Diablo Cody
"Juno" was runner-up for the Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award, won second prize at the Rome Film Festival, and earned four Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture. Cody herself won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for her debut script, which also picked up a Golden Globe nomination and an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. She also won screenplay honors from BAFTA, the Writers Guild of America, the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the National Board of Review, the Satellite Awards, and the 2008 Cinema for Peace Award for Most Valuable Work of Director, Producer & Screenwriter (which she shared with Jason Reitman, John Malkovich, Mason Novick, Russel Smith and Lianne Halfon).
Posani Krishna Murali
In 1999, he worked as a writer for eight films, the highest by any Telugu writer in that year. In 2000, he worked as a writer for nine films. In 2001, while still busy as a writer, he began his acting career with Srihari's "Evadra Rowdy" for which he also wrote the story and screenplay. In 2002, his second film as an actor Gemini starring Venkatesh was released. The same year also saw Murali in Mahesh Babu's "Bobby" which was directed by Sobhan. Although the film was a failure at the boxoffice, Murali's performance in the film was praised. He continued to appear in films such as "Good Boy" and "Bhadradi Ramudu". He also continued writing for films such as "Orey Thammudu", "Raghavendra", "Simhachalam", "Bhadradi Ramudu", "Palanati Brahmanaidu", "Seetayya", "Tiger Harish Chandra Prasad" and "Gemini".