The Script’s The Thing: Read All Of This Year’s Oscar-Nominated Screenplays

The 2025 Oscar nominations released Thursday included a powerhouse lineup of original and adapted screenplays, from leading noms-getter Emilia Pérez to Golden Globe winner Conclave. In all, seven of the 10 Best Picture nominees also scored writing noms today.

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series featured all 10 writing nominees this season. Read all of the scripts below.

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This year’s list includes repeat writing nominees A Complete Unknown‘s James Mangold and Jay Cocks and Conclave‘s Peter Straughan in the Adapted race, where they are joined by Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez, RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes for Nickel Boys, and Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar for Sing Sing.

All five screenplays in the Original category are from first-time writing nominees: Sean Baker for Anora; Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold for The Brutalist; Jesse Eisenberg for A Real Pain; Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum and co-writer Alex David for September 5; and Coralie Fargeat for The Substance.

In the Adapted race, four of the five nominees were tipped earlier this week for USC Scripter Awards, which honor the screenwriters and the authors of the original source material. The outlier is Emilia Pérez, which Audiard adapted from his opera libretto and Boris Razon’s novel Écoute; The Wild Robot got the Scripter nom.

Last year’s Scripter winner, American Fiction, went on to win at the Oscars.

In last week’s Writers Guild Awards noms, the guild picked four of the 10 Oscar nominees — A Complete Unknown, Anora, A Real Pain and Nickel Boys — for its categories from a pool limited by several frontrunners deemed ineligible by the WGA.

Read this year’s Oscar-nominated scripts below; click on the title for the full story on each.

Adapted Screenplay

A Complete Unknown (Searchlight)
Screenplay by James Mangold and Jay Cocks

Conclave (Focus Features)
Screenplay by Peter Straughan

Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
Screenplay by Jacques Audiard
In collaboration with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius and Nicolas Livecchi

Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
Screenplay by RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes

Sing Sing (A24)
Screenplay by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar
Story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, John “Divine G” Whitfield

Original Screenplay

Anora (Neon)
Written by Sean Baker

The Brutalist (A24)
Written by Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold

A Real Pain (Searchlight)
Written by Jesse Eisenberg

September 5 (Paramount)
Written by Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum
Co-Written by Alex David

The Substance (Mubi)
Written by Coralie Fargeat

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