Peter Morgan

PETER MORGAN served as writer and executive producer on Ron Howard's critically acclaimed "Frost/Nixon," garnering Oscar®, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and WGA Award nominations for Best Screenplay. In addition, he was nominated for numerous critics association nominations, winning the San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Adaptation of his own stage play.

In 2006, Morgan was nominated for Oscar® and BAFTA Awards for Best Original Screenplay for Stephen Frears' "The Queen," starring Helen Mirren and Michael Sheen. In addition to winning Golden Globe, British Independent Film and Evening Standard British Film Awards, he was also honored with awards for Best Screenplay from the Venice Film Festival, The Writers Guild, Toronto Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, London Critics Circle, and Chicago Film Critics Association.

The same year, Kevin MacDonald's "The Last King of Scotland," starring Forest Whittaker and James McAvoy, won Morgan BAFTA, British Independent Film and Evening Standard British Film Awards for Best Screenplay.

Morgan also wrote "360," a contemporized adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's play "Reigen," with director Fernando Meirelles and producers Andrew Eaton, Danny Krausz and David Linde.

He also served as executive producer on the film adaptation of John le Carré's novel, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," starring Ralph Fiennes, Gary Oldman, Michael Fassbender and Colin Firth.

His other feature credits include the sport biography "The Damned United."

Among Morgan's writer/executive producer television credits are the HBO longforms "The Special Relationship," which garnered five Emmy nominations, including Best TV Movie and Writing and "Longford," which won the 2007 BAFTA Award and Humanitas Prize for Best Writing, The Royal Television Society Award for Best Drama, as well as Emmy and BAFTA nominations for Best TV Movie; and "Henry VIII," which won an International Emmy for Best TV Movie.

His other credits include "The Deal," the first part of his Blair Trilogy, which won a BAFTA Award for Best Drama and "Dear Rosie," which was nominated for a BAFTA and Oscar® in the Live Action Short Film category.

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