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USC Scripter Awards
USC Scripter Awards
Awarded for	Writing achievements in film adaptation
Country	United States
Presented by	University of Southern California (USC)
First awarded	1988; 36 years ago
Website	libraries.usc.edu/scripter

USC Scripter Awards

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The USC Scripter Award (Scripter) is the name given to an award presented annually by the University of Southern California (USC) to honor both authors and screenwriters. Starting in 1988, the USC Libraries Board of Councilors award the year's best film adaptation of a printed work, recognizing the original author and the screenwriter.

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In 2016, a second Scripter award, for episodic series adaption, was added. The Literary Achievement Award honors significant contributions to storytelling across form, genre, and medium. The Ex Libris Award recognizes long-time supporters of the USC Libraries. The latter two awards are presented on an occasional basis. Per the Scripter Awards website, "Scripter celebrates writers and writing, collaboration, and the profound results of transforming one artistic medium into another. It stands as an emblem of libraries’ ability to inspire creative and scholarly achievement."^[1]

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Tapley, Kris [@kristapley] (February 7, 2023). "I haven't seen this reported and I'm not sure why exactly it happened, but Paramount has withdrawn TOP GUN: MAVERICK from consideration in this year's USC Scripter Awards, leaving GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO, LIVING, SHE SAID and WOMEN TALKING as the four film nominees" (Tweet). Retrieved February 7, 2023 – via Twitter.

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Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
1988	84 Charing Cross Road	Hugh Whitemore	The memoir by Helene Hanff
	The Dead	Tony Huston	The short story by James Joyce
	Housekeeping	Bill Forsyth	The novel by Marilynne Robinson
	The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne	Peter Nelson	The novel Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
	The Princess Bride	William Goldman	The novel by Goldman
1989	The Accidental Tourist	Frank Galati and Lawrence Kasdan	The novel by Anne Tyler
	Eight Men Out	John Sayles	The book Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof
	Everybody's All-American	Thomas Rickman	The book by Frank Deford
	Madame Sousatzka	Ruth Prawler Jhabvala and John Schlesinger	The book by Bernice Rubens

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
1990	Awakenings	Steven Zaillian	The memoir by Oliver Sacks
	Dances with Wolves	Michael Blake	The novel by Blake
	Goodfellas	Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese	The book Wiseguy by Pileggi
	Misery	William Goldman	The novel by Stephen King
	Presumed Innocent	Frank Pierson and Alan J. Pakula	The novel by Scott Turow
1991	Fried Green Tomatoes	Fannie Flagg and Carol Sobieski	*The novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe* by Flagg**
	At Play in the Fields of the Lord	Hector Babenco and Jean-Claude Carriere	The novel by Peter Matthiessen
	The Prince of Tides	Pat Conroy and Becky Johnston	The novel by Conroy
	Rambling Rose	Calder Willingham	The novel by Willingham
	The Silence of the Lambs	Ted Tally	The novel by Thomas Harris
1992	A River Runs Through It	Richard Friedenberg	The novella by Norman Maclean
	Enchanted April	Peter Barnes	The novel by Elizabeth von Arnim
	Howards End	Ruth Prawler Jhabvala	The novel by E.M. Forestor
	Malcolm X	Arnold Perl and Spike Lee	The book by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
	The Player	Michael Tolkin	The novel by Tolkin
1993	Schindler's List	Steven Zaillian	*The novel Schindler's Ark* by Thomas Keneally**
	The Age of Innocence	Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese	The novel by Edith Wharton
	The Joy Luck Club	Amy Tan and Ronald Bass	The novel by Tan
	The Remains of the Day	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	The novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
	Searching for Bobby Fischer	Steve Zaillian	The novel Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess by Fred Waitzkin
1994	The Shawshank Redemption	Frank Darabont	*The short story Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption* by Stephen King**
	Forrest Gump	Eric Roth	The novel by Winston Groom
	Little Women	Robin Swicord	The novel by Louisa May Alcott
	Nobody's Fool	Robert Benton	The novel by Richard Russo
	Quiz Show	Paul Attanasio	The memoir Remembering America: A Voice From the Sixties by Richard Goodwin
1995	Sense and Sensibility	Emma Thompson	The novel by Jane Austen
	Apollo 13	William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert	The book Lost Moon by Jim Lovell and Jeffry Kluger
	Carrington	Christopher Hampton	The book Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd
	Devil in a Blue Dress	Carl Franklin	The book by Walter Mosley
	Get Shorty	Scott Frank	The novel by Elmore Leonard
1996	The English Patient	Anthony Minghella	The novel by Michael Ondaatje
	Cold Comfort Farm	Malcolm Bradbury	The novel by Stella Gibbons
	Dead Man Walking	Tim Robbins	The book by Helen Prejean
	Emma	Douglas McGrath	The novel by Jane Austen
	The Portrait of a Lady	Laura Jones	The novel by Henry James
1997	L.A. Confidential	Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland	The novel by James Ellroy
	Donnie Brasco	Paul Attanasio	The book Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia by Joseph D. Pistone and Richard Woodley
	The Rainmaker	Francis Ford Coppola	The novel by John Grisham
	The Sweet Hereafter	Atom Egoyan	The novel by Russell Banks
	The Wings of the Dove	Hossein Amini	The novel by Henry James
1998	A Civil Action	Steven Zaillian	The book by Jonathan Harr
	Gods and Monsters	Bill Condon	The novel Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram
	Primary Colors	Elaine May	The book Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics by Joe Klein
	A Simple Plan	Scott B. Smith	The novel by Smith
	The Thin Red Line	Terrence Malick	The novel by James Jones
1999	The Hurricane	Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon	The autobiography The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender To 45472 by Rubin Carter; the book Lazarus and the Hurricane: The Freeing of Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter by Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton
	The Cider House Rules	John Irving	The novel by Irving
	The End of the Affair	Neil Jordan	The novel by Graham Greene
	The Green Mile	Frank Darabont	The novel by Stephen King
	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Anthony Minghella	The novel by Patricia Highsmith

