This article needs to be updated. Comment Installer Wpe Pro Free. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (May 2017) () The Black List Created 2004; 13 years ago ( 2004) Location Author(s) Purpose Ranking of top unproduced screenplays The Black List is an annual of the 'most liked' motion picture not yet produced. It has been published every year since 2005 on the second Friday of December by, a development executive who subsequently worked at and 's. The website states that these are not necessarily 'the best' screenplays, but rather 'the most liked', since it is based on a survey of and executives. Of the approximately 1000 screenplays The Black List has included since 2005, nearly a third have been later produced as theatrical films, including successful and award-winning examples such as,,,,,,, and. The produced films have all together grossed well over $25.54 billion, and have been nominated for 241 and 205, winning 48 and 40, respectively.

As of the 88th Academy Awards, four of the last eight best picture Oscars went to scripts featured on a previous Black List, as well as ten of the last 20 screenwriting Oscars ( and ). In addition, writers whose scripts are listed often find that they are more readily hired for other jobs, even if their listed screenplays still have not been produced, such as and, two of the writers of the Oscar-winning screenplay of, who had an earlier screenplay make the list. Columnist David Haglund has written that the list's reputation as a champion for 'beloved but challenging' works has been overstated, since 'these are screenplays that are already making the Hollywood rounds. And while, as a rule, they have not yet been produced, many of them are already in production.'