But his heart goes to Shaw

Scribe John Logan states despite the fact that his 'Hugo' arrived on the scene this season, he favors tragediesMelissa McCarthyMichelle WilliamsToday, playwright-film writer John Logan will get the Oscar Wilde Award -- which recognizes the accomplishments of Irish-People in america in Hollywood -- in a ceremony in Santa Monica located through the U.S.-Ireland Alliance.Logan has already established a great run previously year approximately: Recent credits include "Hugo," that he's Oscar-nommed "Rango," that is nommed within the Oscars' toonpic category and also the film adaptation of "Coriolanus," which Rob Fiennes helmed.The Wilde Award recognizes an appearance of labor which includes "Gladiator," that Logan was Oscar-nommed alongside David Franzoni and William Nicholson "The Final Samurai," "The Aviator" which gained Logan another Oscar nom, and Tim Burton's "Sweeney Todd."After which there's his stage work, including his 2010 Tony Award-winning play about Mark Rothko, "Red-colored."Final results has proven no manifestation of slacking. He co-authored Mission Impossible pic "Skyfall," which Mike Mendes is lensing now, he's adapting tuner "Jersey Boys" for that bigscreen, and it is working together with Patti Cruz on the film adaptation of her memoir, "Just Kids."Logan treasures his Irish heritage -- his parents were both emigrants from Ulster, and that he has numerous relatives there -- but he sees it as being just a little ironic that he'll be a person receiving an award bearing Wilde's title. Although Logan loves many Irish authors, he isn't that keen on Wilde, like a playwright a minimum of.InchHe's a playwright I never warmed to," Logan states. "In individuals kind of bi-polar choices you are making along the way through existence, where you need to decide 'Am I attracted to Ibsen or Strindberg?' you become so terrible in which you say, 'Am I attracted to Wilde or Shaw?' I am attracted to Shaw."Within an onstage interview at BAFTA last fall, Logan spoke of his "Irish attraction for that melancholy." He concedes that he's attracted towards the more dark side of existence."Well, whether or not this has something related to my Irishness or something like that else, you never know?, but Ireland is really a land of bleak moors and crags and tors and cold Irish ocean, and -- even though this season I have 'Rango' and 'Hugo' emerge -- I am attracted toward more dark material, and that i probably always will be. You arrived at that time like a playwright in which you think, Am I a tragedian or perhaps a comedian?, and that i will always be a tragedian, when it comes to things I am thinking about. Therefore the tales I select to create about, whether it's Mark Rothko during my play 'Red,' or everything from 'Gladiator' to 'Coriolanus' to 'The Aviator' to 'Sweeney Todd,' have very murky and morally complex and dark protagonists, as well as something similar to 'Hugo' I usually considered a really serious story."Logan recommends budding screenwriters to review the whole shebang from the great playwrights, in the ancient Greeks to the current day, taking in most of Shakespeare's plays, and also the works of Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg."The important thing as to the we all do as screenwriters and playwrights is we're dramatists. We're not writers, we're not poets, which means we perform a very specific factor: we write lines for stars, and that we write moments for company directors and producers and lighting designers, which is concerning the engagement along with other artists. But that area of the way you learn that -- maybe the only method to learn that -- is to check out the continuum from the talent, see what you could learn and become inspired by individuals who've come before you decide to. I believe that's equally true for screenwriting: should you take a look at great scripts in the past it'll assist you to, but it is a lot more important to return 1000's of years and check out Aristotle, when it comes to the bedrock of dramatic literature, instead of prose, instead of poetry."And subsequently factor I'll always say," he concludes, "is once you have experienced yourself within the classics of drama start reading through poetry because poetry will train you about language, and area of the job from the playwright and also the film writer would be to create arresting language." And Michelle & Melissa allow it to be threeReceiving Oscar Wilde Honours alongside John Logan is going to be thesps Melissa McCarthy and Michelle Williams.Both stars happen to be nommed for Oscars this year: McCarthy on her supporting role in "Bridesmaids," and Williams for that leading role in "My Week With Marilyn," that she won a Golden Globe.McCarthy, who won an Emmy this past year for CBS comedy series "Mike & Molly," has lately completed writing feature pic "Tammy."Williams, whose representative is U.S.-Ireland Alliance advisory board member Hylda Queally, will next be observed in Mike Raimi's "Oz, the truly amazing and Effective." Contact Leo Barraclough at leo.barraclough@variety.com