EXCLUSIVE: Oscar Contenders from 'The Big Short' to 'Spotlight' Highlight Santa Barbara's Screenwriters Panel

Representing eight of the 10 films nominated for Original and Adapted Screenplay at this year's Oscars, there's a very good chance that at least one of the nine screenwriters on the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's 2016 "It Starts with the Script" panel will be on stage at the Kodak Theatre later this month.  Moderated by TOH!'s Anne Thompson, the panel features Pete Docter ("Inside Out"), Emma Donoghue ("Room"), Alex Garland ("Ex Machina"), Drew Goddard ("The Martian"), Jonathan Herman ("Straight Outta Compton"), Charlie Kaufman ("Anomalisa"), Phillis Nagy...

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