Film Academy Selects 5 Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Winners

The Film Academy has unveiled its 2023 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting honorees, all of whom will receive a prize of $35,000 as well as mentorship from an Academy mentor throughout the year.

They will also be featured at the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards and live read on April 25 at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater, where an acting ensemble will read selected scenes from the winners. The Nicholl Fellowships were established in 1985 through the support of Gee Nicholl in memory of her husband Don Nicholl.

Past winners of the Nicholl Fellowship include directors Allison Anders (“Gas Food Lodging”), Destin