Saturday
February 15, 2025

The Paul Selvin Award

Presented to that member whose script best embodies the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties which are indispensable to the survival of free writers everywhere and to those whose defense Paul Selvin committed his professional life.

PAUL SELVIN AWARD RECIPIENTS

2024

Cord Jefferson (American Fiction)
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2023

Rebecca Lenkiewicz (She Said)
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2022

Barry Jenkins (The Underground Railroad)
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2021

Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas (Judas and the Black Messiah)
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2020

Charles Randolph (Bombshell)
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2019

Adam McKay (Vice)
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2018

Liz Hannah and Josh Singer (The Post)
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2017

Susannah Grant (Confirmation)
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2016

John McNamara (Trumbo)
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2015

Margaret Nagle (The Good Lie)
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2014

Alex Gibney (We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks)
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2013

Tony Kushner (Lincoln)
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2012

Tate Taylor (The Help)
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2011

Jez Butterworth & John-Henry Butterworth (Fair Game)
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2010

Anthony Peckham (Invictus)
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2009

Dustin Lance Black (Milk)
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2008

Robert Eisele and Jeffrey Porro (The Great Debaters)
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2006

George Clooney and Grant Heslov (Good Night, and Good Luck)
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2005

Don Payne (The Simpsons - "Fraudcast News")
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2004

Jason Horwitch (The Pentagon Papers)

2003

John Wierick and Jacob Krueger (The Matthew Shepard Story)
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2002

Timothy J. Sexton (For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story)
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2001

Doug Wright (Quills)

2000

Eric Roth and Michael Mann (The Insider)

1999

Frank Military (Blind Faith)

1998

Gregory Poirier (Rosewood)

1997

Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (The People vs. Larry Flynt)

1996

David E. Kelley (Picket Fences - "Final Judgment")

1995

Thomas Baum, Priscilla Prestwidge & Keith Pierce (Witness To The Execution)

1994

Gary Ross (Dave)

1993

Cynthia Whitcomb (Guilty Until Proven Innocent)

1992

George Stevens Jr. (Separate But Equal - "Parts I and II")

1991

Michael Lazarou (Heat Wave)

1990

Allison Cross (Roe vs. Wade)