‘Origin’ and ‘American Fiction’ Receive Adapted Screenplay Scripter Award Nominations

“American Fiction,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Oppenheimer,” “Origin” and “Poor Things” have been named finalists for the 2024 USC Libraries Scripter Awards, an annual honor given to film and television adaptations and the works on which they are based.

In the television category, the finalists are episodes of “The Crown,” “Daisy Jones and the Six,” “The Last of Us,” “Slow Horses” and “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.”

Because the Scripter Awards honor both the screenwriter of an adaptation and the author of the original work, the nominees for “American Fiction” are writer-director Cord Jefferson and author Percival Everett, who wrote the 2001 novel “Erasure”; for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” screenwriters Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese and author David Grann, who wrote the 2017 nonfiction book “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI”; for “Oppenheimer,” writer-director Christopher Nolan and Kai Bird and Martin J.