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Ron Nyswaner To Be Honored With WGA East’s Walter Bernstein Award
Oscar-nominated Philadelphia and Fellow Travelers writer Ron Nyswaner is receiving this year's Walter Bernstein Award from the WGA East.
Ron Nyswaner, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind films including Philadelphia and The Painted Veil and most recently the Matt Bomer-starring Showtime miniseries Fellow Travelers, is receiving this year’s Walter Bernstein Award from the Writers Guild of America East. Nyswaner penned the original screenplay for Philadelphia, which was groundbreaking when the Jonathan Demme-directed film starring Tom Hanks debuted in 1993; it was the first major motion picture to focus on the discrimination suffered by people with AIDS, and among the first to feature a homosexual main character. His Fellow Traveler s, which premiered in October, was adapted from Thomas Mallon’s book and centers on the volatile romance of two men who meet in 1950s Washington, DC amid Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn’s Lavender Scare purging “subversives and sexual deviants” from the ranks of the U.S. government.
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