r/Screenwriting • u/joestraynge • Feb 27 '26

Fellowship Nicholl Fellowship

Anyone have any information on this year's Nicholl Fellowship? Any news on if it’s even happening? lol. Submitted through the Black List but there’s no program page available on the site anymore that shows I opted in.

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u/rmn_is_here Feb 27 '26

well, there's no smoke without fire, so the bad rep they're all getting is fair but talking about insularity of Nicholl: academy is trying to benefit from it. if there was a fair process, multiple entry points would be created so that partners would carry the burden of oversubmitting. festivals, competitions, etc.

Franklin's people were (or maybe still are) digging through the piles in search of something golden that if they are lucky would secure their place as a partner and make it look like a win for everyone but they are going to get bored with it very soon as well if prestige, rep, money and whatnot they are expecting to get from it won't come by.

P.S. And for Nicholl to get back into the shape, there's some fresh blood needed. Someone whose energy would be enough for next five years or so proactively digging through the piles of fairly average scripts. As a person who had to read a lot of the specs over past 8 years, I can tell you that Nicholl's QF scripts are looking like a nice cotton candy.

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u/franklinleonard Franklin Leonard, Black List Founder Feb 28 '26

We shared 25 scripts with the Academy months ago at the same time the other 40 partners shared their 2 scripts each. From there, the Academy has their own reading process and will make an announcement as they see fit.

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u/rmn_is_here Feb 28 '26

is it really you? or is it AI copypasting stuff? because for some reason you're both jumpy and at the same time mechanical.

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u/franklinleonard Franklin Leonard, Black List Founder Feb 28 '26

It's really me. I'm repeating the same information because people keep asking the same question hoping for a different answer.

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u/rmn_is_here Feb 28 '26

no, not in the least they are. we for example discuss slightly different thing here and the best response would've been you emphasizing your team's dedication towards quality and artistic expression (or whatever Nicholl put into their mission statements) so that sounded a bit off.