USC Scripter Announces Adapted Screenplay – Top Gun: Maverick in the House!

I couldn’t believe it when I saw this, and I hope this means we get a screenplay nomination for Top Gun: Maverick at WGA and then at the Oscars. It’s too bad the announcement couldn’t have dropped before the ballot deadline but here’s hoping. The Scripter Award honors both the source material and the screenplay. Here are the nominees:

The finalist writers for film adaptation are, in alphabetical order by film title:

• Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale, and Matthew Robbins for “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” based on the fairy tale “The Adventures of Pinocchio” by Carlo Collodi
• Kazuo Ishiguro for “Living” based on the novella “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” by Leo Tolstoy
• Rebecca Lenkiewicz for “She Said” based on the nonfiction book “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement” by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
• Peter Craig, Ehren Kruger, Justin Marks, Christopher McQuarrie, and Eric Warren for “Top Gun: Maverick” based on characters from the 1983 “California” magazine article “Top Guns” by Ehud Yonay
• Screenwriter Sarah Polley and novelist Miriam Toews for “Women Talking”

The finalist writers for episodic series are, in alphabetical order by series title:

• Peter Morgan, for the episode “Couple 31,” from “The Crown,” based on his stage play “The Audience”
• Taffy Brodesser-Akner for the episode “The Liver,” from “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” based on her book of the same name
• Will Smith for the episode “Failure’s Contagious,” from “Slow Horses,” based on the novel by Mick Herron
• J. T. Rogers for the episode “Yoshino” from “Tokyo Vice,” based on the memoir “Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan” by Jake Adelstein
• Dustin Lance Black for the episode “When God Was Love,” from “Under the Banner of Heaven” based on the nonfiction work by Jon Krakauer