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
2000	Wonder Boys	Steve Kloves	The book by Michael Chabon
	All the Pretty Horses	Ted Tally	The novel by Cormac McCarthy
	Chocolat	Robert Nelson Jacobs	The novel by Joanne Harris
	High Fidelity	D. V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink, John Cusack, and Scott Rosenberg	The novel by Nick Hornby
	The House of Mirth	Terence Davies	The novel by Edith Wharton
2001	A Beautiful Mind	Akiva Goldsman	The book by Sylvia Nasar
	Bridget Jones's Diary	Andrew Davies, Helen Fielding, and Richard Curtis	The novel by Fielding
	In the Bedroom	Robert Festinger and Todd Field	The short story Killings by Andre Dubus
	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson, and Philippa Boyens	The novel The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
	The Shipping News	Robert Nelson Jacobs	The novel by E. Annie Proulx
2002	The Hours	David Hare	The novel by Michael Cunningham
	About Schmidt	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor	The novel by Louis Begley
	Adaptation	Charlie Kaufman	The book The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Fran Walsh, Stephen Sinclair, Peter Jackson, and Philippa Boyens	The novel The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
	The Pianist	Ronald Harwood	The memoir by Władysław Szpilman
2003	Mystic River	Brian Helgeland	The novel by Dennis Lehane
	Seabiscuit	Gary Ross	*The book Seabiscuit: An American Legend* by Laura Hillenbrand**
	Cold Mountain	Anthony Minghella	The novel by Charles Frazier
	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson, and Philippa Boyens	The novel Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Peter Weir and John Collee	The novel by Patrick O'Brian
2004	Million Dollar Baby	Paul Haggis	*The book Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner* by F.X. Toole**
	The Bourne Supremacy	Tony Gilroy	The novel by Robert Ludlum
	The Door in the Floor	Tod Williams	The novel A Widow for One Year by John Irving
	Friday Night Lights	Peter Berg, Buzz Bissinger, and David Aaron Cohen	The book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H. G. Bissinger
	Sideways	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor	The novel by Rex Pickett
2005	Capote	Dan Futterman	The novel by Gerald Clarke
	Brokeback Mountain	Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana	The short story by E. Annie Proulx
	The Constant Gardener	Jeffrey Caine	The novel by John le Carré
	A History of Violence	Josh Olson	The graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke
	Syriana	Stephen Gaghan	The memoir See No Evil by Robert Baer
2006	Children of Men	David Arata, Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, and Timothy J. Sexton	*The novel The Children of Men* by P. D. James**
	The Devil Wears Prada	Aline Brosh McKenna	The novel by Lauren Weisberger
	The Illusionist	Neil Burger	The short story Eisenheim the IllusionistSteven Millhauser
	The Last King of Scotland	Jeremy Brock and Peter Morgan	The novel by Giles Foden
	Notes on a Scandal	Patrick Marber	The novel by Zoë Heller
2007	No Country for Old Men	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	The novel by Cormac McCarthy
	Atonement	Christopher Hampton	The novel by Ian McEwan
	Into the Wild	Sean Penn	The book by Jon Krakauer
	There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson	The novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair
	Zodiac	James Vanderbilt	The book by Robert Graysmith
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Simon Beaufoy	*The novel Q & A* by Vikas Swarup**
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Eric Roth and Robin Swicord	The short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
	Iron Man	Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway	The comic by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Don Heck, and Jack Kirby
	The Reader	David Hare	The novel by Bernhard Schlink
	Revolutionary Road	Justin Haythe	The novel by Richard Yates
2009	Up in the Air	Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner	The novel by Walter Kirn
	Crazy Heart	Scott Cooper	The novel by Thomas Cobb
	District 9	Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell	The short film Alive in Joburg by Blomkamp
	An Education	Nick Hornby	The memoir by Lynn Barber
	Precious	Geoffrey S. Fletcher	The novel Push by Sapphire

