2019 USC Scripter Awards Nominations Announced
By: Kaitlin Milligan Jan. 15, 2019
The USC Libraries has announce the finalists for the 31st annual Scripter Awards, which honor the year's best adapted screenplays in film and television along with the works on which they are based.
Winners will be announced at a ceremony February 9 at USC's Doheny Library.
Here's the full list of this year's noms:
FILM
Black Panther
Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole, based on the character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Disney and Marvel Comics
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty and author Lee Israel
Fox Searchlight and Simon & Schuster
The Death of Stalin
Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, and David Schneider, based on the graphic novel by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin
IFC Films and Titan Comics
If Beale Street Could Talk
Barry Jenkins and author James Baldwin
nnapurna Pictures and Vintage International
Leave No Trace
Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini, based on the novel "My Abandonment" by Peter Rock
Bleecker Street and Mariner Books
TELEVISION
The Assassination of Gianni Versace: AMERICAN CRIME Story
Tom Rob Smith, for the episode "The Man Who Would Be Vogue," and author Maureen Orth for the nonfiction book Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U.S. History
FX and Bantam Books
The Handmaid's Tale
Bruce Miller and Kira Snyder, for the episode "Holly", and author Margaret Atwood
Hulu and Anchor
The Looming Tower
Dan Futterman and Ali Selim, for the episode "9/11," and author Lawrence Wright
Hulu and Penguin Random House
Patrick Melrose
David Nicholls for the episode "Bad News," based on the series of novels by Edward St. Aubyn
Showtime and Picador
Sharp Objects
Marti Noxon for the episode "Vanish," and author Gillian Flynn
HBO and Broadway Books
A Very English Scandal
Russell T Davies and author John Preston
Amazon Studios and Other Press
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