Three individual writers and one writing team have been selected as winners of the 2014 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition.  

Each individual winner and the combined writing team will receive a $35,000 prize, the first instalment of which will be distributed at an awards presentation on November 13 at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. 

For the second consecutive year the event will also feature a live read of selected scenes from the fellows’ winning scripts by members of the Academy.

This year’s winners are (listed alphabetically by author):

Sam Baron, Cambridge, UK: The Science Of Love And Laughter;

Alisha Brophy, Los Angeles, US, and Scott Miles, Austin, US: United States Of Fuckin’ Awesome;

Melissa Iqbal, London, UK: The Death Engine; and

Sallie West, Charleston, US: Moonflower.

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