Conclave has won the 37th annual USC Scripter Award from the University of Southern California. The Scripter Award is given to what is considered the best screenwriting adaptation of the year. Last year, Cord Jefferson took home this award for American Fiction before winning the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
- 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