One of the most welcome trends in recent Oscar seasons has been the decision by studios to publish screenplays for award contenders on the Internet. The scripts are ostensibly placed online so that Academy voters, guild members, and critics groups can have a look at the blueprint for the films they saw during the year as they wrestle with the question of which titles are awards-worthy. The studios don't promote these PDFs to the general public, but they don't protect them with passwords, either, a generous gesture that makes it easy for script-writers at all levels of the industry to study the work of the writers they most admire.

We've added an asterisk to the script titles below that have received Oscar nominations in the original or adapted screenplay category. As far as we can tell, the Oscar-nominated screenplays for Blue Jasmine, written by Woody Allen, Her, written by Spike Jonze, and Captain Phillips, written by Billy Ray, have not been published online — yet. But the screenplay to American Hustle was just posted, so maybe there's still hope for the rest.


Screenplay by John Ridley
 
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Written by Brian Helgeland
 
by J.C. Chandor
 
American Hustle*
Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
 
Written by Tracy Letts
 

Screenplay by Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
 
Written by Sofia Coppola
 
Written by Kirk DeMicco & Chris Sanders
 
by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack
 
by Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio
 
Written and Directed by Nicole Holofcener
 
By Jennifer Lee
Story by Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee & Shane Morris
 
By Ryan Coogler
 
Written by Alfonso Cuarón & Jonás Cuarón 
 
Screenplay by Baz Luhrmann & Craig Pearce
Based on The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
 

Written by Abi Morgan
 
Story by Austin Bunn
Screenplay by John Krokidas and Austin Bunn
 

by Jason Reitman
from the novel by Joyce Maynard
 
By Danny Strong
 
Lone Survivor
Written by Peter Berg
Based on the book by Marcus Luttrell
 
Story by Dan Scanlon, Daniel Gerson & Robert L. Baird
Screenplay by Daniel Gerson & Robert L. Baird, Dan Scanlon
 
Mud
by Jeff Nichols

 
Written by Robert W. Nelson
 

A film by Asghar Farhadi
Translated by Simindokht Dehghani & Massoumeh Lahidji
 

A Screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
Based on the Book by Martin Sixsmith
 
The Place Beyond the Pines
Written by Derek Cianfrance, Ben Coccio, & Darius Marder
 
Prisoners
by Aaron Guzikowski
 
By Peter Morgan
 
Original Screenplay by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith
 
Written by Haifaa Al Mansour
 
Written by Terence Winter
Based on the book by Jordan Belfort