USC Scripter Awards: 'Nomadland' and 'Queen's Gambit' Named Best Adaptations Everett 'Nomadland' The Scripter Award and the best adapted screenplay Oscar have gone to the same project on 14 occasions over the past 32 years. Nomadland and The Queen's Gambit took top honors at the 33rd annual — and first virtual — USC Libraries Scripter Awards on Saturday night. The Scripter Awards celebrate the best printed-word-to-screen adaptations. Both authors and screenwriters were celebrated. Therefore, Nomadland screenwriter Chloe Zhao and Jesssica Bruder, the author of the novel of the same name, shared the film award, and the TV award went to both Scott Frank, who wrote the "Openings" episode of