The screenwriting duo Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski is set to accept the Los Angeles Press Club’s Distinguished Storyteller Award for Storytelling Outside of Journalism. The ceremony will take place at the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards Gala on Sunday, Dec. 6 at the historic Biltmore Hotel, downtown Los Angeles.
“The LAPC is proud to honor the screenwriting team Alexander and Karaszewski with our Distinguished Storyteller Award,” said Los Angeles Press Club President Danny Bakewell, Jr. “Their work has shown us the power of revealing the lives of both cultural icons and the not-so-famous with sensitivity, humor and humanity.”
Alexander and Karaszewski met when they were freshman roommates at USC’s School of Cinema. On a whim, they wrote a screenplay during their senior year, which sold a week after graduation. They are best known for writing very unusual biopics with larger-than-life characters. They wrote the highly acclaimed ED WOOD, for which they were nominated for Best Screenplay by the Writers Guild. They followed this with THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT, for which they won the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay, as well as a special Writers Guild award for civil rights and liberties. They scripted the extremely postmodern MAN ON THE MOON, the life story of Andy Kaufman. They wrote BIG EYES, the strange-but-true story of Margaret and Walter Keane, for which they received an Indie Spirit Best Screenplay nomination. Their most recent film, DOLEMITE IS MY NAME, is the celebrated tale of Rudy Ray Moore.
For their first television project, they created the hit miniseries AMERICAN CRIME STORY: THE PEOPLE V. O.J. SIMPSON, for which they won the Emmy, Golden Globe, PGA and WGA Award for Best Limited Series.
On the same evening, Brandi Carlile will accept the Visionary Award for Humanitarian Work; Pam Grier will be honored with the Impact Award for Influential Contributions to Culture and Society; William Shatner is accepting the Legend Award for Lifetime Achievement and Contributions to Society; KCRW’s Madeleine Brand will receive the Luminary Award for Career Achievement.
NAEJ event is a fundraiser for the LA Press Club, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
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