6 of WGA's 101 Greatest Screenplays Written by Women

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• Silke Cecilia Schultz | February 28, 2013 7:32 PMReply

  How about these? Winter's Bone by Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini, Shame by Abi Morgan, Erin Brockovich by Susannah Grant, The Piano by Jane Campion, American Psycho by Guinevere Turner and Mary Harron, Lost in Translation by Sofia Coppola, Me and You and Everyone We Know by Miranda July, Whale Rider by Niki Caro, The Empire Strikes Back by Leigh Bracket.

• VD | March 2, 2013 4:55 AM

  Absolutely!

• CrumbThumber | March 1, 2013 8:35 AM

  I think some of those are fine screenplays, but most of those do not belong in the 101 greatest of all time. I could see arguments for Lost in Translation and maybe a few others, but at that point, you are trying to force women writers in just for the sake of having women writers.
  
  It would've been great if women had all the opportunities in Hollywood as they are beginning to have, but you can't rewrite history and disregard the history of cinema.

• Gina | February 28, 2013 6:13 PMReply

  I thought Bridesmaids was good, but so was Lovely and Amazing, The Piano, Thirteen, and The Kids are Alright.

• Brian | February 28, 2013 3:37 PMReply

  These are all obviously great scripts, but what are some other titles written by women that deserve to be here? I think it's not necessarily fair to suggest that any of these 6 are lower on the list because they were written by women.

• Aaron | February 28, 2013 2:26 PMReply

  This list was voted upon by the members of the Writers Guild East and West, about a quarter of whom are women. So the problem isn't as much about the selection process for the list, which is about as fair as you can get given the gender mix of the membership, the problem – which is reflected by the list – is not enough women are getting work as writers in Hollywood.