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The writers behind the adapted screenplays of the films A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Nickel Boys, Sing Sing and The Wild Robot have been nominated for the 37th annual Scripter Awards. This year’s TV nominees are the scribes and authors behind Baby Reindeer, Ripley, Say Nothing, Shōgun and two-time defending champ Slow Horses.
The awards, bestowed annually by the USC Libraries, honor the writers of the year’s most accomplished film and episodic series adaptations as well as the writers of the works on which they are based.
Winners will be revealed in a black-tie ceremony February 22 in the Town & Gown ballroom at USC.
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The Scripter film race, won last year by eventual Oscar Adapted Screenplay winner Cord Jefferson‘s script for American Fiction based on Percival Everett’s novel, features works that run the gamut of original IP, with this year’s nominees’ source material spanning a magazine article (Sing Sing), a children’s book (The Wild Robot), a nonfiction book (A Complete Unknown) and a pair of novels (Conclave and Nickel Boys).
Conclave, adapted by Peter Straughan, just won the Golden Globe Screenplay trophy. Conclave, The Wild Robot and Sing Sing were not eligible for WGA nominations this year, while Complete Unknown and Nickel Boys both scored noms from the guild.
In this year’s Scripters TV race, Apple TV+’s British spy series Slow Horses starring Gary Oldman has won the honor the past two years for writer Will Smith and book series author Mick Herron; Smith also won the Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series Emmy this past year. Baby Reindeer‘s Richard Gadd, who adapted his own play, won the Emmy for limited series writing.
The 2025 Scripter selection committee, chaired by Howard Rodman, said Wednesday that it reviewed 42 film and 66 episodic series adaptations in making its selections.
Here’s the full list of nominees:
Film
A Complete Unknown
James Mangold and Jay Cocks
Based on the nonfiction book “Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties” by Elijah Wald
Searchlight Pictures and Dey Street Books
Conclave
Peter Straughan
Based on the novel by Robert Harris
Focus Features and Vintage Books
Nickel Boys
RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes
Based on the book The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Amazon MGM Studios and Vintage Books
Sing Sing
Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar (screenplay and story) and Clarence Maclin and John “Divine G” Whitfield (story)
Based on the Esquire magazine article “The Sing Sing Follies” by John H. Richardson
A24 and Esquire
The Wild Robot
Screenwriter Chris Sanders and novelist Peter Brown
Universal Pictures and Little, Brown and Company
Episodic Series
Baby Reindeer
Richard Gadd for the sixth episode, based on his stage play of the same name
Netflix and Methuen Drama
Ripley
Steven Zaillian for the episode “V Lucio,” based on “The Talented Mr. Ripley” by Patricia Highsmith
Netflix and Vintage Books
Say Nothing
Joshua Zetumer for the episode “The People in the Dirt,” based on the nonfiction book “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland” by Patrick Radden Keefe
FX/Hulu and Vintage Books
Shōgun
Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks for the episode “Anjin,” based on the novel by James Clavell
FX/Hulu and Blackstone Publishing
Slow Horses
Will Smith for the episode “Hello Goodbye,” based on the novel “Spook Street” by Mick Herron
Apple TV+ and Soho Crime
