American Accolades Screenwriting Competition

Hollywood-ites applaud the American Accolades...

"If you  aspire to write movies, this is the contest that can launch your career..."
--Scott Greenberg, Agent, Creative Artists Agency

"A rare and valuable opportunity for emerging young talent."
--Jim Whitaker, Senior Vice President, Imagine Entertainment

"A passport into a difficult business."  
-- Tom Strickler, Agent/Founder, The Endeavor Agency

"It's worth the money to know where you stand, especially if you stand in front!"  
--Suzanne Patmore-Gibbs,Senior VP, Drama Development, ABC

"Winning a competition is a great way for new talent
to make some headway in their quest to stand out from the crowd."  
--Tim O'Hair, Executive, Universal Pictures

"The time-worn adage that knowing someone in the industry is the only way
 to get a start in Hollywood is absolutely true. So how do you get to know "someone?" Write a great script and win the American Accolades Screenwriting Competition, of course."  
--Teddy Tenenbaum, Screenwriter

"If Hollywood is like a country club, then winning the screenwriting competition
is like being given a charter membership."
--Matt Bierman, President, Phoenix Pictures

"Fortune favors the gifted, but only when they're brave enough
to share their work with the world."
--Marsha Oglesby , producer/production and development executive, The Avnet/Kerner Company

"Just like your fourth grade spelling bee... but much more satisfying to win."
  --David Higgins, Production Executive, David Friendly Productions, 20th Century Fox

"Winning this competition means that you are actually as talented as you think you are.  
It’s a stamp of approval that carries a lot of weight, and people will take notice."
  --Richard Claflin, VP, Comedy Development, ABC

"In a town where there are no "shortcuts," the opportunity The American
Accolades Screenwriting Competition provides is the next best thing."  
--Lee Fleming, Screenwriter, She's All That

"People in the industry often ask me where it is that I find my writers.
Generally they come from recommendations from colleagues within the industry,
but every now and then there is a gem that slips through the cracks.
The American Accolades Screenwriting Competition helps catch those elusive gems." 
--Ryan Saul, Literary Agent, The Preminger Agency

"It is not always about what you know, but who you can get to.
Nobody ever told you it was going to be easy."
--Keri Selig, Sr. VP of Production

"In Amazon.com's review of my new book, THE BIG DEAL, the first thing 
noted was how Alison Anders (GAS FOOD LODGING) made her initial break through a screenwriting competition.  No question, this can be the best avenue
 for a new writer to gain credibility, and ultimately, Hollywood's attention."
--Thom Taylor, Author, The Big Deal: Hollywood's Million-Dollar Spec Script

What's better than a stamp of approval from your own mother?  
The stamp of approval afforded by winning a respected screenwriting competition 
like the American Accolades.  It's step one on the road to meeting esteemed friends 
like Oscar, Emmy and their dog Golden Globe.
--Jill Blotevogel, Screenwriter, New Twilight Zone (UPN), The Dead Zone (USA), Crossing Jordan (NBC)

"If you're a writer that nobody's heard of or read, this is one of the best ways to get through the door."
--Abram Nalibotsky, Literary Agent, The Gersh Agency

"Do you think I'm talented...deeply and importantly talented?"
--Audrey Hepburn, from the screenplay Breakfast At Tiffany's adapted by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote

"To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim."
--Oscar Wilde

"We don't read and write poetry because its cute.
We read and write poetry because we are members of the
human race. And the human race is full of passion. Medicine,
law, business, engineering: these are noble pursuits necessary
to sustain life, but poetry, beauty, romance, love. These are what
we stay alive for."
--Robin Williams, from the film Dead Poet's Society by Tom Schulman

"Talent borrows. Genius steals."
--Too many authors to name...

"Nothing else in the world…not all the armies…
is so powerful as an idea whose time has come."
--Victor Hugo, The Future of Man

"I can resist everything except temptation."
--Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan

"An artist is his own fault."
--John O’Hara

"Genius is patience."
--Georges Louis Leclerc, COMTE DE BUFFON, French naturalist

"Shake and shake
The catsup bottle.
None will come,
And then a lot’ll." 
--Richard Armour

"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness."  
--Samuel Beckett, Endgame

"[It] isn’t writing at all—it’s typing."  
--Truman Capote

"The public is wonderfully tolerant. They forgive everything except genius.
--Oscar Wilde, Intentions

"What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate."  
--Frank R. Pierson, screenplay Cool Hand Luke

"Don’t lose
Your head
To gain a minute
You need your head
Your brains are in it."
--Anon

"Sometimes you have to believe in something before you can see it."
--Anon.

"In the light of a truly freed mind no prejudice can disguise itself as zeal, no bullying can masquerade as leadership, no pettiness can pose as importance. The freed mind will never confuse a sentimentality with a true emotion, an act of violence with an act of heroism, a slogan with a cause. Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they can't be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost."
--Robert F. Kennedy, Speech, Commencement Exercises, Trinity College, Washington, D.C., June 2, 1963

"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous."
--Margot Fonteyn, Autobiography, 1976

"The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, "Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home." And the sign that somethings's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure."
--Thornton Wilder, Barnaby, in the Matchmaker, Act. 4, 1955

"Ideas are the most mysterious things in a mysterious world... They are beyond prediction. They appear to have a life of their own, independent of space and time, and to come and go at their own pleasure... They are living, powerful entities of some kind, and as infective as fevers. Some, like flowers, are the creatures of an hour; others are of a prodigious vitality and root themselves, like oaks, in the soil of human nature for a thousand years. Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate, and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world."
--W. Macneile Dixon, The Human Situation, 1937

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