“Conclave” was declared the winner Saturday of the 37th annual USC Libraries Scripter Award, which honors writers of adapted screenplays and the original works on which they are based.
For television, “Say Nothing,” beat out “Baby Reindeer,” “Ripley,” “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.
Here is the list of winners:
FILM
— Peter Straughan for “Conclave,” based on the novel by Robert Harris
TELEVISION
— 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