Rebecca Lenkiewicz will be this years recipient of theWGA Wests Paul Selvin Award in recognition of her adapted screenplay forShe Said, the Universal film about theNew York Timesreporters who broke the story that exposed disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein.
The guild said Thursday that she will be honored at theWGA Awards Los Angeles ceremony March 5 at the Fairmont Century Plaza.
Lenkiewicz is alsonominated this year for a WGA Awardfor Best Adapted Screenplay.She Saidis based on the investigation byTimesreporters Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey and Rebecca Corbett, and the book by Kantor and Twohey that helped propel the #MeToo movement by uncovering the system that had enabled years of sexual assault by some of the most powerful men in Hollywood.
Rebecca Lenkiewicz at this year’s Critics Choice AwardsKevin Winter/Getty Images for Critics Choice Association
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Also up for Adapted Screenplay WGA honors this year are Ryan Coogler & Joe Robert Cole forBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever; Rian Johnson forGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery; Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie forTop Gun: Maverick; and Sarah Polley forWomen Talking.
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Named for the late Paul Selvin, the guilds general counsel for 25 years, the honorary Paul Selvin Award is given each year to members whose scripts best embody the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties that are indispensable to the survival of free writers everywhere.
Past recipients 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 WGAs annual awards will be handed out March 5 in simultaneous ceremonies in L.A. for the WGAW and at the Edison Ballroom in New York City for the WGA East.
