Steven Zaillian to receive WGA's lifetime achievement award

Steven Zaillian to receive WGA’s lifetime achievement award

Jan. 21, 2011 2:23 PM PT

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Oscar- and WGA Award-winning screenwriter Steven Zaillian (‘Schindler’s List’) is set to receive the 2011 Screen Laurel Award for lifetime achievement at the Writers Guild Awards West ceremony. It will be held Feb. 5 at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood and Highland.

Besides writing and co-writing screenplays for ‘Awakenings,’ ‘Hannibal’ and ‘The Gangs of New York,’ Zaillian has written and directed the films ‘Searching for Bobby Fischer,’ ‘A Civil Action’ and ‘All the King’s Men.’ His latest project is the adaptation of David Fincher’s remake of ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.’

-- Susan King

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Susan King

Susan King is a former entertainment writer at the Los Angeles Times who specialized in Classic Hollywood stories. She also wrote about independent, foreign and studio movies and occasionally TV and theater stories. Born in East Orange, N.J., she received her master’s degree in film history and criticism at USC. She worked for 10 years at the L.A. Herald Examiner and came to work at The Times in January 1990. She left in 2016.