Paul Thomas Anderson’s screenplay for One Battle After Another has won the 38th 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, Peter Straughan took home this award for Conclave before winning the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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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
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