The Black List
Randy W. serves as the Creative Director of Fiction at The Black List, focusing on strategic partnerships and producing the podcast series Read the Acknowledgments. With extensive experience across various roles since 2016, Randy has hosted interviews with notable authors and visual artists while previously managing The Writers Studio at The Center for Fiction, significantly increasing membership revenue. As a Fiction Editor at SLICE LITERARY INC, Randy curated events and helped over 50 writers secure publishing contracts. Additional roles include contributions to academic affairs at The New School and involvement in literary awards assessments. Having earned a Master's of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from The New School, along with a Bachelor of Arts in English & Professional Communication, Randy has built a substantial career in the literary arts.
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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.