As the time for members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to cast their votes for the Academy Awards draws nearer, most studios are stepping up their efforts to get their eligible films into the hands of as many voters as possible. For studios with films that stand a good chance at being nominated for a Best Screenplay award, that means making those scripts available online as downloadable .PDF files. For those who like to read screenplays as a way of studying the art and craft as to how they are created, that means an opportunity to do just that with some of the year’s best.

Below is a list of some of the studios offering up their Oscar hopeful screenplays for voters’ consideration.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Twentieth Century Fox is not offering any of its screenplay hopefuls on line this year. The studio recently served a $15 million dollar copyright infringement law suit against a Long Island woman who maintained an online script library which included several Fox screenplays, many of which were probably acquired from past online Oscar campaigns by the studio.

Disney

• Alice In Wonderland
• Toy Story 3

Focus

• The American
• Greenburg
• It’s Kind Of A Funny Story
• The Kids Are Alright
• Somewhere

Lionsgate

• For Colored Girls
• Rabbit Hole

Overture

• City Island
• Jack Goes Boating
• Let Me In
• Stone

Roadside Attractions

• I Love You, Philip Morris
• Winter’s Bone

Sony

• Animal Kingdom
• Another Year
• Barney’s Vision
• Get Low
• Inside Job
• Made In Dagenham
• Mother And Child
• Please Give

Universal

• Despicable Me

Weinstein

• Blue Valentine
• The Company Men
• The King’s Speech
• Nowhere Boy

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have announced the shortlist of seven films eligible for the Academy Award for Best Makeup. From this list, member of the Academy’s Makeup branch will choose three final nominees after attending a special meeting where they will view ten minute presentations for each film.

The seven films under consideration are -

• Alice in Wonderland
• Barney’s Version
• The Fighter
• Jonah Hex
• True Grit
• The Way Back
• The Wolfman

You have to admit that there is a certain equality of films under consideration for some technical awards, such as this. The film could be great (The Wrestler) or have a terrible script (Alice In Wonderland, Jonah Hex) or look as if it was sabotaged by horrendous studio interference (The Wolfman) and the hard work that its crew put into it may still have a chance to be honored without being penalized for things outside of their control. Remember, even Eddie Murphy’s Norbert, as supremely awful as it was, has an Oscar nomination for Best Makeup.

The Academy Award nominees will be announced on January 25.