My Top 10 Favorite Screenwriters of All-Time

        A screenwriter is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media such as films, television programs, comics or video games are based. without these people then there would be no film. Screenplays are the blueprint of the film and they give everyone involved with the film a good idea and direction in which the film needs to go. Also screenwriters can do double duty on a film and direct the screenplay that they have writttenWith that being said I'm going to bring you my top 10 favorite screenwriters of all-time along with my top 3 favorite films that they have wrote. So without further ado...





10. Paul Thomas Anderson

1. There Will Be Blood

2. Punch-Drunk Love

3. Boogie Nights

9. John Hughes


1. The Breakfast Club
2. Home Alone
3. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation



8. The Coen Brothers (Joel and Ethan) 


1. No Country for Old Men
2. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
3. Fargo



7. Christopher Nolan


1. The Dark Knight
2. Inception
3. Memento



6. Ben Affleck


1. Good Will Hunting
2. The Town
3. Gone Baby Gone



5. Mel Brooks


1. Blazing Saddles
2. Robin Hood: Men in Tights
3. Spaceballs



4. Francis Ford Coppola


1. The Godfather Part 2
2. The Godfather
3. Apocalypse Now



3. Stanley Kubrick


1. Dr. Strangelove
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. The Shining



2. George Lucas 


1. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope



1. Quinton Tarantino


1. Pulp Fiction
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Django Unchained

        So ladies and gentlemen who are some of your favorite screenwriters and what do you think of my list? Let me know in the comment section below and let your voice be heard.

                                                                                                                           Jonah Sparks