Scott Frank

American screenwriter and director (born 1960)

Scott Frank

Born|  (1960-03-10) March 10, 1960 (age 64)

Fort Walton Beach, Florida, U.S.

Education| University of California, Santa Barbara (BA)
American Film Institute (MFA)
Occupation(s)| Film director, producer, screenwriter, author

A. Scott Frank (born March 10, 1960) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author. Frank has received two Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for Out of Sight (1998) and Logan (2017). His film work, credited and uncredited, extends to dozens of films.[1] In recent years, he has worked for Netflix on television miniseries, most prominently writing and directing Godless and The Queen's Gambit.

## Early life and education

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Frank was born to a Jewish family[2] in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, on March 10, 1960.[3] His family moved to Los Gatos, California where he attended high school while his father worked as a pilot for Pan Am.[4] He attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts in film studies.[5][6][7]

## Career

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While a student at the University of California, Frank first had the idea for what would become the script for Little Man Tate in 1981, thinking that, in the aftermath of the Iran hostage crisis there was "a slight petulance to world events at the time" and envisioning "an eight year old who was making more sense of the world than Ted Koppel."[8] After graduation he worked as a bartender while attempting to sell the script, which eventually led to his hiring an agent, and subsequently being hired by Paramount Pictures in 1984. It would take several years before the script was made, with Frank's first produced screenwriting work in the meantime being the 1987 film Plain Clothes, which he would later describe as "terrible." Little Man Tate was ultimately made in 1991 as the directorial debut of actress Jodie Foster.[9]

In the years to follow, Frank's filmography included scripts for Dead Again, Malice, Heaven's Prisoners, and Get Shorty. The latter earned him his first award nominations with both the Writers Guild and the Golden Globes.[10] He credited the success of Get Shorty with reviving his interest in the job after a bad experience on Malice, and was particularly pleased as a longtime fan of Elmore Leonard's novels that he felt had not received satisfactory film adaptations previously. This success led to his being asked to work on another Elmore Leonard adaptation, Steven Soderbergh's 1998 film Out of Sight starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez. The film was not a commercial success but earned warm critical plaudits.[9] Frank won both the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Frank was recruited by Steven Spielberg to work on the script for Minority Report, a Philip K. Dick adaptation, which he would later say was "a very difficult screenplay to write because it was loaded with so much technical detail."[1] He performed second unit directing duties for one segment of the film, an area of filmmaking he had contemplated moving into for some time.[8] Minority Report earned him the Saturn Award for Best Writing and several other nominations, including for Hugo and Nebula awards. Other credits from this period included The Interpreter and Marley & Me, the latter described as a film he would not have imagined himself working on but which he developed "a big soft spot for."[1] By 2024, Frank had worked on nearly 60 films, including uncredited rewrites on films such as Saving Private Ryan, Entrapment, Dawn of the Dead, Night at the Museum and Gravity.[4][1]

Frank made his directorial debut in 2007 on The Lookout, whose script he had begun in 1998 and which was originally meant to be directed by Sam Mendes, who eventually departed the project to make Road to Perdition while encouraging Frank to take on the task himself.[8] He had also attempted to recruit Sydney Pollack, the director of The Interpreter whom he considered a mentor, to direct the project.[1] He won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature for his work on the film. His second film as a director, 2014's A Walk Among the Tombstones, had a more mixed reception. In January 2016, Frank published his first novel, Shaker, a crime mystery published by Penguin Random House.[11][12][13] He also worked in the burgeoning superhero genre, making two films with director James Mangold, The Wolverine (2013) and Logan (2017). For the latter, he received his second Academy Award nomination.[9]

Having had previous experience working for network television, Frank had begun to develop Godless, previously intended as a film, into a miniseries for HBO. However, Netflix outbid HBO for the project, which Frank wrote and directed.[9] The miniseries earned Frank numerous award nominations, including from the Directors Guild and three Primetime Emmy Awards. The success of Godless led Frank to pitch further projects to Netflix, several of which were rejected, until they expressed interest in The Queen's Gambit, an adaptation of a Walter Tevis novel that Frank had previously attempted to make as a film.[14][15] Frank said that he viewed the novel as exploring "the cost of genius", a theme that he had first intended to explore in Little Man Tate but "didn't quite get there with it."[16]

