Today the USC Libraries announced the finalists for the current edition of the award that honors the screenwriter (s) and original author (s) of what the selection committee believes is the year's most accomplished cinematic adaptation. Gillian Flynn, author and screenwriter of Gone Girl
Author Andrew Hodges, who wrote the book Alan Turing: The Enigma, and screenwriter Graham Moore for The Imitation Game
Novelist Thomas Pynchon and screenwriter Paul Thomas Anderson for Inherent Vice
Jane Hawking, author of Traveling To Infinity: My Life With Stephen, and screenwriter Anthony McCarten for The Theory of Everything
Screenwriter Nick Hornby and author Cheryl Strayed’s memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail for Wild
Awards ceremony will be on Saturday, January 31 at the Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library on the University Park campus of USC and will stream live at the official site here.