Rebecca Lenkiewicz To Receive WGA West’s Paul Selvin Award for “She Said”

Rebecca Lenkiewicz has been introduced as this yr’s recipient of the WGA West’s Paul Selvin Award for penning the script for “She Said.” The honor is “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,” per the WGA.

“She Said” relies on Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s e-book of the identical title and their NYT investigation. The movie revisits how the journalists uncovered Harvey Weinstein’s lengthy historical past of abuse in Hollywood and helped deliver the #MeToo motion to the mainstream. Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star.

Lenkiewicz shall be honored on the WGA Awards’ Los Angeles ceremony March 5, per Deadline. She’s up for a WGA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for “She Said.”