Charlie Kaufman’s 2023 WGAW Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement Acceptance Speech
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- Опубліковано 5 бер 2023
- Academy Award-nominated actress Jessie Buckley presents the Writers Guild of America West’s 2023 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement to acclaimed writer, director, producer, and author Charlie Kaufman.
The Guild’s lifetime achievement award is presented to members who have “advanced the literature of motion pictures and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the screenwriter.”
Kaufman’s 1999 groundbreaking screenplay Being John Malkovich was nominated for a Writers Guild Award, an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award and won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. In 2002 Kaufman wrote Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and the meta comedy Adaptation, which earned Kaufman his second Writers Guild Award and second Academy Award. 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind won Kaufman both a Writers Guild Award and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Kaufman was honored at the 2023 Writers Guild Awards west coast show, held on Sunday, March 5, 2023 at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles and hosted by writer and Abbott Elementary actress Janelle James.
The Writers Guild Awards honor outstanding writing in film, television, streaming, news (broadcast and digital), radio/audio, and promotional categories. For more information about the 2023 Writers Guild Awards and a list of the winners, visit awards.wga.org. - Розваги
An artist pleading to artist to remember who you are, what you are called to do, and where your true value lies. His words are a gift.
Sounds like prepping for a strike. Love this man and his work.
Called it
waos
The prophet has spoken
Was going to say this, it’s my head canon that this speech was the catalyst for the strike
What a great speech! “We are trained to do the bidding of people who are motivated not by curiosity, but by protecting their jobs.” SO GOOD!
Writing IS essential. I love that he is saying that their work is truly to reflect the world. So many people sell out for easy cash (the endless remakes) just because executives know it will be easy money.
Thanks Charlie Kaufman. Probably my favorite speech now
That quotation sums up corporate culture in America.
Yes. And it’s The System. There is no evil genius at the helm. We have to change the system rather than just seeking out Bad Apples to put on a pike.
Analyzing numbers and calculating feasibility is an important job, but many people have forgotten that it's just as important to imagine and create without knowing exactly what will come out of it. We wouldn't even have some math and science without the creatives!
@@lezzpaul3880 matemática surgiu para que reis fossem enterrados sob pirâmides.
This speech should have its own award. Brilliant, valid honesty.
I’ve always loved and admired Charlie Kaufman’s work, but now I absolutely adore the man! This speech had me in tears. What a great reminder of why and how writers are relevant. I shall rewatch it every time I lose faith in the power of our work. Thank you Charlie!!
I’m Thinking Of Ending Things is honestly my favorite film of the decade so far. Such a master at writing.
Yes! As a visual artist (painter) I have even found myself comparing the work to some form of cubism or lyrical abstract painting, all tied up in a storyline. I absolutely adored it and it has proceeded to spark so many ideas for me 🔥 An absolute inspiration!
This man is my cinematic, literary, artistic, spiritual hero. I own all his films. I sometimes feel like we have very similar brains. Slept on Antkind but loving it at the moment. Looking forward to Orion and the Dark. Keep doing anything you want Mr Kaufman and I’ll keep supporting you!!!
Really needed this, just yesterday I was hemming and hawing about how I was scared to sell my hard work off to an executive and let it be torn to shreds without consultation.
It was SOUL CRUSHING
But this made me feel a little better about pouring so much time and effort into my writing.
A perfect speech. It seems obvious when he says it - nothing of value can light up our screens if it wasn’t written well and with passionate intent to begin with.
Exactly what is the writing process secondary to, marketing?
Amazing speech, so many beautiful combinations of words. And I am glad that Hollywood still has writers who write for audience, not for producers, is so important
Go Charlie! Thank you for being an individual of meaning.
How BEAUTIFUL, how BRAVE, how TRUE. It’s a privilege to be a writer...
Comrade Kaufman! Hell yeah! ✊
I'll revisit this speech from time to time until I make it someday and I'll say... This is the speech which kept me going, kept me motivated, gave me the warmth and good thoughts I needed at the most desperate times. Thanks Mr. Kauffman.
I love you Charlie, i love your work. Thank you for changing my life.
This inspired me in a way, unlike anything ever has! Thank you Mr. Kaufman! Thank you WGA!
Incredible speech by a true genius.
This was the most Kaufmanesque speech ever. Love it.
Thank you, Charlie
Beautiful. Up the writers!!
