Naked Screenwriting: Twenty-two Oscar-Winning Screenwriters Bare Their Secrets to Writing

Through interviews with world-renowned UCLA screenwriting professor Lew Hunter, Oscar-winning screenwriters and multiple award-winners reveal their Hollywood secrets in crafting brilliant stories and methodology. Interviewees include Francis Ford Coppola, William Golden, Alexander Payne, Ernest Lehman, Horton Foote and Billy Wilde.

Author: Lew Hunter
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 03/15/2021
Pages: 530
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.76lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.60d
ISBN13: 9781538137956
ISBN10: 153813795X
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | Screenwriting
- Performing Arts | Television | Screenwriting

About the Author
Lew Hunter is an American screenwriter, author and educator and is chairman Emeritus and Professor of Screenwriting at the UCLA Department of Film and Television. Over half of the Oscar-winning scripts over the past twenty years have been written by students of Hunter. His former students and advocates include Adrienne Parks, Allison Anders, David Koepp, Mike Werb, Sacha Gervasi, Dan Pyne, David Titcher, Diane Saltzberg, Michael Colleary, Don Mancini, Kathy Stumpe, Darren Star, Alexander Payne, and Tom Shadyac. Steven Spielberg has called Hunter "the best screenwriting teacher going." Hunter resides in Los Angeles, California. Meg Gifford is a screenwriter and author. She won the Samuel Goldwyn award, the Sloan Science writing award, and every showcase while under Lew's advisement. She recently wrote a play that was produced in Los Angeles and also writes novels. Gifford resides in Los Angeles, California.