Rebecca Lenkiewicz will receive Writers Guild of America West’s (WGA) 2023 Paul Selvin Award in recognition of her adapted screenplay She Said at the Guild’s awards ceremony in Los Angeles on March 5.
She Said recounts the story of the investigation by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, reporters at The New York Times, who exposed decades of sexual abuse by then-Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and in so doing ignited the #MeToo movement. Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star.
Weinstein was sentenced to 16 years in prison by a Los Angeles court today.
She Said is a WGA Awards nominee and earned earned screenplay nominations from the Critics Choice Association and Bafta.
The writer became the first living female playwright to have an original play – Her Naked Skin – performed on the National Theatre’s Olivier stage and has since written multiple plays and adaptations for the stage.
She co-wrote 2013 drama Ida with Paweł Pawlikowski, which won the Oscar and Spirit Award in 2015, and earned her second Indie Spirit nod for 2018 biographical drama Colette. Her TV credits include The Eddy, BBC miniseries The Woman In White, and The Secret Life Of A Call Girl.
Named after the late Paul Selvin, general counsel to WGAW for 25 years, the honorary award is given each year to the member or members “whose script best embodies the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties that are indispensable to the survival of free writers everywhere”.
Previous recipients include Barry Jenkins, Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas, Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, Dustin Lance Black, Alex Gibney, Susannah Grant, Eric Roth, Michael Mann, Gary Ross, Liz Hannah, Josh Singer, George Clooney and Tony Kushner.
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