Can’t Get No Respect

You work hard for years, study your craft, all for what--to create good work and get a little respect. Then it comes. A Golden Globe nomination. Terrific. Call your friends and family, wait to see your name in the trades and wait for the newspaper--you’re thinking of getting the L.A. Times laminated (“ ‘Sense’ Tops Globe Nod With Six,” Dec. 22).

The paper comes and there it is--the list of nominees--every actor’s name, every actress’, the title of every film, every supporting actor and actress.

Then the screenplay nominees.

Just the film titles--no names of the writers.

Directors? That category gets film title and name.

But best screenplay . . . ? Nothing. Nobody wrote any of the screenplays. Nobody is responsible. Nobody gets credit.

You know, it kind of hurts.

Really.

No respect. Not even a little. Hell, not even an acknowledgment. But I should be used to this. I am only the screenwriter.

PATRICK SHEANE DUNCAN

Screenwriter; “Mr. Holland’s Opus”

Los Osos