The 38th USC Libraries Scripter Awards were held in Los Angeles, honoring outstanding film and television adaptations.
The Best Adapted Film award went to Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, adapted from Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland. The film prevailed over a strong lineup of nominees that included Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, Ira Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day, and Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar’s Train Dreams.
In the USC Libraries Scripter Awards’ television category, Best TV Adaptation was awarded to Netflix’s Death by Lightning, written by Mike Makowsky and adapted from Candice Millard’s nonfiction book Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President. The series explores the assassination of 20th U.S. President James A. Garfield and the political climate of the era. Other nominees in the category included Dark Winds, Dept. Q, Slow Horses, and Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light.
Additionally, acclaimed crime novelist Michael Connelly received the USC Libraries Literary Achievement Award, recognizing his lasting contribution to literature and screen adaptations.
