reported by Fran Dee, CyberScreenwriter.com

Michael Arndt has been selected by the American Screenwriters Association (ASA) to receive ASA?s prestigious Discover Screenwriting Award. The award honors a writer who, perhaps for the first time, had his or her screenplay produced into a feature film or movie for television, which received wide distribution or broadcast, and, in the opinion of our Board of Directors, reflects the highest levels of artistic achievement in screenwriting.

Michael Arndt?s first produced feature film, Little Miss Sunshine, has been nominated for an Oscar, an Independent Spirit Award, and has won the BAFTA Film Critics Award, as well as the Palm Springs International Film Festival?s Vanguard Award.

The other nominees for this year?s Discover Screenwriting Award were Russell Gewirtz, Inside Man; Paul Greengrass, United 93; Peter Morgan, The Queen; and Jason Reitman, Thank You for Smoking.