The Black List
Franklin Leonard has a diverse work experience spanning various industries. Franklin is the Founder and CEO of The Black List since November 2010. Franklin co-founded Destination Football in March 2022. Prior to that, they worked as Vice President, Creative Affairs at Overbrook Entertainment from November 2010 to October 2012. Franklin also served as the Director of Development and Production at Universal Pictures from August 2008 to November 2010. Before that, they worked as a Development Executive at Mirage Enterprises, Appian Way Productions, and John Goldwyn Productions. Franklin's career also includes a role as a Motion Picture Lit Assistant at Creative Artists Agency and a business analyst at McKinsey & Company. Franklin started their career as a Weekly Columnist for Trinidad Guardian.
Franklin Leonard attended Brookstone from 1992 to 1996, but there is no information about their degree or field of study during this time. Franklin then went on to Harvard University from 1996 to 2000, where they earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Studies with Magna Cum Laude honors.
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The Black List
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The Black List is where moviemakers find great scripts to make and scripts find moviemakers to make them. It began as a survey. In 2005, Franklin Leonard surveyed almost 100 film industry development executives about their favorite scripts from that year that had not been made as feature films. That first list - many of which have been made since - can be viewed here. Since then the voter pool has grown to about 500 film executives, 60% of whom typically respond. Over 200 Black List screenplays have been made as feature films. Those films have earned over $16BN in worldwide box office, have been nominated for 148 Academy Awards, and have won 25, including Best Pictures SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE and THE KING'S SPEECH and five of the last ten screenwriting Oscars. A complete list of Black List films is below. In September 2012, we launched a membership site for industry professionals that functions as a real time Black List and screenplay recommendation engine. You can learn more here and sign up for membership here. In October 2012, we extended our mission further by allowing screenwriters from the world to, for a small fee, upload their scripts to our database, have them evaluated by professional script readers, and subject to that evaluation and our recommendation algorithm, sent to our - at present - over 1000 film industry professionals. You can begin the process of being discovered here.