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Finding a dedicated creative writing program at a school you're excited about can be a real challenge, and that's even before you start worrying about getting in. Nonetheless, there are some great options. In order to help you find the best school for you, this list rounds up some of the best colleges for creative writing in the United States .

The Best Creative Writing Programs: Ranking Criteria

You should never take college rankings as absolute truth —not even the very official-seeming US News ones. Instead, use these kinds of lists as a jumping-off place for your own exploration of colleges. Pay attention not just to what the rankings are but to how the rankings are determined.

To help with that, I'll explain how I came up with this highly unscientific list of great creative writing colleges. I started by narrowing my search down to schools that offered a specific creative writing major. (If you don't see a school you were expecting, it's likely because they only have a minor.)

In ranking the schools, I considered five major criteria:

  • #1: MFA Ranking —If a school has a great graduate creative writing program, it means you'll be taught by those same professors and the excellent graduate students they attract. Schools with strong MFA programs are also more likely to have solid alumni networks and internship opportunities. However, many schools with great undergrad programs do not offer MFAs, in which case I simply focused on the other four options.
  • #2: General School Reputation —The vast majority of your classes won't be in creative writing, so it's important that other parts of the school, especially the English department, are great as well.
  • #3: Extracurricular Opportunities —One of the key advantages of majoring in creative writing is that it can provide access to writing opportunities outside the classroom, so I took what kind of internship programs, author readings, and literary magazines the school offers into consideration.
  • #4: Diversity of Class Options —I gave extra points to schools with a variety of genre options and specific, interesting classes.
  • #5: Alumni/Prestige —This last criterion is a bit more subjective: is the school known for turning out good writers? Certainly it's less important than what kind of education you'll actually get, but having a brand-name degree (so to speak) can be helpful.

The Best Creative Writing Schools

Now, let's get to the good stuff: the list of schools! The exact numbering is always arguable, so look at it as a general trend from absolutely amazing to still super great, rather than fixating on why one school is ranked #3 and another is ranked #4.

#1: Northwestern University

Northwestern's undergrad creative writing program boasts acclaimed professors and an unparalleled track record of turning out successful writers (including Divergent author Veronica Roth and short-story writer Karen Russell).

Outside the classroom, you can work on the student-run literary journal, intern at a publication in nearby Chicago, or submit to the Department of English's yearly writing competition . The university is also home to a top journalism program , so if you want to try your hand at nonfiction as well, you'll have plenty of opportunities to do so.

#2: Columbia University

Like Northwestern, Columbia is home to both a world-class creative writing program and a top journalism school (plus one of the best English departments in the country), so you have a wide range of writing-related course options. Columbia also benefits from its location in New York City, which is bursting at the seams with publishing houses, literary journals, and talented authors.

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#3: University of Iowa

The University of Iowa's big draw is the infrastructure of its graduate Writers' Workshop, which is often considered the best MFA program in the country.

As an English and Creative Writing major here, you'll take classes from great young writers and established professors alike, and get to choose from a wide range of topics. This major provides transferable skills important for a liberal arts major with a creative focus. You'll also have access to the university's impressive literary community, including frequent readings, writing prizes and scholarships, and the acclaimed literary journal The Iowa Review .

#4: Emory University

Emory is renowned for its dedicated undergrad creative writing program , which draws the very best visiting scholars and writers. Students here have the chance to attend intimate question-and-answer sessions with award-winning authors, study a range of genres, compete for writing awards and scholarships, and work closely with an adviser to complete an honors project.

#5: Oberlin College

A small liberal arts school in Ohio, Oberlin offers very different advantages than the schools above do. You'll have fewer opportunities to pursue writing in the surrounding city, but the quality of the teachers and the range of courses might make up for that. Moreover, it boasts just as impressive alumni, including actress and writer Lena Dunham.

#6: Hamilton College

Hamilton is another small college, located in upstate New York. It's known for giving students the freedom to pursue their interests and the support to help them explore topics in real depth, both inside and outside the classroom. Hamilton's creative writing program takes full advantage with small classes and lots of opportunities to intern and publish; it also has one of the best writing centers in the country.

#7: Brown University

Brown's Literary Arts program offers one of the top MFAs in the US as well as an undergraduate major . For the major, you must take four creative writing workshops and six reading-intensive courses, which span an array of departments and topics, from music and literature to Middle East studies and Egyptology.

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#8: Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University has an excellent creative writing MFA program, lots of super specific class options, and a number of scholarships specifically earmarked for creative writing students. This school’s undergraduate English program also offers a concentration in creative writing that allows students to specialize in a specific genre: poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction. If you’re interested in exploring your potential in a specific writing genre, Washington University could be a great pick for you.

#9: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT might not be a school you generally associate with writing, but it actually has an excellent program that offers courses in digital media and science writing, as well as creative writing, and provides plenty of guidance on how graduates can navigate the tricky job market.

Not to mention the school is located in Cambridge, a haven for book lovers and writers of all kinds. Though it probably isn’t a good fit for students who hate science, MIT is a great place for aspiring writers who want to build writing skills that are marketable in a wide range of industries.

#10: University of Michigan

University of Michigan is one of the best state universities in the country and has a top-notch MFA program. This school’s undergrad creative writing sub-concentration requires students to submit applications for admittance to advanced creative writing courses. These applications give students crucial practice in both building a writing portfolio and articulating their interest in creative writing to an audience who will evaluate their work. If you're looking to attend a big school with a great creative writing major, this is a fantastic choice.

#11: Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins is another school that's known more for engineering than it is for writing, but, like MIT, it has a dedicated writing program. As a major here, you must take not only courses in prose, poetry, and literature, but also classes on topics such as philosophy and history.

#12: Colorado College

Colorado College is a small liberal arts school known for its block plan , which allows students to focus on one class per three-and-a-half-week block. The creative writing track of the English major includes a sequence of four writing workshops and also requires students to attend every reading of the Visiting Writers Series.

Bonus School: New York University

I didn't include NYU in the main list because it doesn't have a dedicated creative writing major, but it's a great school for aspiring writers nonetheless, offering one of the most impressive creative writing faculties in the country and all the benefits of a Manhattan location.

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How To Pick the Best Creative Writing School for You

Just because Northwestern is a great school for creative writing doesn't mean you should set your heart on going there. (The football fans are completely terrifying, for one thing.) So where should you go then?

Here are some questions to ask yourself when looking at creative writing programs to help you determine the best school for you:

Does It Have Courses You're Interested In?

Look at the course offerings and see whether they interest you. While you can't predict exactly what classes you'll love, you want to avoid a mismatch where what you want to study and what the program offers are completely different. For example, if you want to write sonnets but the school focuses more on teaching fiction, it probably won't be a great fit for you.

Also, don't forget to look at the English courses and creative writing workshops! In most programs, you'll be taking a lot of these, too.

What Opportunities Are There To Pursue Writing Outside of Class?

I touched on this idea in the criteria section, but it's important enough that I want to reiterate it here. Some of the best writing experience you can get is found outside the classroom, so see what kind of writing-related extracurriculars a school has before committing to it.

Great options include getting involved with the campus newspaper, working on the school's literary journal, or interning at the university press.

Who Will Be Teaching You?

Who are the professors? What kind of work have they published? Check teacher ratings on Rate My Professors (but make sure to read the actual reviews—and always take them with a grain of salt).

If you're looking at a big school, there's a good chance that a lot of your teachers will be graduate students. But that's not necessarily a bad thing: a lot of the best teachers I had in college were graduate students. Just take into consideration what kind of graduate program the school has. If there's a great creative writing MFA program, then the graduate students are likely to be better writers and more engaged teachers.

What Are the Alumni Doing Now?

If you have a sense of what you want to do after you graduate, see if any alumni of the program are pursuing that type of career. The stronger the alumni network is, the more connections you'll have when it comes time to get a job.

What About the Rest of the School?

Don't pick a school for which you like the creative writing program but dread everything else about it. Most of your time will be spent doing other things, whether hanging out in the dorms, exploring off campus, or fulfilling general education requirements.

Many schools require you to apply to the creative writing major, so make doubly sure you'll be happy with your choice even if you aren't accepted to the program.

What's Next?

Are you sure a creative writing major is the right fit for you? Read our post on the pros and cons of the major to help you decide what path to take in college.

For more general advice about choosing a college, check out our complete guide to finding the right school for you. Some major factors to consider include deciding whether you're interested in a small college or a big university , an in-state or out-of-state institution , and a public or private school .

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The vital presence of creative writing in the English Department is reflected by our many distinguished authors who teach our workshops. We offer courses each term in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, screenwriting, playwriting, and television writing. Our workshops are small, usually no more than twelve students, and offer writers an opportunity to focus intensively on one genre. 

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Fall 2023 Application Deadline: 11:59 pm ET on Saturday, August 26 Spring 2024 Application Deadline: 11:59 pm ET on Saturday, November 4, 2023

Please visit our course listings for all the Spring 2024 workshops.

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Creative Writing Workshops

English cacd. the art of criticism.

Instructor: Maggie Doherty Monday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: Barker 018 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site

This course will consider critical writing about art—literary, visual, or cinematic—as an art in its own right. We will read and discuss criticism from a wide variety of publications, paying attention to the ways outlet and audience shape critical work. Our focus will be on longform criticism (narrative and/or argumentative) as opposed to short-form, primarily evaluative reviews. The majority of our readings will be from the last several years and will include pieces by Andrea Long Chu, Tausif Noor, Namwali Serpell, and Justin Taylor. Students will write several short writing assignments (500-1000 words) during the first half of the semester and share them with peers. During the second half of the semester, each student will write and workshop a longer piece of criticism about a work of art or an artist of their choosing. Students will be expected to read and provide detailed feedback on the work of their peers. Students will revise their longer pieces based on workshop feedback and submit them for the final assignment of the class.

This course is open to writers of all levels, but writers should have studied or worked creatively in the field of art they plan to engage critically. In other words, if you plan to write art criticism, you should have taken some classes in art history, or you should have a creative practice in the visual arts. Similarly, if you’d like to write film criticism, you should have taken some film studies classes, or you should have a filmmaking background. If you are unsure whether you have the necessary background for this class, please email me. Apply via Submittable  (deadline: 11:59pm EDT on Saturday, August 26) Supplemental Application Information:  Please write a letter of introduction (1-2 pages) giving a sense of who you are, your writing experience, and your current goals for your writing. Please also describe your relationship to the art forms and/or genres you're interested in engaging in the course. You may also list any writers or publications whose criticism you enjoy reading. Please also include a 3-5 writing sample in which you write about art. This sample may be creative (a personal essay, an excerpt from a piece of fiction) or it may be academic. 

