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A Moment That Changed Five Screenwriters' Lives

Members of the Nicholl committee
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An all-star group of Hollywood moviemakers huddled around a speakerphone in the Academy’s headquarters on an impossibly sunny day, poised to change the lives of several people around the world.

"Is this Sallie?,” asked Robin Swicord, who wrote the screenplay for such films as Little Women and Matilda. 

"Yes it is,” aspiring screenwriter Sallie West, author of  Moonflower, replied, voice rising, from her home in Charleston, South Carolina.

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2013 Academy Nicholl Fellowships In Screenwriting Finalists Announced

Academy Nicholl Fellowship
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 Nine individual screenwriters and one writing team have been selected as finalists for the 2013 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition.  Their scripts will now be read and judged by the Academy Nicholl Fellowships Committee, which may award as many as five of the prestigious $35,000 fellowships.

This year’s finalists are (listed alphabetically by author):
     Scott Adams, Menlo Park, CA, “Slingshot”
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Winners Announced For Prestigious Academy Nicholl Fellowships

Academy Nicholl Fellowship
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Four individual writers and one writing team have been selected as winners of the 2013 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition.  Each winner will receive a $35,000 prize, the first installment of which will be distributed at an awards presentation on Thursday, November 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.  For the first time, the event will also feature a live read of selected scenes from the fellows’ winning scripts.
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