Finalists have been unveiled for the 30th annual USC Scripter Awards, celebrating adaptations of the written word.
Due to a three-way tie, there were seven nominees on the film side this year.
Chaired by USC professor and past president of the Writers Guild of America, West, Howard Rodman, the 2018 Scripter selection committee* selected the finalists from a field of 91 film and 28 television adaptations.
Nominees for film are:
Author Andre? Aciman and screenwriter James Ivory for Call Me by Your Name
Screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber for The Disaster Artist, and authors Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell for their nonfiction book The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
Screenwriters Scott Frank, Michael Green, and James Mangold, and authors Roy Thomas, Len Wein, and John Romita, Sr., for Logan
Screenwriter James Gray and author David Grann for The Lost City of Z
Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and author Molly Bloom for Mollys Game
Screenwriters Virgil Williams and Dee Rees, and author Hillary Jordan for Mudbound
Screenwriter Allan Heinberg and author William Moulton Marston for Wonder Woman