Rebecca Lenkiewicz receives this year’s WGA West’s Paul Selvin Award in recognition of her adapted screenplay for she saidthe universal film about the New York Times Reporters cover the story that exposed disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein. The guild announced Thursday that it will be honored at the WGA Awards ceremony on March 5 at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.
Lenkiewicz was also nominated for a WGA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay this year. she said based on research by Time Reporters Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey and Rebecca Corbett, and Kantor and Twohey’s book that helped fuel the #MeToo movement by exposing the system that allowed years of sexual assault at the hands of some of Hollywood’s most powerful men made.
Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole are also nominated for this year’s WGA Adapted Screenplay Awards Black Panther: Wakanda Forever; Ryan Johnson for Glass Onion: A Mystery of Blades; Honorary Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie for Top Gun: Maverick; and Sarah Polley women talk.
Named after the late Paul Selvin, general counsel of the Guild for 25 years, the Paul Selvin Honorary Award is presented each year to members whose screenplays “capture the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties essential to the survival of freelance writers best embodied. “is essential.” in general.”
Past honorees include Adam McKay, George Clooney, Tony Kushner, Barry Jenkins, Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas, Charles Randolph, Dustin Lance Black, Alex Gibney, Susannah Grant, Eric Roth, Michael Mann, Gary Ross, Liz Hannah and Josh Singer.
The annual WGA Awards will be presented March 5 at simultaneous ceremonies in LA for the WGAW and at the Edison Ballroom in New York City for the WGA East.
Source: Deadline
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