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The Black List founder. Film & TV producer. Politics & Football person. Vanity Fair contributing editor.
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I fear he is absolutely serving in this image.
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It is impossible to know what scores will be necessary. It will entirely depend on the scores of the 2500 opted in scripts.
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Not this bad.
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Genuinely hilarious how bad the US Men’s National Team has been since Trump became president and his immigration policies will only make it worse long term.
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Yes.
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It’s embarrassing for those involved, and they should be named.
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There is quite literally more law enforcement in the streets of downtown LA than there are protestors right now.
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With fairer commodity prices, poorer countries would have had surpluses to invest in infrastructures, education & health.
If rich countries had absorbed the cost through reduced elite consumption, we could have reached near-complete productivity convergence between North and South by 2025.
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Different rules of the game would have radically changed history.
Our counterfactual simulations show that without colonial transfers, Europe would have been a debtor — and South Asia or Latin America could have become global creditors.
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I am a member of the Academy.
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Yes, that is correct.
Historically, the Academy hired external readers, who were paid less than Black List readers are and who had less industry experience than Black List readers do, to evaluate the first few rounds of reading.
This is no different. Just higher quality.
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The submission process via the Black List IS now part of the Nicholl fellowship process.
Everyone who wished to submit was able to submit. And the same number of people will be selected for the fellowship.
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But again, 2500 writers were still able to submit via the Black List and all were welcome to apply, including those who needed a fee waiver to do so. And every single person who applied for a fee waiver received one.
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So, no, it’s not more exclusive.
Writers with truly great scripts regardless of their financial wherewithal have access to not only the Nicholl but myriad other opportunities at no additional cost.
Which is as it should be.
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Scripts that get an 8+ overall score receive an offer of a free month of hosting a& two free evaluations. If any of those is an 8+ score, they receive another free month of hosting and two free evals. Potentially in an endless loop until 5 8+ scores results in our hosting the script for free forever
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It was me.
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Hosting a script and evaluation, which allows writers to submit to the Nicholl, the Black List screenwriters lab, and many more opportunities all at no additional charge
Which is to say, those who paid got more for their money, and more people got fee waivers and those who got fee waivers got more
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They capped submissions previously.
The decision to reduce them further was their own, but anyone who wanted to submit was able to, and those would couldn’t afford to do so were able to because of the fee waivers the Black List provided. Every writer who applied received one.
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2500
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Anyone could still apply. And the fees were lower (literally nothing) for those could not afford the fees.
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Every writer who wanted to submit was able, in part because the fee waiver program covered every single writer who applied.