The USC Scripter Winner honoring the best in Adapted Screenplays and their source material for 2022 has been announced. The Scripter and the Oscar for best adapted screenplay have gone to the same film 14 times over the last 34 years, excluding the last five years.
Women Talking took the prize at the USC Scripter, which honors the screenwriter as well as the source material author. Writer-director Sarah Polley and Miriam Towes, who wrote the novel on which the film is based, shared the award.
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“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” (Netflix) — Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale, and Matthew Robbins (based on the fairy tale “The Adventures of Pinocchio” by Carlo Collodi)
“Living” (Sony Pictures Classics) — Kazuo Ishiguro (based on the novella “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” by Leo Tolstoy)
“She Said” (Universal Pictures) — Rebecca Lenkiewicz (based on the nonfiction book, “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement” by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey)
“Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount Pictures) — Peter Craig, Ehren Kruger, Justin Marks, Christopher McQuarrie, and Eric Warren (based on characters from the 1983 “California” magazine article “Top Guns” by Ehud Yonay)
“Women Talking” (MGM/United Artists Releasing) — Sarah Polley, Miriam Toews (based on the novel “Women Talking” by Miriam Toews) – WINNER
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