Scribes up for USC's Scripter Award...
January 17th, 2003
Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Towne, who is the chairman of the 55-member selection committee (made up of Writers Guild members, screenwriters, authors and faculty, among others), announced the 2002 USC's Scripter Awardnominees Wednesday.
Given out annually to honor the top achievement in adaptation among English-language films released the previous year and based on books or novellas. Past winners have included scribes for "A Beautiful Mind," "Wonder Boys," "L.A. Confidential," "The Shawshank Redemption," and "Sense and Sensibility."
The winner will be announced on March 15 at a black-tie gala at the Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library on the USC campus.
The nominees are:
- "About Schmidt," Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, screenwriters; Louis Begley, author (New Line Cinema; Ballantine)
- "Adaptation," Charlie Kaufman, screenwriter; Susan Orlean, author, "The Orchid Thief" (Columbia; Ballantine)
- "The Hours," David Hare, screenwriter; Michael Cunningham, author (Paramount; Picador USA)
- "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," Frances Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair and Peter Jackson, screenwriters; J.R.R. Tolkien, author (New Line Cinema; Houghton Mifflin)
- "The Pianist," Ronald Harwood, screenwriter; Wladyslaw Szpilman, author, "Death of a City" (Focus Features, Picador USA).
(Source: Reuters/Variety)
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