Frank won the 2021 Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

## Filmography

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### Film

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Screenwriter

Year  | Title  | Director  | Notes

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1988  | Plain Clothes | Martha Coolidge |
1991  | Dead Again | Kenneth Branagh |
Little Man Tate | Jodie Foster |
The Walter Ego | John Putch | Short film
1993  | Malice | Harold Becker |
1995  | Get Shorty | Barry Sonnenfeld |
1996  | Heaven's Prisoners | Phil Joanou |
1998  | Out of Sight | Steven Soderbergh |
2002  | Minority Report | Steven Spielberg |
2004  | Flight of the Phoenix | John Moore |
2005  | The Interpreter | Sydney Pollack |
2008  | Marley & Me | David Frankel |
2013  | The Wolverine | James Mangold |
2017  | Logan |

Director

Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Notes  | Ref

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2007  | The Lookout | Yes  | Yes  |  |
2014  | A Walk Among the Tombstones | Yes  | Yes  |  |

Producer

Year  | Title  | Director  | Notes

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2001  | The Caveman's Valentine | Kasi Lemmons |
2022  | No Exit | Damien Power  |

### Television

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Executive
producer  | Creator  | Notes

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1988  | The Wonder Years | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Episode "The Phone Call"
1993  | Fallen Angels | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Episode "Dead End for Delia"
1994  | Birdland | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Episodes "Pilot" and "Plan B"
2004  | Karen Sisco | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Episode "He Was a Friend of Mine"
2011  | Shameless | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Episode "It's Time to Kill the Turtle"
2017  | Godless | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Miniseries
2020  | The Queen's Gambit | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
2024  | Monsieur Spade | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
TBA | Department Q | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes

## Awards and nominations

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Year  | Award  | Category  | Work  | Result  | Ref.

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1992  | Edgar Awards | Best Motion Picture Screenplay | Dead Again | Nominated  | [17]
1996  | Writers Guild of America Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Get Shorty | Nominated
USC Scripter Awards | Film  | Nominated
Edgar Awards | Best Motion Picture Screenplay | Nominated
Golden Globe Awards | Best Screenplay | Nominated
1998  | Boston Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Screenplay | Out of Sight | Won
1999  | Writers Guild of America Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Won
Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Won
National Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Screenplay | Won
Edgar Awards | Best Motion Picture Screenplay | Won
Academy Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Nominated
2002  | Bram Stoker Awards | Best Screenplay | Minority Report | Nominated
2003  | Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Nominated
Hugo Awards | Best Dramatic Presentation — Long Form | Nominated
Saturn Awards | Best Writing | Won
2004  | Nebula Awards | Best Script | Nominated
2007  | Satellite Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | The Lookout | Nominated
2008  | Independent Spirit Awards | Best First Feature | Won
Edgar Awards | Best Motion Picture Screenplay | Nominated
2017  | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Logan | Nominated
2018  | Writers Guild of America Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Nominated
Long Form – Original | Godless | Nominated
USC Scripter Awards | Film  | Logan | Nominated
Directors Guild of America Awards | Outstanding Directing – Miniseries or TV Film | Godless | Nominated
Academy Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Logan | Nominated
Nebula Awards | Outstanding Dramatic Presentation | Nominated
Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series | Godless | Nominated  | [18]
Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series | Nominated
Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series | Nominated
Saturn Awards | Best Writing | Logan | Nominated  | [19]
2021  | Golden Globe Awards | Best Miniseries or Television Film | The Queen's Gambit | Won  | [20]
Writers Guild of America Awards | Long Form – Adapted | Won  | [21]
Producers Guild of America Awards | Best Limited Series Television | Won  | [22]
Directors Guild of America Awards | Outstanding Directing – Miniseries or TV Film | Won  | [23]
USC Scripter Awards | Television  | The Queen's Gambit (Episode: "Openings")  | Won  | [24]
Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series (together with William Horberg and Allan Scott)  | The Queen's Gambit | Won  | [25]
Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie | Won
Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie | Nominated

