USC Scripter & ASC Noms!

USC SCRIPTER Nominations:
-Eric Heisserer for “Arrival,” adapted from the novella “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang
-August Wilson for the play and screenplay of “Fences”
-Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi for “Hidden Figures,” based on the nonfiction book by Margot Lee Shetterly
-Luke Davies for the screenplay for “Lion,” adapted from the nonfiction book “A Long Way Home” by Saroo Brierley
-Barry Jenkins for “Moonlight,” adapted from “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue,” by Tarell Alvin McCraney

Those very well might be the Adapted Screenplay noms at the Oscars. Hacksaw Ridge, Nocturnal Animals or Silence might bump one of them out. 

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS Nominations:
Greig Fraser, ASC, ACS for “Lion”
James Laxton for “Moonlight”
Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC for “Silence”
Linus Sandgren, FSF for “La La Land”
Bradford Young, ASC for “Arrival”