The USC Scripter winners honoring the best in Adapted Screenplays and their source material for 2024 have been announced. Here are this year’s winners…
FILM AWARD WINNER
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
TV AWARD WINNER
Richard Gadd for the sixth episode of “Baby Reindeer,” adapted from his stage play
Steven Zaillian for the fifth episode of “Ripley,” based on Patricia Highsmith’s “The Talented Mr. Ripley”
Joshua Zetumer for “The People in the Dirt” from “Say Nothing,” inspired by Patrick Radden Keefe’s nonfiction book “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland”
Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks for “Anjin,” the premiere episode of “Shōgun,” based on James Clavell’s novel.
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