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e "Scott Frank: Screenwriters' Lecture". guru.bafta.org. March 3, 2017. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
2. ^ Bloom, Nate (March 6, 2018). "Anton Yelchin's final role lands in 'Thoroughbreds'; Appatow's 'Love' returns". J. The Jewish News of Northern California.
3. ^ "Scott Frank biography". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. New York City, New York. 2014. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
4. ^ a b Keefe, Patrick Radden (December 25, 2023). "How a Script Doctor Found His Own Voice". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved February 4, 2024.
5. ^ "Scott Frank bio". Penguin Random House. University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
6. ^ Bazer, Mark (March 25, 2007). "Screenwriter Frank takes action After years spent creating scripts, he's directing". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
7. ^ "Miller & Son — AFI". Miller & Son. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
8. ^ a b c "Screenwriting Chat: Scott Frank". Screenplay.com. 2002. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
9. ^ a b c d "Full transcript: Screenwriter, novelist and director Scott Frank on Recode Media". Vox. March 3, 2017. Retrieved April 10, 2021.
10. ^ "Scott Frank". www.goldenglobes.com. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
11. ^ "Shaker". Penguin Random House. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
12. ^ "Shaker". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
13. ^ "Interview: Scott Frank on Finishing His Debut Novel 'Shaker' Fifteen Years After He Began". /Film. March 14, 2017. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
14. ^ "For Queen's Gambit Creator, the Vineyard Is a Creative Force". The Vineyard Gazette - Martha's Vineyard News. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
15. ^ "An interview with Scott Frank: THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT". Writers Guild of America, East. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
16. ^ "The Queen's Gambit creator on 'bringing sexy back to chess' and the series' long journey to TV". Entertainment Weekly. October 25, 2020. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
17. ^ "Scott Frank". IMDb. Retrieved March 12, 2021.
18. ^ "Winners & Nominees 2018". Primetime Emmy Awards. September 17, 2018. Retrieved April 11, 2021.
19. ^ "Here Are the 44th Annual Saturn Awards Nominations". Bleeding Cool. March 15, 2018.
20. ^ "Winners & Nominees 2021". Golden Globe Awards. February 28, 2021. Retrieved April 11, 2021.
21. ^ "'The Great,' 'Queen's Gambit,' 'Mrs. America' Take Early Wins at Writers Guild Awards 2021 (Updating Live)". Variety. March 21, 2021.
22. ^ "Producers Guild Awards Winners (Updating Live)". Variety. March 24, 2021.
23. ^ "DGA Awards: Chloe Zhao and 'Nomadland' Take Top Honor". The Hollywood Reporter. April 10, 2021. Retrieved April 10, 2021.
24. ^ Feinberg, Scott (March 14, 2021). "USC Scripter Awards: 'Nomadland' and 'Queen's Gambit' Named Best Adaptations". The Hollywood Reporter.
25. ^ Hipes, Patrick (July 13, 2021). "Emmy Nominations: 'The Crown', 'The Mandalorian' Top List; HBO/HBO Max Edges Netflix For Top Spot – Full List Of Nominees". Deadline. Retrieved July 13, 2021.

## External links

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* Scott Frank at IMDb
* Patrick Radden Keefe (December 25, 2023). "How A Script Doctor Found His Own Voice". The New Yorker {subscription reqd}. Retrieved December 28, 2023.

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Scott Frank

Films written and directed|

* The Lookout (2007)
* A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

Films written|

* Plain Clothes (1988)
* Dead Again (1991)
* Little Man Tate (1991)
* Malice (1993)
* Get Shorty (1995)
* Heaven's Prisoners (1996)
* Out of Sight (1998)
* Minority Report (2002)
* Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
* The Interpreter (2005)
* Marley & Me (2008)
* The Wolverine (2013)
* Logan (2017)

TV series created|

* Birdland (1994)
* Godless (2017)
* The Queen's Gambit (2020)
* Monsieur Spade (2024)
* Department Q (TBA)

Awards for Scott Frank

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Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay

Screenplay
(1980–2021)|

* Bo Goldman (1980)
* Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn (1981)
* Barry Levinson (1982)
* Éric Rohmer (1983)
* Alex Cox (1984)
* Woody Allen (1985)
* Woody Allen (1986)
* James L. Brooks (1987)
* Ron Shelton (1988)
* Woody Allen (1989)
* Nicholas Kazan (1990)
* David Cronenberg (1991)
* Neil Jordan (1992)
* Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt (1993)
* Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino (1994)
* Emma Thompson (1995)
* Joseph Tropiano and Stanley Tucci (1996)
* Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997)
* Scott Frank (1998)
* Charlie Kaufman (1999)
* Cameron Crowe / Steve Kloves (2000)
* Christopher Nolan (2001)
* Charlie and Donald Kaufman (2002)
* Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (2003)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
* Dan Futterman (2005)
* William Monahan (2006)
* Brad Bird (2007)
* Dustin Lance Black (2008)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2009)
* Aaron Sorkin (2010)
* Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin (2011)
* Tony Kushner (2012)
* Nicole Holofcener (2013)
* Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo / Richard Linklater (2014)
* Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015)
* Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
* Greta Gerwig (2017)
* Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (2018)
* Quentin Tarantino (2019)
* Charlie Kaufman (2020)
* Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe (2021)

Original Screenplay
(2022–present)|

* Martin McDonagh (2022)
* David Hemingson (2023)

Adapted Screenplay
(2022–present)|

* Kogonada (2022)
* Jonathan Glazer (2023)

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Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Movies for Television and Limited Series

1971–2000|

* Buzz Kulik for Brian's Song (1971)
* Lamont Johnson for That Certain Summer (1972)
* Joseph Sargent for The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973)
* John Korty for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
* Sam O'Steen for Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (1975)
* Marvin J. Chomsky for Inside the Third Reich (1982)
* Edward Zwick for Special Bulletin (1983)
* Daniel Petrie for The Dollmaker (1984)
* John Erman for An Early Frost (1985)
* Lee Grant for Nobody's Child (1986)
* Jud Taylor for Foxfire (1987)
* Lamont Johnson for Lincoln (1988)
* Dan Curtis for War and Remembrance: "Parts VIII-XII: The Final Chapter" (1989)
* Roger Young for Murder in Mississippi (1990)
* Stephen Gyllenhaal for Paris Trout (1991)
* Ron Lagomarsino for Picket Fences: "Pilot" (1992)
* Michael Ritchie for The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993)
* Rod Holcomb for ER: "Pilot" (1994)
* Mick Jackson for Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
* Betty Thomas for The Late Shift (1996)
* John Herzfeld for Don King: Only in America (1997)
* Michael Cristofer for Gia (1998)
* Mick Jackson for Tuesdays with Morrie (1999)
* Jeff Bleckner for The Beach Boys: An American Family (2000)

2001–present|

* Frank Pierson for Conspiracy (2001)
* Mick Jackson for Live from Baghdad (2002)
* Mike Nichols for Angels in America (2003)
* Joseph Sargent for Something the Lord Made (2004)
* Joseph Sargent for Warm Springs / George C. Wolfe for Lackawanna Blues (2005)
* Walter Hill for Broken Trail (2006)
* Yves Simoneau for Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
* Jay Roach for Recount (2008)
* Ross Katz for Taking Chance (2009)
* Mick Jackson for Temple Grandin (2010)
* Jon Cassar for The Kennedys (2011)
* Jay Roach for Game Change (2012)
* Steven Soderbergh for Behind the Candelabra (2013)
* Lisa Cholodenko for Olive Kitteridge (2014)
* Dee Rees for Bessie (2015)
* Steven Zaillian for The Night Of: "The Beach" (2016)
* Jean-Marc Vallée for Big Little Lies (2017)
* Ben Stiller for Escape at Dannemora (2018)
* Johan Renck for Chernobyl (2019)
* Scott Frank for The Queen's Gambit (2020)
* Barry Jenkins for The Underground Railroad (2021)
* Helen Shaver for Station Eleven: "Who's There?" (2022)
* Sarah Adina Smith for Lessons in Chemistry: "Her and Him" (2023)

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Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay

1940s|

* John Paxton (1946)
* Anthony Veiller (1947)
* John Paxton (1948)
* Jerome Cady, Jay Dratler, Leonard Hoffman, and Quentin Reynolds (1949)

1950s|

* Mel Dinelli and Cornell Woolrich (1950)
* Ben Maddow (1951)
* Michael Wilson (1952)
* Michael Wilson and Otto Lang (1953)
* Sydney Boehm (1954)
* John Michael Hayes (1955)
* Joseph Hayes (1956)
* Reginald Rose (1958)
* Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith (1959)

