Movie Academy’s Nicholl Fellowships In Screenwriting Recipients Set
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Monday revealed recipients of the 2025-2026 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, with three individuals and two writing teams selected for the annual honor.
This year’s batch of fellows submitted pitches that included two set in Texas, one in heat of Phoenix and another in the cold of Iceland, and another surrounding the birth of Bitcoin. Five scripts were awarded fellowships and five finalists. (See the list below.)
The Nicholl fellows will receive support, resources and networking opportunities including pitch workshops, media training sessions, meet-and-greets and more involving past Oscar nominees and winners. The goal is to have them complete feature-length screenplays during their fellowship year.
More than 500 Academy members participated in evaluating this year’s crop of submissions to determine 10 finalists, with the Nicholl Committee selecting the final five. The program partnered with 40 universities, labs, festivals and programs to ID potential fellows, with public submissions coming through The Black List’s portal.
Below are the 2025-2026 Nicholl fellows:
Sara Crow and David Rafailedes (Brooklyn, NY), “Satoshi”Nicholl partner: NYU Tisch School of the ArtsAfter her family loses everything in the 2008 financial crisis, a teenaged anime-obsessed hacktivist realizes money isn’t fair…so she sets out to reinvent it with a new digital currency called Bitcoin.