The Diving Bell and The Butterfly

Two films took the top prize on Wednesday at the recent Humanitas Annual Ceremony edging out Juno. Lars and the Real Girl and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly won the top prizes.

The award honors scripts that “affirm the human person, probe the meaning of life, and enlighten the use of human freedom.” The cash prize for the event is 95,000 dollars handed out at a ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Nancy Oliver the writer of the “Lars” gave emotional speech saying “trying to sell a story about loss and grief and aggravation that’s a comedy.” The film revolves around the romance between a man and a blow up doll.

Ronald Howard writer of Diving Bell and The Butterfly was unable to make the event. The French Film is based on the true story of a paralyzed man who dictated a book by blinking his eyelid.

In the TV category Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee written by Daniel Giat and John Adams written by Kirk Ellis also won respectively.

Ellis following remarks by a couple of presenters onstage in reference to a hockey mom, i.e., vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin also brought up politics in his acceptance speech.

“We don’t want to have a beer with (our political leaders); we want them to lead,” he said. “We don’t want them to ‘be like me’ but to be as exceptional as the men and at least one woman, Abigail Adams, who founded this country.”

David Tennant won in the 30 minute TV category for an episode titled My Long Goodbye that dealt with a character’s death. After joking that he won over his fellow nominees “because God likes me better,” he turned serious, telling the audience that he felt like when he was writing the episode, he was really writing his own goodbye to his late father via one character’s dialogue.

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