The winners of this year’s USC Scripter Award have been announced. This prestigious award honors both adapted screenplays and the literary works they are based on. At the 37th edition of the awards, The Confessions (which is also competing for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay this year) and the series Say Nothing emerged victorious.
Scripter Awards Announced!
The USC Scripter Award has been presented by the University of Southern California since 1988.
In the film category, this year’s nominees included The Confessions, Completely Unknown, Nickel Boys, Sing Sing, and The Wild Robot. The winner was Peter Straughan, the screenwriter of The Confessions, which is an adaptation of Robert Harris’s novel.
Among the nominated TV series were Say Nothing, The Veil, Ripley, Shōgun, and Slow Horses. The award went to Joshua Zetumer for his screenplay of Say Nothing, which is based on the investigative book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe.
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Say Nothing – Trailer
What Is Say Nothing About?
FX’s Say Nothing is a gripping thriller about murder and the lasting memory of armed conflicts in Northern Ireland. The nine-episode series is based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s book and spans four decades, beginning with the shocking disappearance of Jean McConville—a single mother of ten who was abducted from her home in 1972 and never seen alive again.
By telling the stories of various members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Say Nothing explores the extremism some people resort to in the name of their beliefs. The series examines how a deeply divided society can suddenly descend into armed conflict and depicts the scale of violence affecting all those caught in its wake, along with the emotional and psychological toll of adhering to a code of silence.
