‘The Descendants’ wins the USC Scripter Award for writing
Source: @latimesmovies
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““The Descendants” won the USC Libraries Scripter Award, a prize that honors the best adapted screenplay of the year as well as the book the film is based on. Screenwriters Alexander Payne (who also directed the film) and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash shared the prize with novelist Kaui Hart Hemmings…..”
Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black pens Prop 8 courtroom drama play
Source: BBC News
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“George Clooney and Brad Pitt have headed an all-star cast in a play about California’s Proposition 8.
The play was written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and directed by Oscar-nominated director Rob Reiner, one of the founders of the American Foundation for Equal Rights…..”