Fantastic speech and very, very true! Without the stories, without people caring about them, nothing is possible
Charlie Kaufman is my hero ! I really needed to hear that.
Such important messages put so simply
Wonderful!
Ohh boy. That speech got me all contorted up into emotional knots. Congratulations. And thank you.
my god, do i love this man. a truly great true artist.
Very fantastic and underappreciated screenwriter
Powerful!
His mind is amazing.
So weird. He looks in the best shape I've ever seen. How does he look 25 years younger than he used to?!
Lmao true
Maybe he's starting to feel good about himself. Kaufman has always been a complex man who's never cared about looks but rather words.
I should add that this doesn't matter, it just struck me as surprising. The speech was incredible. He's one of the GOATs, in my book.
Can yall upload thomas schnauz speech please? He wrote and directed a fantastic episode of television with plan and execution
Amazing
4:00 Speech begins after intro.
I think she ruined the intro!
@@AliAli-vc4yi Ms. Buckley’s introduction was thoughtful and well-delivered, but some may want to skip right to Kaufman’s speech.
Bravo
Legend!
This was so fucking inspiring
As a writer this speech actually made me teary eyed. Yo I love your videos! They've inspired me more than you can believe!
cool, great quality vid
just Wow. Needed to be said.
please post the speech of Thomas Schnauz
I love this man
Legend.
Best screenwriter of this generation
A speech such as this is launched at different cohorts: colleagues; competitors; next generation Writers. And also the 'etceteras' who cannot look away, because the Truth is In There: it is possible to expect that at least some of them will see themselves, here, and think on what is being said, to them. We can imagine that at least some of "them" are troubled, maybe even riveted to what is being said, to them.
I've often thought about $100 million, and what you might launch into existence. How many strongly, effectively written screenplays might that glean us, and the next us? It's a large sum, but not an impossible one.
That is beautiful beautiful beautiful
He is one of the greatest screenwriter ever
BRA-F*CKING-VO. Pay the writer. Respect the writer.
malkovich malkovich
eternal sunshine is great
my life was eternally impacted born in1990 by the being iohn malkovich TRAILER THAT PLAYED ON TV over and over
Charlie Kaufman is so based
An actual speech.
legend
The G.O.A.T.
A true genious.
(kneels in worship)
I love how the one film he references is "Triumph of the Will"
Oh and "Minions"
@@1090Ideas Yeah that second part was a joke
I would love to see film adoptation of Antkind
i think i've recommended Adaptation to over 100 people.
Haha
Good lord I love this
Secondary 🙏🏻
Wow
I can remember watching a film that was popular at a particular time. Not one of Charlie Kaufman's. But this film borrowed thematically, visually, and tonally from Kaufman. It was Kaufman-esque. It was a good film. Entertaining. Stimulating. Visually interesting. A bit mind-boggling. It wasn't a GREAT film. It was then I became aware of how rich a talent Charlie Kaufman was. And in the hands of anyone else, Kaufman-esque will not work as well. No one should dare to try to copy Charlie Kaufman. They should just let him inspire your own style. There will only ever be one Charlie Kaufman.
Я, человек своей культуры, могу не уловить каких-то слов и контекствов, могу не понять и даже не согласиться с какими-то мыслями, выросшими в цветочном горшке с другой почвой.
Но за любым словом, за любой мыслью и формой всегда видно искренность. Искренность не имеет контекста. Искренность не нуждается в объяснении.
Если фильм искренен, то он искренен в любой точке мира. И по уровню искренности работы Чарли Кауфмана несомненно занимают самые лидирующие места. Именно поэтому он и является моим самым любимейшим автором нашего времени.
Долгих лет жизни!
Looking like Seth green
Time to picket!
OKAAAAYYYY
Can we somehow clone Charlie Kaufman? One to make media and one to run for president?
“art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of the power which holds it hostage” 😮💨😮💨😮💨
They say that when Hollywood execs think no one’s looking they quietly tell each other, “The writers are the most important people in Hollywood but shhh…don’t tell them that”.
Nice speech (Americans do love their speeches...), but my cynical side fears that most of the people applauding there will do exactly the opposite of what they were cheering for next day...
Great speech, pleased and inspired the crowd for sure…however I’m sure his past self also wouldn’t have listened to his future self as wisdom is acquired over the years by experiencing.
