The Writers Guild Awards East will be honoring Tony Gilroy at the upcoming Writers Guild Awards with the Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement. The award was established in 1992. With this honor, the Andor creator will follow in his father Frank D Gilroy’s footsteps, who received the Hunter Award in 2011.
“Tony embodies the best of what it means to be a Writers Guild member. He is an extraordinary talent who has written some of the most thought-provoking and exciting screenplays of the last 30 years,” Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, President of the Writers Guild of America East, said in a statement.
“He is also a staunch union ally, one of our most trusted voices when it comes to advocating for writers’ rights, and he gave one of the best damn speeches on the picket lines last summer. We all wish we were Tony, but short of that we are thrilled to present him with this award.”
Gilroy has been a WGA East member since 1986. In a career that has spanned decades, his series Andor received eight Emmy nominations, including Best Drama Series, and two Writers Guild Award nominations. The series also won a Peabody Award.
In 2007, Gilroy scored seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, for his film Michael Clayton.
Gilroy’s legacy extends beyond his renowned adaptations of Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne series, which played a pivotal role in shaping the landscape of 21st-century action cinema. His repertoire as a screenwriter also encompasses notable works such as The Cutting Edge, Duplicity, Dolores Claiborne, Proof of Life, and The Devil’s Advocate.
The Hunter Award, an esteemed accolade within the WGAE, celebrates the outstanding contributions of its recipients to the realms of motion pictures and television writing. Past honorees include luminaries such as Spike Lee, Richard Price, Tom Fontana, Geoffrey Ward, Andrew Bergman, John Sayles, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, John Waters, Richard LaGravenese, Nora Ephron, Walter Bernstein, and Claire Labine.
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