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).
Dayal Padmanabhan
Dayal Padmanabhan entered the Kannada industry as a writer in the year 2000. His first movie as a writer was "Om Ganesh" starring "Dialogue King" "Sai Kumar" and directed by Thriller Manju. From then on, he went on to write for many films including "Hudugigage","H2O","Gattimela".He has written the story for most of his movies except "OK Saar OK" and "Sakha Sakhi". He has written screenplay and dialogue for all his movies. His screenplay style is unique and notable. He was one of the nominees' by the Times of India Film Awards 2011 for the best screenplay writer for his film Yogaraj. "Gharshane" starring Malashri which was released in the first week of January 2014. His latest work "Haggadha Kone" was released in December 2014.