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).
Kent Beyda
Beyda's first film for a major studio was "Fright Night" (1985), a horror comedy for Columbia Pictures. Next he edited "Out of Bounds" (1986), directed by Richard Tuggle for Columbia. Beyda went on to edit "Innerspace" (1987) produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Joe Dante, "" (1986), a documentary about the Los Angeles punk group X, "Alien Nation" (1988), "Fear" (1990) starring Ally Sheedy, Spielberg and Dante's "" (1990), "True Identity" (1991), Billy Crystal's directorial debut "Mr. Saturday Night" (1992), Spielberg and Brian Levant's "The Flintstones" (1994), Crystal's "Forget Paris" (1995), "Jingle All the Way" (1996) with Arnold Schwarzenegger, "The Out-of-Towners" (1999) with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn, "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas" (2000), "Big Momma's House" (2000), "Scooby-Doo" (2002), "" (2004), "S. Darko" (2009), "Jonah Hex" (2010), "Yogi Bear" (2010), and "Parental Guidance" (2012).