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).
Bodhi Rook
Industrial Light & Magic chief creative officer John Knoll, credited for the story of "Rogue One", told "Vanity Fair" in 2016 that he conceived the plot of the film while working as a visual effects supervisor on the 2005 film "". Hearing about the development of a live-action "Star Wars" television series, he conceived a story, inspired by a plot point mentioned in the opening crawl of the original 1977 film "Star Wars", which would eventually become "Rogue One". At the beginning of shooting, Bodhi did not have a big role in the film, with Ahmed noting “He had a different name and a different relationship to the rest of the team, and he really evolved once I signed on and once I started shooting, even.” Once shooting had begun, Bodhi was brought into the story much earlier and was made a more integral member of the team. His first name, "Bodhi", is Sanskrit and Pāli for "enlightment" or "awaking".