Academy Now Accepting Entries
For 2013 Nicholl Fellowships
In Screenwriting competition
by
February 11, 2013
You've got about 3 months until the final deadline, so you'd better get moving.
Details below via press release:
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is now accepting entries for the 2013 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. As many as five $35,000 fellowships will be awarded in November.
The Nicholl Fellowships competition is open to any individual who has not earned a total of more than $25,000 from the sale or option of screenplays or teleplays, or received fellowships or prizes of more than $25,000 that include a “first look” clause, an option or any other quid pro quo involving the writer’s work. To enter, writers must submit a completed application online, upload one PDF copy of their original screenplay in English and pay the entry fee before 11:59 p.m. PT on May 1, 2013.
Entry fee schedule is as follows:
Early deadline: March 1; entry fee US$35
Regular deadline: April 10; entry fee US$50
Final deadline: May 1; entry fee US$65
Online applications, rules and other details are available at www.oscars.org/nicholl.>
Last year’s competition drew a record 7,197 entries. Since the program’s inception in 1985, 128 fellowships have been awarded.
Several past Nicholl fellows have recently added to their achievements. Destin Cretton directed “Short Term 12″ from his fellowship-winning screenplay; the film will premiere in competition at South by Southwest® next month. Creighton Rothenberger co-wrote “Olympus Has Fallen,” slated to open in March with Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman and Angela Bassett. Andrew Marlowe is the creator and executive producer of the ABC series “Castle,” now in its fifth season. Rebecca Sonnenshine is the executive story editor on the CW series “The Vampire Diaries.”