Simon Beaufoy

Simon Beaufoy is a British screenwriter who has been nominated for a Golden Globe due to his writing for the film 127 Hours. The movie tells a story of a trapped climber who cut off his own arm in order to escape.http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/features/Beaufoy-rises-to-a-rockhard.6680933.jp He has won several prestigious awards for his writing, including a Critics Choice award and Golden Globe for Slumdog Millionaire and won the Screenwriter of the Year award from London Critics Circle Film Awards for his work in The Full Monty.http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/galleries/the_66th_annual_golden_globes_winners/the_66th_annual_golden_globes_winners.html Beaufoy also received nominations for The Full Monty from The Academy Awards, BAFTA and Writers Guild of America Award.

Beaufoy is reported to be working on an adaptation of The Raw Shark Texts, written by Steven Hall, as well as the animated DreamWorks film Truckers.http://www.filminfocus.com/film/miss_pettigrew_lives_for_a_day/castncrew?member=simon_beaufoy http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i46b00e47f06110d8cdc0c895cb70d2d2 In 2009, he won Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire.

Beaufoy's debut in the film world was titled Yellow, and it was released in 1996. However, he worked on 10x10, a TV series, in 1993.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0064479/ He wrote The Full Monty, a movie that was released in 1997, and went on to be nominated for an Oscar for it in 1998. The Full Monty also garnered other nominations for Beaufoy including a BAFTA, Golden Satellite Award and Writers Guild of America Award nomination.

Beaufoy finally won an Oscar in 2009 for Slumdog Millionaire, a film that was released in 2008. In addition to the Oscar, Beaufoy won a total of 16 other awards for Slumdog Millionaire including a Golden Globe and a BAFTA award.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0064479/awards

• 2010: 127 Hours
• 2008: Slumdog Millionaire
• 2008: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
• 2007: The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
• 2004: Yasmin
• 2002: This is Not a Love Song
• 2001: Blow Dry
• 2000: Everyone's Happy
• 1999: The Darkest Light
• 1998: Among Giants
• 1997: The Full Monty
• 1996: Yellowhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0064479/

"I can remember when I found out that I had been nominated for 'The Full Monty' I was clearing cat sick off the floor. I really must get a more glamorous life one of these days."—Simon Beaufoyhttp://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2010/12/golden-globe-reactions-halle-berry-black-swan.html

(On Winning a BAFTA award) "It's genuinely a massive pleasure and I genuinely have a plastic one at home, and a chocolate one, which I've been eating."—Simon Beaufoyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO70ZepNrgQ