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Moments ago, the USC Scripter nominees were revealed, which always end up being a piece of the Best Adapted Screenplay puzzle. This year, we have expected contenders like Frankenstein, Hamnet, and One Battle After Another, while Train Dreams gets a nice boost. The big surprise? The inclusion of Peter Hujar’s Day. You can see the full group of nominated screenplays below.
Here are the USC Scripter nominations for film and television:
- Guillermo del Toro for Netflix’s Frankenstein based on the novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
- Chloe Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell for Focus’ Hamnet based on O’Farrell’s novel of the same name
- Paul Thomas Anderson for Warner Bros.’ One Battle After Another based on the novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
- Ira Sachs for Sideshow/Janus’ Peter Hujar’s Day based on the book of the same name by Linda Rosenkrantz
- Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar for Netflix’s Train Dreams based on the novella of the same name by Denis Johnson
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- Max Hurwitz and Billy Luther for the episode “Ábidoo’niidę́ę́ (What He Had Been Told),” from AMC’s Dark Winds, based on the novels Dancehall of the Dead and The Sinister Pig by Tony Hillerman
- Mike Makowsky for the episode “Destiny of the Republic,” from Netflix’s Death by Lightning, based on Candice Millard’s nonfiction book Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President
- Chandni Lakhani and Scott Frank for the untitled first episode of Netflix’s Dept. Q, based on the novel The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
- Will Smith for the episode “Scars,” from Apple’s Slow Horses, based on the novel London Rules by Mick Herron
- Peter Straughan for the PBS series Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, based on the novel The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
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