English CACW. Advanced Creative Writing Workshop

Instructor: Paul Yoon Monday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: Barker 222 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site Advanced fiction workshop for students who have already taken a workshop at Harvard. You will be responsible for participating in discussions on the assigned texts, the workshop, engaging with the work of your colleagues, and revise your work. The end goal will be to produce 2 short stories, or 2 chapters of a novel, to be submitted as your final portfolio. Apply via Submittable  (deadline: 11:59pm EDT on Saturday, August 26) Supplemental Application Information:   * Please note: previous creative writing workshop experience required. * Please submit ONLY a cover letter telling me your previous creative writing workshop experience, either at Harvard or elsewhere; then tell me something you are passionate about and something you want to be better at; and, lastly, tell me why of all classes you want to take this one this semester. Again, please no writing samples.

English CBBR. Intermediate Poetry: Workshop

Instructor:  Josh Bell   Tuesday, 6:00-8:45pm | Location: Barker 018 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site

Initially, students can expect to read, discuss, and imitate the strategies of a wide range of poets writing in English; to investigate and reproduce prescribed forms and poetic structures; and to engage in writing exercises meant to expand the conception of what a poem is and can be. As the course progresses, reading assignments will be tailored on an individual basis, and an increasing amount of time will be spent in discussion of student work. Apply via Submittable  (deadline: 11:59pm EDT on Saturday, August 26)

Supplemental Application Information:  Please submit a portfolio including a letter of interest, ten poems, and a list of classes (taken at Harvard or elsewhere) that seem to have bearing on your enterprise.

English CCEP. Ekphrastic Poetry: Workshop

Instructor: Tracy K. Smith Wednesday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: Lamont 401 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site What can a poem achieve when it contemplates or even emulates a work of art in another medium? In this workshop, we'll read and write poems that engage with other art forms--and we'll test out what a foray into another artistic practice allows us to carry back over into the formal methods and behaviors of poetry. With poems by Keats, Rilke, Auden, Hughes, and Brooks, as well as Kevin Young, Evie Shockley, Ama Codjoe and other contemporary voices. Apply via Submittable  (deadline: 11:59pm EDT on Saturday, August 26) Supplemental Application Information:  Please submit a writing sample of 5-10 poems and an application letter explaining your interest in this course.

English CCFC. Poetry Workshop: Form & Content

Instructor: Tracy K. Smith Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: Sever 112 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site

In this workshop, we’ll look closely at the craft-based choices poets make, and track the effects they have upon what we as readers are made to think and feel. How can implementing similar strategies better prepare us to engage the questions making up our own poetic material? We’ll also talk about content. What can poetry reveal about the ways our interior selves are shaped by public realities like race, class, sexuality, injustice and more? Apply via Submittable  (deadline: 11:59pm EDT on Saturday, August 26)   

Supplemental Application Information:  Please submit a writing sample of 5-10 poems and an application letter explaining your interest in this course.

English CCIJ. Intermediate Fiction Workshop

Instructor: Jesse McCarthy Thursday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: Barker 269 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site This is an intermediate course in the art of writing literary fiction. Previous experience with workshopping writing is encouraged but not required. The emphasis of the course will be learning how to read literature as a writer, with special attention given to the short story, novella, or short novel. We will read these works from the perspective of the writer as craftsperson and of the critic seeking in good faith to understand and describe a new aesthetic experience. We will be concerned foremost with how literary language works, with describing the effects of different kinds of sentences, different uses of genre, tone, and other rhetorical strategies. Together, we will explore our responses to examples of literature from around the world and from all periods, as well as to the writing you will produce and share with the class. As a member of a writing community, you should be prepared to respectfully read and respond to the work of others—both the work of your peers and that of the published writers that we will explore together. Apply via Submittable  (deadline: 11:59pm EDT on Saturday, August 26) Supplemental Application Information:  This course is by application only but there are no prerequisites for this course and previous experience in a writing workshop is not required . In your application please submit a short letter explaining why you are interested in this class. You might tell me a bit about your relationship to literature, your encounter with a specific author, book, or even a scene or character from a story or novel. Please also include a writing sample of 2-5 pages (5 pages max!) of narrative prose fiction.

English CPWR. Poetry: Workshop

Instructor:  Jorie Graham Tuesday, 6:00-8:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site

Open by application to both undergraduates and graduates. Class includes the discussion of literary texts as well as work written by students.

For Spring 2024, the class will be remote only. Supplemental Application Information:  Please submit a portfolio including a letter of interest, ten poems, and a list of classes (taken at Harvard or elsewhere) that seem to have bearing on your enterprise. Apply via Submittable  (deadline: 11:59pm ET on Saturday, November 4)

English CCFS. Fiction Workshop

Instructor: Teju Cole Tuesday, 6:00-8:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site This reading and writing intensive workshop is for students who want to learn to write literary fiction. The goal of the course would be for each student to produce two polished short stories. Authors on the syllabus will probably include James Joyce, Eudora Welty, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Diane Williams.

Supplemental Application Information:   Please submit a cover letter saying what you hope to get out of the workshop. In the cover letter, mention three works of fiction that matter to you and why. In addition, submit a 400–500 word sample of your fiction; the sample can be self-contained or a section of a longer work. Apply via Submittable  (deadline: 11:59pm ET on Saturday, November 4)

English CFF. From Fact to Fiction: Finding & Shaping a Story: Workshop

Instructor: Claire Messud Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site

In this course, we will explore the evolution of a story from a factual anecdote or incident to a fictional creation. The aims of the semester are to learn to listen to someone else’s story in interviews, and to endeavor to find, from there, the necessary bones for a fictional narrative. What is most urgent? What is most emotionally affecting? What are the details from an interview that stay with you? And from there: what, from a broader account, is the story you are moved to relate? Once you make that choice, how do you do further research, if necessary? How do you select the point of view, the frame, the characters for your fiction? What are the ethics and responsibilities of these choices? We will read work by writers who have transformed fact into fiction, some of whom will visit the class. Past visitors include Geraldine Brooks, Akhil Sharma, Amity Gaige, Meng Jin and Paul Yoon. No previous fiction-writing experience is required for this class.

Supplemental Application Information:   Admission by application only. Please submit a brief letter explaining why you're interested to take this class, and, if you've a subject in mind, why it's interesting to you. There is no prerequisite for this course: all who are interested are welcome to apply. For your writing sample, submit 2-5 pages of creative work of any genre. If you haven't written creatively before, you might consider writing a brief character sketch or memoir piece.  Apply via Submittable  (deadline: 11:59pm ET on Saturday, November 4)

English CNL. The Novel Lab: Studying Long-Form Narratives in Fiction

Instructor: Paul Yoon Monday 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students. Course Site

What defines a novel? And what does it mean to read one as a writer? How does a painter consider a painting or a photographer a photo? This readings class will study novels through the point of view of a practicing writer. We will read one novel a week, with the goal of exploring the ways in which long-form narratives are constructed, from chapter to chapter, from one movement to another—that is, the architecture of it. Please note: this is not a typical workshop. You will not be sharing you work every week, though later on in the semester we may participate in small group workshops and readings. Consider the class an investigation into all the tools a writer has to create fiction, with the end goal of producing 2 - 3 chapters of the beginning of a novel as your final project.

Supplemental Application Information:  Please submit ONLY a letter to me. I want to know what your favorite novel is and why; and then tell me something you are passionate about and something you want to be better at; and, lastly, tell me why of all classes you want to take this one this semester. Please no writing samples. Again, note: This is NOT a typical workshop. Apply via Submittable  (deadline: 11:59pm ET on Saturday, November 4)

English CWP. Words & Photographs: Workshop

Instructor: Teju Cole Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site

For almost two centuries now, words have accompanied photographs, sometimes to sublime effect. In this writing-intensive workshop, we will model our work on the various ways writers have responded to photographs: through captions, criticism, fiction, and experiments. Students will learn close-looking, research, and editing, and will be expected to complete a “words and photographs” project using their own photographs or photographs made by others. 

Supplemental Application Information: P lease submit a photograph and up to a page of text responding (or perhaps not responding) to the photograph. In addition, submit a cover letter saying what you hope to get out of the workshop. The cover letter should mention three books in any genre that have been helpful to your writerly development. Apply via Submittable  (deadline: 11:59pm ET on Saturday, November 4)

English CAFR. Advanced Fiction Workshop: Writing this Present Life

Instructor: Claire Messud Thursday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site Intended for students with prior fiction-writing and workshop experience, this course will concentrate on structure, execution and revision. Exploring various strands of contemporary and recent literary fiction – writers such as Karl Ove Knausgaard, Rachel Cusk, Chimamanda Adichie, Douglas Stuart, Ocean Vuong, etc – we will consider how fiction works in our present moment, with emphasis on a craft perspective. Each student will present to the class a published fiction that has influenced them. The course is primarily focused on the discussion of original student work, with the aim of improving both writerly skills and critical analysis. Revision is an important component of this class: students will workshop two stories and a revision of one of these.

Supplemental Application Information:  Please submit 3-5 pages of prose fiction, along with a substantive letter of introduction. I’d like to know why you’re interested in the course; what experience you’ve had writing, both in previous workshops and independently; what your literary goals and ambitions are. Please tell me about some of your favorite narratives – fiction, non-fiction, film, etc: why they move you, and what you learn from them. Apply via Submittable  (deadline: 11:59pm ET on Saturday, November 4)

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Students may apply to write a senior thesis or senior project in creative writing, although only English concentrators can be considered. Students submit applications in early March of their junior year, including first-term juniors who are out of phase. The creative writing faculty considers the proposal, along with the student's overall performance in creative writing and other English courses, and notifies students about its decision in early mid-late March. Those applications are due, this coming year, on TBA . 

Students applying for a creative writing thesis or project must have completed at least one course in creative writing at Harvard before they apply. No student is guaranteed acceptance. It is strongly suggested that students acquaint themselves with the requirements and guidelines well before the thesis application is due. The creative writing director must approve any exceptions to the requirements, which must be made in writing by Monday, February 7, 2022. Since the creative writing thesis and project are part of the English honors program, acceptance to write a creative thesis is conditional upon the student continuing to maintain a 3.40 concentration GPA. If a student’s concentration GPA drops below 3.40 after the spring of the junior year, the student may not be permitted to continue in the honors program.

Joint concentrators may apply to write creative theses, but we suggest students discuss the feasibility of the project well before applications are due. Not all departments are open to joint creative theses.

Students who have questions about the creative writing thesis should contact the program’s Director, Sam Marks .

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About the Online Certificate in Creative Writing

The Certificate in Creative Writing offers an innovative, collaborative course of study for those who have always wanted to unlock their creativity. Each online course is designed as a workshop in which you explore new ideas, tackle new writing tools, generate original insights and discover your own powers of expression. You create, collaboratively discuss and revise your original writing with feedback from your instructors and your peers. You also engage with a range of assigned readings and multimedia that inform and grow your innovative practice.

