On the Scene
On the Scene is a gallery of photos exhibiting the interaction of Final Draft, Inc. staff members with the screenwriting community.

Final Draft Inc. sponsored and provided copies of Final Draft version 8 to University of Southern California students at the 22nd Annual USC Libraries Scripter Award on February 6th. The Scripter Award was founded in 1988 by Glenn Sonnenberg and Marjorie Lord Volk as an effort to celebrate the written word through the union of publishing, filmmaking and academe. This year’s event at the USC Doheny Library had over 300 people in attendance, and four of the five finalists will be competing at the Academy Awards® for Best Picture and Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) honors.

The Scripter 2010 finalists, in alphabetical order by film title, are: screenwriter Scott Cooper and author Thomas Cobb for Crazy Heart; screenwriters Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell for District 9, adapted from Blomkamp’s screenplay for the short film Alive in Joburg; screenwriter Nick Hornby and author Lynn Barber for An Education; screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher for Precious, and Sapphire, author of Push, upon which the screenplay for Precious is based; and screenwriters Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner and author Walter Kirn for Up in the Air. The author and screenwriters of Up in the Air took top honors while Eric Roth, screenwriter of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Oscar® nominee, received the 2010 Scripter Literary Achievement Award.