Ten Favorite Screenwriters

[Michael Corleone]

01. Joel & Ethan Coen
02. Paul Thomas Anderson
03. Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson
04. Richard Curtis
05. Charlie Kaufman
06. Quentin Tarantino
07. Anthony Minghella
08. David Cronenberg
09. Todd Haynes
10. David Mamet

[Antonio]

1. Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary (PULP FICTION)
2. Paul Thomas Anderson (BOOGIE NIGHTS and MAGNOLIA)
3. Robert Towne (CHINATOWN)
4. Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshman (SUNSET BOULEVARD)
5. Joseph L. Mankiewicz (ALL ABOUT EVE)
6. Robert Riskin (IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT)
7. Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch (CASABLANCA)
8. Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder (DOUBLE INDEMNITY)
9. Paddy Chayefsky (NETWORK and MARTY)
10. Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan (MEMENTO)

[syxxpac]

1) Quentin Tarantino
2) James Cameron/Bill Wisher
3) Charlie Kaufman
4) Martin Scorsese/Nicholas Pileggi
5) Brian Helgeland
6) Christopher Nolan
7) Francis Ford Coppola
8) Shane Black
9) Alan Ball
10) The Coen Bros.

[CyclicNightmare]

Bob Gale (Back to the Future Series)
M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense. Unbreakable, Signs)
Christopher Nolan (Memento)
David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Panic Room, Spider-Man)
David Hayter (X-Men, X2)
Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy)
Scott Frank (Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Minority Report)

They're in no particular order, just some of my favorites.

[night prowler]

1. Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation)
2. M. Night Shyamalan (Unbreakable)
3. Quentin Tarantino (Resavoir Dogs)
4. The Coen Brothers (Fargo)
5. Oliver Stone (JFK)
6. The Wachowski brothers (The Matrix)
7. Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
8. Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas)
9. Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings Series)
10. Bob Gale (Back to the Future)

[sanshodayu]

Yoda (Yoshikata)

also; Eric Rohmer, Billy Wilder.

Coen bros and Charlie Kaufman have done some admirable stuff.

[adamjohnson]

Night Shyamalan
Brothers Wachowski
David Hayter
Charlie Kaufman
Frank Darabont (Shawshank)
Peter Jackson
David Koepp
Jim Cameron
David Goyer
Tarantino

my list is the best.

[Grim H.]

Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
Ted Tally (Silence of the Lambs)
Kevin Smith (Clerks)
Nicholas Pileggi & Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas)
Guy Ritchie (Snatch)
James Cameron (T2: Judgment Day)
Francis Ford Coppola/Mario Puzo (The Godfather)
Christopher/John Nolan (Memento)

[ShuttheFupDonny]

1) Quentin Tarantino
2) The Coen Brothers
3) Scorsese/ Pileggi
4) Coppola/Puzo
5) Charlie Kaufman
6) Eric Roth
7) P.T. Anderson
8) Woody Allen
9) James L. Brooks
10) Cameron Crowe

[Guy Strong]

1. Quentin Tarantino
2. Charlie Kaufman
3. Paul Thomas Anderson
4. Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson
5. The Coan Brothers
6. Cameron Crowe
7. Kevin Smith
8. Frank Darabont
9. Oliver Stone
10. Martin Scorsese & Nicholas Pileggi

[zeppelin]

In no order, and yes I realize some of them only co-write their screenplays (but with different partners, so I only counted them):

-Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Bringing Out the Dead)
-Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, True Romance)
-Billy Wilder (Some Like it Hot, Sunset Blvd., Double Indemnity)
-Stanley Kubrick (Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove)
-Francis Ford Coppola (Patton, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now)
-Robert Towne (Chinatown [best screenplay ever written], The Last Detail, Shampoo)
-Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, The Maginifcent Ambersons, Touch of Evil)
-Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona)
-Woody Allen (Annie Hall, Manhattan, Bananas)

And of course:

-Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, & Michael Palin (Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Meaning of Life)

[Squid Vicious]

In no order:

Quentin Tarantino
The Coen Brothers
Charlie Kaufman
Woody Allen
Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson
Kevin Smith
Cameron Crowe
Scott Frank
The Monty Python gang
Martin Scorsese & Nicholas Pileggi
Stanley Kubrick
M. Night Shyamalan
James Cameron
Christopher Nolan

[Sigur509]

In Order:

1. Charlie Kaufman
2. Quentin Tarantino
3. Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson
4. The Coen Brothers
5. Kevin Smith
6. Cameron Crowe
7. Paul Thomas Anderson
8. M. Night Shyamalan
9. Christopher Nolan
10. Guy Ritchie