Film Canon | Best Screenwriters
In Order of Excellence
1. Woody Allen
- Whatever Works
- Bullets Over Broadway
- Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Sweet and Lowdown
- Small Time Crooks
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Midnight in Paris
2. Orson Welles
- Citizen Kane
- Touch of Evil
- Chimes at Midnight
- The Lady from Shanghai
- The Magnificent Ambersons
- F for Fake
- The Other Side of the Wind
3. Lars von Trier
- Breaking the Waves
- Dogville
- Dancer in the Dark
- Melancholia
4. Ingmar Bergman
- Persona
- Wild Strawberries
- Through a Glass Darkly
- The Seventh Seal
- Scenes from a Marriage
5. Paddy Chayefsky
- Network
- Marty
6. Cesare Zavattini
- Shoeshine
- Bicycle Thieves
- Umberto D.
7. Paul Thomas Anderson
- Boogie Nights
- Magnolia
- Punch-Drunk Love
- There Will be Blood
8. Jean-Luc Godard
- Breathless
- Contempt
- Weekend
9. Aaron Sorkin
- Moneyball
- A Few Good Man
- The Social Network