Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino will be honored with the Hall of Fame Award at the 15th Annual Final Draft Awards ceremony. Lulu Wang and writer Steven Canals will be receiving the New Voice Award at the same ceremony, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Tarantino will be awarded for directing the period drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Wang for the comedy drama The Farewell. Canals is the writer, co-creator and executive producer of the television series Pose.
The three will be bestowed with the award for their contribution to film and television on 21 January at a ceremony at the Paramount Theatre. It will be hosted by the comedy duo of Randy Sklar and Jason Sklar. The winner of this year’s Big Break Screenwriting contest will be also announced at the event.
Scott McMenamin, president of Final Draft, said: “”[Quentin Tarantino] has left an indelible mark on cinema that is distinctly his and it’s our honor to recognize him. We are equally thrilled to be honoring two brilliant, groundbreaking new voices in film and television [Wang and Canals] that are telling fresh, thought-provoking stories. They perfectly embody the tenets of the New Voice Award with their original and provocative storytelling with narratives that focus on the universal journey of the human experience.”
Previous Hall of Fame Award recipients include Callie Khouri, Aaron Sorkin, Nancy Meyers, Lawrence Kasdan, Paul Schrader, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, Steven Zaillian, Robert Towne, Oliver Stone and Sydney Pollack, among others. The New Voice Award was introduced in 2017 and its past winners include Boots Riley, Liz Hannah and Issa Rae.