2008 USC Scripter Awards
2008 Scripter Award winners: Feb. 18, 2007
("*" denotes the winner)
No Country for Old Men, which stars Josh Brolin (above), 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 award. Literary Achievement Award recipient Steven Zaillian happens to be the only winner of three Scripters: Awakenings (1990), Schindler's List (1993), and Gangs of New York (2002).
Atonment — screenplay by Christopher Hampton, based on the novel by Ian McEwan
Into the Wild — Screenplay by Sean Penn, based on the book by Jon Krakauer
* No Country for Old Men — Screenplay by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy
There Will Be Blood — Screenplay by Paul Thomas Anderson, based on the novel Oil by Upton Sinclair
Zodiac — Screenplay by James Vanderbilt, based on the book by Robert Graysmith
Literary Achievement Award: Steven Zaillian
USC Scripter Awards: 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Worthy script but I wonder why voters couldn't give a chance to someone else who hasn't been recognized by all the big guys already.