Academy Award-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman receives this year’s WGA West Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement. The Lifetime Achievement Award, presented to members who have “advanced film literacy and made outstanding contributions to the screenwriting profession,” will be presented March 5 at the 75th annual Writers Guild Awards at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. .
“As a true visionary, Kaufman’s legacy is undeniable,” the guild said.
He won an Oscar and a WGA Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2004 Eternal sunshine of the immaculate mind and received Oscar and WGA nominations for is John Malkovich And the change and another Oscar nomination for the animated film anomaly.
Kaufman’s writing career began in the early 1990s on the TV sitcom Get a lifeand he spent much of the decade doing comedy and sketch television before switching to film.
His 2001 screenplay, Human naturemarked his first collaboration with surrealist director Michel Gondry, and they reunited three years later Eternal sunshine of the immaculate mind.
In 2002, Kaufman wrote two high-profile adaptations: Confessions of a Dangerous Spiritrelated to The gong show presents Chuck Barris’ questionable, unauthorized autobiography and comedy the changeabout Kaufman’s own struggle with adapting Susan Orleans’ novel The Orchid Thief.
His most recent film was the 2020 surrealist thriller I’m thinking about ending things, based on the novel by Iain Reid. Kaufman also published his first novel that year ant species.
Past Screen Laurel Award recipients include Nancy Meyers, James L. Brooks, Elaine May, Oliver Stone, Harold Ramis, David Mamet, Paul Mazursky, Lawrence Kasdan, Eric Roth, Steven Zaillian, Robert Towne and Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel.
Source: Deadline
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