ARGO Navigates to USC Libraries Scripter Win

Authors Joshuah Bearman and Antonio J. Mendez and screenwriter Chris Terrio received the 25th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award for their contributions to "Argo." Selection committee co-chair Howard Rodman announced the winners at the black-tie event on Saturday, Feb. 9, at USC's Doheny Memorial Library.

In his acceptance speech, Bearman said, "I think that with adaptation you hope another writer can come and take a look at your work and see a new perspective and add insight, which is certainly the case with Chris Terrio."

"Argo's" Scripter win adds to the growing number of awards for the Warner Bros. film, including the American Film Institute's Movie of the Year as well as best motion picture in the drama category and best director at last month's Golden Globes. The film is nominated for seven Academy Awards.

Scripter, established by the Friends of the USC Libraries in 1988, honors the screenwriter or screenwriters of the year's most accomplished cinematic adaptation as well as the author of the written work upon which the screenplay is based. Scripter is the only award of its kind that recognizes authors of the original work alongside the adapting screenwriters.

Terrio based his adaptation on Mendez's autobiographical work "The Master of Disguise," published by William Morrow in 2000, and Bearman's article "The Great Escape," which appeared in Wired Magazine in 2007.

USC Libraries Dean Catherine Quinlan welcomed the attendees gathered in Los Angeles Times Reference Room of USC's historic Edward L. Doheny Memorial Library.

"In the context of the library, Scripter at 25 years old is a young tradition," Quinlan said. "But it is a tradition that helps our libraries collect knowledge that is far older than 25 years and one that will support discoveries by our USC community far beyond the next quarter-century."

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