Chloe Zhao and Shaka King are among those who have had their work featured on the list of the best production-ready screenplays from Tisch School of the Arts graduate film students and recent alumni.
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This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Purple List and an important milestone with two of its distinguished alumni, Shaka King and Chloé Zhao, earning 2021 Academy Award nominations for Judas and the Black Messiah and Nomadland, respectively. Both of their debut features Zhao’s Songs My Brother Taught Me and King’s Newlyweeds were official selections in the inaugural Purple List in 2012.
The annual list was inspired by Franklin Leonard’s Black List, an annual survey of Hollywood executives’ favorite unproduced screenplays. Throughout its 10 year history, the Purple List has selected 44 scripts from 46 screenwriters. Twenty-eight of the 41 screenwriters from the 10 editions of the Purple List are women; 27 are from Black, Asian, or other minority ethnic backgrounds; and seven identify as LGBTQ or have LGBTQ themes in the screenplay.
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