The thirty sixth annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards on Saturday named Wire Jefferson’s American Fiction its excellent movie diversifications, giving the Oscar-nominated script a lift main into subsequent weekend’s Academy Awards.
Apple TV+’s Sluggish Horses gained within the episodic collection class for a second yr in a row throughout the ceremony tonight on the College of Southern California’s Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library.
The Scripters honor writers of the yr’s most completed movie and episodic TV collection diversifications, in addition to the writers of the works on which they’re primarily based.
American Fiction, written by Jefferson primarily based on the novel Percival Everett’s novel Erasure, was joined on tonight’s finalist checklist by two different Oscar nominees, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Tony McNamara’s Poor Issues. Additionally nominated tonight have been Ava DuVernay’s Origin and Martin Scorsese and Eric Roth’s Killers of the Flower Moon.
Barbie and The Zone of Curiosity are the opposite two tailored screenplays within the Oscar hunt this yr.
Final yr, Sarah Polley and Miriam Toews gained the Scripter for Polley’s adaptation of Girls Speaking, primarily based on Toews’ novel. It went on to win the Tailored Screenplay Oscar.
Sluggish Horses scribe Will Smith and writer Mick Herron gained once more within the episodic class after being nominated once more this yr alongside Peter Morgan for The Crown; Scott Neustadter for Daisy Jones and the Six; Craig Mazin for The Final of Us; and Max Borenstein, Rodney Barnes and Jim Hecht for Profitable Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.
The 2024 Scripter choice committee chosen finalists from a discipline of 80 movie and 56 episodic collection diversifications.
