Tom Stoppard, Shakespeare
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Tom Stoppard’s contributions to cinema – official and unofficial – are far richer than you’d know from a cursory look at what awards bodies saw fit to bestow. He was almost equally prolific in being named as a screenwriter and not named.
One is an Oscar winner, the other is an aspiring Oscar contender. But both are largely fictionalized accounts of Shakespeare's life.
British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Oscar for the screenplay for the 1998 movie "Shakespeare In Love", has died at the age of 88, United Agents said on Saturday.
Shakespeare in Love, the 1998 period drama starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes, will leave BBC iPlayer over the next couple of weeks. The movie, which famously bagged the Academy Award for Best Picture, not to mention a Best Actress win for Paltrow ...
His brain-teasing plays ranged across Shakespeare, science, philosophy and the historic tragedies of the 20th century. Five of them won Tony Awards for best play: “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” in 1968; “Travesties” in 1976; “The Real Thing” in 1984; “The Coast of Utopia” in 2007; and “Leopoldstadt” in 2023.
A new film, adapted from Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 novel, posits that the death of Shakespeare's 11-year-old son may have inspired one of the greatest fictional tragedies ever written.