1960s|

* Ernest Lehman (1960)
* Joseph Stefano (1961)
* William Archibald and Truman Capote (1962)
* Peter Stone (1964)
* Henry Farrell and Lukas Heller (1965)
* Paul Dehn and Guy Trosper (1966)
* William Goldman (1967)
* Stirling Silliphant (1968)
* Harry Kleiner and Alan Trustman (1969)

1970s|

* Costa Gavras and Jorge Semprún (1970)
* Elio Petri and Ugo Pirro (1971)
* Ernest Tidyman (1972)
* Anthony Shaffer (1973)
* Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim (1974)
* Robert Towne (1975)
* David Rayfiel and Lorenzo Semple, Jr. (1976)
* Ernest Lehman (1977)
* Robert Benton (1978)
* William Goldman (1979)

1980s|

* Michael Crichton (1980)
* Joseph Wambaugh (1981)
* Jeffrey Alan Fiskin (1982)
* Barrie Keeffe (1983)
* Dennis Potter (1984)
* Charles Fuller (1985)
* William Kelley and Earl W. Wallace (1986)
* E. Max Frye (1987)
* Jim Kouf (1988)
* Errol Morris (1989)

1990s|

* Daniel Waters (1990)
* Donald E. Westlake (1991)
* Ted Tally (1992)
* Michael Tolkin (1993)
* Ebbe Roe Smith (1994)
* Quentin Tarantino (1995)
* Christopher McQuarrie (1996)
* Billy Bob Thornton (1997)
* Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1998)
* Scott Frank and Elmore Leonard (1999)

2000s|

* Guy Ritchie (2000)
* Stephen Gaghan and Simon Moore (2001)
* Christopher Nolan (2002)
* Bill Condon (2003)
* Steven Knight (2004)
* Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Sébastien Japrisot (2005)
* Stephen Gaghan and Robert Baer (2006)
* William Monahan (2007)
* Tony Gilroy (2008)
* Martin McDonagh (2009)

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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

1970s|

* Fielder Cook (1971)
* Tom Gries (1972)
* Joseph Sargent (1973)
* John Korty (1974)
* George Cukor (1975)
* Daniel Petrie (1976)
* Daniel Petrie (1977)
* David Lowell Rich (1978)
* David Greene (1979)

1980s|

* Marvin J. Chomsky (1980)
* James Goldstone (1981)
* Marvin J. Chomsky (1982)
* John Erman (1983)
* Jeff Bleckner (1984)
* Lamont Johnson (1985)
* Joseph Sargent (1986)
* Glenn A. Jordan (1987)
* Lamont Johnson (1988)
* Simon Wincer (1989)

1990s|

* Joseph Sargent (1990)
* Brian Gibson (1991)
* Joseph Sargent (1992)
* James Steven Sadwith (1993)
* John Frankenheimer (1994)
* John Frankenheimer (1995)
* John Frankenheimer (1996)
* Andrei Konchalovsky (1997)
* John Frankenheimer (1998)
* Allan Arkush (1999)

2000s|

* Charles S. Dutton (2000)
* Mike Nichols (2001)
* David Frankel, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, Mikael Salomon and Tony To (2002)
* Steven Schachter (2003)
* Mike Nichols (2004)
* Stephen Hopkins (2005)
* Tom Hooper (2006)
* Philip Martin (2007)
* Jay Roach (2008)
* Dearbhla Walsh (2009)

2010s|

* Mick Jackson (2010)
* Brian Percival (2011)
* Jay Roach (2012)
* Steven Soderbergh (2013)
* Colin Bucksey (2014)
* Lisa Cholodenko (2015)
* Susanne Bier (2016)
* Jean-Marc Vallée (2017)
* Ryan Murphy (2018)
* Johan Renck (2019)

2020s|

* Maria Schrader (2020)
* Scott Frank (2021)
* Mike White (2022)
* Lee Sung Jin (2023)
* Steven Zaillian (2024)

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National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay

