Question: What award was given to the author of a 1972 film by John Boorman?

Context articles: Queen and Country (film)
The Emerald Forest
James Dickey
Deliverance (disambiguation)
Deliverance (novel)
Katrine Boorman
Bill McKinney
Deliverance
I Dreamt I Woke Up
Point Blank (1967 film)

Queen and Country is a 2014 British drama film directed by John Boorman.
 It was selected to be screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.
 The film is a sequel to Boorman's 1987 film "Hope and Glory", which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and features several of the same characters, though with the passage of time most are played by different actors.
The Emerald Forest is a 1985 British adventure drama film set in the Brazilian Rainforest that was directed by John Boorman, written by Rospo Pallenberg, and starring Powers Boothe, Meg Foster, and Charley Boorman with supporting roles by Rui Polanah, Tetchie Agbayani, Dira Paes, Estee Chandler, Eduardo Conde.
 It is based on a true story.
 The film was screened out of competition at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.
James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist.
 He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966.
 He also received the Order of the South award.
 Dickey was also a novelist, known for "Deliverance" (1970) which was adapted into an acclaimed film of the same name.
Deliverance is a 1972 film directed by John Boorman.
Deliverance is a 1970 novel by James Dickey, his first.
 It was adapted into a 1972 film by director John Boorman.
 In 1998, the editors of the Modern Library selected "Deliverance" as #42 on their list of the 100 best 20th-Century novels.
 The novel was included on "Time" magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923.
Katrine Boorman (born 1958) is an English actress who has appeared on film, in television, and on the London stage.
 She is the daughter of British director John Boorman.
William Denison McKinney (September 12, 1931 – December 1, 2011) was an American character actor whose most famous role was the sadistic mountain man in John Boorman's 1972 film "Deliverance".
 McKinney was also recognizable for his performances in seven Clint Eastwood films, most notably as Captain Terrill, commander pursuing the last rebels to "hold out" against surrendering to the Union forces in "The Outlaw Josey Wales".
Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film produced and directed by John Boorman, and starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox, with the latter two making their feature film debuts.
 The film is based on the 1970 novel of the same name by American author James Dickey, who has a small role in the film as the Sheriff.
 The screenplay was written by Dickey and an uncredited Boorman.
 It was a critical success, earning three Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe nominations.
I Dreamt I Woke Up is a 1991 Irish short film directed by John Boorman.
 It stars John Hurt and Janet McTeer as well as Boorman and his son Charley.
 Commissioned by the BBC as part of "The Director's Place" series, the essay/documentary explores the home and neighbours of John Boorman and the mystical qualities of the Wicklow Mountains as well as their influence on some of Boorman's films.
Point Blank is a 1967 American neo-noir crime film directed by John Boorman, starring Lee Marvin, co-starring Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn and Carroll O'Connor, and adapted from the 1963 crime noir pulp novel "The Hunter" by Donald E. Westlake, writing as Richard Stark.
 Boorman directed the film at Marvin's request and Marvin played a central role in the film's development.
 The film was not a box-office success in 1967, but has since gone on to become a cult classic, eliciting praise from such critics as film historian David Thomson.