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For those looking for hints about the competitive Best Adapted Screenplay race at the Academy Awards, could this be something? Saturday evening brought the annual USC Scripter Awards, where the film victory went to Cord Jefferson and American Fiction. Now, only two Oscar opponents were in the running, with Christopher Nolan and Oppenheimer, as well as Tony McNamara and Poor Things, but Jefferson may be in line for a win here. Stay tuned to find out, but the other USC Scripter result is next.
Here are the USC Scripter winners:
Film Adaptation
- Cord Jefferson for “American Fiction” based on the novel “Erasure” by Percival Everett – WiNNER
- Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese for “Killers of the Flower Moon” based on the nonfiction book “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI” by David Grann
- Christopher Nolan for “Oppenheimer” based on the nonfiction book “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
- Ava DuVernay for “Origin” based on the nonfiction book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson
- Screenwriter Tony McNamara and novelist Alasdair Gray for “Poor Things”
Episodic Series
- Peter Morgan, for the episode “Sleep, Dearie Sleep,” from “The Crown,” based on his stage play “The Audience”
- Scott Neustadter for the episode “Fire,” from “Daisy Jones and the Six,” based on the novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann for the episode “Long, Long Time” from “The Last of Us,” based on the video game by Neil Druckmann and Naughty Dog
- Will Smith for the episode “Negotiating with Tigers,” from “Slow Horses,” based on the novel “Real Tigers” by Mick Herron – WINNER
- Max Borenstein, Rodney Barnes and Jim Hecht for the episode “The New World,” from “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” based on the nonfiction work “Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s” by Jeff Pearlman
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