The writers behind the Oscar-nominated tailored screenplay of Focus Features‘ Conclave and an episode of the FX and Hulu sequence Say Nothing on Saturday evening 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 sequence diversifications in addition to the writers of the works on which they’re based mostly.
Conclave, tailored by Peter Straughan based mostly on the novel by Robert Harris, beforehand won 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 inside the Vatican, Conclave follows Cardinal Lomeli (Fiennes), the Dean of the School of Cardinals, as he oversees a secretive papal election following the sudden dying of the Pope. As 118 cardinals from world wide collect to decide on the subsequent chief of the Catholic Church, tensions rise, alliances type and break, and hidden secrets and techniques emerge.
The Scripters, received on the movie facet final 12 months by eventual Oscar Adapted Screenplay winner Cord Jefferson‘s script for American Fiction based mostly on Percival Everett’s novel, this 12 months featured film works that ran the gamut of unique IP, with nominees’ supply materials spanning {a magazine} article (Sing Sing), a youngsters’s ebook (The Wild Robotic), a nonfiction ebook (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 sequence, 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 Grime,” based mostly on the ebook 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 Sluggish Horses.
The 2025 Scripter choice committee, chaired by Howard Rodman, reviewed 42 movie and 66 episodic sequence diversifications in making its choices this 12 months.
