The USC Libraries named the finalists for the Thirty sixth-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award, which honors the writers of the yr’s most achieved movie and episodic sequence diversifications, in addition to the writers of the works on which they’re based mostly. Apple Unique Movies/Apple TV+ productions have two nominations.
The finalist writers for movie adaptation are, in alphabetical order by movie title (with Apple’s nominations in daring):
- Twine Jefferson for “American Fiction” based mostly on the novel “Erasure” by Percival Everett
- Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese for “Killers of the Flower Moon” based mostly on the nonfiction e book “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Start of the FBI” by David Grann
- Christopher Nolan for “Oppenheimer” based mostly on the nonfiction e book “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” by Kai Chook and Martin J. Sherwin
- Ava DuVernay for “Origin” based mostly on the nonfiction e book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson
- Screenwriter Tony McNamara and novelist Alasdair Grey for “Poor Issues”
The finalist writers for episodic sequence are, in alphabetical order by sequence title:
- Peter Morgan, for the episode “Sleep, Dearie Sleep,” from “The Crown,” based mostly on his stage play “The Viewers”
- Scott Neustadter for the episode “Hearth,” from “Daisy Jones and the Six,” based mostly on the novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann for the episode “Lengthy, Lengthy Time” from “The Final of Us,” based mostly on the online game by Neil Druckmann and Naughty Canine
- Will Smith for the episode “Negotiating with Tigers,” from “Sluggish Horses,” based mostly on the novel “Actual Tigers” by Mick Herron
- Max Borenstein, Rodney Barnes and Jim Hecht for the episode “The New World,” from “Successful Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” based mostly on the nonfiction work “Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the Nineteen Eighties” by Jeff Pearlman
The Scripter Award winners will probably be introduced on Saturday, March 2.
