The USC Libraries recently announced their annual nominees for their 30th Annual USC Scripter Awards
The finalist writers for film adaptation are, in alphabetical order by film title:
- Author André Aciman and screenwriter James Ivory for Call Me by Your Name
- Screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber for The Disaster Artist, and authors Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell for their nonfiction book The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside ‘The Room,’ the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
- Screenwriters Scott Frank, Michael Green, and James Mangold, and authors Roy Thomas, Len Wein and John Romita Sr., for Logan
- Screenwriter James Gray and author David Grann for The Lost City of Z
- Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and author Molly Bloom for Molly’s Game
- Screenwriters Virgil Williams and Dee Rees and author Hillary Jordan for Mudbound
- Screenwriter Allan Heinberg and author William Moulton Marston for Wonder Woman
The finalist writers for television are, in alphabetical order by series title:
- Screenwriter Sarah Polley and author Margaret Atwood for Alias Grace
- David E. Kelley, for the episode “You Get What You Need”from Big Little Lies, and author Liane Moriarty
- Noah Pink and Ken Biller for the episode “Einstein: Chapter One”from Genius, and author Walter Isaacson for his book Einstein: His Life and Word
- Bruce Miller for the episode “Offred”from The Handmaid’s Tale and author Margaret Atwood
- Peter Landesman, George C. Wolfe, and Alexander Woo for the television film The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and author Rebecca Skloot
- Joe Penhall and Jennifer Haley for “Episode 10″of Mindhunter and authors John Douglas and Mark Olshaker for their nonfiction book Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit
The 30th Annual USC Scripter Awards ceremony will be held on Saturday February 10, 2018.
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