The Certificate in Creative Writing offers both basic and advanced workshops and appeals to students new to creative writing as well as students with writing experience who want to learn new skills. Through a series of online courses in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and screenwriting, the Certificate in Creative Writing focuses on creative writing as a form of critical thinking as a way to reimagine audience and as a space of innovation. Taught by professionals in the field, our courses cultivate both individual and group learning, providing an overview of the field as well as deep dives into literary genres. These creative writing courses are designed as hands-on, intensive study of the subtleties and power of language.

The Certificate in Creative Writing is a 4-course, 4 c.u.* credit program of study taught by University of Pennsylvania faculty. To earn a certificate, students complete any four courses offered, in any order.  Students who complete the basic certificate may pursue an advanced certificate (6-course, 6 c.u.*) by adding two additional creative writing courses.

Penn LPS Online courses in the Certificate in Creative Writing are offered in accelerated 8-week terms and full terms. Courses in the online certificate program are largely asynchronous with some optional synchronous sessions to be scheduled by the instructors.

You have the option to enroll in individual courses without committing to the entire online certificate, enjoying the flexibility and expertise offered by Penn LPS Online to suit your schedule and interests. Visit the Cost of Attendance page for course tuition and fee rates.

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*Academic credit is defined by the University of Pennsylvania as a course unit (c.u.). A course unit (c.u.) is a general measure of academic work over a period of time, typically a term (semester or summer). A c.u. (or a fraction of a c.u.) represents different types of academic work across different types of academic programs and is the basic unit of progress toward a degree. One c.u. is usually converted to a four-semester-hour course.

The Certificate in Creative Writing prepares you to:

  • Understand how text conveys meaning across a variety of literary genres and styles
  • Explore how to use innovation, flexibility, and collaboration to cultivate a creative writing practice
  • Create, revise and edit your original writing in multiple literary genres, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and screenwriting

Certificate students who complete four of the online courses listed below earn a Certificate in Creative Writing. Those students are then eligible to pursue an Advanced Certificate in Creative Writing by taking two additional courses.

  • CRWR 1010: The Craft of Creative Writing
  • CRWR 1600: Modern and Contemporary US Poetry
  • CRWR 2010: Poetry Workshop
  • CRWR 2400: The Art of Editing
  • CRWR 2500: Writing and Meditation
  • CRWR 2600: Fiction Workshop
  • CRWR 2800: Narrative Collage
  • CRWR 3000: Writing About Place
  • CRWR 3200: Screenwriting
  • CRWR 3600: Advanced Nonfiction *
  • CRWR 3700: Journalism

*This course may not be offered every academic year. Check the course page or our course guide to see when upcoming terms are added.

Courses are subject to change.

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Julia Bloch

Julia Bloch

  • Faculty Director, Penn LPS Online Certificate in Creative Writing
  • Director, Creative Writing Program

Al Filreis

  • Director, Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing

Laynie Browne

Laynie Browne

  • Poet, prose writer, teacher and editor

Scott Burkhardt

Scott Burkhardt

  • Lecturer in cinema and media studies

Christy Davids

Christy Davids

  • Teacher, poet and assistant editor at The Conversant

Lise Funderburg

Lise Funderburg

  • Lecturer in creative writing

J †Johnson

  • 2017-2018 Digital Studies Fellow at Rutgers University-Camden

Dick Polman

Dick Polman

  • Povich Writer-in-Residence at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (CPCW)

Karen Rile

  • Writer, editor, teacher

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Careers related to creative writing.

The Certificate in Creative Writing is designed to enhance your writing and storytelling skills and provide a framework for a creative process that can be applied to a myriad of professional roles including:

  • Advertising copywriter
  • Fundraising/development consultant
  • Author and journalist

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Creative Writing and Literature Master’s Degree Program

Online Courses

11 out of 12 total courses

On-Campus Experience

One 1- or 3-week residency in summer

$3,220 per course

Unlock your creative potential and hone your unique voice.

Build a strong foundation in literary criticism and writing across multiple genres — including fiction, nonfiction, and drama — in our live online writing and literature program with an in-person writer’s residency at Harvard.

Program Overview

Through the master’s degree in creative writing and literature, you’ll hone your skills as a storyteller — crafting publishable original scripts, novels, and stories.

In small, workshop-style classes, you’ll master key elements of narrative craft, including characterization, story and plot structure, point of view, dialogue, and description. And you’ll learn to approach literary works as both a writer and scholar by developing skills in critical analysis.

Program Benefits

Instructors who are published authors of drama, fiction, and nonfiction

A community of writers who support your growth in live online classes

Writer's residency with agent & editor networking opportunities

Personalized academic and career advising

Thesis or capstone options that lead to publishable creative work

Harvard Alumni Association membership upon graduation

Customizable Course Curriculum

As you work through the program’s courses, you’ll enhance your creative writing skills and knowledge of literary concepts and strategies. You’ll practice the art of revision to hone your voice as a writer in courses like Writing the Short Personal Essay and Writing Flash Fiction.

Within the creative writing and literature program, you will choose between a thesis or capstone track. You’ll also experience the convenience of online learning and the immersive benefits of learning in person.

11 Online Courses

  • Primarily synchronous
  • Fall, spring, January, and summer options

Writer’s Residency

A 1- or 3-week summer master class taught by a notable instructor, followed by an agents-and-editors weekend

Thesis or Capstone Track

  • Thesis: features a 9-month independent creative project with a faculty advisor
  • Capstone: includes crafting a fiction or nonfiction manuscript in a classroom community

The path to your degree begins before you apply to the program.

First, you’ll register for and complete 2 required courses, earning at least a B in each. These foundational courses are investments in your studies and count toward your degree, helping ensure success in the program.

Getting Started

We invite you to explore degree requirements, confirm your initial eligibility, and learn more about our unique “earn your way in” admissions process.

A Faculty of Creative Writing Experts

Studying at Harvard Extension School means learning from the world’s best. Our instructors are renowned academics in literary analysis, storytelling, manuscript writing, and more. They bring a genuine passion for teaching, with students giving our faculty an average rating of 4.7 out of 5.

Bryan Delaney

Playwright and Screenwriter

Talaya Adrienne Delaney

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta

Our community at a glance.

80% of our creative writing and literature students are enrolled in our master’s degree program for either personal enrichment or to make a career change. Most (74%) are employed full time while pursuing their degree and work across a variety of industries.

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Career Opportunities & Alumni Outcomes

Graduates of our Creative Writing and Literature Master’s Program have writing, research, and communication jobs in the fields of publishing, advertising/marketing, fundraising, secondary and higher education, and more.

Some alumni continue their educational journeys and pursue further studies in other nationally ranked degree programs, including those at Boston University, Brandeis University, University of Pennsylvania, and Cambridge University.

Our alumni hold titles as:

  • Marketing Manager
  • Director of Publishing
  • Senior Research Writer

Our alumni work at a variety of leading organizations, including:

  • Little, Brown & Company
  • New York University (NYU)
  • Bentley Publishers

Career Advising and Mentorship

Whatever your career goals, we’re here to support you. Harvard’s Mignone Center for Career Success offers career advising, employment opportunities, Harvard alumni mentor connections, and career fairs like the annual on-campus Harvard Humanities, Media, Marketing, and Creative Careers Expo.

Your Harvard University Degree

Upon successful completion of the required curriculum, you will earn the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) in Extension Studies, Field: Creative Writing and Literature.

Expand Your Connections: the Harvard Alumni Network

As a graduate, you’ll become a member of the worldwide Harvard Alumni Association (400,000+ members) and Harvard Extension Alumni Association (29,000+ members).

Harvard is closer than one might think. You can be anywhere and still be part of this world.

Tuition & Financial Aid

Affordability is core to our mission. When compared to our continuing education peers, it’s a fraction of the cost.

After admission, you may qualify for financial aid . Typically, eligible students receive grant funds to cover a portion of tuition costs each term, in addition to federal financial aid options.

What can you do with a master’s degree in creative writing and literature?

A master’s degree in creative writing and literature prepares you for a variety of career paths in writing, literature, and communication — it’s up to you to decide where your interests will take you.

You could become a professional writer, editor, literary agent, marketing copywriter, or communications specialist.

You could also go the academic route and bring your knowledge to the classroom to teach creative writing or literature courses.

Is a degree in creative writing and literature worth it?

The value you find in our Creative Writing and Literature Master’s Degree Program will depend on your unique goals, interests, and circumstances.

The curriculum provides a range of courses that allow you to graduate with knowledge and skills transferable to various industries and careers.

How long does completing the creative writing and literature graduate program take?

Program length is ordinarily anywhere between 2 and 5 years. It depends on your preferred pace and the number of courses you want to take each semester.

For an accelerated journey, we offer year round study, where you can take courses in fall, January, spring, and summer.

While we don’t require you to register for a certain number of courses each semester, you cannot take longer than 5 years to complete the degree.

What skills do you need prior to applying for the creative writing and literature degree program?

Harvard Extension School does not require any specific skills prior to applying, but in general, it’s helpful to have solid reading, writing, communication, and critical thinking skills if you are considering a creative writing and literature master’s degree.

Initial eligibility requirements can be found on our creative writing and literature master’s degree requirements page .

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Class sizes and writers workshops are kept small to ensure you receive the individual attention you need to help your writing thrive, whether you take your class in-class or online. 

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Whether you’re looking to develop your own writing skills and editorial practice for your profession or for purely personal interest, our creative writing courses have much to offer you. Choose below from our range of qualifications.

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Creative Writing Degrees  Degrees Also known as an undergraduate or bachelors degree. Internationally respected, universally understood. An essential requirement for many high-level jobs. Gain a thorough understanding of your subject – and the tools to investigate, think critically, form reasoned arguments, solve problems and communicate effectively in new contexts. Progress to higher level study, such as a postgraduate diploma or masters degree.

  • Credits measure the student workload required for the successful completion of a module or qualification.
  • One credit represents about 10 hours of study over the duration of the course.
  • You are awarded credits after you have successfully completed a module.
  • For example, if you study a 60-credit module and successfully pass it, you will be awarded 60 credits.

How long will it take?

Creative Writing Diplomas  Diplomas Widely recognised qualification. Equivalent to the first two thirds of an honours degree. Enhance your professional and technical skills or extend your knowledge and understanding of a subject. Study for interest or career development. Top up to a full honours degree in just two years.

Creative writing certificates  certificates widely recognised qualification. equivalent to the first third of an honours degree. study for interest or career development. shows that you can study successfully at university level. count it towards further qualifications such as a diphe or honours degree., why study creative writing with the open university.

