Shawn's Writing News

is it hard to be a film directo and screen writer?

how hard is it to be one and what do you do to get there? do you just go straight to the directors guild?

It’s not hard to be one; it is hard to convert on that dream

Writers Guild of America Strike Announcement – Nov. 2, 2007

Anatomy of a Script 2 – Stephen Gaghan (two-disc set) $39.95 Stephen Gaghan is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning American film writer and director. His most acclaimed accomplishment is writing the screenplay for the film Traffic, for which he won an Academy Award.In addition to Traffic, Gaghan has also directed and written the screenplays for Syriana (2005) and Abandon (2002). Other writing credits include Havoc (2005), The Alamo (2004) and Rules of E…

Anatomy of a Script 4 – Vince Gilligan $39.95 VINCE GILLIGAN, series creator and executive producer of Breaking Bad, was born in Richmond, Virginia. He received the Virginia Governor’s Screenwriting Award in 1989 for his screenplay Home Fries, which was later turned into a film starring Drew Barrymore and Luke Wilson. As a writer and executive producer on The X-Files, Gilligan shared Golden Globe Awards in 1996 and 1997 for Best Dramatic Seri…

Karen McCullah Lutz & Kirsten Smith – Writers on Writing $19.95 Writing team Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith make up the highly successful writing team responsible for such hits as Legally Blonde and The House Bunny. In this video, they tell their story to writer and critic F.X. Feeney.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com’s standard return policy will apply….

Germinal $0.99 Germinal (1885) by Émile Zola’s twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Widely considered Zola’s undisputed masterpiece and one of the greatest novels ever written in the French language, the novel – an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers’ strike in northern France in the 1860s – has been published and translated in over one hundred countries as well as inspiring five fil…

Selling a Screenplay: The Screenwriter’s Guide to Hollywood $3.97 - Breaks Down the Business of Screenwriting – Explains What the Buyer Looks For – Shows You What to Do to Get in the Door – Tackles the Pitching Process – Provides Personal Insights from Famous Screenwriters Everybody has a story to tell. Everybody wants to write the great American screenplay. But what do you do after it’s written? How do you sell it? Studio honchos. Development Executi…

Hollywood on Strike!: An Industry at War in the Internet Age – The Writers Guild (WGA) Strike and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Stalemate (Entertainment Labor Unions) $23.81 It was a Hollywood meltdown … The Writers Guild went on strike in 2007. The big issue: fees for programs released on new media such as the Internet. The strike was settled one hundred turbulent days later – but then the Screen Actors Guild spiraled out of control, unwilling to accept the same terms but unable to muster a second strike. As the national economy collapsed, idled writers and actors…

The Pure Guild – Acne Treatment $425 A potent acne treatment for oily, acne-prone skin Formulated with active ingredients without using solvents & heat for extraction Preserves ingredients? molecular integrity & full spectrum of biological activities Contains meadowsweet to inhibit

The Pure Guild – Cellulite Treatment $449 An efficacious anti-cellulite body treatment Formulated with active ingredients without using solvents & heat for extraction Preserves ingredients? molecular integrity & full spectrum of biological activities Contains lotus leaf extract to smooth

The Pure Guild – Feminine Cleanser $267 Feminine Cleanser

1996 Film Awards $20.49 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 69th Academy Awards, Golden Satellite Awards 1996, 16th Hong Kong Film Awards, 54th Golden Globe Awards, 11th Goya Awards, 17th Golden Raspberry Awards, César Awards 1996, 1996 Cannes Film Festival, 50th British Academy Film Awards, 3rd Screen Actors Guild Awards, 1996 Mtv Movie Awards, 1st Open Russian Festival of Animated Film, National Board of Review Awards 1996, 17th Genie Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1996, Producers Guild of America Awards 1996, Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 1996, 1996 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Writers Guild of America Awards 1996, Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards 1996, Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 1996, Florida Film Critics Circle Awards 1996, Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1996, Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards 1996, Art Directors Guild Awards 1996, San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 1996, Society of Texas Film Critics Awards 1996, Chlotrudis Awards 1996. Excerpt: 11th Annual Goya Awards January 25, 1997 Best Film: Thesis The 11th Goya Awards were presented in Madrid, Spain on 25 January 1997. Tesis won the award for Best Film. Winners and nominees Major award nominees Best Film : Best Director : item Best Actor : Best Actress item : item Best Supporting Actor : Best Supporting Actress item : item Best Original Screenplay : Best Adaptated Screenplay item : item Best New Actor : Best New Actress item : item Íngrid Rubio Bey…

