# 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?

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- updated: 2026-10-23T12:13:46.929Z
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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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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250724094200id_/https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/2024_nicholl_rules.pdf",
      "note": "2024_nicholl_rules.pdf (Wayback 2025-07-24) items 1, 3, 10; 2023_nicholl_rules.pdf (Wayback 2024-07-01) items 1, 3, 9"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20240701072133id_/https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/2023_nicholl_rules.pdf",
      "note": "2024_nicholl_rules.pdf (Wayback 2025-07-24) items 1, 3, 10; 2023_nicholl_rules.pdf (Wayback 2024-07-01) items 1, 3, 9"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [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: https://web.archive.org/web/20250724094200id_/https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/2024_nicholl_rules.pdf

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