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- Award date: February 22, 2009
- Award time: 5pm PST
- Network: ABC
- Host: Hugh Jackman
- Original winner 1928: Seventh Heaven
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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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"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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Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winner 2009 Questions
Who *will* win the best adapted Screenplay Oscar for 2009? - Who should win? -Featured 4 AnswersWill win - Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy For taking an anecdotal novel and weaving it into the most beloved film of the year. Our first chance to get in... read more
Who *will* win the best original screenplay Oscar for 2009? Who *should* win? - featured 3 AnswersWill Win: Dustin Lance Black for Milk With Penn and Rourke so close in the Best Actor race, this may be the only shot that voters have to honor the greatly be... read more
Who *will* win the best actor Oscar for 2009? Who *should* win the Best Actor Oscar for 2009? - Featured 26 Answers*will* win - Sean Penn, Milk *should* win - Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler Penn’s win at the Producer’s Guild Awards gives him a grand total of 17 Best Actor a... read more
Oscar Winners leaked? 14 AnswersI doubt it very much. Firstly the text looks like its been added in, the logo looks fake (way to cheezy to be the real deal) and finally, why in Gods name would... read more -