USC Scripter Awards: ‘Women Talking’ and ‘Slow Horses’ Named Best Adaptations

United Artists’ Women Talking and Apple TV+’s Slow Horses won the top honors at the 2023 USC Libraries Scripter Awards on Saturday night.The 35th annual Scripter Awards were held at USC’s Edward L. Doheny, Jr. Memorial Library — a return to an in-person ceremony after two virtual celebrations during the Covid-19 pandemic.The Scripter Awards honor the best adaptations of printed works for the screen, with screenwriters and the authors of the adapted material sharing the prize. Therefore, Women Talking‘s writer-director Sarah Polley and Miriam Towes, who wrote the novel on which the film is based, shared the award. Similarly, Slow Horses writer Will Smith — who wrote the Scripter-winning episode of the Apple TV+ series, “Failure’s Contagious” — shared the prize with novelist Mick Herron.Women Talking bested fellow film nominees in Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Living, She Said and Top Gun: Maverick, while Slow Horses beat The Crown,...