The 61st Annual Writers Guild Awards held ceremonies in Century City on the West Coast and at the Hudson Theatre Millennium Broadway Hotel for the WGA East. Milk Screenwriter, Dustin Lance Black, was a big winner taking home the WGA award for Best Original Screenplay and receiving a special honor award at the ceremony. Simon Beaufoy took home the statuette for Slumdog Millionaire. We expect these to films to sweep the same categories at the Oscars. Watch an interview where out director... Read Full Story
While many are still anticipating the opening of X-Men Origins: Wolverine it seems there is always talks of sequel since this is already a franchised property it isn’t suprising. I have not seen the film and while the cast is something that interests me, the movie itself seems campy and stupid. Plus Wolverine was already done in the first three X-Men films (credit Adam on that quote).
That being said, one my favorite films of the year, Slumdog Millionaire , was written by Simon Beaufoy... Read Full Story
Writer Simon Beaufoy, winner of Best Adapted Screenplay for "Slumdog Millionaire," attends the 81st Annual Academy Awards Governor's Ball held at Kodak Theatre on February 22, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Simon Beaufoy (Getty Images) more pics » Simon Beaufoy wins for Best Adapted Screenplay for Slumdog Millionaire at the 2009 Academy Awards. Read Full Story
So what do you do if you've just won an Academy Award for writing the screenplay of the movie phenomenon Slumdog Millionaire ? Here's what screenwriter Simon Beaufoy is doing to follow up his date with Oscar: The "Slumdog Millionaire" writer, who walked away with the Academy Award for adapted screenplay last month, is working on the script for DreamWorks Animation's "Truckers." The project is in the early development stages, and nothing is known about the story line. Maybe Beaufoy is taking a... Read Full Story
Web Exclusive: 'Millionaire' continues awards sweep -- "Slumdog Millionaire" continued its awards sweep Friday night at the 21st annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards after walking away with the org's top prize.
In a show of appreciation for the event's unique nature of recognizing both screenwriter and author of an adapted work, "Slumdog" scribe Simon Beaufoy said, "We don't really have anything like this in Great Britain."
A first-ever for the award, the night's winner was announced during... Read Full Story
Simon Beaufoy won Oscar for best adapted screenplay in the Danny Boyle directed movie Slumdog Millionaire.
It is about a young Indian slum kid’s life story from rags to winning in a “who wants to be a millionaire” gameshow.
India’s well known music director A R Rahman gets his first chance of winning the Oscar here after years of being ignored by the international community. It takes a UK or US made film for such a good music director to get recognised - the very fate behind the success... Read Full Story
Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is about Simon Beaufoy. Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and add your own article! Read Full Story
The movie Slumdog Millionaire is just now going wide in its theatrical release and it's one of the handful of must-see films on my list. Its screenwriter is Simon Beaufoy who has numerous writing credits including The Full Monty (1997) . In November, this article on Beaufoy came out in which he described some of the narrative choices he had to make in adapting the book for Slumdog into the movie: In writing the screenplay, Beaufoy said he was keenly aware of being a Brit writing a screenplay... Read Full Story
Film News: Writers of '30 Rock' and 'Bashir' also honored -- Dustin Lance Black's "Milk" has won the WGA's original screenplay award while Simon Beaufoy took the adapted screenplay trophy for "Slumdog Millionaire." Read Full Story