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
2010 ^[2]	The Social Network	Aaron Sorkin	*The book The Accidental Billionaires* by Ben Mezrich**
	127 Hours	Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle	The book Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
	The Ghost Writer	Robert Harris and Roman Polanski	The novel The Ghost by Harris
	True Grit	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	The novel by Charles Portis
	Winter's Bone	Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini	The novel by Daniel Woodrell
2011 ^[3]	The Descendants	Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, and Nat Faxon	The novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings
	A Dangerous Method	Christopher Hampton	The play The Talking Cure by Hampton
	Jane Eyre	Moira Buffini	The novel by Charlotte Brontë
	Moneyball	Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian, and Stan Chervin	The book by Michael Lewis
	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan	The novel by John le Carré
2012 ^[4]	Argo	Chris Terrio	*The book The Master of Disguise* by Antonio J. Mendez and the article The Great Escape by Joshuah Bearman**
	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin	The play Juicy and Delicious by Alibar
	Life of Pi	David Magee	The novel by Yann Martel
	Lincoln	Tony Kushner	The book Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
	The Perks of Being a Wallflower	Stephen Chbosky	The novel by Chbosky
	Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell	The novel by Matthew Quick
2013 ^[5]	12 Years a Slave	John Ridley	The memoir by Solomon Northup
	Captain Phillips	Billy Ray	The book A Captain's Duty by Richard Phillips and Stephan Talty
	Philomena	Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope	The book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Martin Sixsmith
	The Spectacular Now	Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber	The novel by Tim Tharp
	What Maisie Knew	Carroll Cartwright and Nancy Doyne	The novel by Henry James
2014 ^[6]	The Imitation Game	Graham Moore	*The book Alan Turing: The Enigma* by Andrew Hodges**
	Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn	The novel by Flynn
	Inherent Vice	Paul Thomas Anderson	The novel by Thomas Pynchon
	The Theory of Everything	Anthony McCarten	The book Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen Hawking by Jane Hawking
	Wild	Nick Hornby	The memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
2015 ^[7]	The Big Short	Adam McKay and Charles Randolph	The book by Michael Lewis
	Brooklyn	Nick Hornby	The novel by Colm Tóibín
	The End of the Tour	Donald Margulies	The memoir Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky
	The Martian	Drew Goddard	The novel by Andy Weir
	Room	Emma Donoghue	The novel by Donoghue
2016 ^[8]	Moonlight	Barry Jenkins	*The play Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue* by Tarell Alvin McCraney**
	Arrival	Eric Heisserer	The short story Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
	Fences	August Wilson	The play by Wilson
	Hidden Figures	Theodore Melfi and Allison Schroeder	The book by Margot Lee Shetterly
	Lion	Luke Davies	The memoir A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley and Larry Buttrose
2017 ^[9]	Call Me by Your Name	James Ivory	The novel by André Aciman
	The Disaster Artist	Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber	The book by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell
	Logan	Scott Frank, Michael Green, and James Mangold	The comics by John Romita Sr. and Len Wein
	The Lost City of Z	James Gray	The book by David Grann
	Molly's Game	Aaron Sorkin	The memoir by Molly Bloom
	Mudbound	Dee Rees and Virgil Williams	The novel by Hillary Jordan
	Wonder Woman	Zack Snyder, Allan Heinberg, and Jason Fuchs	The comic by William Moulton Marston
2018 ^[10]	Leave No Trace	Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini	*The novel My Abandonment* by Peter Rock**
	Black Panther	Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole	The comics by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty	The memoir by Lee Israel
	The Death of Stalin	Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, and Ian Martin	The comics La Mort de Staline by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin
	If Beale Street Could Talk	Barry Jenkins	The novel by James Baldwin
2019 ^[11]^[12]	Little Women	Greta Gerwig	The novel by Louisa May Alcott
	Dark Waters	Mario Correa and Matthew Michael Carnahan	The article "The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare" by Nathaniel Rich
	The Irishman	Steven Zaillian	The book I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt
	Jojo Rabbit	Taika Waititi	The novel Caging Skies by Christine Leunens
	The Two Popes	Anthony McCarten	The play The Pope by McCarten

