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).
Rudy Wurlitzer
Wurlitzer's first script "Glen and Randa", co-written with Jim McBride and released in 1969, was another take on a post-apocalyptic world. At some point, Monte Hellman, who had been directing films for Roger Corman read Wurlitzer's novel "Nog" and approached him about writing the screenplay for "Two-Lane Blacktop". The film became a cult-classic, and the script was printed in its entirety in the April 1971 issue of "Esquire". During his time in Hollywood, Wurlitzer also wrote the screenplays "Walker" (directed by Alex Cox), 1987, "Candy Mountain" which he co-directed with Robert Frank, 1988, and "Little Buddha" (directed by Bernardo Bertolucci), 1993. Wurlitzer was working on a script with Michelangelo Antonioni at the time of Antonioni's death.