What do the Academy Nicholl Fellowships rules require of a feature screenplay entry (format, length, originality, AI use, number of entries), and what differs between the 2023 and 2024 rules?
The 2024 Nicholl rules require one original English-language feature screenplay as a PDF in standard format (12 pt Courier), 70-160 pages (80-125 suggested), not based on other material. Scripts with AI-generated dialogue, characters or scene description are ineligible, and the entrant earnings cap is US$25,000. Compared with 2023, 2024 adds the AI ineligibility sentence, bans multi-part scripts (2023 allowed stand-alone parts) and no longer carries the 2023 hired-writer sentence in the extracted text. Both years say the Academy acquires no rights in the entry.
The 2024 Nicholl rules require one original English-language feature screenplay as a PDF in standard format (12 pt Courier), 70-160 pages (80-125 suggested), not based on other material. Scripts with AI-generated dialogue, characters or scene description are ineligible, and the entrant earnings cap is US$25,000. Compared with 2023, 2024 adds the AI ineligibility sentence, bans multi-part scripts (2023 allowed stand-alone parts) and no longer carries the 2023 hired-writer sentence in the extracted text. Both years say the Academy acquires no rights in the entry.
Curator qualifications: Documents read 2026-10-22; no screenplay formatted or submitted. Rules for 2025-2026 cycles not read.
Limitations: Documents read 2026-10-22; no screenplay formatted or submitted.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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- [sourced_fact] The 2024 Nicholl rules require one original English-language feature screenplay as a PDF in standard format (12 pt Courier), 70-160 pages (80-125 suggested), not based on other material. Scripts with AI-generated dialogue, characters or scene description are ineligible, and the entrant earnings cap is US$25,000. Compared with 2023, 2024 adds the AI ineligibility sentence, bans multi-part scripts (2023 allowed stand-alone parts) and no longer carries the 2023 hired-writer sentence in the extracted text. Both years say the Academy acquires no rights in the entry. · locator: 2024_nicholl_rules.pdf (Wayback 2025-07-24) items 1, 3, 10; 2023_nicholl_rules.pdf (Wayback 2024-07-01) items 1, 3, 9 source
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