The USC Libraries have revealed the nominees for the 37th Annual Scripter Awards, which nominates both the writers of film and television adaptations and the authors of the original works.
The 37th Annual Scripter Award ceremony will take place on February 22.
- James Mangold and Jay Cocks for A Complete Unknown, adapted from Elijah Wald’s nonfiction book “Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties”
- Peter Straughan for Conclave, based on the novel by Robert Harris
- RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes for Nickel Boys, an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Nickel Boys”
- Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar (screenplay and story) and Clarence Maclin and John “Divine G” Whitfield (story) for Sing Sing, drawn from John H. Richardson’s Esquire article “The Sing Sing Follies”
- Chris Sanders and Peter Brown for The Wild Robot, based on Peter Brown’s beloved children’s book of the same name
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