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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
scriptwriter
noun
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▪ And without a scriptwriter, too.
▪ Fellini lacked any formal training in cinematography and developed his personal style only after a long apprenticeship as a scriptwriter.
▪ He is one of the few Hollywood scriptwriters whose scripts would actually be enjoyable to read.
▪ Kilts are suggestive things for such scriptwriters to introduce at such a point.
▪ Patrick, who completed his first short feature as he turned thirty, is a scriptwriter.
▪ So much for a romantic myth that has given Hollywood scriptwriters a nice living.
▪ The award-winning scriptwriter has been talking of reviving the hit sitcom for years but he has been busy on other projects.
▪ William Holden plays a hack scriptwriter down on his luck, and his purple prose gives the film its biting tone.
Wiktionary
scriptwriter

n. A person who writes scripts.

WordNet
scriptwriter

n. someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas

Usage examples of "scriptwriter".

Marcine clearly marveled at how the scriptwriters kept coming up with such original ideas.

Hollywood scriptwriter who remained unheralded during his lifetime, but has now received posthumous acclaim for his workin particular his darkly accurate pictures of smalltime con artists, congenital liars and occasional killers.

Hollywood scriptwriter who remained unheralded during his lifetime, but has now received posthumous acclaim for his work-in particular his darkly accurate pictures of smalltime con artists, congenital liars and occasional killers.

And -- and I say this as a professional fiction writer -- the producers, scriptwriters, and directors who create these video/audio worlds do not know how much of their content is true.

Toss in Imposters, Dick's account of a human scientist hunted by aliens, one of whom has usurped his place, a film that several A-list scriptwriters tried unsuccessfully to doctor and which since has been yanked from distribution, and you will gather that Dick's immediate cinematic future is to consist of megablasts of brightly hued, hack-writer-generated meadow muffin, augmented by great glorioso dollops of Flatulaphonic sound, aimed at an undiscerning popcorn- feeding subspecies that can be found grazing the multiplexes with its young, living proof that Dick's first major theme still has relevance in contemporary society.

In addition to the indignity of being clobbered with a case of plum wine, dragged to the bad guy's hideout, and chained to a stone altar (did Nostro keep a hack scriptwriter on the payroll to feed him cliché.

Amy Gruss, graduate of SMU (English/Creative Writing), is a prize-winning poet and a professional scriptwriter, who has been known to teach everything from Renaissance dance to water aerobics and Olympic-grade belching.