At the 2025 USC Libraries Scripter Awards, Edward Berger’s “ Conclave ” won outstanding film adaptation for Peter Straughan’s screenplay while “ Say Nothing ” won in the episodic ...

Is the book better than the movie? This past Saturday, the 36th-Annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards settled the age-old argument. The award goes to … both! The one-of-kind honor celebrates ...

Over the past 15 years, about 70% of Scripter finalists have gone on to receive Oscar nominations in the Best Adapted Screenplay category. In the 36 years of the Scripters’ existence, the two ...

The screenplays of A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Nickel Boys, Sing Sing and The Wild Robot, as well as the source material from which they were drawn, are nominated for the USC Scripter Award for ...

The Scripter Award, founded in 1988, is bestowed by the Friends of the USC Libraries and honors the authors and screenwriters of the year’s motion pictures that were adapted from a printed work. The ...

Scripter finalists were chosen by a selection committee chaired by screenwriter and USC professor Howard Rodman and made up of screenwriters, authors, entertainment industry executives and USC ...

The 35th annual Scripter Awards were held at USC’s Edward L. Doheny, Jr. Memorial Library — a return to an in-person ceremony after two virtual celebrations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Film critic Leonard Maltin, one of the 33 members who comprise this year’s Scripter selection committee of screenwriters, authors, critics, academics and film execs, said, unlike other awards ...