From last night’s USC Scripter Awards, honoring the best adaptation of book to film/series.
Winners were:
Screenwriter Mike Makowsky for the episode “Destiny of the Republic,” from “Death by Lightning,” based on the nonfiction book “Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President” by author Candice Millard.
Screenwriter Paul Thomas Anderson for “One Battle After Another” inspired by the novel “Vineland” by author Thomas Pynchon.
Mr Makowsky delivered gracious, witty thanks. Mr Pynchon was not, alas, with us detained by a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue. Mr Anderson accepted graciously via video.
My own remarks can be found here.