Since 2003, over 50,000 students have completed one of our critically acclaimed creative writing modules. 

The benefits of studying creative writing with us are:

  • Develops your writing skills in several genres including fiction, poetry, life writing and scriptwriting.
  • Introduces you to the world of publishing and the requirements of professionally presenting manuscripts.
  • Online tutor-group forums enable you to be part of an interactive writing community.
  • Module workbooks are widely praised and used by other universities and have attracted worldwide sales.

Careers in Creative Writing

Studying creative writing will equip you with an adaptable set of skills that can give entry to a vast range of occupations. You’ll learn to evaluate and assimilate information in constructing an argument as well as acquiring the skills of creative and critical thinking that are much in demand in the workplace. 

Our range of courses in creative writing can help you start or progress your career as a:

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The majority of our modules can be studied by themselves, on a stand-alone basis. If you later choose to work towards a qualification, you may be able to count your study towards it.

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Dietrich college of humanities and social sciences, creative writing program, carnegie mellon university houses one of a small number of english departments in the country offering a major in creative writing..

In the Creative Writing program, undergraduate students will develop talents in writing fiction, poetry, screenwriting , and creative nonfiction. While studying with faculty members who are writers, Creative Writing majors will read a wide range of literature and genres, sharpen critical and verbal skills, better explore the resources and potential of imagination, and develop a professional attitude towards writing. The extracurricular writing activities and a variety of writing internships available on and off campus provide valuable experiences for planning both professional and academic futures.  After graduation, many Creative Writing majors go on to graduate writing programs and to careers in teaching, publishing, public relations, advertising, TV and film, or freelance writing and editing.

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Associate Professor of English Kevin González has been awarded the 2021 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant for his upcoming memoir, Juracán .

This grant from The Whiting Foundation is awarded annually to writers who are completing cultural nonfiction books. González’s memoir focuses on his experiences growing up in Puerto Rico in the ‘80s and ‘90s, then immigrating to the United States.

Read more about Professor González's award.

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Grad Program: MA in Creative Writing in Russian (Moscow)

Application opens February 2019

For fiction/non-fiction writers in Russian.

MA “Creative Writing”  is:

  • Practical and theoretical/historical courses, such as  Creative Writing Workshop ,  Storytelling in Different Media ,  Literary Editing , Poetics of Novel and Screenwriting ;
  • Unique professors and teachers, among them famous Russian writers, screenwriters and critics –  Marina Stepnova ,  Lyudmila Ulitskaya ,  Lev Danilkin ,  Sergey Gandlevsky  and  Maya Kucherskaya  as well as prominent philologists, authors of academic and non-fiction books  Oleg Lekmanov ,  Ekaterina Lyamina  and  Alexey Vdovin ;
  • Participation in open readings, discussions and  literary expeditions ,  publications in students’ projects ;
  • International exchange  – lectures and workshops of the leading specialists in Creative Writing, students’ exchange in the best world universities;
  •  Help and support in the process of  employment  in various publishing houses, editorials, Mass Media, high schools and universities and PR;
  • Creation and participation in  cultural projects ;
  • Flexible timetable  enabling students to work while studying.

Our graduates already work in the best publishing houses, universities and schools in Moscow. Their writing is published in the authoritative literary magazines. Their projects (such as prize  “_Litblog”  for the best literary blogger and first Creative Writing Internet resource in Russian  “Mnogobukv” and collections of prose) have gained much attention.

Language of instruction: Russian

You can apply to non-paid place as a foreign student in February. Looking forward to seeing you at Higher School of Economics!

More information about the programme:  https://www.hse.ru/en/ma/litmaster

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Two decades ago, Jennifer Lopez took the pop zeitgeist by storm with "This is Me...Then," an album that immortalized her as "Jenny From The Block" and featured other hit singles like "All I Have" and "I'm Glad." The album went double platinum, and marked the last time Lopez topped the Billboard charts in the U.S. Lopez has gone through a lot as an artist and a person over the last 20 years; she's released several more albums, starred in films like "Hustlers" and "Marry Me" (also "Gigli," but we don't need to talk about that), co-headlined a Super Bowl halftime show, judged "American Idol," and done a Las Vegas residency.

Oh, and she also recently married Ben Affleck, who tabloids had framed as her long lost love ever since the pair ended their first engagement in 2004. We don't usually dig into celebrities' dating lives here at /Film, but in this case, the Affleck of it all matters. A song-and-dance version of Lopez's wedding features prominently in the first teaser for "This is Me...Now," a new album that's set to drop with an accompanying film of the same name on Prime Video. What else should we expect from this album-inspired "cinematic experience"? Here's everything we know.

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When Does This Is Me...Now Premiere?

The film version of "This is Me...Now" (which is also being called, appropriately, "This is Me...Now: The Film") is set to drop on Amazon's Prime Video on February 16, 2024, the same day Lopez's full album goes live. The Valentine's Day weekend release seems fitting for an artist who's made her movie career with some great rom-coms, and the rain-soaked, starry-night sensibilities of the teaser match the romance vibe as well.

A year ago, Lopez shared a short teaser for "This is Me...Now" to Youtube, in which her cover album from 2002 transformed to reveal the artist in the present day. That promo didn't specify that the new project, which press materials call a "sister album" to "This is Me...Then," would be both a film and a record. It also teased the tentative release year as 2023, but given the production value on display in the latest promos, it's a good thing that the movie took the time to get everything just right.

The first single from the upcoming album, "Can't Get Enough," will also drop ahead of the film and full album on January 10, 2024.

What Are The Plot Details Of This Is Me...Now?

Press materials for "This is Me...Now" describe the film as "A narrative driven, intimate, reflective, sexy, funny, fantastical and highly entertaining musical and visual reimagining of [Lopez's] publicly scrutinized love life." While it's unclear at this point whether "This is Me...Now" will function as a full visual album or something closer to a short or feature-length film, it sounds like it'll be musical and autobiographical. The project has also been described as "a heartfelt ode to JL's journey of self-healing and everlasting belief in fairytale endings."

Based on the first teaser alone, "This is Me...Now" looks like it'll combine classic musical aesthetics (there's a sequence that looks like something straight out of "Singin' in the Rain") with genre-blending interpretations of Lopez's life. At one point, as she burns a love letter from 2002 in a luxurious high-rise (while wearing an equally luxurious dress), a hummingbird taps meaningfully on her window. Another quick shot reveals her in a steampunk-style room full of clocks and machines, wearing a red jumpsuit while dancers around her move in hazmat suits. What does it all mean? We probably won't know until the film drops in February.

Who Is In The Cast Of This Is Me...Now?

So far, Lopez is the only announced cast member for "This Is Me...Now?" but a press release for the project teases "star-studded cameos." If this movie is going to be a reflection of the past 20 years of Lopez's love life, it's possible we could see appearances from several friends, family members, or exes (or popular actors playing them), or from her husband Ben Affleck. This is pure speculation at this point, as the specific cameos have not been revealed, but Yahoo has reported that Affleck is a co-writer on the project.

IMDb currently credits rappers Fat Joe and Sean Paul as cast members in the film appearing as themselves, although it's unclear if they will act on screen or simply be featured in the music that viewers hear. The album's first single, "Can't Get Enough," samples Paul's song "I'm Still In Love With You," per Vibe . Fat Joe has worked with Lopez before, appearing as a featured artist on the 2000 track "Feelin' So Good."

Who Is The Director Of This Is Me...Now?

"This is Me...Now?" is directed by prolific music video director Dave Meyers, who has worked with artists including Harry Styles, Janelle Monae, Missy Elliott, Billie Eilish, Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, and Drake. He's also previously worked with Lopez on multiple videos, including "I'm Real," "I'm Gonna Be Alright," "All I Have," and "The Real Me."

Believe it or not, Meyers previously directed the gnarly 2007 remake of the horror classic "The Hitcher," as well as the 1999 comedy "Foolish." He's made some musical-narrative mashups that don't quite fit under the music video label, too, like Mariah Carey's "The Keys of Christmas" in 2016. Judging by Meyers' considerable music video bona fides, "This is Me...Now: The Film" will certainly be a memorable spectacle. Lopez herself also seems to be very involved with the making of the project, as evidenced by the press materials reading: "Along with director Dave Meyers, Lopez creates a genre-redefining immersive cinematic experience."

Has This Is Me...Now Released A Trailer?

The first teaser for "This is Me...Now" dropped on November 27, 2023. It's only 37 seconds long, but the promo spot gives us a good sense of what the film will be like -- sweeping, epic, and unashamedly romantic. "When I was a little girl, when someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, my answer was always 'in love,'" Lopez says in voiceover while sitting fireside in a rain-soaked gown. She tosses love notes into the fire in her elegant but empty high-rise, until a hummingbird taps on her window.

From here, we're just given snapshots of sequences from the film: a motorcycle gliding over a mirrored, wet surface, a little girl beckoning for us to follow her to the edge of a building, Lopez swinging around a light pole in the rain. There's also a massive ensemble in what looks like a love factory (a sign in the background says "Heart Stats" and they seem to be making rose petals). Interestingly, the trailer also includes quick shots of what look like two weddings, perhaps reflecting one of Lopez's previous marriages. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot, she wears a flower crown and an orange dress, surrounded by people in white who herald her arrival. In the next, she's in a white dress with huge heart cut-outs, dancing alongside a groom or wedding party member in red. Intriguing! 

All will be revealed when "This is Me...Now" hits Prime Video on February 16, 2024.

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Halftime premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and is now streaming on Netflix.

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The film primarily features Lopez in the lead-up to her Super Bowl show. "I'm trying to give you something with substance," she says in the trailer. "Not just us out there shaking our fucking asses. I want something real." In Halftime , Lopez talks about the impact the tabloids and living in the public eye has on her, and the "low self-esteem" she felt when she was snubbed for an Oscar nomination for her performance in Hustlers .

The documentary also features an interview with her fiancé Ben Affleck. In the trailer, he says, "I said to her once, doesn't this bother you? And she said, 'I expected this,'" referring to the media frenzy around her.

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Halftime had its world premiere on opening night of the Tribeca Film Festival in Washington Heights. Per the festival , " Halftime offers an intimate peek behind the curtain revealing the grit and determination that makes Jennifer Lopez the icon she is, from her performances onscreen and on stages around the world, to her Super Bowl halftime show, to the recent presidential inauguration."

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Lopez sang "This Land Is Your Land" and "America the Beautiful" at President Joe Biden's inauguration in January 2021, and her halftime performance with Shakira at the 2020 Super Bowl has been viewed over 231 million times on YouTube . As the description specifically notes these two moments, it's likely Halftime will cover JLo's life and career 2020 and 2021.

