Shakespeare Shares Scripter Award Nomination for ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’

Greater than 400 years after writing “Macbeth,” William Shakespeare has been nominated for a Hollywood award for his early Seventeenth-century basic. “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” director Joel Coen’s adaptation of the Bard’s tragedy, has been named a finalist on the thirty fourth annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards, the place the nominations go to each the screenwriter of an adaptation and the unique writer on which the variation is predicated.

On an inventory unveiled by USC Libraries on Wednesday morning, Shakespeare is joined by three different deceased authors and one who’s (most likely) nonetheless alive however refuses to disclose her (?) actual title. Finalists within the Scripters’ movie class are “Dune,” with a screenplay by Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve from the novel by Frank Herbert, who died in 1986; “The Energy of the Canine,” tailored by Jane Campion from the novel by Western author Thomas Savage, who died in 2003; “Passing,” written by Rebecca Corridor from the novel by Nella Larsen, who died in 1964; and “The Misplaced Daughter,” tailored by Maggie Gyllenhaal from the novel by Elena Ferrante, the pen title for an Italian writer who stays steadfastly nameless.

All 5 movies are written or co-written by their administrators. Movie diversifications that didn’t obtain nominations from the choice committee embody “West Aspect Story,” “Nightmare Alley” and “Cyrano.”

Within the Scripters’ tv class, the finalists had been episodes of “Dopesick,” “Maid,” “Station Eleven,” “The Underground Railroad” and “WandaVision.” Barry Jenkins, who was nominated for the “Underground Railroad” episode,  was additionally chosen as recipient of the USC Libraries Literary Achievement Award for works that included 2017 Scripter winner “Moonlight” and 2019 finalist “If Beale Avenue May Speak.”

Scripter finalists are chosen by a variety committee of critics, authors, movie professionals and lecturers. Former WGA, West president Howard Rodman chairs the committee.

Through the years, about two-thirds of Scripter finalists go on to obtain Oscar nominations within the Greatest Tailored Screenplay class. Between 2011 and 2018, the identical movie received each awards for eight years in a row, although agreements between Oscar and Scripter voters have in any other case been uncommon.

The Scripter ceremony is at the moment scheduled to happen at an in-person ceremony within the Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library on the USC campus, COVID-19 security protocols allowing.

Right here is the record of finalists from the Scripter press launch:

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

• Screenwriters Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts, and Denis Villeneuve, for “Dune” based mostly on the novel by Frank Herbert
• Maggie Gyllenhaal for “The Misplaced Daughter” based mostly on the novel by Elena Ferrante  
• Rebecca Corridor for “Passing” based mostly on the novel by Nella Larsen
• Screenwriter Jane Campion and writer Thomas Savage for “The Energy of the Canine”
• Screenwriter Joel Coen and playwright William Shakespeare for “The Tragedy of Macbeth”

The finalist writers for tv are, in alphabetical order by sequence title:

• Danny Sturdy, for the episode “The Folks vs. Purdue Pharma,” from “Dopesick,” based mostly on the nonfiction e-book “Dopesick: Sellers, Docs, and the Drug Firm that Addicted America,” by Beth Macy
• Molly Smith Metzler for the episode “Greenback Retailer,” from “Maid,” based mostly on the memoir “Maid: Arduous Work, Low Pay and a Mom’s Will to Survive” by Stephanie Land
• Patrick Somerville for the episode “Wheel of Hearth,” from “Station Eleven,” based mostly on the novel by Emily St. John Mandel
• Barry Jenkins for the episode “Indiana Winter” from “The Underground Railroad,” based mostly on the novel by Colson Whitehead
• Jac Schaeffer for the episode “Filmed Earlier than a Reside Studio Viewers,” from “WandaVision” based mostly on Marvel Comics characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby