How much is emotional depth a function of performance/direction, though? Granted, a screenplay can put emotionally dramatic moments on the page, but it seems to me that it's best served on screen.

Take the The Passenger, which is on my to-do list. I read the initial set up, and I was moved by the isolation the story portrays. I could imagine this coming to life in the performance, soundtrack even, etc.

Another example: the screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey doesn't really seem to have emotional depth. But watch the first few scenes aboard The Discovery and with Kubrick's directorial vision, with the haunting "Gayane Ballet Suite", with both astronauts engaged in solitary, quotidian actions, and you feel the loneliness and isolation aboard the ship.

In my opinion, "emotional depth" should be credited to the actor.

If a movie has emotional depth, the actor will get the credit. So why not give him the blame when it doesn't?

Here's a few blacklist screenplays that got to me emotionally on a first read.

"The Muppet Man" by Christopher Weekes

"Memoirs" by Will Fetters (I haven't seen the film version, Remember Me)

"Water For Elephants" by Richard Lagravenese

"The Oranges" by Ian Helfer and Jay Reiss

Hi Daveed

good luck with having the performance bring emotional depth to "Passengers" - it's a Keanu Reeves project.