"The documentary focuses on an international superstar who has inspired people for decades with her perseverance, creative brilliance, and cultural contributions. And it's only the beginning," the statement continued. " Halftime serves as the kickoff to the second half of Lopez's life, as she lays bare her evolution as a Latina, a mother, and an artist, taking agency in her career and using her voice for a greater purpose."

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This is not the first Jennifer Lopez documentary; Jennifer Lopez: Dance Again premiered on HBO in 2014 and, per the description, "combines riveting musical performances with a raw and candid look at Lopez's personal and professional life over a defining six-month period, when she challenges herself to go on tour with her two young children in tow." In addition, Jennifer Lopez in Concert , a TV special, premiered in 2001 and was reworked as Jennifer Lopez: Let's Get Loud in 2013 , and Jennifer Lopez: Feelin' So Good , came out in 2000.

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The film will premiere during Tribeca Film Festival on June 8 at the United Palace in Washington Heights. Halftime will be available to stream on Netflix staring June 14 . If you need another endorsement, Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Robert De Niro described the film as "powerful storytelling."

"Powerful storytelling—whether in music, film, or games—encourages us to fight for universal values that bind humanity together," he said in a statement. " Halftime , featuring Jennifer Lopez, reminds us of that."

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Jennifer Lopez is all about getting loud.

The artist has a lot to say in her new documentary, "Halftime," which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last week and rolled out on Netflix on Tuesday.

The film looks at Lopez's professional life in recent years, including the making and promoting of the movie "Hustlers" and behind-the-scenes of the Super Bowl Halftime Show she headlined with Shakira. It also offers a window into her personal life, including a brief cameo of fiancé Ben Affleck . (Her ex-fiance Alex Rodriguez is not mentioned or included in the documentary at all. They broke up in April 2021).

Here are five takeaways from the documentary.

Lopez was frustrated about splitting the Super Bowl show

For the 2020 halftime show, Lopez and Shakira each split their time evenly for the 14-minute performance, singing a medley of their major hits.

And while Lopez was honored to perform on a national stage with Shakira, behind the scenes she was also frustrated about the time constraints on the performance.

During one scene, Shakira and Lopez chat about the Super Bowl on the phone: Lopez tells Shakira, “If it was going to be a double headliner, they should have given us 20 minutes. That's what they should've f------ done.”

When prepping the show with her music director, Lopez is also seen getting frustrated over the time constraints. "This was the worst idea in the world to have two people do the Super Bowl," she says.

At one point ahead of the show, she's also captured on video talking on the phone with Ricky Kirshner, an NFL producer, saying the finale "can't just be one minute."

"We're trying to squeeze this down to the bare minimum. It's hard because it's such a big stage, and it's such an important show. And all of us have dreamed of doing it. And it's been a nightmare since we've started."

When Kirshner pushed back, Lopez responds by saying: "I'm trying to give you something of substance... I want something that's going to make a statement."

The NFL also "didn't want the cages in the show," according to Lopez and others in the documentary.

"To take out the cages and sacrifice what I believe in would be like not being there at all," Lopez says in the documentary. She says she stood her ground, asserting that "The Super Bowl is tomorrow and we're not changing anything."

Ultimately, the show kept the political statement in place. There were child performers in glowing spheres that many interpreted as a reference to the immigrant children and youth being held at U.S. detention centers. Emme, Lopez's daughter, also joined her mother on stage and sang a few bars of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" as Lopez unfurled a feathery flag that featured the American and Puerto Rican flags on it.

Lopez posted on Instagram the day after the Super Bowl. She wrote in the caption, "other people can try to build walls, keep us out or put us in cages. We are proud to recognize that all of us together are what makes this beautiful country truly great.” At the time, the comments about walls and cages seemed to confirm speculation that she was sending a political message with her set.

Seeing images of kids in cages at the border motivated Lopez to get more political

During the documentary, Lopez notes that she's not "into politics."

"I’m not that person," she says. "But I was living in a United States I didn't recognize. I was afraid for my kids, for their future."

Jennifer Lopez in "Halftime".

It was seeing images and footage of kids in cages at the border that made her feel like she "couldn't believe" what she was watching. In 2018, hundreds of kids were  separated from their parents  at the U.S. border as part of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy.

"You don’t rip a child from their parents," she says. "There are just certain things as a human being you don’t do."

"It made me realize that I had a responsibility to not be quiet," she adds. "To not just leave the politics to everybody else."

When prepping her Super Bowl act with Shakira, Lopez is seen discussing making a statement with their show and defying the "narrative that Trump created" that "everybody's an immigrant trying to sneak into the country and is who is a criminal."

"Some of us have been here for years," she says. "And a lot of those people are just good people who are looking for the American dream. That's all they want." 

Lopez considered quitting Hollywood amid scrutiny, jokes at her expense

As her career blew up, Lopez says there was a time when she "had really low self esteem."

"No matter what I achieved," she says in the documentary. "Their [the media's] appetite to cover my personal life overshadowed everything."

"I believed a lot of what they said, which is that I wasn't really good," she says.

The documentary shows clips of late night shows mocking Lopez, particularly her relationship with Affleck. The pair known as "Bennifer" were one of Hollywood's hottest couples from 2002 to 2004. They called off their wedding days in advance and later broke up.

Each then married other people. Lopez was married to singer Marc Anthony, whom she  split  with seven years later. Affleck married actor Jennifer Garner, but in 2015 they  announced  they were divorcing after 10 years of marriage.

The couple  reunited last year,  but initially kept  their romance  under wraps. They announced their engagement in April 2022.

Affleck is briefly interviewed for the documentary, where he is asked about the scrutiny Lopez received during the early days of their relationship.

"I said to her once, doesn't this bother you?" he says in the documentary. "And she said, I'm Latina, I expected this. You just don't expect it, you expect to be treated fairly." 

The jabs impacted Lopez.

"There were many times where I was like I think I'm just going to quit," she says. "I had to really figure out who I was and believe in that and not believe anything else."

The documentary also shows a series of clips of people in the industry mocking Lopez's butt in various segments that appeared on air.

"When I started working, the beauty ideal was very thin, blonde, tall, not a lot of curves," she says. "It was hard when you think people think you're a joke. Like you're a punchline. But I wound up affecting things in a way that I never intended to affect them."

The 'Hustlers' Oscar nomination snub hit Lopez hard

Throughout the documentary, viewers are given a look at all the work that Lopez put into the movie "Hustlers," including taking pole dancing lessons.

"It's super painful because it is like a crash course," she says in the documentary, pointing to bruises on her legs obtained from learning.

The film, she says, was especially exciting to her because it "had substance."

"That's something I fought for in my career," she says. "This is a film about women who had limited options and had to make hard choices. These characters remind me of women I knew growing up in the Bronx."

The documentary highlights all the awards season buzz Lopez generated for her role as Ramona, the senior dancer at a New York strip joint, in the film.

In December 2019, Lopez received a Golden Globes nomination for the role. "It only took 20 years," Lopez jokes in a call reacting to the nomination. 

The cameras follow Lopez to the ceremony itself. She didn't win.

When reflecting on the loss, she says to the camera, "I really thought I had a chance; I felt like I let everybody down."

The Oscars nomination snub also hit Lopez hard.

At one point in the documentary, she is seen reading positive reviews and getting emotional about the overwhelming supportive reaction.

Amid awards season, she is also seen juggling rehearsals for the Super Bowl and attending events, remaining hopeful for a nomination for the most coveted award in Hollywood.

The morning the 92nd Academy Awards nominations were announced in February 2020, Lopez did not get the nod.

"The truth is I really started to think I was going to get nominated," she says in the documentary. "I got my hopes up because so many people were telling me I would be. And then it didn't happen. I had to ask myself, what does that mean? I do this not for an award ... I do this to tell stories and to affect change and to connect with people and make them feel things, because I want to feel something. That's why I do it."

Lopez strives to 'be better in every way'

Lopez said it took her a long time to "find" her way in the industry.

She said after her divorce with Marc Anthony, the father of her children, she took a lot of time to reflect on her career.

"As an artist, I kind of lost a little bit of who I was in trying to kind of build a perfect life, a family life," she said. "And when my kids were 3… I got divorced. I was a single mom with two little kids, at 42…movie roles were not knocking down my door. As I was getting back to work I really felt like I didn't know what my value was anymore."

Being a judge on "American Idol" helped her "find her purpose."

"I really learned a lot about myself," she said, including that she needs "to be better in every way."

"You know you have those moments in this business where you're like, what's next? And will anything be next?" she says in the documentary. "I think every entertainer, every creative person, every artist, lives with that fear."

Now, however, Lopez says "I’m going to be unafraid to get loud and use my voice in the best way that I can."

At this point in her career, Lopez said she's "thriving" in a way she "never imagined." The documentary comes to an end by showing footage of Lopez's performance at President Joe Biden's Inauguration.

"I'm not done," she says at one point in the documentary, "not even close."

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The title of Jennifer Lopez ‘s Halftime documentary, now streaming on Netflix , refers not only to how the film explores her preparations for her 2020 Super Bowl performance with Shakira but also to Lopez looking ahead to the second half of her life as she turns 50.

“I feel like I’m just getting started,” Lopez says in the film as she celebrates her 50th birthday. And later she muses about more things she hopes to accomplish in her life.

In fact, when producer Dave Broome first got involved with the film that would become Halftime , many of the most significant moments in Lopez’s professional life from the past few years, which feature prominently in the film, hadn’t even happened.

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Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter ahead of Halftime’ s premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Festival last week, Broome explained how filming began as Lopez “was coming to the end of her residency in Las Vegas wondering what’s next in her life, and we had no idea.”

“ Hustlers is not on the table,” Broome added. “And nothing that was going on in her life that we’ve seen now over the last four years is something that we thought we would be filming.”

As Lopez made Hustlers and embarked on an awards campaign for her role, which unfortunately ended with her not landing the Oscar nomination many predicted she’d get, and as she was picked to co-headline the 2020 Super Bowl with Shakira, “the whole movie changed,” Broome said.

“It was a constant fluidness [for four years]. You start with an outline and go, ‘Here’s what we’re going to do.’ And then all of a sudden, ‘What do you mean she’s now starring in this movie where she’s playing a stripper? What do you mean that’s getting a potential Oscar nomination?’ The great thing about making a documentary is none of this is scripted, it’s real life. So when you’re following it, you’re chasing it and finding and building the story as you go,” Broome said. “I can’t tell you how many edits we had. It’s like, ‘OK, here’s the movie.’ ‘Oh wait, that’s not the movie because this just happened.’ ‘Now here’s the movie.’ ‘Oh wait, that’s not it.'”

Lopez’s producing partner Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas shared from the Tribeca stage how the project became something bigger.

