Simon Beaufoy

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Simon Beaufoy (born 1966 in Keighley , Great Britain) is a British screenwriter best known for the 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire by Danny Boyle , which he wrote the screenplay for. Beaufoy received an Oscar for best adapted screenplay.

Life

He graduated from the Arts Institute in Bournemouth .

Another Oscar nomination brought Beaufoy back in 2011 for her renewed collaboration with Boyle on the feature film 127 Hours . The drama tells the story of mountaineer Aron Ralston (played by James Franco ), who had an accident while hiking in a canyon in Utah in 2003 and only survived by self-amputating his right arm. In 2012 he wrote the screenplay for the fantasy film The Hunger Games - Catching Fire , the sequel to The Hunger Games .

Filmography

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Simon Beaufoy Talks Creating Sharp Teeth With Danny Boyle and Catching Fire