{"id":6264,"date":"2009-08-20T03:08:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T02:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=6264"},"modified":"2009-08-22T08:11:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:11:34","slug":"orci-to-receive-writers-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/08\/orci-to-receive-writers-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Orci To Receive Writer&#8217;s Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, August 21, Star Trek XI Co-writer <strong>Roberto Orci<\/strong> will be honored at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Imagen Awards in Beverly Hills, California.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/\">Variety<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagen.org\/\">Imagen.org<\/a>, Orci, who will receive the Norman Lear Writer&#8217;s Award, is one of four honorees receiving special awards from the Imagen Foundation, joining motion picture agent <strong>Emmanuel Nu\u00f1ez<\/strong> (Lifetime Achievement,) television executive producer and writer <strong>Silvio Horta<\/strong> (Creative Achievement,) and Latino community leader <strong>Dolores Huerta<\/strong> (Presidents Award.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Imagen Awards honor positive portrayals of Latinos and Latino culture in entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year&#8217;s selection of special honorees is indicative of the strides that Latinos have made, and continue to make, throughout the entertainment industry,&#8221; said Imagen Foundation President and Founder, <strong>Helen Hernandez<\/strong>. &#8220;These incredibly talented individuals are a source of inspiration for all, regardless of background, and we look forward to honoring them and their achievements at this year&#8217;s Imagen Awards gala.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although pleased about the award, Orci admitted it was strange to win an award without writing partner <strong>Alex Kurtzman<\/strong>. &#8220;It&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve ever been singled out without Alex,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So it does feel bizarre.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For a full list of actors, actresses, shows and films nominated for this year&#8217;s awards, head to the link located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagen.org\/awards\/2009\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To read more, head to the articles located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118007504.html?categoryId=3701&amp;cs=1\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagen.org\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, August 21, Star Trek XI Co-writer Roberto Orci will be honored at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6733,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264\/revisions\/6733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}