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)
Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winner 2009 Acceptance Speach
Oscars.org: Oscar Acceptance Speeches - Simon Beaufoy