I’m a writer too and I would suggest that my fellow new writers only take away the fact that “be truthful to your story” is the greatest tip from the speech and at the same time pls don’t develop “not a give a fuck to the suits” attitude already, coz film being a collaborative medium, it may do more harm then good in your initial years of pitching.
Happy Writing
4:30 Speech starts here (apologies to Jessie, but it's just fluff)
please post the best tv drama episode, thx
'kin' A
“Charlie Kaufman can never be replicated”
[ChatGPT bursts through the wall]
Seriously though, anyone who works in or even VALUES any creative industry needs to be activated right now to fight against the emergent takeover of AI. Not only is it going to put us all out of business, it’s gradually going to completely devalue human expression and creativity in culture and society. People have no idea what’s coming and we need to be acting now, not after the fact.
@@dr.merchant to them, that will be a feature, not a bug
I like that Kaufman's reserved some opinion on this as well in his first draft of Synecdoche. Caden finds that his poignant meeting with Madeline 2 is replaced with an AI that perfectly replicated Madeline's idea of a perfect and emotional film.
All cheering and clapping, and Charlie is a great, but they'll all do the opposite the next day. Just a fact.
I'm being asked for an awful lot of sympathy from a man in an Armani suit. Not saying he's wrong but the stuff about being held hostage by elites is nuts when you're watching something that tries to embody excess and decadence. I also always get these funny feelings that unions can sit and call on those lower on the rungs make them feel like their $100 increase is worthwhile all the while their own elites benefit the most. Is this writers strike helping everyone proportionately? will those struggling to break into the market benefit? Is this going to open up jobs for the perhaps less experience, sucessful (despite talent) and lucky? or will it perpetuate the gatekeeping we oft fail to acknowledge. I really do wish the unions were more forward to the general public, I still get this funky feeling most writers will barely notice a change while the more elite will benefit exponentially. All that said I 100% support the strike, I just worry when a man in an expensive suit tells me how hard it is to see others in even more expensive suits, regardless of how talented he is, and I do believe he's talented and intelligent.
He also seems to talk about opinion as if it's truth and likens the opposite to Nazism. I surely don't support nazism, what a wonderful and charismatic way to convince me that I am indeed righteous....it's odd to see in the same speech about fighting for what is deserved, somebody criticize and perhaps demonize the only right people have that preserves the job that's being fought for. Fiction cannot lie unless it lies about itself and perhaps within itself. So it seems a rather ridiculous and unrelated thing to bring up. It seems to ask for the right for creative freedom and the fair compensation when that's not present and indeed when all creative freedom is retained and then insinuates that all writer have a duty to curb creative freedom in the service of truth telling...in fiction. Sadly as we've all be trained, it seems so has Mr. Kaufman been so.
Glad to see u oppose nazism lol
Everyone in the room hoping Charlie Kaufman inspires people not to pitch big box office scripts so they can
I’m sorry but isn’t a “laurel” another word for “award”? They gave my man Charlie the Award Award??
Laurel is a a tree/shrub, and a branch of a laurel historically was awarded as an accolade to champions, et al; so now laurel has also taken on the general connotation of "prize" or "accolades" (e.g. as in "Resting on one's laurels," it is also usually plural when used this way), and then by symbolic extension "trophy" then "award." Nonetheless, it still most literally means a type of shrub/tree, so in this context the Laurel Award would be a specifying description of the specific type of award trophy, as in "the prize was a laurel wreath". So, to longwindedly answer your question in this specific context, kinda but not really, no. Shortwindedly, "Laurel" serves as an adjective to the noun "award.
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Laurel is a distinction, not an award.
Jim Carey is us 😢 I belong to the house n not to window dressing.
Nice words Kaufman but impractical for us artists. Almost all artists wish they could work for just the world but the world we live in is not the one where every artist is fed and fulfilled by purely creating art for everyone. You only gain the autonomy to do what you want once you have become big and famous, and you don't become big and famous unless you do the bidding of the corporate heads who wield their power mercilessly over all artists.
Charlie…sitting in the audience thinking…Gawd, get me out of here.
She didn't watch Human Nature.
One of the best screenplay writers, but not the best director.
"Our work is to reflect the world, saying what is true in the face of so much lying". Too bad Hollywood is looking at itself in the mirror when it says this, instead of at the fans who don't attend movies as often anymore, as they know better...
Huh?
That’s naïve and arrogant: “Executives not motivated by curiosity but by protecting their jobs”. Of course they are! It’s Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Food, air, water, shelter.
Sounds like he lost another FX show