The Black List
Thomas Dolan-Gavitt has extensive experience in the entertainment industry, holding various positions from script reader to coordinator across multiple companies. Currently employed as a script reader at The Black List since January 2014, Thomas has also worked as an in-house writer at Pocket FM and script coordinator for American Gigolo. Previous roles include freelance writer for Parcast and script coordinator for Mad About You and Outsiders Season 3. Additionally, Thomas served as a writers' PA at Sony Pictures Entertainment and held positions as office PA at JUMA Entertainment and artist in residence at Grin City Collective. Educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema from the University of Southern California and study at Saint Louis University.
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.