American Fiction Wins 2023 USC Scripter Award

Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction has won the 36th annual Scripter Award from the University of Southern California. The Scripter Award is given to what is considered the best screenwriting adaptation of the year.

• Cord Jefferson for “American Fiction” based on the novel “Erasure” by Percival Everett 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”