Key Highlights
- “I have been a proud WGAE member for 37 years.
- The Writers Guild of America is the rebel heart of the entertainment industry and has protected me throughout this wonderful career,” George said in a statement.
- “To receive Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement is the greatest honor I can achieve and I am truly humbled.” Related Stories News 'Blossom' & 'The Ranch' Creator Don Reo Set For WGA West's 2026 Paddy Chayefsky Award News Cannes Winners 'Sentimental Value', 'Secret Agent' & 'It Was Just An Accident' Among Screenplays Ineligible For WGA Awards In addition to his Oscar-nominated screenplay for Hotel Rwanda, George also received an Oscar nomination for his very first credit as the co-writer of the 1993 film In the Name of the Father, co-written and directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day Lewis.
- That film marked the first of George’s three collaborations with Sheridan chronicling “The Troubles” conflict in Northern Ireland, which continued with Some Mother’s Son in 1996 and The Boxer in 1998.
- In 2012, he won the Academy Award for Best Short Film with his daughter for their project The Shore.
