The writers behind the Oscar-nominated tailored screenplay of Focus Options‘ Conclave and an episode of the FX and Hulu collection Say Nothing on Saturday night time on the thirty seventh annual USC Scripter Awards.
The winners have been revealed tonight throughout a black-tie ceremony within the City & Robe ballroom at USC. The awards, bestowed yearly by the USC Libraries, honor the writers of the 12 months’s most achieved movie and episodic collection diversifications in addition to the writers of the works on which they’re primarily based.
Conclave, tailored by Peter Straughan primarily based on the novel by Robert Harris, beforehand received the Golden Globe Screenplay trophy. The movie has a complete of eight Oscar nominations, together with for star Ralph Fiennes and for Finest Image.
A political potboiler set throughout the Vatican, Conclave follows Cardinal Lomeli (Fiennes), the Dean of the School of Cardinals, as he oversees a secretive papal election following the sudden demise of the Pope. As 118 cardinals from all over the world collect to decide on the following chief of the Catholic Church, tensions rise, alliances kind and break, and hidden secrets and techniques emerge.
The Scripters, received on the movie aspect final 12 months by eventual Oscar Tailored Screenplay winner Wire Jefferson‘s script for American Fiction primarily based on Percival Everett’s novel, this 12 months featured film works that ran the gamut of authentic IP, with nominees’ supply materials spanning {a magazine} article (Sing Sing), a youngsters’s e-book (The Wild Robotic), a nonfiction e-book (A Full Unknown) and a pair of novels (Conclave and Nickel Boys).
Nickel Boys and Anora took the WGA prizes this 12 months; each are additionally up for Oscars.
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Say Nothing, a restricted collection, stars Lola Petticrew, Hazel Doupe, Anthony Boyle, Josh Finan and Maxine Peake in a gripping story of homicide and reminiscence in Northern Eire throughout The Troubles. Creator Joshua Zetumer penned the successful episode, “The Folks within the Filth,” primarily based on the e-book Say Nothing: A True Story of Homicide and Reminiscence in Northern Eire by Patrick Radden Keefe.
Say Nothing topped a Scripters class that featured the scribes and authors behind Child Reindeer, Ripley, Say Nothing, Shōgun and two-time defending champ Gradual Horses.
The 2025 Scripter choice committee, chaired by Howard Rodman, reviewed 42 movie and 66 episodic collection diversifications in making its alternatives this 12 months.
