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).
David J. Francis (actor)
Francis began his career with minor roles in the television series "Amazon" (1999) and "The Ladies Man" (2000). His first major role was Jesus in "Dracula 2000". In the early 2000s, he had more minor roles in the Canadian film "The Matthew Shepard Story" and as a floor manager in "Gilda Radner: It's Always Something". In 2003, he directed his first film, a zombie film called "Zombie Night". He also served as writer and producer alongside his wife, Amber Lynn Francis. He returned as Jesus in the sequel to "Dracula 2000", (2003) and had a minor role in the television movie "". Francis then directed his second movie, the sequel to "Zombie Night", "" (2006) and the third movie of the trilogy, "Reel Zombies" (2008).