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No Country for Old Men Writers Take USC Libraries Scripter® Award

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy and Oscar-winning screenwriters Ethan and Joel Coen have won the 20th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award for No Country for Old Men. To celebrate the award's platinum anniversary, the USC Libraries will honor Academy Award-winning screenwriter Steven Zaillian with the inaugural Scripter Literary Achievement Award.

USC Libraries Announce Scripter® Award Finalists for 20th-annual Honor

The author-screenwriter teams behind Atonement, Into the Wild, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood and Zodiac have been named finalists for the 2008 USC Libraries Scripter Award.

Jason Alexander to Host 20th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award Gala

Tony Award-winning actor Jason Alexander will serve as master of ceremonies for the 20th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award gala, to be held Saturday, February 2, 2008, at Doheny Memorial Library at the University of Southern California.

Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Announced as Chair of the Scripter Selection Committee

The USC Libraries have named the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter to serve as the chair of the selection committee for the 20th-annual Scripter Award.

Children of Men Wins 19th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award

Children of Men author P.D. James and screenwriters Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby were honored at the 19th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007. The sold-out event, sponsored by the Friends of the USC Libraries, drew a crowd of 400 and benefited the Doheny Library Preservation Fund.