10 Greatest British Screenwriters of All Time

Well, there’s one word for this article: contentious. Nowadays British screenwriters are at the top of their game, ranging from Dominic Minghella to Jed Mercurio, however this hasn’t been always the case We could all name our top 10 favourite screenwriters, or even our top 10 favourite British screenwriters, but ‘…of all time.”? That’s tough. How do we decide what constitutes ‘greatness’? Is it something tangible like having sold multiple spec scripts or winning an Academy Award or two?

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