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Humanitas Prize awardees named

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From a Times staff writer

Nancy Oliver, the writer of “Lars and the Real Girl,” and Ronald Harwood, who wrote “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” shared the feature film award Wednesday at the annual Humanitas Prizes, which honor film and TV scripts that “explore the human condition . . . and reveal our common humanity.”

Television winners included Daniel Giat for the HBO movie “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” Kirk Ellis for the opening chapter of the HBO miniseries “John Adams,” Dave Tennant for an episode of NBC’s “Scrubs” called “My Long Goodbye,” Brian Hohlfeld for an episode of “My Friends Tigger & Pooh” and Ann Austen, Douglas Sloan, Max Enscoe and Annie DeYoung for “Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board.”

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