“What started as a run and gun trying to capture Jennifer celebrating her 50th birthday on the It’s My Party tour began to morph into something else when my partner Benny Medina saw that there was a larger story to tell,” she said as she introduced the film.

Oscar-nominated director Amanda Micheli was brought on near the end of 2019 to shape “hundreds and hundreds of hours of archival footage and personal footage” and “find the story that hadn’t been told.”

That process included roughly two years of edits amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with Micheli getting ready for interviews as the world shut down in March 2020. As COVID restrictions lessened, the interviews began with Lopez and those close to her, and Micheli says she was able to “find the story in the edit room.”

“It was really an epic undertaking, and for me it ended up being a labor of love,” she said.

The resulting film shows Lopez reflecting back on her life in an honest, vulnerable way, explaining at times how she had low self-esteem as she was criticized.

“When you make a documentary and you start to look back at your life a different way, it’s an emotional process. It was like therapy, honestly,” Micheli said of her interviews with Lopez. “I think she really, looking back, admitted times when her self-esteem was not bulletproof, and that was a surprise to me because I always saw her as so successful.”

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While the film does show her crying in bed and moments of frustration, Lopez is shown dealing with the Oscar snub amid what appear to be Super Bowl rehearsals, as she tells her colleagues how she had a dream that she did get nominated and woke up to check and found out it wasn’t true.

“The truth is, I really started to think I was going to get nominated,” she says in the movie. “I got my hopes up because so many people were telling me I would be. And then it didn’t happen.”

Halftime also leans into the political inspiration behind Lopez’s halftime performance.

Early in the documentary, Lopez explains that while she’s not “into politics,” she was living in a United States that she “didn’t recognize.” She seems particularly upset about the migrant families separated under the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy at the Mexican border, adding that the highly publicized images of children in cages really stuck with her.

“These motherfuckers act like everybody’s an immigrant who’s trying to sneak into the country and who’s a criminal, cause that’s the narrative that Trump created, which is bullshit,” Lopez is shown saying. “Some of us have been here for years, and a lot of those people are just good people who believe in the American dream — that’s all they want.”

The film also shows Lopez’s team bristling at some of the NFL’s decision-making, including “higher-ups” in the league wanting the cages removed the night before the Super Bowl and Lopez and Medina expressing frustration at the league choosing two Latina women to headline the halftime show instead of just one performer. Lopez, in particular, gets frustrated as she deals with the logistics of trying to cut her show down to six minutes for a 14-minute double-headlining show. It’s in this discussion with her music director that she says having two Super Bowl performers was “the worst idea in the world.” She earlier tells Shakira that if the NFL wanted two headliners they should have given them 20 minutes.

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Broome, who has made multiple projects for Netflix, felt the streamer made sense for the project as “a global platform for … a global superstar.”

Still, he was impressed that Netflix didn’t immediately say yes to the prospect of a Jennifer Lopez documentary.

He said, “When I walked the project in [to Netflix] and I said, ‘I have a Jennifer Lopez documentary what do you think?’ To their credit, they’re not like, ‘Oh yeah, we’re in, Dave, let’s go.’ The question was, ‘Great, what is it? What’s the story you’re going to tell? How are you going to piece it together? Who’s the director?’ What are we telling and what do we think we want to do.”

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Jennifer Lopez admits not everyone in her camp initially supported the idea to document her romance with husband Ben Affleck in her upcoming “This Is Me… Now” album and companion film.

“As artists, we have to follow our heart and this is me following my heart and doing something that maybe everybody didn’t think was the best idea, but I had to do it,” Lopez tells me.

Lopez is set to drop “This Is Me… Now,” a new album that marks the 20th anniversary of “This Is Me…Then,” on Feb. 16. The Dave Meyers-directed companion short film will be released at the same time by Amazon MGM Studios.

Asked if the film is a scripted feature or doc, Lopez explained, “You have to see it and you’ll have to experience it to understand it. That’s why I call it a ‘musical experience.’ Because there’s music, you can see it, you can hear it and then you’ll get to live it.”

A recent teaser for the film included a clip of Lopez saying, “When I was a little girl, when someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, my answer was always… in love.”

It was almost a year ago when Lopez told me, at the premiere of her rom-com “Shotgun Wedding,” that she would love to act with Affleck again. They infamously co-starred in 2003’s “Gigli,” which bombed both with critics and at the box office. “We talk,” Lopez said at the time. “We love being together and working together so, yeah, you never know.”

Lopez and Affleck initially dated in the early 2000s. Bennifer, as they were often called, came to an end not long after they called off their wedding in 2003. The relationship was rekindled in 2021 before marrying in Las Vegas in 2022.

Lopez and Affleck’s most recent red carpet appearance took place on Dec. 5 in Hollywood when she was honored at Elle’s Women in Hollywood celebration.

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The 16 Best J. Lo Movies Of All Time

O ver nearly three decades, Jennifer Lopez has established herself as a multi-hyphenate talent: she’s been a Fly Girl, a Hollywood leading lady, a fashion icon whose red carpet choices necessitated the creation of Google Images , a successful recording artist, an entrepreneur, and a producer.

The through line connecting the many roles Lopez has inhabited in her career, onscreen and off, is the essence of her persona—her larger-than-life presence, undeniable star power, and dazzling charisma. This is perhaps most cogent when looking back on her filmography, a medley of thrillers, dramas, and romantic comedies, many of which have become beloved in the zeitgeist. This, according to TIME’s movie critic Stephanie Zacharek , is less a testament to the artistic value of the films than it is to Lopez’s immense talents and endless appeal, so much so that she hails Lopez “the patron saint of romantic comedies.”

With that in mind, and with her newest rom-com, Shotgun Wedding, releasing today, here’s a look back at 16 of J. Lo’s best films of all time, from Selena to Hustlers .

My Family (1995)

Although she had appeared in films before My Family, Gregory Nava’s 1995 film gave Lopez her first notable role on the big screen. The bittersweet, touching family drama centers on the challenges and triumphs that multiple generations of a Mexican-American family face after immigrating to Los Angeles. While Lopez was initially uncredited for her role as the young matriarch Maria Sanchez in the film, she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role. The film also opened up doors to another pivotal opportunity—following working with her on My Family , Nava cast Lopez in Selena .

Where to stream: Unavailable for streaming; DVDs available for purchase on Amazon

Selena (1997)

Lopez’s role as Selena Quintanilla-Pérez in 1997’s Selena catapulted her to stardom. Her exuberant performance of the iconic Tejano music superstar in the film, which portrayed both Selena’s meteoric rise to fame and her untimely and tragic end, was critically acclaimed and netted Lopez her first Golden Globe nomination. The film also made Lopez the first Latina actor to earn $1 million.

Where to stream: HBO Max

Out of Sight (1998)

While Lopez had plenty of roles in action flicks before Out of Sight , this smart, fast-paced thriller set itself apart thanks to the sizzling chemistry between her and co-star George Clooney. The film is a battle of charms and wit between Clooney’s rakish bank robber and Lopez’s feisty U.S. marshal as they decide whether or not their flirtation during a high-stakes robbery attempt is motivated by love or the law.

Where to stream: Available to buy or rent on YouTube

The Wedding Planner (2001)

Lopez cemented her status as a Hollywood leading lady with her charming turn as Mary Fiore in 2001’s The Wedding Planner . Though certain elements of the movie are puzzling now (like Lopez’s character being written as Italian American), the film has become an undeniable part of the rom-com canon thanks to its sweet but kooky storyline, where Lopez’s titular character falls in love with her client’s fiancé, played by Matthew McConaughey. Lopez also made history as the first woman to simultaneously have a number one album and movie after The Wedding Planner and her sophomore album, J. Lo , released during the same week.

Where to stream: Peacock

Enough (2002)

A longtime hallmark of Lopez’s filmography is her penchant for stories about survivors. Her characters are never shrinking violets; instead, they’re marked by a measure of tenacity, strength, and the ability to overcome, even in the most dire of circumstances. There’s no better example of that than 2002’s Enough , in which Lopez’s character is a mother who flees an abusive marriage, then trains so she can exact her revenge on her violent husband in self-defense.

Maid in Manhattan (2002)

In Maid in Manhattan , a reimagined Cinderella story for the early 2000s, a case of mistaken identity leads Lopez’s character Marisa, a hotel maid, to fall in love with a high-profile politician (played by Ralph Fiennes) who’s staying at her place of employment. While some details of the film haven’t aged well (Marisa’s son’s preoccupation with Richard Nixon and Fienne’s character’s seemingly conservative politics), the film’s hopeful narrative and Lopez’s winsome performance makes it a staple of the romance genre.

Gigli (2003)

When this rom-com starring Ben Affleck as a lovelorn, down-on-his-luck gangster and Lopez as a henchwoman for hire released, it was universally panned thanks to an astoundingly bad premise and an equally horrific script that relied on low-key racism, homophobia, and ableism for laughs. What makes this film significant, however, is its role in the cultural zeitgeist. Affleck and Lopez, who met on the set of the film, began a much-publicized romance (immortalized in her “Jenny From the Block music video”) that led to an engagement and their infamous hybrid couple name, Bennifer, making them one of the most notorius and ubiquitous duos at the height of celebrity tabloid culture in the early aughts. Now, with their romance rekindled nearly 20 years later, Gigli with all its flaws and shortcomings, might just be worth revisiting.

Monster-in-Law (2005)

Lopez shows off her comedic chops to great effect in the screwball 2005 comedy Monster-in-Law . Ahead of her impending nuptials, Lopez’s spunky bride Charlie’s romance with her soon-to-be-husband Kevin takes a back seat to her major issues with his difficult mother Viola, played by a formidable and hilarious Jane Fonda. The slapstick tussles between Fonda and Lopez, who both bring their A-game to this extremely silly film, will keep you in stitches.

El Cantante (2006)

Lopez starred opposite her then-husband Marc Anthony in 2006’s El Cantante , a colorful biopic about the life and career of Puerto Rican salsa singer Héctor Lavoe. While the film received less than rave reviews, the film is worth a watch thanks to the sizzling chemistry between Anthony and Lopez, who played Lavoe’s wife, Nilda “Puchi” Roman Perez with incredible charisma and charm.

Where to stream: Hulu , HBO Max

The Back-Up Plan (2010)

The rom-com got a surprising update with 2010’s The Back-Up Plan , in which Lopez’s character Zoe, an independent woman living in the city, decides to pursue single motherhood. After conceiving via artificial insemination, however, she meets the love of her life, leading to her pursuing a new relationship while preparing for parenthood.

Where to stream: Paramount+ , YouTube

The Boy Next Door (2015)

Lopez co-produced and starred in this horror film, which centers on a suburban teacher with a philandering husband who has a one-night stand with the boy next door, before finding out that he’s a student at the high school where she teaches. His subsequent obsession with her leads to her fighting for her life and the lives of those she loves. Is the film corny and unrealistic? Absolutely. But it follows in a tradition of many other great horror films in that respect, and Lopez gives it her all.

