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).
Joy Cowley
She started out writing novels for adults, and her first book, "Nest in a Falling Tree" (1967), was adapted for the screen by Roald Dahl. It became the 1971 film "The Night Digger". Following its success in the United States, Cowley wrote several other novels, including "Man of Straw" (1972), "Of Men and Angels" (1972), "The Mandrake Root" (1975), and "The Growing Season" (1979). Typical themes of these works were marital infidelity, mental illness, and death, as experienced within families. Cowley has also published several collections of short stories, including "Two of a Kind" (1984) and "Heart Attack and Other Stories" (1985). Today she is best known for children's books, such as "The Silent One" (1981), which was made into a 1985 film. Others include "Bow Down Shadrach" (1991) and its sequel, "Gladly, Here I Come" (1994).