Final Draft (software)

Final Draft was co-founded in 1990 by Marc Madnick and Ben Cahan.{{Cite web|url=https://www.finaldraft.com/company|title=The Final Draft Story}}

In 2013, Final Draft was awarded a Primetime Emmy Engineering Award.

In 2016, Final Draft was acquired by Cast & Crew Entertainment Services.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2016/artisans/news/screenwriting-software-final-draft-cast-and-crew-1201694791/|title=Screenwriting Software Leader Final Draft Bought by Cast and Crew|last=McNary|first=Dave|website=Variety|access-date=18 March 2016}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/screenwriting-software-company-final-draft-861451|title=Screenwriting Software Company Final Draft Gets New Owner|website=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=18 March 2016}}

The program is a package of screenwriting word processing software for writing and formatting a screenplay to meet submission standards set by the theater, television and film industries. The program can also be used to write documents such as stageplays, outlines, treatments, query letters, novels, graphic novels, manuscripts, and basic text documents.

Final Draft's main competitors are Movie Magic Screenwriter, Scrite, Celtx, Fade In, and WriterDuet.{{cite web |url=http://screenwriting-software-review.toptenreviews.com/ |title=Screenwriting Software Review |accessdate=8 May 2015 |archive-date=4 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504200440/http://screenwriting-software-review.toptenreviews.com/ |url-status=dead }}

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