WGA Awards: Harold Ramis To Be Honored With Screenwriting Achievement Prize — hollywoodreporter.com

Harold Ramis will be honored posthumously at the 2015 Writers Guild Awards. The late screenwriter-director-actor-producer — who died on Feb. 24, 2014 — will be recognized with the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement. Ramis' wife Erica Mann Ramis and family will accept the award on his behalf. See more Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2014 Ramis' credits include Animal House (for which he shared a WGA nomination with co-screenwriters Douglas Kenney and Chris Miller), Meatballs, Caddyshack (on which he made his directorial debut), Stripes, Ghostbusters (in which he played Dr. Egon Spengler) and Groundhog Day, which landed at No. 27 on the WGA's 101 Greatest Screenplays list. “Harold Ramis changed the face of comedy. His death last year deprived us of his unique way of seeing the world, at once hilarious and wise," WGAW vice president Howard A. Rodman said in a statement. "From his early work with National Lampoon and SCTV through Animal House, Meatballs, Caddyshack and Ghostbusters, Ramis’ voice was strong, clear, outrageous in all the best ways. His unrealized projects — an adaptation of Confederacy of Dunces, a biopic about Emma Goldman — leave us aching with an anticipation that will never be fulfilled. And then there's Groundhog Day, one of modern cinema's few true masterworks, a film that is impeccably crafted, morally astute, emotionally sustaining, philosophically insightful and funny as hell. We could watch it again and again and forever."

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