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Franklin Leonard

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Film Producer Cultural Commentator Professor Activist & Entrepreneur

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Franklin Leonard is the founder and CEO of the Black List the company that celebrates and supports great screenwriting and the writers who do it via film production as well as its annual survey of the best unproduced screenplays online marketplace live staged script readings screenwriter labs and film culture publications.

More than 400 scripts from the annual Black List survey (30 percent of its total output) have been produced as feature films earning 250 Academy Award nominations and 50 wins including four of the last ten Best Pictures and ten of the last twenty-two screenwriting Oscars.Leonard has worked in feature film development at Universal Pictures and the production companies of Will Smith Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella and Leonardo DiCaprio.

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