On the 2025 USC Libraries Scripter Awards, Edward Berger’s “Conclave” received excellent movie adaptation for Peter Straughan’s screenplay whereas “Say Nothing” received within the episodic sequence class, with Joshua Zetumer honored for adapting Patrick Radden Keefe’s nonfiction e-book “Say Nothing: A True Story of Homicide and Reminiscence in Northern Eire.”
Zetumer accepted his award for “Say Nothing” and took the second to additionally shoutout his fellow nominees. “It’s a restricted sequence with out massive American stars and like so lots of the reveals which can be right here tonight, like ‘Shōgun,’ ‘Child Reindeer,’ ‘Ripley’ and ‘Gradual Horses,’ we did all the things that you just’re advised to not do.”
This 12 months’s nominations included “A Full Unknown,” “Conclave,” “Nickel Boys,” “Sing Sing” and “The Wild Robotic” on the movie facet, whereas in TV, “Child Reindeer,” “Ripley,” “Say Nothing,” “Shōgun” and “Gradual Horses” had been acknowledged for his or her excellent episodes.
Thought-about a robust indicator for one of the best tailored screenplay class on the Oscars, previous Scripter winners that went on to win on the Academy Awards embrace “12 Years a Slave” (2013), “The Imitation Recreation” (2014), “The Huge Brief” (2015), “Moonlight” (2016), “Name Me by Your Identify” (2017), “Nomadland” (2020), “Ladies Speaking” (2022) and “American Fiction” (2023). Up to now, Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” (2019) and Sian Heder’s “CODA” (2022) are the one movies to win the screenplay Oscar with out additionally receiving a Scripter nomination.
“Conclave” received Golden Globe and BAFTA awards for Peter Straughan’s screenplay whereas “Nickel Boys” received the WGA award for greatest tailored screenplay. Out of this 12 months’s USC Scripter nominees, “A Full Unknown,” “Conclave,” “Nickel Boys” and “Sing Sing” all went on to obtain tailored screenplay nominations on the Oscars. On the similar time, “The Wild Robotic” was disregarded of the Oscars in favor of Jacques Audiard’s genre-bending musical “Emilia Pérez.” The USC Scripter Awards have distinctive eligibility guidelines that have an effect on musicals and worldwide movies; Oscar Greatest Image nominees “Emilia Pérez,” “Depraved” and “I’m Nonetheless Right here” weren’t eligible right here.
The USC Scripter Awards, based in 1988, carry collectively the worlds of filmmaking and publishing in an instructional setting to have a good time one of the best scripts of the 12 months.
This 12 months, USC professor and Academy Vice President Howard Rodman chaired the choice committee that selected the choices from 42 movies and 66 episodic sequence submissions. Different representatives embrace Melissa Simply, dean of the USC Libraries System, and co-founder Glenn Sonnenberg.
