You would think that Aaron Sorkin, the Academy award-winning writer of the screenplay for “The Social Network” was born to the manor as far as winning awards.
But Sorkin, whose films also include “A Few Good Men” and “The American President” has just started racking up a huge number of awards for the acclaimed movie about the founding of Facebook.
The latest honor: winning the Distinguished Achievement in Screenwriting Award from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television at its Festival of New Creative Work. The recently ended seven-day festival, presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, also honored Allison Anders, Lawrence Bender, Lisa Cholodenko, June Foray and Stacey Snider.
Before a sold-out crowd at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse, Sorkin received the award from actor Armie Hammer, who starred as the Winklevoss twins who sued Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of the social network. Hammer joked that he got half the pay, not double, for playing the twins.
In Sorkin’s Academy Awards acceptance speech he had mentioned that he wanted to get some respect from his daughter’s hamster. Now he says he has it. His next high-profile film, “Moneyball,” starring Brad Pitt as Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane, will be released in September
Sorkin is as well-known for his television work, which includes “Sports Night,” “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” and “The West Wing.” He’s now working on a new project for HBO called “More As the Story Develops.”
