2025 USC Scripter Award Nominees Announced

The USC Libraries have revealed the nominees for the 38th Annual Scripter Awards, which nominate both the writers of film and television adaptations and the authors of the original works.

The 38th Annual Scripter Award ceremony will take place on February 22.

Guillermo del Toro for Netflix’s Frankenstein based on the novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley

Chloé 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

Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.

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