Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
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The Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement (also known as the Screen Laurel Award) is a lifetime achievement award given by the Writers Guild of America, West. Since its inception in 1953, it has been presented every year at the WGA Awards to a veteran screenwriter of high stature. The official description reads that it "is given to that member of the Guild who, in the opinion of the current Board of Directors, has advanced the literature of the motion picture through the years, and who has made outstanding contributions to the profession of the screen writer."[1]
Recipients
- 2016 - Elaine May
- 2015 - Harold Ramis
- 2014 - Paul Mazursky
- 2013 - Tom Stoppard
- 2012 - Eric Roth
- 2011 - Steven Zaillian
- 2010 - Barry Levinson
- 2008 - Budd Schulberg
- 2007 - Robert Benton
- 2006 - Lawrence Kasdan
- 2005 - David Mamet
- 2004 - John Michael Hayes
- 2003 - Mel Brooks
- 2002 - Blake Edwards
- 2001 - Betty Comden and Adolph Green
- 2000 - Jean-Claude Carriere
- 1999 - Paul Schrader
- 1998 - Bo Goldman
- 1997 - Robert Towne
- 1996 - Daniel Taradash
- 1995 - Charles Bennett
- 1994 - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- 1993 - Horton Foote
- 1992 - Frank Pierson
- 1991 - Alvin Sargent
- 1990 - Donald Ogden Stewart
- 1989 - Ring Lardner Jr.
- 1988 - Irving Ravetch & Harriet Frank Jr.
- 1987 - Woody Allen
- 1986 - Waldo Salt
- 1985 - William Goldman
- 1984 - Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose, Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
- 1983 - Lamar Trotti
- 1982 - Paul Osborn
- 1981 - Ben Hecht
- 1980 - Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond
- 1979 - Neil Simon
- 1978 - Edward Anhalt
- 1977 - Samson Raphaelson
- 1976 - Michael Wilson
- 1975 - Preston Sturges
- 1974 - Paddy Chayefsky
- 1973 - William Rose
- 1972 - Ernest Lehman
- 1971 - James Poe
- 1970 - Dalton Trumbo
- 1969 - Carl Foreman
- 1968 - Casey Robinson
- 1967 - Richard Brooks
- 1966 - Isobel Lennart
- 1965 - Sidney Buchman
- 1964 - John Huston
- 1963 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1962 - Philip Dunne
- 1961 - George Seaton
- 1960 - Norman Krasna
- 1959 - Nunnally Johnson
- 1958 - John Lee Mahin
- 1957 - Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder
- 1956 - Julius J. Epstein & Philip G. Epstein and Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich
- 1955 - Robert Riskin
- 1954 - Dudley Nichols
- 1953 - Sonya Levien
