2012 Black List announced
By Jeff Sneider
Top 10:
1. “Draft Day” by Rajiv Joseph and Scott Rothman (65 mentions)
2 (tie). “A Country of Strangers” by Sean Armstrong (43 mentions)
2 (tie). “Seuss” by Eyal Podell and Jonathan Stewart (43 mentions)
4. “Rodham” by Young Il Kim (39 mentions)
5. “Story of Your Life” by Eric Heisserer (35 mentions)
6. “Wunderkind” by Patrick Aison (33 mentions)
7. “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile” by Michael Werwie (31 mentions)
8 (tie). “Glimmer” by Carter Blanchard (29 mentions)
8 (tie). “Me & Earl & the Dying Girl” by Jesse Andrews (29 mentions)
10. “Devils at Play” by James Dilapo (28 mentions)
Also on the list:
“All-Nighter” by Brad Ingelsby
“Almanac” by Jason Pagan and Andrew Stark
“Americatown” by Ben Poole
“The Ballad of Pablo Escobar” by Matt Aldrich
“Black Box” by David Guggenheim
“Bleeding Kansas” by Russell Sommer and Dan Frey
“Border Country” by Jonathan Stokes
“The Broken” by John Glosser
“Cherries” by Brian Kehoe and Jim Kehoe
“Clive” by Natasha Pincus
“Comancheria” by Taylor Sheridan
“Come and Find Me” by Zack Whedon
“Conversion” by Marissa Jo Cerar
“The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” by Mark Hogan
“The Disciple Program” by Tyler Marceca
“Don’t Make Me Go” by Vera Herbert
“Doppelgangers” by Evan Mirzai and Shea Mirzai
“The Eel” by Roberto Bentivegna
“El Tigre” by Aaron Buchsbaum and Teddy Riley
“The Equalizer” by Richard Wenk
“Ex Boyfriend of the Bride” by Matt Hausfater
“Fathers and Daughters” by Brad Desch
“The Fault In Our Stars” by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
“The Final Broadcast” by Chris Hutton and Eddie O'Keefe
“Flower” by Alex McAulay
“From New York to Florida” by Austin Reynolds
“Fuck Marry Kill” by Neel Shah and Alex Blagg
“George” by Jeff Shakoor
“Goodbye, Felix Chester” by Max Taxe
“Ground Control to Major Tom” by Jason Micallef
“Hey, Stella!” by Tom Shephard
“Hibernation” by Will Frank and Geneva Robertson-Dworet
“Hold On to Me” by Brad Ingelsby
“The Hooverville Dead” by Brantley Aufil
“If They Move… Kill ‘Em!” by Kel Symons
“Jojo Rabbit” by Taika Waititi
“The Judge” by Bill Dubuque
“The Keeping Room” by Julia Hart
“The Killing Spree” by Derek Elliott, Jack Donaldson
“King of Heists” by Will Staples
“The Lighthouse” by Eric Kirsten
“Man of Tomorrow” by Jeremy Slater
“McCarthy” by Justin Kremer
“Midnight at Noon” by Nathaniel Halpern
“Monsoon” by Matt Ackley
“Murder City” by Will Simmons
“The One That Got Away” by April Prosser
“Our Name Is Adam” by T.S. Nowlin
“Out of State” by Eric Pearson
“The Outskirts” by Dominique Ferarri and Suzanne Wrubel
“The Paper Man” by Sean O'Keefe
“Penny Dreadful” by Shane Atkinson
“Peste” by Barbara Marshall
“The Portland Condition” by Dan Cohn and Jeremy Miller
“Sand Castle” by Chris Roessner
“Shut In” by Christina Hodson
“Somacell” by Ashleigh Powell
“Stockholm, Pennsylvania” by Nikole Beckwith
“The Survivalist” by Stephen Fingleton
“Sweet Virginia” by Paul China and Benjamin China
“Times Square” by Taylor Materne and Jake Rubin
“Titans of Park Row” by Mitch Akselrad
“Transcendence” by Jack Paglen
“Untitled Cops Script” by Blake McCormick
“Whalemen” by Tucker Parsons
“Whiplash” by Damien Chazelle
“Who Framed Tommy Callahan?” by Harry Kellerman
“The Winter Kills” by Ben Carney





