Maggie Gyllenhaal Wins USC Scripter Award For ‘The Lost Daughter’; Danny Strong Wins TV Honors For ‘Dopesick’

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Maggie Gyllenhaal won the USC Libraries’ Scripter Award tonight for her adaptation of Netflix’s The Lost Daughter, based on the novel of the same name by Elena Ferrante, making Gyllenhaal the frontrunner to take home the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Since 2011, the Scripters have proven to be a remarkable bellwether for the Academy Awards in the category, syncing up eight years in a row.

They’ve diverged in each of the last three awards cycles, however, although Gyllenhaal is no doubt hoping to start a new streak.Danny Strong won the TV award for the episode The People vs.

Purdue Pharma, from Hulu’s Dopesick, based on Bety Macy’s nonfiction book Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America.