For Your Consideration 2012: Free Screenplays

One of the neat little perks of living in the Internet age is that movie studios promote their potential nominees with online websites dedicated exclusively to engaging and swaying voters. These sites include information about special screenings for voters of various awards, but several studios go an extra step and offer some free downloads of screenplays. Here's this year's roundup.

20th Century Fox

• Life of Pi

Disney

• Brave
• Frankenweenie by John August, based on a screenplay by Lenny Ripps, based on an original idea by Tim Burton
• Paperman
• Wreck-It Ralph by Phil Johnston & Jennifer Lee; Original Story by Rich Moore, Phil Johnston & Jim Reardon

DreamWorks

• Lincoln by Tony Kushner based in part on the book "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Doris Kearns Goodwin

DreamWorks Animation [screenplays "coming soon"]

• Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
• Rise of the Guardians

Focus Features

• Moonrise Kingdom
• Paranorman
• Anna Karenina
• Hyde Park on Hudson
• Promised Land

Fox Searchlight

• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• The Sessions
• Hitchcock

LionsGate

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky from his novel
• The Hunger Games
• The Impossible
• Arbitrage by Nicholas Jarecki
• Stand Up Guys
• Friends with Kids

Paramount Pictures

• Flight by John Gatins
• Not Fade Away [screenplay "coming soon"]
• Katy Perry: Part of Me ["Wide Awake" streaming on site]
• Jeff Who Lives at Home [screenplay "coming soon"]

Relativity

• Act of Valor
• Mirror, Mirror

Sony Pictures

• Zero Dark Thirty
• Skyfall

Sony Pictures Classics

• Amour by Michael Haneke
• Celeste and Jesse Forever by Rashida Jones & Will McCormack
• Rust and Bone by Jacques Audiard & Thomas Bidegain
• Searching for Sugar Man
• Smashed by James Ponsoldt & Susan Burke
• The Gatekeepers
• West of Memphis

Universal Pictures

• Dr. Seuss' The Lorax by Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio, Based on the Book by Dr. Seuss
• Snow White & The Huntsman by Evan Daugherty and John Lee Hancock and Hossein Amini; Story by Evan Daugherty; Inspired by the Brothers Grimm's "Little Snow White"
• Ted by Seth MacFarlane and Alec Sulkin & Wellesly Wild; Story by Seth MacFarlane
• This Is 40 by Judd Apatow
• Les Miserables

Warner Bros.

• The Dark Knight Rises
• Argo
• Cloud Atlas
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Magic Mike

The Weinstein Company

• Bully
• Django Unchained
• The Intouchables
• Killing Them Softly
• The Master
• Quartet
• Silver Linings Playbook

You may also want to check out 2010 Screenplays and 2011 Screenplays. Some of those links are still active!