Scripter Award 2007
by Andre Soares
The University of Southern California Libraries have awarded the 2007 Scripter Award, given to the year’s best page-to-screen adaptation, to Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men, a violent thriller based on a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Cormac McCarthy. The Scripter goes to both the author of the original story and the adapters.
The other 2007 Scripter Award nominees were Atonement, Into the Wild, There Will Be Blood, and Zodiac.
No Country for Old Men, which stars Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, and Tommy Lee Jones, has won nearly every U.S. critics’ awards this season. The Coens’ adapted screenplay is also in the running for this year’s Writers Guild of America award.
To celebrate the Scripter Award’s 20th anniversary, USC will also give a Literary Achievement Award to screenwriter Steven Zaillian, who happens to be the only winner of three Scripters: for Awakenings (1990), Schindler’s List (1993), and Gangs of New York (2002). In 2007, Zaillian penned American Gangster, which, though "inspired" by a magazine article, has been pushed as an original screenplay. (The film failed to receive a WGA Award nod.)
The Scripter ceremony will take place at USC in downtown Los Angeles on February 2. Jason Alexander will host the event.
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