Welcome to the HOLLYWOOD HALL OF FAME AWARDS™ 2008 inductees. We hope you enjoy your visit.
HOLLYWOOD STAR AWARDS®
DUSTIN LANCE BLACK
HOLLYWOOD BREAKTHROUGH SCREENWRITER AWARD™ HONOREE
DUSTIN LANCE BLACK'S BIOGRAPHY
Dustin Lance Black wrote the screenplay for Gus Van Sant's "Milk," which is due for release in November from Focus Features. "Milk" stars Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, James Franco and Diego Luna, and is the story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, a San Francisco supervisor who was assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone by San Francisco Supervisor Dan White.
Upcoming projects for Black include his feature directorial debut, "What's Wrong with Virginia?" and the adaptation of the bestselling classic American novel "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," written by Tom Wolfe, into a feature film with Gus Van Sant to direct. Black recently
wrote the screenplay for the film "Pedro," directed by Nick Oceano, which celebrates the life of Pedro Zamora, a young man who found out he was HIV positive at 17 and who made the courageous decision to dedicate the rest of his life to speaking out about his condition in an attempt to raise awareness about the disease.
An honors graduate of UCLA's School of Film and Television, Dustin Lance Black began his professional career as an art director and quickly moved into directing documentaries, television series, commercials and music videos. The success of his documentaries "On the Bus" and "My Life with Count Dracula" led to two years producing and directing the hit BBC series "Faking It." Black also received critical acclaim for his narrative short film "Something Close to Heaven" in 2000. In 2004 he signed on to draw on his devout Mormon childhood experiences in San Antonio, Texas, as a writer on the polygamist drama "Big Love" for HBO.
