Scripter Awards Articles

Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner, and author Walter Kirn won USC's 2010 Scripter Award for the socially conscious comedy drama Up in the Air this past Saturday. The Scripter Award goes both to the screenwriter(s) of an adapted screenplay from a literary work and to the author of the source material. Directed by Reitman, and starring George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, and Anna Kendrick, Up in the [...]

Carey Mulligan, Dominic Cooper in An Education (Kerry Brown / Sony Pictures Classics) (top); George Clooney in Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount) (bottom) Crazy Heart, District 9, An Education, Precious, and Up in the Air are this year's five USC Libraries Scripter Award nominees, as reported by Steve Pond in The Wrap. For the last 22 years, the Scripter Award has gone [...]

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 [...]

2007 USC Scripter Awards 2007 Scripter Award winners: Feb. 18, 2007 ("*" denotes the winner)   Clive Owen, Julianne Moore in Children of Men   * Children of Men — David Arata, Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby and Timothy J. Sexton (screenwriters); P.D. James (author) The Devil Wears Prada — Aline Brosh McKenna (screenwriter); Lauren Weisberger (author) The Illusionist — Neil Berger (screenwriter); Steven [...]