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).
Colin Goh
Together with his wife, Joyceln Woo Yen Yen, they made their first full-feature film, "Talking Cock" (2002). They won the Montblanc award for best new screenwriters at the 54th San Sebastian International Film Festival for their second film "Singapore Dreaming" (2006). The couple also produce "Dim Sum Warriors", a graphic novel and bilingual iPad app series about kung fu-fighting dumplings. Dim Sum Warrior was made into a Chinese musical which was produced by Stan Lai, one of China's most renowned theatre directors, and scored by Pulitzer Prize winning Chinese-born composer Du Yun. The musical debuted in Aug 11, 2017, to sold-out audiences at "Theatre Above" in China.