USC Scripter Awards: ‘Slow Horses’ Repeats As Episodic TV Winner

The 36th annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards on Saturday named Apple TV+’s Slow Horses the winner of its episodic series category for a second year in a row during its ceremony at the University of Southern California’s Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library.

The Scripters honor writers of the year’s most accomplished film and episodic TV series adaptations, as well as the writers of the works on which they are based.

Slow Horses scribe Will Smith and author Mick Herron won the episodic category after being nominated again this year alongside Peter Morgan for The Crown; Scott Neustadter for Daisy Jones and the Six; Craig Mazin for The Last of Us; and Max Borenstein, Rodney Barnes and Jim Hecht for Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.

This year’s film-side winner will be announced later tonight at the black-tie ceremony.

As for those film nominees, they feature three of this year’s Adapted Screenplay Oscar nominees: Cord Jefferson for American Fiction, Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer and Tony McNamara for Poor Things. Martin Scorsese and Eric Roth’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Ava DuVernay’s Origin are also nominated for Scripters tonight.

Barbie and The Zone of Interest are the other two adapted screenplays in the Oscar hunt this year.

Last year, Sarah Polley and Miriam Toews won the Scripter for Polley’s adaptation of Women Talking, based on Toews’ novel. It went on to win the Adapted Screenplay Oscar.

The 2024 Scripter selection committee selected finalists from a field of 80 film and 56 episodic series adaptations.