1998 Film Awards: 71st Academy Awards, Golden Satellite Awards 1998, 18th Hong Kong Film Awards, 56th Golden Globe Awards $21.89 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 71st Academy Awards, Golden Satellite Awards 1998, 18th Hong Kong Film Awards, 56th Golden Globe Awards, 1998 Cannes Film Festival, 19th Golden Raspberry Awards, César Awards 1998, 52nd British Academy Film Awards, 3rd Open Russian Festival of Animated Film, 5th Screen Actors Guild Awards, 1998 Mtv Movie Awards, London Film Critics Circle Awards 1998, National Board of Review Awards 1998, Producers Guild of America Awards 1998, Writers Guild of America Awards 1998, London Film Critics Circle Awards 1999, Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 1998, 1998 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards 1998, Joseph Plateau Awards 1997, Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1998, Florida Film Critics Circle Awards 1998, Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 1998, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1998, American Society of Cinematographers Awards 1998, San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 1998, Directors Guild of America Awards 1998, Online Film Critics Society Awards 1998, Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards 1998, Joseph Plateau Awards 1998, Chlotrudis Awards 1998, Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 1998, Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards 1998, Empire Awards 1998, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards 1998, Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards 1998. Excerpt: 18th Hong Kong Film Awards Ceremony for the 18th Hong Kong Film Awards was held on 25 April 1999. Awards Best Film Winner: Winning film: Nominees Best Director Winner: Winning film: Nominees Best Screenplay Winner: Winning film: Nominees Best Actor Winner: Winning film: Nominees Best Actress Winner: Winning film: Nominees Best Supporting Actor Winner: Winning film: Nominees Best Supporting

2008 Film Awards $21.18 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 2008 Guild Awards, 81st Academy Awards, 29th Golden Raspberry Awards, Writers Guild of America Awards 2008, 66th Golden Globe Awards, Satellite Awards 2008, 28th Hong Kong Film Awards, 62nd British Academy Film Awards, 2008 Premios Juventud, 15th Screen Actors Guild Awards, 5th African Movie Academy Awards, César Awards 2009, 50th Australian Film Institute Awards, Detroit Film Critics Society, 29th Genie Awards, 23rd Goya Awards, Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2008, 2008 Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, 3rd Asian Film Awards, 2008 Scream Awards, Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2008, Online Film Critics Society Awards 2008, International Cinephile Society Awards 2008, Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2008, St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards 2008, British Independent Film Awards 2008, London Film Critics Circle Awards 2008, Directors Guild of America Awards 2008, 2nd Gawad Genio Awards, Producers Guild of America Awards 2008, National Board of Review Awards 2008, Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2008, European Film Awards 2008, 32nd Japan Academy Prize, Independent Spirit Awards 2008, Black Reel Awards of 2008, Karlovy Vary Award Winners 2008, Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2008, 59th Ace Eddie Awards, Chlotrudis Awards 2009, Evening Standard British Film Awards 2009, Art Directors Guild Awards 2008, Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards 2008, Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards 2008, Utah Film Critics Association Awards 2008, Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards 2008, Washington D.c. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2008, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards 2008, Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards 2008, 29th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, Costume Designers Guild Awards

2009 Television Awards: Tvb Anniversary Awards $21.98 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Tvb Anniversary Awards, 61st Primetime Emmy Awards, Writers Guild of America Awards 2009, 67th Golden Globe Awards, Logie Awards of 2009, Star Awards 2009, Satellite Awards 2009, 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards, British Academy Television Awards 2009, 1st Streamy Awards, 36th Daytime Emmy Awards, 2009 Gemini Awards, Producers Guild of America Awards 2009, 30th Sports Emmy Awards, 2009 Astra Awards, American Film Institute Awards 2009. Excerpt: 16th SAG Awards January 23, 2010Best Cast – Motion Picture:Inglourious Basterds Best Cast – Drama Series:Mad Men Best Cast – Comedy Series:Glee The 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards , honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2009, were presented on January 23, 2010 at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California for the fourteenth consecutive year. It was broadcast live simultaneously by TNT and TBS .The nominees were announced on December 17, 2009 by Michelle Monaghan and Chris O’Donnell at Los Angeles’ Pacific Design Center’s Silver Screen Theater. Nominees

Awards And Nominations Received By House (Tv Series) $60.81 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! House is an American medical drama that has been airing on FOX since September 22, 2004. It has been nominated for a large number of awards, surpassing 100 total nominations in January 2010. These include: 20 Primetime Emmy Awards (four wins), 9 NAACP Image Awards (two wins), 9 Teen Choice Awards (one win), 8 Golden Globe Awards (two wins), 7 Satellite Awards (five wins), 7 TCA Awards (two wins), 6 Screen Actors Guild Awards (two wins), 4 Humanitas Prizes (one win), 4 People’s Choice Awards (three wins), an AFI Award, BAFTA TV Award and a Peabody Award. Hugh Laurie, who portrays the title character, is the most-nominated actor, with a total of 26 nominations. Omar Epps is second, with six nominations. Besides the show’s cast members, the writers and producers of the show have also been nominated for various awards; writer, showrunner, executive producer and director David Shore, has received 10 nominations for his work on the show. As of January 2010, House has been nominated for 105 awards and won 34 or them.

