Won both his Oscar and a Razzie award the same weekend in 1998: He
took Best Screenplay for
L.A. Confidential (1997) and Worst
Screenplay for
Kevin Costner's
Mensajero del futuro (1997). When asked
backstage at The Academy Awards about winning both "honors," Helgeland
declared he'd like to display them both side-by-side on his mantle to
remind him of the Quixotic nature of Hollywood. He then made good on
his promise, permitting the founders of The Razzies to present him his
Worst Screenplay dis-honor in his production offices as Warner Bros.
studios later that year. He was only the fourth person in Razzie
history to voluntarily accept one of their statuettes.