Second Act (2018)

Lopez is at her best when she plays an underdog, which is why 2018’s Second Act works so well. Lopez plays the middle-aged Maya, an assistant manager at a value store, who dares to start a new life after she’s passed up for role at work that she’s more than experienced for because she doesn’t have a college degree. Relying on her street smarts, she rebrands as a corporate bigwig, but re-encounters a secret from her past that makes her re-evaluate the life she wants. The story is undeniably feel-good, but earnest and excellent performances by Lopez, Leah Remini, Vanessa Hudgens, and Milo Ventigmigalia make this worth a watch.

Where to stream: Hulu

Hustlers (2019)

Lopez gave the performance of her career as Ramona, the street-smart and maternal dancer who heads up a scheme that scammed finance bros at a NYC strip club after the 2008 financial crash impacts the club’s profit margin. The film, which was based on a true story, led to unanimous praise and critical acclaim for Lopez (also a producer on the film) who was nominated for multiple awards for the role, including a Golden Globe and an Independent Spirit award.

Marry Me (2022)

Lopez leans into the rom-com formula she’s perfected over the last three decades of her career with Marry Me, in which her character, Kat, a global pop superstar, marries a complete stranger on stage at one of her concerts after discovering that her fiancé is cheating on her. Co-starring Owen Wilson and singer Maluma as the stranger and the cheating fiancé, respectively, Lopez is as luminous and magnetic as ever in this silly and sweet movie, which loyal fans of hers may recognize as skewing dangerously close to art imitating life, following her 2021 split from former fiancé Alex Rodriguez, following allegations of his infidelity.

Shotgun Wedding (2023)

Lopez delivers thrills and laughs in equal measure in this rollicking romp of a rom-com. As Darcy, a bride who’s juggling the complicated and chaotic dynamics of her family and her soon-to-be in-laws ahead of her epic destination wedding to her hapless former baseball player fiancé (sound familiar?) Tom (Josh Duhamel), Lopez makes for a lovable and spunky heroine who proves her mettle after pirates take her wedding party and their parents hostage. The movie is endlessly silly, but ultimately enjoyable, blending J. Lo’s identities as both a rom-com queen and a veritable action star.

Where to stream: Amazon Prime

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First earning her name as a “Fly Girl” on the Fox TV series In Living Color , Lopez had appeared in a handful of films — Mi Familia (1995), Money Train (1995) and Jack (1996) — but playing the iconic singer was Lopez’s true breakout role, even landing her a Golden Golden nomination for best actress musical in a musical or comedy in 1998.

And it was well deserved. Lopez poured her soul into researching the role — even sleeping in Selena’s bed — to understand the tragically short life of the Queen of Tejano Music.

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When Lopez first landed the role in 1996, the scars from Selena’s death in 1995 were still fresh. Along with that came backlash about Lopez being cast in the role. Among the reasons: that she wasn’t the “right kind” of Latina. “I know a few people were protesting,” Lopez told Entertainment Weekly . “But in Corpus [Christi, Texas, Selena’s hometown], everyone has been really supportive.”

The film’s director, Gregory Nava, added that “it was a little hurtful. [The protesters] should be celebrating that we have an all-Latino cast and that Jennifer Lopez, one of our own, is becoming a star.”

Lopez traveled to Corpus Christi to meet with Selena's family

Despite the criticism — and perhaps spurred on by it — Lopez took a deep dive into understanding Selena’s life.

“Right after I got the part, I knew I would be traveling to Corpus Christi and spending time with her family, but that wasn't going to be for a few weeks, so they sent me tons of tapes to watch,” she told Billboard . “I sat on my couch watching them for days and all of a sudden, the tape cut off on me. I was shocked. And I thought to myself, ‘That's what happened.’ This amazing, beautiful spirit, full of joy and music and so much feeling, was just cut off in the middle of being. It affected me so much and made me realize the importance of what I was doing.”

That symbolism made her commit even more. “It was about portraying her as best I could, to where people weren’t thinking of anybody but her when they were watching,” Lopez continued. “You have to think of the whole story and how you fit into that story and at the same time, who is that character, what makes them tick, all the way down to their mannerisms and what drove them emotionally.”

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But watching footage wasn’t enough. She wanted to get to know the family who was still suffering from their shocking loss.

“I soaked up everything,” Lopez said in an Apple Music interview . “I slept in her bed at home. I talked to the whole family. I spent time with them. It can be melancholy and beautiful at the same time.”

The quality family time helped her really understand the innuendos of her life, telling Entertainment Tonight that she got to know “her sister, Suzette, her mother and father, I met her husband Chris and brother A.B.”

"We basically just hung out,” Selena’s sister Suzette Quintanilla remembers. “[Lopez] was just wanting to hear stories about Selena and our lives together and being on the road, and ‘How was this?’ She asked a lot of questions, ‘How was this? How did she do this?’ We watched videos together and I guess, [she] really just trying to vibe our family... not just who Selena was as a person, but us as a whole, as a family.”

It worked. During a later Grammy appearance when Lopez was dressed as Selena, Suzette said, “For a split second, I thought it was my sister.”

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Playing the singer taught Lopez to live in the moment

Among the many things that Lopez picked up was the way that Selena lived her life — unabashedly seizing everything in the now.

“She had a sense of living in the moment, living in the present and following her heart,” Lopez told Billboard. “For me, that was the biggest lesson.”

Beyond that, it was just the way Selena carried herself. “The grace with which she handled the business, the grace with which she handled her life, the humor. Her spirit of loving what she did. Her sense of family. That's the tragedy of everything that happened and why she left such an imprint because she was gone way too soon.”

The tragic twist pervades every aspect when looking back upon Selena’s short life. “The fact that she was so young and doing all of these things that people go through that maybe she wasn't ready for. The clothing line she was starting, getting married so young, things like that. I felt she had a sense to live in the moment, that you're not promised tomorrow,” Lopez reflected. “That affected me in my life far more profoundly than the movie did in career terms.”

Performing as Selena at the Houston Astrodome 'freed' Lopez

Getting all of Selena’s iconic looks right was a challenge with more than 30 outfits. “There were so many that I loved,” Lopez continued to Billboard . “The red bustier with the leggings that was her signature. Her jeweled bras. She had them in black and gold and white and red.”

And on top of that, they also had to recreate a concert in the Houston Astrodome. "It was a real concert; 30,000 to 40,000 people showed up, just for her, for that scene, to re-create it,” Lopez recalls. “Afterward, her mom came and hugged me and held me and cried. It was very emotional. It touched the family very much.”

That scene will forever have an impact on Lopez. “For me as an actress, at that moment, I had learned how to really become a performer and give everything I had to the audience. That really freed me up, and it was a very powerful moment.”

Lopez calls Selena her mentor

Even after her death, Lopez felt that the opportunity to learn from Selena’s career affected her own trajectory.

“It was a great thing for her to be my mentor in a way and teach me so much about how to navigate this business, but [also] how to navigate this life,” she told NBC News .

“If she was here, she would be doing what I’m doing right now,” she said. “It’s a sad story. It still gets to me. It really did mark my life at that time to get to know the family and work with them. It was an important part of my life. It still is.”

In fact, it was her learnings from Selena that propelled her to really focus on her music career. “I decided right after that movie to make my first record — and I did.”

She believes there is no 'next Selena'

The film itself also had a major impact on the industry as a whole. “It was a Latin movie, starring a Latin girl, playing a Latin artist and a Latin director. And it was like, ‘She’s worth this,’” Lopez told Variety . “It was a statement to the world.”

Even reflecting back to Billboard on the film’s 20th anniversary in 2017, Lopez notes Selena’s role as a breakthrough artist: “It has always bugged me that people would try to think that there's a ‘next Selena.’ It's like saying there's another James Dean or Marilyn Monroe . People like that don't come along every day... it's a special thing that Selena had. That's why we're still talking about her 20 years later.”

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Biography by Denise Sullivan

Jennifer Lopez 's first serious screen role in Gregory Nava 's 1995 Latino melodrama My Family followed years of training in television movies and series. Like Rosie Perez , Lopez began her career as a Fly Girl -- a dancer on the sketch comedy series, In Living Color -- and appeared in music videos by Puff Daddy and Janet Jackson . Her big break came in 1997 when she appeared in the title role of Nava 's Selena , the story of the successful Tejano singer who was tragically murdered in 1995.

Lopez was at first cast as a femme fatale and worked almost exclusively with acclaimed directors: Francis Ford Coppola ( Jack , 1996), Oliver Stone ( U-Turn , 1997), and Bob Rafelson ( Blood and Wine , 1996). In 1998, she had one of her most acclaimed roles, starring opposite George Clooney in Out of Sight , Steven Soderbergh 's adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel. Cast as a deputy federal marshal who falls for a charming criminal ( Clooney ), Lopez won raves for her tough, sexy performance, and in the process, she became the highest paid Latina actress in Hollywood history. That same year, she earned an introduction to a new generation of fans by lending her voice to the popular Antz (1998). The lavish but much more adult-oriented thriller The Cell (2000) followed shortly thereafter, bringing Lopez one of her first number-one openings.

Lopez[/rovilink] lightened things up a bit opposite Matthew McConaughey in 2001's romantic comedy The Wedding Planner . Though Lopez was consistently smooth in her frequent transitions from actress to songstress, her next role in the supernatural romance Angel Eyes (2001) failed to click with audiences and critics alike, and her role in the cathartic revenge thriller Enough (2002) likewise disappeared from theaters shortly after its release. Though Maid in Manhattan (2002) was ultimately relegated to a similar fate as her last few films, few could anticipate the outright hostility with which her 2003 comedy Gigli would be greeted. In the movie, Lopez was cast as a female gangster assigned to keep an eye on a kidnapper (played by then-real-life-boyfriend Ben Affleck ) who is holding a psychologically challenged young boy hostage. The harsh public backlash against the film was likely due (at least in part) to over-saturated media coverage of the duo's tumultuous off-screen relationship. Though the film's failure wasn't exactly what one would call a career-ender for either star, their shoddy onscreen dynamic reportedly led director Kevin Smith to excise most of Lopez ' role in the Affleck -starrer Jersey Girl .

Finally, in 2005, it appeared the actress' string of bad box-office luck had possibly reached its end. Teaming up with Jane Fonda for the latter thespian's first feature in over a decade, Lopez scored a modest hit with the comedy Monster-In-Law. The Lasse Hallstrom-helmed drama An Unfinished Life followed later the same year with Lopez opposite heavy-hitters Robert Redford and Morgan Freeman.

