Simon Beaufoy

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Simon Beaufoy ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|oʊ|f|ɔɪ}}; born 26 December 1966){{cite news |title=Birthdays today |work=The Times |issue=72727 |date=26 December 2018 |editor-last=Witherow|editor-first=John|page=33|issn=0140-0460}} is a British screenwriter.{{cite encyclopedia| last=McFarlane| first=Brian| title=Beaufoy, Simon| url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/841348/| encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of British Film| publisher=BFI Screenonline| access-date=16 September 2011}} Born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, he was educated at Malsis School in Glusburn, Ermysted's Grammar School and Sedbergh School, he read English at St Peter's College, Oxford and graduated from Arts University Bournemouth. In 1997, he earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for The Full Monty. He went on to win the 2009 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Slumdog Millionaire as well as winning a Golden Globe and a BAFTA award.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090208154128/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/231030/Simon-Beaufoy The New York Times] Beaufoy also earned further Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for his co-written adaptation of Aron Ralston's autobiography Between a Rock and a Hard Place titled 127 Hours.

Beaufoy has also completed adaptations of The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall and the 2011 film version of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday,[https://web.archive.org/web/20090216155743/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/4612235/Saturday-Interview-Simon-Beaufoy.html Telegraph.co.uk] as well as new adaptations of The Full Monty as both a stage play and limited television series.[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/feb/10/the-full-monty-on-stage#comment-21216067 The Full Monty on stage: the boys are back in town] The Guardian, 10 February 2013. Retrieved 12 February 2013.

Filmography

Yellow (1996) (short film)
The Full Monty (1997)
Among Giants (1998)
Closer (1998) (short film)
The Darkest Light (1999)
This Is Not a Love Song (2001)
Blow Dry (2001)
Yasmin (2004)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)
Burn Up (2008) (miniseries)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
127 Hours (2010)
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Everest (2015)
Battle of the Sexes (2017)
Trust (2018) (TV series)
The Full Monty (2023) (TV series)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold{{Broken anchor|date=2024-10-12|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=The Spy Who Came in from the Cold#Miniseries|reason= The anchor (Miniseries) has been deleted.}}{{cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2016/07/john-le-carre-the-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold-limited-series-paramount-tv-1201789173/|title=John le Carré's 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' In Works As Series|last=Petski|first=Denise|date=20 July 2016|work=Deadline|access-date=5 December 2016}} (TBA) (TV miniseries) (adaptation)