Screenwriters who have not earned more than $25,000 writing fictional work for film or television are eligible to submit an original work of one writer, or of two writers who collaborated equally. The work must be in English and not be an adaptation or translation.
Up to five $35,000 fellowships are awarded each year to promising new screenwriters. From the program’s inception in 1986 through 2013, $3.6 million has been awarded to 144 writers.
Applications are accepted online only. Entrants must register an online account, then log in to that account to access an application. The application is available only when the competition is open for submissions. You may confirm whether your script has been processed into the competition by logging into your online account. Due to the volume of entries received, it may take up to one week to see "confirmed" next to your script title. All entrants will receive notification of their status by e-mail sent no later than August 1 of each year.
Past Nicholl Fellowship recipients include Doug Atchison (Akeelah and the Bee), Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12), Jacob Estes (Mean Creek), Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich) and Mike Rich (Finding Forrester).
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Rules
The 2014 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition is now open to submissions.
Up to five $35,000 fellowships are awarded annually. Fellowship recipients are expected to complete at least one original feature film screenplay during the Fellowship year. Fellowship payments are subject to satisfactory progress of the recipient’s work, as judged by the Academy Nicholl Fellowships Committee. Fellowship recipients, selected from approximately ten finalists in the competition, are announced in October. The winners are invited to participate in awards week ceremonies and seminars in November.
The Academy reserves the right to grant no awards if, in the opinion of the Academy Nicholl Fellowships Committee, no entry is of sufficient merit.
Applications are accepted online only. Entrants must register an online account, then log in to that account to access an application. The application is available only when the competition is open for submissions. You may confirm whether your script has been processed into the competition by logging into your online account. Due to the volume of entries received, it may take up to one week to see "confirmed" next to your script title. All entrants will receive notification of their status by e-mail sent no later than August 1 of each year.
Please visit www.facebook.com/nichollfellowships for updates and troubleshooting suggestions addressing the online application.
• An entrant’s total earnings for motion picture and television writing may not exceed US$25,000 before the end of the competition. This limit applies to compensation for motion picture and television writing services as well as for the sale of (or sale of an option on) screenplays, teleplays, stage plays, books, treatments, stories, premises and any other source material.
• In most instances, fellowship and competition prize money is not counted as earnings unless it includes a "first look" clause, an option or any other quid pro quo involving the writer’s work.
• Entrants must be 18 or older at the time of entry.
• Members and employees of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, competition judges, and the immediate families of these individuals are not eligible.
• Entrants must register an online account at the Nicholl website (www.oscars.org/nicholl) and submit:
- A completed online application form.
- One copy of an original feature film screenplay uploaded in PDF format. There is no page minimum or maximum, but the feature screenplay should be approximately 90 - 120 pages in length. Submissions must have been written originally in English; translations will not be accepted.
- Submissions must be the original work of the entrant(s) and may not be based, in whole or in part, on any other fiction or nonfiction material, published or unpublished, produced or unproduced. Entries may, however, be adapted from the entrant’s (or entrants’) original work, which should be noted in the log line required on the application form. Entries lacking a log line on the application form will be disqualified.
- If the script is based on a true story/events, historical or contemporary, the "based on true story" button should be selected within the online application form.
- Collaborative work by two writers who share equally in its creation is eligible. Collaborative work for which one writer developed the idea and another writer wrote the screenplay is not eligible. Collaborative work by three or more writers is not eligible. The collaborator’s name must be added during the online application process. Writing partners selected as fellows will divide the fellowship stipend equally.
- The entrant’s name, address, phone number or any other identifying information should not appear on the title page or any other page of the script. Placing a Library of Congress or WGA registration number on the title page is acceptable but not required.
- A single entry fee per script entry paid online via credit card. Entry fees will not be returned or adjusted. The entry fee for each script is $35 if submitted by February 28, $50 if submitted by April 10, and $65 if submitted by May 1.
• Submissions for the 2014 fellowships must be uploaded and paid no later than 5 p.m. Pacific Time on May 1, 2014. Applications will be accepted only via accounts registered at the Nicholl website. Submitted scripts will not be returned.
• The final selection of fellowship winners will be made by the Academy Nicholl Fellowships Committee.
• Only one copy, draft or version of any screenplay may be submitted by an entrant or entrants. Under no circumstances will substitutions of either corrected pages or new drafts of an entry screenplay be allowed. An entrant may submit a maximum of three screenplays in the current competition.
• By October 2014, every writer of a screenplay that advances to the final round will be asked to write a letter to the Academy Nicholl Fellowships Committee, expressing the writer’s personal and professional interests should he or she receive a fellowship.
• Academy Nicholl Fellowships may not be held concurrently with other fellowships or any other similar award, or while completing a formal course of study. The fellowship year may be deferred to allow a student winner to complete his or her education.
• Academy Nicholl fellows agree to furnish the Academy with a copy of the screenplay(s) written during the fellowship year. The Academy acquires no rights to the work (or to the entry script) and will not participate in its marketing or in any other aspects of its commercial future.
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