One Night in Miami nodded for its script, based on the 2013 play
The Scripter nominees are here. The USC Scripter award honors the script and the source material for an adaptation and has often (a little more than half the time) presaged the Oscar for adapted screenplay. Here are the honorees:
Mike Makowsky for Bad Education based on the New York magazine article “The Bad Superintendent” by Robert Kolker
Jon Raymond and Kelly Reichardt for First Cow based on the novel The Half-Life by Jon Raymond
Screenwriter Ruben Santiago-Hudson and playwright August Wilson for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Chloé Zhao for Nomadland based on the nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder
Screenwriter and playwright Kemp Powers for One Night in Miami
