2010 Black List Released

The Black List is a snapshot of the collective taste of the people who develop, produce, and release theatrical feature films in the Hollywood studio system and the mainstream independent system.

An annual list of Hollywood's most liked unproduced screenplays published on the second Friday of December each year, THE BLACK LIST began in 2004 as a survey with contributions from 75 film studio and production company executives. In 2009, over 300 executives contributed their opinion.

The list was created by Franklin Leonard when he was a development executive at Leonardo Dicaprio's company, Appian Way. He was drowning in so many bad screenplays, that he sent an email to other executives asking for good script suggestions. He compiled the many replies into what is now called the Black List. This year marks the sixth annual release of the list. Leonard is now working for Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment. He was recently at the Austin Film Festival to present the script reading of Maggie Carey's 2009 Black List script "The Hand Job".

To download the list, click here. The Black List