Several news outlets covered last Saturday's 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards, celebrating the year’s most accomplished screen adaptations of the written word. Novelist Robert Harris and screenwriter Peter Straughan won in the film category for Conclave, while screenwriter Joshua Zetumer and author Patrick Radden Keefe received the award in the episodic series for Say Nothing.
USC student media provided extensive coverage. The Daily Trojan shared a video recap of the evening’s festivities, while Annenberg Media's Michael Jiaming Liu and Natalie Miller reported on Conclave's Scripter win and its broader awards season momentum.
In the entertainment trades, Variety's Matt Minton underscored the award’s significance as an Academy Awards bellwether:
Considered a strong indicator for the best adapted screenplay category at the Oscars, past Scripter winners that went on to win at the Academy Awards include 12 Years a Slave (2013), The Imitation Game (2014), The Big Short (2015), Moonlight (2016), Call Me by Your Name (2017), Nomadland (2020), Women Talking (2022), and American Fiction (2023). To date, Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman (2019) and Sian Heder’s CODA (2022) are the only films to win the screenplay Oscar without also receiving a Scripter nomination.
Additional coverage came from AwardsWatch's Erik Anderson, Deadline's Patrick Hipes, Gold Derby's Daniel Montgomery, The Hollywood Reporter's Kimberly Nordyke, IndieWire's Anne Thompson, and The Wrap's Steve Pond.