The biopic “A Complete Uknown,” the animated adventure “The Wild Robot” and the papal drama “Conclave” are among the film nominees competing Saturday for the 37th annual USC Libraries Scripter Award, which honors writers of adapted screenplays and the original works on which they are based.
Also nominated are the writers of “The Nickel Boys” and “Sing Sing.”
For television, nominees are the writers of “Baby Reindeer,” “Ripley,” “Say Nothing,” “Shogun” and “Slow Horses.”
Finalists for the awards were chosen from a field of 42 film and 66 television adaptations, according to USC Libraries. The finalists were chosen by a selection committee chaired by Howard Rodman, USC professor and past president of the Writers Guild of America, West.
The winners will be announced during a ceremony at USC’s Town & Gown Ballroom.
Here is the list of nominations:
FILM
— James Mangold and Jay Cocks for “A Complete Unknown,” based on the nonfiction book “Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties” by Elijah Wald
— Peter Straughan for “Conclave,” based on the novel by Robert Harris
— RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes for “Nickel Boys,” based on the book “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead
— Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar (screenplay and story) and Clarence Maclin and John “Divine G” Whitfield (story) for “Sing Sing,” based on the Esquire magazine article “The Sing Sing Follies” by John H. Richardson
— Screenwriter Chris Sanders and novelist Peter Brown for “The Wild Robot”
TELEVISION
— Richard Gadd for the sixth episode of “Baby Reindeer,” based on his stage play of the same name
— Steven Zaillian for “V Lucio,” the fifth episode of “Ripley,” based on “The Talented Mr. Ripley” by Patricia Highsmith
— Joshua Zetumer for the episode “The People in the Dirt” from “Say Nothing,” based on the nonfiction book “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland” by Patrick Radden Keefe
— Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks for “Anjin,” the first episode of “Shogun,” based on the novel by James Clavell
— Will Smith for the episode “Hello Goodbye,” from “Slow Horses,” based on the novel “Spook Street” by Mick Herron