scenarist

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Early on, Mr. Sartori pivoted to shows shot as films, discovering along the way hidden talents as a filmmaker and scenarist.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2021

For all of Sorrentino’s prodigious gifts as a scenarist, “Loro” is a disturbing movie, for all the wrong reasons and, despite its self-consciously arty pretensions, a breathtakingly callow one.

From Washington Post • Sep. 19, 2019

It is also the first film in which the star had a say in the storyline, sketching a plot that a scenarist would develop into a script, and working out the action sequences on set.

From The Guardian • Nov. 2, 2015

The forty-eight-year-old black American playwright Tracey Scott Wilson is the real thing—a real scenarist with an ear and a solid sense of how to tell a story.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 13, 2015

A man full of energy and diffuse talents, Sihanouk has been known at various times as a playboy, saxophonist, composer, lyricist, painter, sportsman, linguist, scenarist, cinematographer, Asian method actor and rice-bowl philosopher.

From Time Magazine Archive