into post-production: "The final scene of the movie [...] was written and shot about eight weeks before [its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2006]", he said. Following its theatrical release on August 18, 2006, Little Miss Sunshine won many prizes and awards. Arndt won multiple Best Original Screenplay awards for Little Miss Sunshine, from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Writers Guild of America. He was later invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Arndt began collaborating with Lee Unkrich and other Pixar personnel on the screenplay for Toy Story 3 in 2006,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20012203,00.html |title='Toys Out of the Attic |last=Daly |first=Steve |date=February 16, 2007 |work=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=July 9, 2008 }}</ref> working from a treatment by Andrew Stanton, who co-wrote the two preceding films in the series. He was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work for Toy Story 3, and became the first ever screenwriter to be nominated for both Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay for his first two screenplays. Arndt was one of several screenwriters brought on to perform script revisions for Men in Black 3. Arndt wrote the script for The Hunger Games sequel, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins. In November 2012, Arndt was announced as the screenwriter for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. In October 2013, it was announced that Lawrence Kasdan and director J. J. Abrams were rewriting Arndt's script. Filmography Assistant Addicted to Love (1997) Inspector Gadget (1999) Senior creative team WALL-E (2008) Up (2009) (Uncredited) Toy Story 3 (2010) Cars 2 (2011) References Further reading External links Interview with Michael Arndt about writing Little Miss Sunshine'' American male screenwriters Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winners Best Original Screenplay BAFTA Award winners Independent Spirit Award winners Tisch School of the Arts alumni Living people People from McLean, Virginia Disney people Pixar people Screenwriters from Virginia Writers Guild of America Award winners Year of birth missing (living people)