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Simon Beaufoy's script for Slumdog Millionaire won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar at the Academy Awards on February 22, 2009. Other films in contention included The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Doubt, Frost/Nixon, and The Reader.
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Fast Facts
- Award date: February 22, 2009
- Award time: 5pm PST
- Network: ABC
- Host: Hugh Jackman
- Original winner 1928: Seventh Heaven
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"I think it's liberating. It's daunting because it comes from F. Scott Fitzgerald. I've done a lot of adaptations so I'm always respectful of the original writer. My job's different. I'm a dramatist, basically."—Eric RothArtist Direct: Interview with Eric Roth (February 9, 2009) -
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Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winner 2009 Acceptance Speach
- Oscars.org: Oscar Acceptance Speeches - Simon Beaufoy
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