Awards and Nominations Received by Dexter $43.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dexter is an American drama series that has aired on Showtime since October 1, 2006. It has been nominated for a variety of awards, including eleven Primetime Emmy Awards (two wins), seven Golden Globe Awards, seven Screen Actors Guild Awards, twelve Satellite Awards (seven wins), thirteen Saturn Awards (four wins), two PGA Awards, two TCA Awards (one win), five WGA Awards, a Peabody Award, and it was selected twice by the American Film Institute as one of the top ten best television programs of the year. Michael C. Hall, who portrays the title character, is the most-nominated cast member, with nineteen nominations; Lauren Vélez is second, with four nominations. Besides the show’s cast members, the writers and producers of the show have also been nominated for various awards; writer, producer and showrunner Clyde Phillips has gained six nominations for his work on the show. As of January 2010, Dexter has been nominated for over 70 awards and won 23.

Awards and Nominations Received by Lost $63.99 Lost is an American drama series that has aired on ABC since September 22, 2004. It has been nominated for a variety of different awards including 41 Primetime Emmy Awards (nine wins for the series, one for online content), 21 Teen Choice Awards, 39 Saturn Awards (ten wins), 11 Golden Reel Awards (five wins), eight Satellite Awards (one win), six Golden Globe Awards (one win), four Writers Guild of America Awards (one win), three Directors Guild of America Awards, two NAACP Image Awards (one win), two Screen Actors Guild Awards (one win), a BAFTA Award and a Peabody Award. Amongst the wins for the series are a Primetime Emmy Award for “Outstanding Drama Series”, a Golden Globe Award for “Best Television Series – Drama” and a Screen Actors Guild Award for “Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series”. The series has an ensemble cast and several different Lost actors have received acting award nominations. Terry O’Quinn and Michael Emerson are the only actors to win Emmy Awards while Matthew Fox has been nominated for fifteen individual awards (winning three), the most of any cast members, Evangeline Lilly is second with twelve nominations.

Being There $50.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Being There is a 1979 American comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby, adapted from the 1971 novel written by Jerzy Kosinski. The film stars Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard A. Dysart and Richard Basehart. Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Sellers was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role. This was the last Peter Sellers film to be released while he was alive. The screenplay was coauthored by Kosinski and the award winning screenwriter Robert C. Jones, winning the 1981 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Film) Best Screenplay Award and the 1980 Writers Guild of America Award (Screen) for Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium. It was also nominated for the 1980 Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay. The making of the film is portrayed in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, a film biography of the late actor’s life.

Cinema Of The United States $21.24 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Motion Picture Association of America Film Rating System, Motion Picture Production Code, Jack Valenti, 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America Strike, National Film Registry, Blaxploitation, Afi’s 100 Years…100 Movies, Cinema of the United States, Runaway Production, Motion Picture Association of America, North Carolina Film Office, 2008-09 Screen Actors Guild Labor Dispute, Afi’s 100 Years…100 Movies, Eric Johnston, Afi’s 10 Top 10, Lds Cinema, Jánošík, United States Box Office Records, Classical Hollywood Cinema, Film in Kansas City, Will H. Hays, 2006 Sundance Film Festival, 2007 Sundance Film Festival, Race Movie, 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Deauville American Film Festival, Museum of the Moving Image, Hollywood East, Henry Willson, Austin Film Society, Afi’s 100 Years…100 Stars, 2009 Sundance Film Festival, Texas Film Hall of Fame, 555, Lds Movies, Film Advisory Board, Film Locations in Sonoma County, California, Harrison’s Reports, Gotham Awards, Afi Life Achievement Award, Bankable Star, Afi’s Greatest Movie Musicals, National Association of Theatre Owners, Syd Field, Richard Peña, 2008 Slamdance Film Festival, Film Industry in Connecticut, A-List, Which Lie Did I Tell?, Carl Laemmle, Jr., 2010 Slamdance Film Festival, Green Sheet, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Office for Film and Broadcasting, Ultrastar Cinemas, Central Casting, Film Society of Lincoln Center, List of Films Shot in Harlem, Orlando Film Festival, Pittsburgh Film Office, Mexploitation, Star Vehicle, Fictitious Domain Name, Verne Carlson, Museum of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Gwen Wakeling, Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, Hollywood Victory Caravan, Doom Book, Joan Graves. Excerpt: The 2006 Sundance Film Festival was held

Dudley Nichols $55 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dudley Nichols was an American screenwriter who first came to prominence after winning and refusing the screenwriting Oscar for The Informer in 1936. The reason for Nichols’ refusal was the fact that the Screen Writers Guild was on strike at the time. Nichols wrote the screenplays for over sixty movies including such classics as Stagecoach, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Scarlet Street, And Then There Were None, and The Tin Star. Nichols’ crowning achievement, though, was probably his collaboration with Hagar Wilde on the screenplay for Bringing Up Baby, considered one of the funniest of the 1930s screwball comedies. This movie, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, was underappreciated on first release but later recognized as a unique classic