MUMBAI: Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin who scripted 127 Hours and Ben Mezrich who wrote True Grit have topped the the 23rd annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards.

The Scripters award that recognizes the author and scribes of a produced literary work-to-film adaptation was held on Friday night.
 
The Social Network team (Sorkin wrote the script based on Mezrich’s book titled The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal) edged out the writers of 127 Hours, (director-writers Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy as well as author Aron Ralston), The Ghost Writer (filmmaker Roman Polanski and Robert Harris), True Grit (Joel and Ethan Coen and Charles Portis) and Winter’s Bone (director-writers Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini and its author Daniel Woodrell).