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).
Riccardo Freda
Freda first began making working in the film industry in 1937 and directed his first film "Don Cesare di Bazan" in 1942. Freda's began directing "I Vampiri", but eventually left the production allowing Mario Bava to step in to finish directing the film. "I Vampiri" was the first Italian horror film of the sound era, following the lone silent horror film "Il mostro di Frankenstein" (1920) Despite being the first, a wave of Italian horror productions did not follow until Mario Bava's film "Black Sunday" was released internationally.