Neil Gaiman

Gaiman has one numerous awards for his writing including a couple Hugo awards, a World Fantasy Award, a Newberry medal and the prestigious "Could Jam a Pen in his Ass and Write Better than Dean Koontz" award.

Fans of the Sandman continue to wait for Gaiman to either continue the series or pen a movie.  It's likely neither will happen however emo kids around the globe discover the Sandman every day and fall in love with his character Death hoping one day they can wear skinny pants with her and not care about life and junk.

Several of Gaiman's works have been adapted to film with varying degrees of success, which is a poilte way of saying no one liked a few of them. 

Neverwhere, his first full length novel, was adapted as a BBC miniseries and features sets made on a budget that likely couldn't have supplied the whole cast with a Happy Meal after the shoot, as well as a giant, subterranean pig.

Mirrormask, Gaiman's next effort, was the film equivalent of low-grade insanity.  It didn't do all that well with critics, possibly because of creepy cats with faces and possibly because it was so damn British.

With a cast that featured Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert DeNiro, Gaiman's Stardust fared somewhat better and probably everyone had a Happy Meal on set.  The film got a 76% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes which means it can go toe to toe with every movie ever made by Uwe Boll combined and still be more popular.

2009's Coraline, based on Gaiman's children's novel of the same name, is a stop motion animated feature that actually did pretty well and was presented in 3D so that even those people who liked the movie could go home with a headache.