The 30th Annual Scripter Awards were handed out in Los Angeles Saturday night and 89-year-old “Call Me By Your Name” screenwriter James Ivory may be one step closer to winning an Oscar. Ivory and original novel author André Aciman won the film Scripter and nine of the last 10 Scripter winners have also won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The last upset was “Precious” over “Up in the Air,” the Scripter winner, in 2010.
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On the television side, Bruce Miller and Margaret Atwood won for the “Offred” episode of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
A complete list of this year’s nominees and winners are as follows:
Film Adaptation
Author André Aciman and screenwriter James Ivory for “Call Me by Your Name” – WINNER
Screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber for “The Disaster Artist” and authors Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell for their nonfiction book “The Disaster Artist:
My Life Inside ‘The Room,’ the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made”
Screenwriters Scott Frank, Michael Green and James Mangold and authors Roy Thomas, Len Wein and John Romita Sr., for “Logan”
Screenwriter James Gray and author David Grann for “The Lost City of Z”
Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and author Molly Bloom for “Molly’s Game”
Screenwriters Virgil Williams and Dee Rees and author Hillary Jordan for “Mudbound”
Screenwriter Allan Heinberg and author William Moulton Marston for “Wonder Woman”
Television Adaptation
Screenwriter Sarah Polley and author Margaret Atwood for “Alias Grace”
David E. Kelley for the episode “You Get What You Need” from “Big Little Lies” and author Liane Moriarty
Noah Pink and Ken Biller for the episode “Einstein: Chapter One” from “Genius” and author Walter Isaacson for his book “Einstein: His Life and Word”
Bruce Miller for the episode “Offred” from “The Handmaid’s Tale” and author Margaret Atwood – WINNER
Peter Landesman, George C. Wolfe and Alexander Woo for the television film “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” and author Rebecca Skloot
Joe Penhall and Jennifer Haley for “Episode 10” of “Mindhunter” and authors John Douglas and Mark Olshaker for their nonfiction book “Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit”
