The USC Libraries has announced its finalists for the 33rd USC Scripter Awards, which celebrate scripts adapted from pre-existing literary material, will take place virtually this year on Saturday, March 13.
On the film side, the nominees include best adapted screenplay Oscar frontrunnersMa Rainey's Black Bottom (Ruben Santiago Hudson's version of the late August Wilson's play of the same name), Nomadland (which Chloe Zhao derived from Jesssica Bruder's book of the same name) and One Night in Miami (Kemp Powers take on his own play of the same name) will be joined by indie darling First Cow (Kelly Reichardt, from Jon Raymond's novel The Half-Life) and TV movie Bad Education (Mike Makowsky's reinterpretation of Robert Kolker's New York.
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