Rebecca Lenkiewicz has been introduced as this 12 months’s recipient of the WGA West’s Paul Selvin Award for penning the script for “She Stated.” The distinction is “offered to that member whose script greatest embodies the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties that are indispensable to the survival of free writers all over the place and to these whose protection Paul Selvin dedicated his skilled life,” per the WGA.
“She Stated” relies on Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s guide of the identical identify and their NYT investigation. The movie revisits how the journalists uncovered Harvey Weinstein’s lengthy historical past of abuse in Hollywood and helped carry the #MeToo motion to the mainstream. Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star.
Lenkiewicz shall be honored on the WGA Awards’ Los Angeles ceremony March 5, per Deadline. She’s up for a WGA Award for Finest Tailored Screenplay for “She Stated.”
Supply: Women And Hollywood