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
2020 ^[13]	Nomadland	Chloé Zhao	*The book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century* by Jessica Bruder**
	Bad Education	Mike Makowsky	The New York magazine article "The Bad Superintendent" by Robert Kolker
	First Cow	Jonathan Raymond and Kelly Reichardt	The novel The Half-Life by Raymond
	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Ruben Santiago-Hudson	The play by August Wilson
	One Night in Miami...	Kemp Powers	The play by Powers
2021 ^[14]	The Lost Daughter	Maggie Gyllenhaal	The novel by Elena Ferrante
	Dune	Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts, and Denis Villeneuve	The novel by Frank Herbert
	Passing	Rebecca Hall	The novel by Nella Larsen
	The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion	The novel by Thomas Savage
	The Tragedy of Macbeth	Joel Coen	The play Macbeth by William Shakespeare
2022 ^[15]	Women Talking	Sarah Polley	The novel by Miriam Toews
	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio	Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale, and Matthew Robbins	The fairy tale The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
	Living	Kazuo Ishiguro	The novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
	She Said	Rebecca Lenkiewicz	The nonfiction book She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
	~~Top Gun: Maverick~~ (nomination withdrawn)^[16]	Peter Craig, Ehren Kruger, Justin Marks, Christopher McQuarrie, and Eric Warren	The characters from the 1983 California magazine article "Top Guns" by Ehud Yonay
2023 ^[17]	American Fiction	Cord Jefferson	*The novel Erasure* by Percival Everett**
	Killers of the Flower Moon	Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese	The nonfiction book by David Grann
	Oppenheimer	Christopher Nolan	The nonfiction book American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
	Origin	Ava DuVernay	The nonfiction book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
	Poor Things	Tony McNamara	The novel by Alasdair Gray

