Achievement Award for Brooks

Writer-director Richard Brooks, whose Hollywood career spans five decades and includes “Elmer Gantry,” “Key Largo,” “The Blackboard Jungle,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Looking for Mr. Goodbar,” will receive the first Life Achievement Award of the Writers Guild of America West and the Directors Guild of America on Sunday at 7 p.m., at DGA headquarters on Sunset Boulevard.

Critic and historian Richard Schickel will moderate a program of movie clips and tributes, with Robert Blake, Robert Culp, Glenn Ford, Conrad Hall, Shirley Jones, Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor scheduled to recount working with Brooks.

The 78-year-old Brooks said he feels good about the award and being a part of the movie industry. “Some people don’t like us. They criticize us. But there’s nothing better than making a movie, if you’ve got a good script. If you love it, it’s wonderful. And I love it.”

Brooks has worked on 36 films and has been nominated for 11 Oscars and has received seven WGAW nominations as well as five from the DGA. He won an Oscar for his screenplay for “Elmer Gantry,” which also was nominated for best picture.