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- Film Writer type includes people who are accredited to have worked upon the screenplay for the film. Sometimes multiple people are listed even if their contributions were never included in the final shooting script for the film.
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Writers credited with the creation of a film's screenplay (eg.: David Mamet for House of Games, Quentin Tarantino for Pulp Fiction, Guillermo del Toro for Pan's Labyrinth).
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Writers who both wrote the screenplay and the work from which the screenplay was adapted from (eg.: Ayn Rand for The Fountainhead, Mario Puzo for The Godfather).
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Co-type as Film story contributor.
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Writers who wrote for a made-for-TV-movie or a TV program/TV show subsequently presented as a film or TV movie (eg.: Ingmar Bergman for Fanny & Alexander, Lars von Trier for The Kingdom)
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Co-type as TV Writer.
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The writer of the work the film is based upon but who didn't write the screenplay (eg.: William Shakespeare for Romeo + Juliet, Jules Verne for 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, and Wu Cheng'en for The Forbidden Kingdom).
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Type as Film story contributor.
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Creative consultants (aka. script doctors) who have modified the screenplay but cannot be given full 'written by' accreditation (eg. Steve Oedekerk for Ace Ventura: Pet Detective).
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Type as Film crew-member with a role of Creative consultant.
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TV writers (eg. Aaron Sorkin for Pilot episode of the West Wing).
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Type as TV writer.
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Playwrights (eg. Anton Chekhov for plays such as Uncle Vanya).
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Type as Playwright and co-type as a Film story contributor for any films made by adapting their plays.
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Authors (eg. Jean-Paul Sartre, writer of The Age of Reason).
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Type as Author.
- Anton Chekhov is incorrectly typed as a film writer, having died just before the first films were ever produced.
- Uncredited writers of screenplays, IMDB and some other sources will list writers as uncredited to a film even though they are not officially listed in the film credits for some films. This may be due to the very strict guild rules or due to other circumstances (eg. William Faulkner's contribution to Gunga Din or Roman Polanski's contributions for Chinatown).