In an online ceremony, the USC libraries announced the winners of their 2022 USC Scripter Awards, an honor that rewards not only the screenwriter, but the author of the original adapted work. On the film side, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Elena Ferrante won for “The Lost Daughter.” The television award went to Danny Strong and Beth Macy for “Dopesick,” based on the latter’s nonfiction book “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America.”
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The Scripter Award winners are selected by a group of industry professionals and have rarely lined up with their equivalent Oscar or Emmy categories. Last year, Chloe Zhao won the film honor for “Nomadland,” but Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller took home the Academy Award for “The Father.” 2021’s television winner went to Scott Frank and Walter Tevis for “The Queen’s Gambit,” but Michaela Coel won the Emmy for “I May Destroy You.”
This year’s online ceremony also honored Barry Jenkins with the Literary LIfetime Achievement Award. He was nominated this year for “Underground Railroad” and in 2019 for “If Beale Street Could Talk.” He won the Scripter in 2017 for “Moonlight.”
A full list of this year’s nominees and winners are as follows:
FILM
Screenwriters Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts, and Denis Villeneuve, for “Dune” based on the novel by Frank Herbert
Maggie Gyllenhaal for “The Lost Daughter” based on the novel by Elena Ferrante – ***WINNER***
Rebecca Hall for “Passing” based on the novel by Nella Larsen
Screenwriter Jane Campion and author Thomas Savage for “The Power of the Dog”
Screenwriter Joel Coen and playwright William Shakespeare for “The Tragedy of Macbeth”
TELEVISION
Danny Strong, for the episode “The People vs. Purdue Pharma,” from “Dopesick,” based on the nonfiction book “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America,” by Beth Macy – ***WINNER***
Molly Smith Metzler for the episode “Dollar Store,” from “Maid,” based on the memoir “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother’s Will to Survive” by Stephanie Land
Patrick Somerville for the episode “Wheel of Fire,” from “Station Eleven,” based on the novel by Emily St. John Mandel
Barry Jenkins for the episode “Indiana Winter” from “The Underground Railroad,” based on the novel by Colson Whitehead
Jac Schaeffer for the episode “Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience,” from “WandaVision” based on Marvel Comics characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
