The USC Libraries on Wednesday unveiled nominees for its thirty fifth annual USC Libraries Scripter Award, which honors the screenwriters of the 12 months’s finest movie and episodic collection variations, together with the writers of the works on which they’re based mostly.
This 12 months’s movie nominees are the screenwriters and authentic authors from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Residing, She Stated, Prime Gun: Maverick and Ladies Speaking. In TV, screenwriters have been nominated for penning episodes of The Crown, Fleishman Is in Hassle, Sluggish Horses, Tokyo Vice and Underneath the Banner of Heaven.
Winners will probably be introduced March 4 at a ceremony at USC’s Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library, set to be the primary in-person awards-season occasion for the group since 2020 owing to the pandemic.
A complete of 101 movies and 67 TV variations made up this 12 months’s area, which have been whittled to the ultimate lists by a range committee that included screenwriters Eric Roth and Erin Cressida Wilson and authors Walter Mosley and Michael Ondaatje. Former WGA West president and present USC professor Howard Rodman is the 2023 committee chair.
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Final 12 months, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s adaptation of the Elena Ferrante novel The Misplaced Daughter gained the Scripters’ movie prize, whereas Danny Sturdy gained in TV for an episode of Hulu’s restricted collection Dopesick, based mostly on Bety Macy’s nonfiction e-book. Each scribes went on to attain Oscar and Emmy writing noms, respectively.
Listed here are this 12 months’s finalists:
FILM
Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale and Matthew Robbins
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Netflix)
Based mostly on the fairy story The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (Penguin Classics)
Kazuo Ishiguro
Residing (Sony Photos Classics)
Based mostly on the novella The Dying of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy (Penguin Classics)
Rebecca Lenkiewicz
She Stated (Common)
Based mostly on the nonfiction e-book She Stated: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Motion by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey (Penguin Press)
Peter Craig, Ehren Kruger, Justin Marks, Christopher McQuarrie and Eric Warren
Prime Gun: Maverick (Paramount)
Based mostly on characters from the 1983 California journal article “Prime Weapons” by Ehud Yonay
Sarah Polley and Miriam Toews
Ladies Speaking (Orion/MGM)
Based mostly on Toews’ novel of the identical identify (Bloomsbury)
EPISODIC SERIES
Peter Morgan
The Crown, for the episode “Couple 31” (Netflix)
Based mostly on his stage play The Viewers (Dramatists Play Service Inc.)
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Fleishman Is in Hassle, for the episode “The Liver” (FX)
Based mostly on her e-book of the identical identify (Random Home)
Will Smith
Sluggish Horses, for the episode “Failure’s Contagious” (Apple TV+)
Based mostly on the novel by Mick Herron (Soho Crime)
J.T. Rogers
Tokyo Vice, for the episode “Yoshino” (HBO Max)
Based mostly on the memoir Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein (Knopf Doubleday)
Dustin Lance Black
Underneath the Banner of Heaven, for the episode “When God Was Love” (FX)
Based mostly on the nonfiction work by Jon Krakauer (Anchor Books)