1967–2000|

* David Newman and Robert Benton (1967)
* John Cassavetes (1968)
* Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker (1969)
* Éric Rohmer (1970)
* Penelope Gilliatt (1971)
* Ingmar Bergman (1972)
* George Lucas, Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck (1973)
* Ingmar Bergman (1974)
* Robert Towne and Warren Beatty (1975)
* Alain Tanner and John Berger (1976)
* Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman (1977)
* Paul Mazursky (1978)
* Steve Tesich (1979)
* Bo Goldman (1980)
* John Guare (1981)
* Murray Schisgal and Larry Gelbart (1982)
* Bill Forsyth (1983)
* Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Bruce Jay Friedman (1984)
* Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson (1985)
* Hanif Kureishi (1986)
* John Boorman (1987)
* Ron Shelton (1988)
* Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost (1989)
* Charles Burnett (1990)
* David Cronenberg (1991)
* David Webb Peoples (1992)
* Jane Campion (1993)
* Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary (1994)
* Amy Heckerling (1995)
* Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson (1996)
* Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997)
* Scott Frank (1998)
* Charlie Kaufman (1999)
* Kenneth Lonergan (2000)

2001–present|

* Julian Fellowes (2001)
* Ronald Harwood (2002)
* Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (2003)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
* Noah Baumbach (2005)
* Peter Morgan (2006)
* Tamara Jenkins (2007)
* Mike Leigh (2008)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2009)
* Aaron Sorkin (2010)
* Asghar Farhadi (2011)
* Tony Kushner (2012)
* Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy (2013)
* Wes Anderson (2014)
* Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015)
* Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
* Greta Gerwig (2017)
* Armando Iannucci, David Schneider and Ian Martin (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won (2019)
* Eliza Hittman (2020)
* Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe (2021)
* Todd Field (2022)
* Samy Burch (2023)

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Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

* Scott Frank (1998)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (1999)
* Christopher Nolan (2001)
* Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman (2002)
* Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh (2003)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
* Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (2005)
* Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (2006)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
* John Ajvide Lindqvist (2008)
* Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach (2009)
* Aaron Sorkin (2010)
* Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan (2011)
* Chris Terrio (2012)
* John Ridley (2013)
* Gillian Flynn (2014)
* Phyllis Nagy (2015)
* Eric Heisserer (2016)
* James Ivory (2017)
* Barry Jenkins (2018)
* Steven Zaillian (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Rian Johnson (2022)
* Christopher Nolan (2023)

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Saturn Award for Best Writing

1970s|

* William Peter Blatty (1973)
* Ib Melchior/Harlan Ellison (1974/75)
* Jimmy Sangster (1976)
* George Lucas (1977)
* Elaine May and Warren Beatty (1978)
* Nicholas Meyer (1979)

1980s|

* William Peter Blatty (1980)
* Lawrence Kasdan (1981)
* Melissa Mathison (1982)
* Ray Bradbury (1983)
* James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd (1984)
* Tom Holland (1985)
* James Cameron (1986)
* Michael Miner and Edward Neumeier (1987)
* Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg (1988)
* William Peter Blatty (1989/90)

1990s|

* Ted Tally (1991)
* James V. Hart (1992)
* Michael Crichton and David Koepp (1993)
* Jim Harrison and Wesley Strick (1994)
* Andrew Kevin Walker (1995)
* Kevin Williamson (1996)
* Mike Werb and Michael Colleary (1997)
* Andrew Niccol (1998)
* Charlie Kaufman (1999)

2000s|

* David Hayter (2000)
* Steven Spielberg (2001)
* Scott Frank and Jon Cohen (2002)
* Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson (2003)
* Alvin Sargent (2004)
* Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer (2005)
* Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris (2006)
* Brad Bird (2007)
* Christopher and Jonathan Nolan (2008)
* James Cameron (2009)

2010s|

* Christopher Nolan (2010)
* Jeff Nichols (2011)
* Quentin Tarantino (2012)
* Spike Jonze (2013)
* Christopher and Jonathan Nolan (2014)
* Lawrence Kasdan, J. J. Abrams, and Michael Arndt (2015)
* Eric Heisserer (2016)
* Rian Johnson (2017)
* Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, and John Krasinski (2018/19)
* Quentin Tarantino (2019/20)

2020s|

* Guillermo del Toro and Kim Morgan (2021/22)
* James Cameron, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (2022/23)

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USC Scripter Awards – Television

2010s|

* David Simon, William F. Zorzi, and Lisa Belkin (2015)
* David Farr and John le Carré / Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski, and Jeffrey Toobin (2016)
* Bruce Miller and Margaret Atwood (2017)
* Russell T Davies and John Preston (2018)
* Phoebe Waller-Bridge (2019)

2020s|

* Scott Frank and Walter Tevis (2020)
* Danny Strong and Beth Macy (2021)
* Will Smith and Mick Herron (2022)
* Will Smith and Mick Herron (2023)

