Yahoo Lifestyle Scott Frank Set For WGA East’s Career Achievement Award
Scott Frank, a two-time Adapted Screenplay Oscar nominee for Logan and Out of Sight, will receive the WGA East’s Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement Writers Guild Awards in February.
Frank, who marks his 40th year as a WGA member in 2025, will be honored during the New York portion of the 77th annual Writers Guild Awards on February 15 at the Edison Ballroom in Manhattan.
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Hel also has two Emmys for The Queen’s Gambit on six nominations, including three for Godless, and two WGA Awards on nominations, alomg with a USC Scripter Award for Queen’s Gambit. Frank’s long list of film and TV credits also includes Out of Sight, Get Shorty, Minority Report, MArley & Me, The Wonder Years, Dead Again, and Little Man Tate.
Frank most recently teamed with three-time Emmy Winner Tom Fontana on Monsieur Spade, a Sam Spade limited series for AMC.
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“Scott Frank is a brilliant screenwriter who has given us some of the most iconic movies and TV series over his varied career,” Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, President of the Writers Guild of America East. “He is also a devoted Guild member, and we are thrilled to honor him with the Hunter Award for Career Achievement.”
Established in 1992 and named for longtime WGAE member Ian McLellan Hunter, the Hunter Award is presented to a WGAE member in honor of their body of work as a writer in motion pictures or television. Tony Gilroy was the 2024 recipient.
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