Lopez married singer Marc Anthony in 2006, and gave birth to twins in 2007. She subsequently worked less over the next few years, opting to spend time with her family. Lopez would get back into acting with the 2010 romantic comedy The Back-up Plan. She continued to slip effortlessly between film, music and television, including taking a job as a judge on American Idol, setting up a residency in Las Vegas and starring and producing in her own show on NBC, Shades of Blue. The 2015 erotic thriller The Boy Next Door was greeted with scorn, but her committed performance as the ringleader of a crew of strippers-turned-scam artists in 2019's Hustlers earned significant praise, and her lack of an Oscar nomination was considered an egregious snub. She performed alongside Shakira at halftime of Super Bowl LIV in 2020, which included nods to her Puerto Rican background and a guest appearance from her daughter, Emme Muñiz.

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Out of Sight

  • First gained attention as a "fly girl" on the Fox hit In Living Color .
  • Is the daughter of a computer specialist and a kindergarten teacher.
  • Launched a clothing line called JLO by Jennifer Lopez in 2001.
  • Also has her own production company, Nuyorican Productions, founded with former manager Benny Medina.
  • Became the first actress and singer to have a movie, The Wedding Planner , and an album, J.Lo , make it to No. 1 in the same week.
  • Earned $15 million for her role in 2005's Monster-in-Law , making her the highest paid Latina actress in Hollywood at the time.
  • Landed on the Forbes list of the Richest 20 Women in Entertainment in 2007. 
  • Founded the Lopez Family Foundation with her sister Lynda in 2009.
  • Launched her first solo world tour, Dance Again, in 2012.
  • Performed, with Pitbull and Claudia Leitte, the official song for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, "We Are One (Ole Ola)."

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1. My Little Girl (1986)

R | 118 min | Drama

A young girl agrees to work in a center for girls who can't stay with their parents. She gets wrapped up in the plights of several of the girls, and tries to help them, but only gets herself into trouble with her parents and supervisor.

Director: Connie Kaiserman | Stars: James Earl Jones , Geraldine Page , Mary Stuart Masterson , Anne Meara

2. Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7 (1993 TV Movie)

PG | 87 min | Adventure, Drama

Student nurses join some doctors to work in a medical station a few hours flying-time from the Mexican town of Catamaco. One of their planes goes down due to an engine malfunction and crashes in the rain forest.

Director: Larry Shaw | Stars: Lindsay Wagner , Robert Loggia , David Clennon , Farrah Forke

3. My Family/Mi familia (1995)

R | 128 min | Drama

A man makes his way from Mexico to Los Angeles in the 1920s and gets married and raises a big family there. The movie follows the children until they get married and start their families in the 1960s.

Director: Gregory Nava | Stars: Jimmy Smits , Esai Morales , Edward James Olmos , Rafael Cortes

Votes: 4,421 | Gross: $11.08M

4. Money Train (1995)

R | 110 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A vengeful New York City transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares. His foster brother, a fellow cop, tries to protect him.

Director: Joseph Ruben | Stars: Wesley Snipes , Woody Harrelson , Jennifer Lopez , Robert Blake

Votes: 42,663 | Gross: $35.32M

5. Jack (1996)

PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Because of an unusual disorder that has aged him four times faster than a typical human being, a boy looks like a 40-year-old man as he starts fifth grade at public school after being homeschooled.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Robin Williams , Diane Lane , Brian Kerwin , Jennifer Lopez

Votes: 63,162 | Gross: $58.62M

6. Blood and Wine (1996)

R | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A man who has failed as a father and husband commits a heist to make money for his fledging business, but things become complicated when his wife interferes.

Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: Jack Nicholson , Michael Caine , Stephen Dorff , Jennifer Lopez

Votes: 10,639 | Gross: $1.08M

7. Selena (1997)

PG | 127 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The true story of Selena , a Texas-born Tejano singer who rose from cult status to performing at the Astrodome, as well as having chart-topping albums on the Latin music charts.

Director: Gregory Nava | Stars: Jennifer Lopez , Edward James Olmos , Jon Seda , Jackie Guerra

Votes: 31,034 | Gross: $35.42M

8. Anaconda (1997)

PG-13 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

A "National Geographic" film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who forces them along on his quest to capture the world's largest - and deadliest - snake.

Director: Luis Llosa | Stars: Jon Voight , Jennifer Lopez , Eric Stoltz , Ice Cube

Votes: 110,293 | Gross: $65.89M

9. U Turn (1997)

R | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A man heading to Vegas to pay off his gambling debt before the Russian mafia kills him is forced to stop in an Arizona town where everything that can go wrong does go wrong.

Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Sean Penn , Jennifer Lopez , Nick Nolte , Billy Bob Thornton

Votes: 54,125 | Gross: $6.63M

10. Out of Sight (1998)

R | 123 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A career bank robber breaks out of jail, and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a U.S. Marshal he has kidnapped.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: George Clooney , Jennifer Lopez , Ving Rhames , Steve Zahn

Votes: 97,625 | Gross: $37.56M

11. Antz (1998)

PG | 83 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A rather neurotic ant tries to break from his totalitarian society while trying to win the affection of the princess he loves.

Directors: Eric Darnell , Tim Johnson | Stars: Woody Allen , Sharon Stone , Gene Hackman , Sylvester Stallone

Votes: 162,192 | Gross: $90.76M

12. The Cell (2000)

R | 107 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi

An F.B.I. Agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim.

Director: Tarsem Singh | Stars: Jennifer Lopez , Vince Vaughn , Vincent D'Onofrio , Colton James

Votes: 107,749 | Gross: $61.33M

13. De todo corazón (2000 TV Special)

169 min | Music

Directors: Carlos Fuentes , Roger Justafré | Stars: José 'El Francés' , Marilia A. Casares , Octavio Aceves , Alma

14. The Wedding Planner (2001)

PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Romance

Mary Fiore is San Francisco's most successful supplier of romance and glamor. She knows all the tricks. She knows all the rules. But then she breaks the most important rule of all: she falls in love with the groom.

Director: Adam Shankman | Stars: Jennifer Lopez , Matthew McConaughey , Bridgette Wilson-Sampras , Justin Chambers

Votes: 85,255 | Gross: $60.40M

15. Angel Eyes (2001)

R | 102 min | Drama, Romance

A mysterious man is drawn to a feisty female police officer and an unusual relationship ensues, as not everything is as it seems.

Director: Luis Mandoki | Stars: Jennifer Lopez , Jim Caviezel , Jeremy Sisto , Terrence Howard

Votes: 25,479 | Gross: $24.04M

16. Enough (I) (2002)

PG-13 | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After running away fails, a terrified woman empowers herself in order to battle her abusive husband.

Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Jennifer Lopez , Billy Campbell , Tessa Allen , Juliette Lewis

Votes: 46,890 | Gross: $40.01M

17. Maid in Manhattan (2002)

PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A Senatorial candidate falls for a hotel maid, thinking she is a socialite, when he sees her trying on a wealthy woman's dress.

Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Jennifer Lopez , Ralph Fiennes , Natasha Richardson , Stanley Tucci

Votes: 94,897 | Gross: $94.01M

18. Gigli (2003)

R | 121 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Larry Gigli is assigned by a crime boss to kidnap the brother of a prominent district attorney. A beautiful woman known only as Ricki is sent to stay with him to make sure he doesn't mess up the job.

Director: Martin Brest | Stars: Ben Affleck , Jennifer Lopez , Justin Bartha , Terry Camilleri

Votes: 50,414 | Gross: $6.07M

19. Jersey Girl (2004)

PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A widower must look after his precocious daughter and rebuild his life and career after he's sidelined by an unexpected tragedy and a personal blowup.

Director: Kevin Smith | Stars: Ben Affleck , Liv Tyler , Raquel Castro , Betty Aberlin

Votes: 68,805 | Gross: $25.27M

20. Shall We Dance (2004)

PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A romantic comedy where a bored, overworked Estate Lawyer, upon first sight of a beautiful instructor, signs up for ballroom dancing lessons.

Director: Peter Chelsom | Stars: Richard Gere , Jennifer Lopez , Susan Sarandon , Stanley Tucci

Votes: 48,986 | Gross: $57.89M

21. Monster-in-Law (2005)

PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Romance

The love life of Charlotte is reduced to an endless string of disastrous blind dates, until she meets the perfect man, Kevin. Unfortunately, his merciless mother will do anything to destroy their relationship.

Director: Robert Luketic | Stars: Jennifer Lopez , Michael Vartan , Jane Fonda , Wanda Sykes

Votes: 64,658 | Gross: $82.93M

22. An Unfinished Life (2005)

PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Desperate to provide care for her daughter, down-on-her-luck Jean moves in with her father in-law from whom she is estranged. Through time, they learn to forgive each other and heal old wounds.

Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Jennifer Lopez , Robert Redford , Morgan Freeman , Josh Lucas

Votes: 33,138 | Gross: $8.59M

23. Bordertown (2007)

R | 112 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A journalist investigates a series of murders near American-owned factories on the border of Juarez and El Paso.

Director: Gregory Nava | Stars: Jennifer Lopez , Antonio Banderas , Maya Zapata , Irineo Alvarez

Votes: 11,269

24. El cantante (2006)

R | 106 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The life story of Hector Lavoe who started the salsa movement in 1975 and brought it to the United States.

Director: Leon Ichaso | Stars: Marc Anthony , Jennifer Lopez , John Ortiz , Manny Perez

Votes: 5,196 | Gross: $7.56M

25. Feel the Noise (2007)

PG-13 | 86 min | Drama, Music

A young man from the South Bronx dreams of making it as a rapper, until a run-in with local thugs forces him to hide in Puerto Rico with the father he never knew.

Director: Alejandro Chomski | Stars: Omarion , Giancarlo Esposito , Melonie Diaz , Rosa Arredondo

Votes: 4,779 | Gross: $5.87M

26. The Back-up Plan (2010)

PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Romance

A woman conceives twins through artificial insemination, then meets the man of her dreams on the very same day.

Director: Alan Poul | Stars: Jennifer Lopez , Alex O'Loughlin , Michaela Watkins , Eric Christian Olsen

Votes: 51,634 | Gross: $37.49M

27. What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012)

PG-13 | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Follows the lives of five interconnected couples as they experience the thrills and surprises of having a baby and realize that no matter what you plan for, life does not always deliver what is expected.

Director: Kirk Jones | Stars: Cameron Diaz , Matthew Morrison , J. Todd Smith , Dennis Quaid

Votes: 75,144 | Gross: $41.15M

28. Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)

PG | 88 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and battle pirates as they explore a new world.

Directors: Steve Martino , Michael Thurmeier | Stars: Ray Romano , Denis Leary , John Leguizamo , Aziz Ansari

Votes: 221,078 | Gross: $161.32M

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