Bong Joon Ho & Lulu Wang | Photo: Corine Solberg for Average Socialite
Deets: Final Draft, a Cast & Crew Company had its 15th Annual Final Draft Awards on January 21. Academy Award® winning screenwriter Quentin Tarantino was presented with the Hall of Fame Award for his prolific contribution to the art of screenwriting. Tarantino’s latest film, Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood, has grossed over $372 million worldwide and earned numerous accolades including a win for best screenplay from the New York Film Critics Circle and five Golden Globe® nominations.
This year’s New Voice Award for Film recipient is writer-director Lulu Wang whose critically-acclaimed sophomore feature, The Farewell, has been racking up kudos throughout awards season including being named to the prestigious American Film Institute’s top 10 films of the year and receiving two Golden Globe® nominations, two Spirit Award nominations and four Critics Choice Award nominations.
The New Voice Award for Television was presented to Steven Canals, the dynamic co-creator and executive producer of the acclaimed FX original series Pose, which after a stellar presence throughout Emmy® season, was recently named to the American Film Institute’s Top 10 list and will return for its third season in 2020.
The 15th Annual Final Draft Awards was held at the Paramount Theatre on the Paramount Studios lot in Hollywood, CA on January 21st and was hosted again this year by comedy duo Randy and Jason Sklar (The Sklar Brothers). Previous Final Draft Hall of Fame Award winners include Aaron Sorkin, Nancy Meyers, Lawrence Kasdan, Paul Schrader, Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski, Callie Khouri, Steven Zaillian, Robert Towne, Oliver Stone, and Sydney Pollack, among others. The New Voice Award was introduced in 2017 and past recipients include Liz Hannah, Issa Rae, Boots Riley and Tanya Saracho.
Quentin Tarantino (writer/director of “Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood”) was presented with the Final Draft Hall of Fame Award by filmmaker Walter Hill, Lulu Wang (writer/director of “The Farewell”) received the New Voice Award for Film presented to her by “Parasite” writer/director Bong Joon Ho and Steven Canals (co-creator of the FX hit series “Pose”) received the New Voice Award for TV presented to him by “Pose” stars Mj Rodriguez and Angel Bismark Curiel. Comedy Duo Randy and Jason Sklar (The Sklar Brothers) served as the evening’s MCs and the event was presided over by Final Draft President Scott McMenamin.
Spotted: Quentin Tarantino, Lulu Wang, Steven Canals, Bong Joon Ho, Mj Rodriguez Angel Bismark Curiel, Scott McMenamin, Randy and Jason Sklar (The Sklar Brothers)
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