 Tom Stoppard's association with film predates his much more prolific career as a playwright: in the '50s he became film and theatre critic for two provincial English newspapers. His original screenplay of Brazil (d. Terry Gilliam, 1985), co-authored by Terry Gilliam and Charles McKeown, was Oscar-nominated. Subsequently he adapted Empire of the Sun (US, d. Steven Spielberg, 1987), The Russia House (UK/US, d. Fred Schepisi, 1990) and Billy Bathgate (US, d. Robert Benton, 1991). In 1990 he directed his own adaptation of his first and best-known play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and in 1998 shared an Oscar for best original screenplay for the witty and touching Shakespeare in Love (UK/US, d. John Madden, 1998). Bibliography
Katherine E. Kelly, The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard, 2001. Simon Caterson, Encyclopedia of British Film
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