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Above: William Goldman, on the right, with Scott Frank, a fellow Guest of Honor last year. The most respected screenwriter in Hollywood, Mr. Goldman will return in 2008.
Guests of Honor
are screenwriters whose work has shown exceptional artistic achievement
or had exceptional commercial success in the past year.
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The 2008 Screenwriting
Expo is proud to announce that these Guests of Honor will be appearing
this Year:
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WILLIAM GOLDMAN
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 For the fifth straight
year, Oscar
winner William Goldman is coming back to the
Expo as the Sunday Guest of Honor. As a screenwriter, novelist, and
playwright, he has won two Oscars, two Edgars, a WGA award, and a
BAFTA. Among his original creations are Butch Cassidy and
the Sundance Kid, The Princess Bride,
and Marathon Man. His numerous adaptations
include the classic All the President’s Men
as well as Misery and Hearts in
Atlantis. He has also written the popular book Adventures
in the Screen Trade, in which he penned the most famous line
in Hollywood that didn’t come from the Silver Screen:
“Nobody knows anything.”
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| NANCY MEYERS, WRITER-DIRECTOR |
 NANCY
MEYERS began her Hollywood career at the top, and has moved up from
there. Her first script, "Private Benjamin," was nominated for
three Oscars, including Best Screenplay Written Directly For the
Screen. She launched her directing career with her co-written script
for "The Parent Trap," and she has now surpassed Penny Marshall as
the highest-grossing female movie director. Her baker's dozen
screenwriting credits also include “Something’s
Gotta Give,” The Holiday,” “Protocol,” “I Love
Trouble,” “Father of the Bride” “Irreconcilable Differences,” and “What
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| DAMON LINDELOF AND CARLTON CUSE |
 DAMON
LINDELOF is one of the creators and showrunners of ABC’s hit
show, "Lost." Before that, he was a co-producer and writer on
NBC’s
Crossing Jordan. He had previously written on such TV shows as Nash
Bridges and Undressed. During this past season of Lost, he also served
as a producer on J.J. Abrams’ upcoming reinvention of the Star
Trek franchise for Paramount.
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 A
veteran of TV writing and producing for over 20 years, CARLTON CUSE is
now one of the executive producers and showrunners of Lost. He also
created the show Nash Bridges for CBS in 1996, which ran for five
seasons and 122 episodes. In addition, he has been the executive
producer and writer for such shows as "The Adventures of Brisco County
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| CHRISTOPHER MARKUS AND STEPHEN MCFEELEY |
  CHRISTOPHER
MARKUS & STEPHEN McFEELY are the hit writers behind Disney’s
massive The Chronicles of Narnia franchise, penning both 2005’s
"The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe" and this year’s "Prince
Caspian," and word is that they're working on "The Voyage of the Dawn
Trader," due to come out in 2010. Before entering Narnia, they made
their writing debut with the
TV movie, "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers," for which they won an
Emmy
for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special.
Showcasing the range of their talents, they also wrote the noir,
offbeat 2007 comedy, "You Kill Me," starring Ben Kingsley and Tea
Leoni.
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| TIM KRING |
 A
TV veteran for over 25 years, Tim Kring created Heroes in 2006 for NBC
and has groomed it into one of the most exciting shows on television.
He also created the popular show Crossing Jordan, which ran for six
seasons, and is a veteran of many one-hour shows.
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| JEPH LOEB |
 Before
becoming an executive producer and writer on HEROES, Jeph Loeb was a
supervising producer on both LOST and Smallville. He is perhaps
best known for his legendary comic writing, which includes the seminal
titles Batman: The Long Halloween and Superman For All Seasons,
among many others.
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| JESSE ALEXANDER |
Before
joining HEROES, Jesse Alexander was a co-executive producer on ABC's
LOST and an executive producer and writer for five years on Alias. He
is now a writer and producer on HEROES.
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| MARSHALL HERSKOVITZ |
 The
recipient of multiple Emmy's and DGA awards as well as a WGA
award,Marshall Herskovitz is one of the more successful
writer/producers in the last 20 years. In addition to co-writing and
producing The Last Samurai,Herskovitz also had a hand in this
impressive list of hits: "Traffic," "Blood Diamond," "I Am Sam," and
"Legends of the Fall. "On the TV side of things, he created the
television shows "thirtysomething," "Once and Again," and "Quarterlife"
with his partner Ed Zwick, and was the executive producer of
the acclaimed "My So-Called Life. "
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