The Hollywood Black List Everyone Wants To Be On

“The Black List [is] an anonymous survey in which industry professionals name the scripts they liked the most that year. [It] was started in 2005 by a 27-year-old film executive from west Georgia named Franklin Leonard, and has become an influential index of the most original and well-written – if not the most bankable – screenplays in Hollywood. Its power to launch careers and expedite projects is astounding.” (print and podcast)