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Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Adapted Drama
(1969–1983)|

* Waldo Salt (1969)
* Robert Anderson (1970)
* Ernest Tidyman (1971)
* Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo (1972)
* Waldo Salt & Norman Wexler (1973)
* Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo (1974)
* Bo Goldman & Lawrence Hauben (1975)
* William Goldman (1976)
* Alvin Sargent (1977)
* Oliver Stone (1978)
* Robert Benton (1979)
* Alvin Sargent (1980)
* Ernest Thompson (1981)
* Costa-Gavras & Donald E. Stewart (1982)
* Julius J. Epstein (1983)

Adapted Comedy
(1969–1983)|

* Arnold Schulman (1969)
* Ring Lardner Jr. (1970)
* John Paxton (1971)
* Jay Presson Allen (1972)
* Alvin Sargent (1973)
* Lionel Chetwynd & Mordecai Richler (1974)
* Neil Simon (1975)
* Blake Edwards & Frank Waldman (1976)
* Larry Gelbart (1977)
* Elaine May & Warren Beatty (1978)
* Jerzy Kosiński (1979)
* Jim Abrahams, David Zucker & Jerry Zucker (1980)
* Gerald Ayres (1981)
* Blake Edwards (1982)
* James L. Brooks (1983)

Adapted Screenplay
(1984–present)|

* Bruce Robinson (1984)
* Richard Condon & Janet Roach (1985)
* Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1986)
* Steve Martin (1987)
* Christopher Hampton (1988)
* Alfred Uhry (1989)
* Michael Blake (1990)
* Ted Tally (1991)
* Michael Tolkin (1992)
* Steven Zaillian (1993)
* Eric Roth (1994)
* Emma Thompson (1995)
* Billy Bob Thornton (1996)
* Curtis Hanson & Brian Helgeland (1997)
* Scott Frank (1998)
* Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor (1999)
* Stephen Gaghan (2000)
* Akiva Goldsman (2001)
* David Hare (2002)
* Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini (2003)
* Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor (2004)
* Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana (2005)
* William Monahan (2006)
* Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (2007)
* Simon Beaufoy (2008)
* Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner (2009)
* Aaron Sorkin (2010)
* Alexander Payne, Jim Rash & Nat Faxon (2011)
* Chris Terrio (2012)
* Billy Ray (2013)
* Graham Moore (2014)
* Adam McKay & Charles Randolph (2015)
* Eric Heisserer (2016)
* James Ivory (2017)
* Nicole Holofcener & Jeff Whitty (2018)
* Taika Waititi (2019)
* Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Peter Baynham, Erica Rivinoja, Dan Mazer, Jena Friedman, Lee Kern & Nina Pedrad (2020)
* Sian Heder (2021)
* Sarah Polley (2022)
* Cord Jefferson (2023)

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Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Long Form – Adapted

* Chris Gerolmo (1996)
* William Blinn (1997)
* Anne Meredith (1998)
* James Henerson (1999)
* David Black (2000)
* John Logan / Thomas Rickman (2001)
* Kirk Ellis (2002)
* Bruce C. McKenna (2003)
* Anne Meredith (2004)
* Tony Kushner (2005)
* Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (2006)
* No Award (2007)
* Ken Nolan (2008)
* Kirk Ellis (2009)
* Michael Strobl and Ross Katz (2010)
* Robert Schenkkan and Michelle Ashford (2011)
* Peter Gould (2012)
* Danny Strong (2013)
* Shawn Slovo (2014)
* Jane Anderson (2015)
* Steve Blackman, Bob DeLaurentis, Noah Hawley, Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert (2016)
* Scott Alexander, Joe Robert Cole, D.V. DeVincentis, Maya Forbes, Larry Karaszewski and Wally Wolodarsky (2017)
* David E. Kelley (2018)
* Maggie Cohn and Tom Rob Smith (2019)
* Debora Cahn, Joel Fields, Ike Holter, Thomas Kail, Steven Levenson, Charlotte Stoudt and Tracey Scott Wilson (2020)
* Scott Frank and Allan Scott (2021)
* Rebecca Brunstetter, Marcus Gardley, Michelle Denise Jackson, Colin McKenna and Molly Smith Metzler (2022)

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