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Year	Program	Nominees	Source Material
2015	Show Me a Hero	David Simon and William F. Zorzi	The book by Lisa Belkin
	Game of Thrones ("Hardhome")	David Benioff and D. B. Weiss	The series of novels A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
	The Leftovers ("Axis Mundi")	Damon Lindelof and Jacqueline Hoyt	The novel by Tom Perrotta
	The Man in the High Castle ("The New World")	Frank Spotnitz	The novel by Philip K. Dick
	Masters of Sex ("Full Ten Count")	Michelle Ashford	The biography Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love by Thomas Maier
2016	The Night Manager	David Farr	The novel by John le Carré
	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story ("Manna from Heaven")	Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski	*The book The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson* by Jeffrey Toobin**
	Game of Thrones ("The Winds of Winter")	David Benioff and D. B. Weiss	The series of novels A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
	The Man in the High Castle ("Fallout")	Erik Oleson	The novel by Philip K. Dick
	Orange Is the New Black ("Toast Can't Never Be Bread Again")	Tara Herrmann and Jenji Kohan	The memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman
2017	The Handmaid's Tale ("Offred")	Bruce Miller	The novel by Margaret Atwood
	Big Little Lies ("You Get What You Need")	David E. Kelley	The novel by Liane Moriarty
	Alias Grace	Sarah Polley	The novel by Margaret Atwood
	Genius ("Einstein: Chapter One")	Noah Pink and Ken Biller	The book Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Peter Landesman, Alexander Woo and George C. Wolfe	The book by Rebecca Skloot
	Mindhunter ("Chapter 10")	Joe Penhall and Jennifer Haley	The book Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
2018	A Very English Scandal	Russell T Davies	The book by John Preston
	The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story ("The Man Who Would Be Vogue")	Tom Rob Smith	The book Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U.S. History by Maureen Orth
	The Handmaid's Tale ("Holly")	Bruce Miller and Kira Snyder	The novel by Margaret Atwood
	The Looming Tower ("9/11")	Dan Futterman and Ali Selim	The novel by Lawrence Wright
	Patrick Melrose ("Bad News")	David Nicholls	The novels by Edward St Aubyn
	Sharp Objects ("Vanish")	Marti Noxon	The novel by Gillian Flynn
2019	Fleabag	Phoebe Waller-Bridge	The one-woman show by Waller-Bridge
	Fosse/Verdon ("Nowadays")	Joel Fields and Steven Levenson	The biography Fosse by Sam Wasson
	Killing Eve ("Nice and Neat")	Emerald Fennell	The novella series Codename Villanelle by Luke Jennings
	Unbelievable ("Episode 1")	Susannah Grant, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman	The news article "An Unbelievable Story of Rape" by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong
	Watchmen ("This Extraordinary Being")	Damon Lindelof and Cord Jefferson	The comic by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

Year	Program	Nominees	Source Material
2020	The Queen's Gambit ("Openings")	Scott Frank	The novel by Walter Tevis
	The Good Lord Bird ("Meet the Lord")	Mark Richard and Ethan Hawke	The novel by James McBride
	Normal People ("Episode 5")	Sally Rooney and Alice Birch	The novel by Rooney
	The Plot Against America ("Part 6")	Ed Burns and David Simon	The novel by Philip Roth
	Unorthodox ("Part 1")	Anna Winger	The autobiography Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
2021	Dopesick (“The People vs. Purdue Pharma")	Danny Strong	*The nonfiction book Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America* by Beth Macy**
	Maid ("Dollar Store")	Molly Smith Metzler	The memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land by Stephanie Land
	Station Eleven ("Wheel of Fire")	Patrick Somerville	The novel by Emily St. John Mandel
	The Underground Railroad ("Indiana Winter")	Barry Jenkins	The novel by Colson Whitehead
	WandaVision ("Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience")	Jac Schaeffer	The Marvel Comics characters of the name same created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
2022	Slow Horses ("Failure's Contagious")	Will Smith	The novel by Mick Herron
	The Crown ("Couple 31")	Peter Morgan	The play The Audience by Peter Morgan
	Fleishman Is in Trouble ("The Liver")	Taffy Brodesser-Akner	The novel by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
	Tokyo Vice ("Yoshino")	J. T. Rogers	The memoir Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein
	Under the Banner of Heaven ("When God Was Love")	Dustin Lance Black	The nonfiction book by Jon Krakauer
2023	Slow Horses ("Negotiating With Tigers")	Will Smith	The novel by Mick Herron
	The Crown ("Sleep, Dearie Sleep")	Peter Morgan	The play The Audience by Peter Morgan
	Daisy Jones & the Six ("Track 5: Fire")	Scott Neustadter	The novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid
	The Last of Us ("Long, Long Time")	Craig Mazin	The video game by Neil Druckmann and Naughty Dog
	Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty ("The New World")	Max Borenstein, Rodney Barnes, and Jim Hecht	The nonfiction work Showtime by Jeff Pearlman