Novick has taken part in several projects with screenwriter
Diablo Cody, including ''
Jennifer's Body, and Juno'', for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2008, and won a Christopher Award and an Independent Spirit Award. Novick claims to have found Diablo Cody by reading Cody's blog while she was a blogger living in Minneapolis. He found "her voice [to be] so interesting and so fresh". Inspired by her writing, he rang Cody and asked her whether she had ever considered writing a book or a screenplay. As a result of Novick's encouragement, Cody wrote the script which would become
Juno. Novick has worked with Cody on
Young Adult (2011),
Paradise (2013), and
Tully. ==Partial filmography==