Curtis Hanson (1997)		60
Ted Tally/Jonathan Demme (1991)		61
John Patrick Shanley/Norman Jewison (1987)		62
Peter Benchley & Carl Gottlieb/Steven Spielberg (1975)		63
James L. Brooks/James L. Brooks (1983)		64
Betty Comden & Adolph Green/Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen (1952)		65
Cameron Crowe/Cameron Crowe (1996)		66
Melissa Mathison/Steven Spielberg (1982)		67
George Lucas/George Lucas (1977)		68

Screenwriter/Director (Year)	Movie	Rank
Frank Pierson/Sidney Lumet (1975)		69
James Agee & John Huston/John Huston (1951)		70
James Goldman/Anthony Harvey (1968)		71
Callie Khouri/Ridley Scott (1991)		72
Peter Shaffer/Milos Forman (1984)		73
Charlie Kaufman/Spike Jonze (1999)		74
Carl Foreman/Fred Zinnemann (1952)		75
Paul Schrader & Mardik Martin/Martin Scorsese (1980)		76
Charlie Kaufman & Donald Kaufman/Spike Jonze (2002)		77
Sylvester Stallone/John G. Avildsen (1976)		78
Mel Brooks/Mel Brooks (1968)		79
Earl W. Wallace & William Kelley/Peter Weir (1985)		80
Jerzy Kosinski/Hal Ashby (1979)		81
Donn Pearce & Frank Pierson/Stuart Rosenberg (1967)		82
John Michael Hayes/Alfred Hitchcock (1954)		83
William Goldman/Rob Reiner (1987)		84
Jean Renoir & Charles Spaak/Jean Renoir (1937)		85
Colin Higgins/Hal Ashby (1971)		86
Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano & Brunello Rond/Federico Fellini (1963)		87
Phil Alden Robinson/Phil Alden Robinson (1989)		88
Eric Roth/Robert Zemeckis (1994)		89
Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor/Alexander Payne (2004)		90
David Mamet/Sidney Lumet (1982)		91
Joseph Stefano/Alfred Hitchcock (1960)		92
Spike Lee/Spike Lee (1989)		93
Francis Ford Coppola & Edmund H. North/Franklin J. Schaffner (1970)		94
Woody Allen/Woody Allen (1986)		95
Sidney Carroll & Robert Rossen/Robert Rossen (1961)		96
Frank S. Nugent/John Ford (1956)		97
Nunnally Johnson/John Ford (1940)		98
Walon Green & Sam Peckinpah/Sam Peckinpah (1969)		99
Christopher Nolan/Christopher Nolan (2000)		100
Ben Hecht/Alfred Hitchcock (1946)		101

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	Kicking222:	Apr 8th, 2011 at 22:08 GMT		2 points
	Great quiz, but you should reverse the number column and writer/director column (I know, this is a pain). Otherwise, with forced answer order, you have to scroll up and down for every single answer.

	Arbogast:	Apr 8th, 2011 at 22:56 GMT		1 point
	I know, you're right...I didn't think about it until after I made it. I'll make the change (though probably not tonight...).

	benshore:	Apr 8th, 2011 at 23:27 GMT		-1 points
	No reason to answer in order - it's not like it a finite set of answers like U.S. States. Also, listing screenwriters plus year is way too easy.

	sharpdale:	Apr 9th, 2011 at 03:00 GMT		1 point
	Good quiz, although scrolling up and down literally ate up more than half the time it took me. As for the list itself, just conventional groupthink, and some of these still surprised me that, even being governed by conventional groupthink, they made the list given how outrageously contrived and mediocre they were e.g., Shawshank Redemption and Forrest Gump (1994 was a joke of an Oscar year), not to mention The Wizard of Oz (good movie, great production and score, but the screenplay was hack work!).

	Arbogast:	Apr 9th, 2011 at 16:28 GMT		0 points
	I fixed the scrolling issue, sorry about that. As for listing the screenwriters plus year making it easy, I strongly disagree--except for certain instances of a particularly noteworthy name or where the director was a writer, I feel like most screenwriters aren't that well known. (For example, would you have known that Nunnally Johnson wrote The Grapes of Wrath, or that Alvin Sargent wrote Ordinary People?) I think adding the director may have made it too easy, but I was concerned that leaving it with only screenwriter might make it too hard. As for answering in order, I think there's a very good reason for that--as sharpdale notes, the list of conventionally heralded screenplays (and, for that matter, conventionally heralded films) is indeed a finite set (there was no risk of, say, American Pie or Hudson Hawk making this list). Without answering in order, it would be very easy to just rattle off a bunch of well-respected movies and, lo and behold, you'd probably have 60-70 answers right off the bat without knowing anything about who wrote them.

	benshore:	Apr 9th, 2011 at 17:45 GMT		1 point
	Yes, but not having to name them in order forces you to think about great screenplays. Otherwise, it's just a name the screenplay by writer and year - the list it's on becomes irrelevant.

	benshore:	Apr 9th, 2011 at 17:50 GMT		1 point
	Also, here's the link to the AFI Top 100 quiz http://www.sporcle.com/games/afitop100.php - No answering in order necessary and you have to think of great films, regardless of their year. No risk of "American Pie" showing up on this list either.