How come screenwriters are barley mentioned when we talk about “whose movie” it is?

It seems like all we talk about is directors when mentioning “whose movie” when referring to who was the main force behind creating it. And don’t get me wrong, I realize how incredibly, incredibly important directors are. A bad director can turn the greatest script in the world into garbage. However, I think that even great director can only do so much with a garbage script (if anyone has even seen 1941, directed by Spielberg, you know what I mean) . It’s always just astounding how little credit these screenwriters get unless they also double as a director.But for example, Indiana Jones is seen solely as a Spielberg film, when Spielberg doesn’t have any writing credit. It was written by Lawrence Kasdan, who is an incredible screenwriter, but is hardly mentioned for creating an exciting, fun story for Spielberg to shoot.Or. say, Blade Runner 2049. People almost exclusively credit Villenueve when they talk about what a fantastic movie it was. And he did an amazing job with the script he was given, which was written by Hampton Fancher (who, by the way, also wrote the original Blade Runner script!) and Michael Green (one of the three writers of Logan).Or Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus, writers of all the Captain America movies and Infinity War!Or Gone Girl, whose screenplay was adapted by Gillian Flynn, the author of the Gone Girl book!Or the man Steve Kloves, who adapted the screenplay for all the Harry Potter movies, one of the greatest book series adaptations out there!Or Jonathan Nolan, brother of Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote many of Nolan’s scripts like the Dark Knight, The Prestige, and Interstellar!Again, this isn’t bashing directors. I don’t want to create that narrative. I’m just always astounded at the lack of mention to the screenwriters when we talk about movies. They design the sandbox that the directors get to play in! What do you guys think about this? via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2SUs9YI