The Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting is a fellowship program founded in 1986 to aid screenwriters. It is administered by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, under the governance of the Academy Foundation Board. [1]
Gee Nicholl, widow of producer Don Nicholl, worked with Julian Blaustein in 1985 to develop the program with the Academy. The original 1986 winners were Allison Anders, Dennis Clontz, and Jeff Eugenides. 1989 fellow Radha Bharadwaj wrote the first screenplay made into a film, the 1991 drama Closet Land . Clontz won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 and Eugenides won one in 2003. 1992 fellow Susannah Grant was the first nominated for an Academy Award, for the screenplay for Erin Brockovich . [2]
As of the 2024 contest, 24 winning scripts have later been produced. [3]
Starting in 2025, the Academy partnered with over 40 global universities and writing labs, as well as The Black List, to invite submissions for the fellowship. [4] [5] [1]
2024 Nicholl Fellows [6]
2023 Nicholl Fellows [7]
2022 Nicholl Fellows [8]
2021 Nicholl Fellows [9]
2020 Nicholl Fellows [10]
2019 Nicholl Fellows [11]
2018 Nicholl Fellows [12]
2017 Nicholl Fellows [14]
2016 Nicholl Fellows [15]
2015 Nicholl Fellows
2014 Nicholl Fellows [16]
2013 Nicholl Fellows [17]
2012 Nicholl Fellows [17] [18]
2011 Nicholl Fellows [17]
2010 Nicholl Fellows [17]
2009 Nicholl Fellows [17]
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2007 Nicholl Fellows [17]
2006 Nicholl Fellows [17] [20]
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2003 Nicholl Fellows [17]
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1999 Nicholl Fellows [17]
1998 Nicholl Fellows [17]
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1992 Nicholl Fellows [17]
1991 Nicholl Fellows [17]
1990 Nicholl Fellows [17]
1989 Nicholl Fellows [17]
1988 Nicholl Fellows [17]
1987 Nicholl Fellows [17]
1986 Nicholl Fellows [17]
Four individuals and one writing team have been selected as winners of the 2022 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. Each individual and writing team will receive a $35,000 prize and mentorship from an Academy member throughout their fellowship year. They also will be featured at the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards and Live Read on November 9 at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, where an ensemble of actors will read selected scenes from the winning scripts. The Nicholl Fellowships was established in 1985 through the support of Gee Nicholl in memory of her husband Don Nicholl.