"The importance didn’t dawn on me until people started sending bottles of Dom Perignon and 16-year-old Scotch,” said Schenk, who favors Summit Pale Ale. “I couldn’t be more pleased, but I don’t watch the Golden Globes. I’d rather be in an ice-fishing house."

Minneapolitan Nick Schenk, writer of the screenplay for Clint Eastwood’s “Grand Torino”