Steven Knight

Steven Knight (born 1959 in Marlborough, England) is a British screenwriter. Knight has written scripts for numerous british television programs such as the british version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", BBC's "Commercial Breakdown", "The Detectives" and others. However, he is best known for screenplays he wrote for films "Dirty Pretty Things" and "Eastern Promises". His work on the screenplay for "Dirty Pretty Things" earned him the Edgar Award for "Best Motion Picture Screenplay" and London Film Critics Circle award for "British Screenwriter of the Year". [ [http://criticscircle.org.uk/film/award.asp?CAT=bsw&title=British%20Screenwriter%20of%20the%20Year British Screenwriter of the Year] , "London Film Critics Circle". Accessed July 29, 2008.] The screenplay was also nominated for several other awards including the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay [ [http://www.oscars.org/76academyawards/nomswins.html 76th Academy Awards Nominees and Winners] , "Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". Accessed July 29, 2008.] and the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay. [ [http://www.bafta.org/awards/film/nominations/?year=2002 Film Nominations 2002] , "British Academy of Film and Television Arts". Accessed July 29, 2008.]

Knight wrote the screenplay for the upcoming 2009 film "Ashecliffe" directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. [ [http://www.variety.com/profiles/Film/main/165633/Shutter%20Island.html?dataSet=1 Shutter Island] , "Variety". Accessed July 29, 2008.] The filming was completed as of July 2, 2008 [Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa. [http://www.bostonherald.com/track/inside_track/view/2008_07_03_needs_headline_2/ DiCaprio, crew cap ‘Ashecliffe’ shoot] , "Boston Herald", July 3, 2008. Accessed July 28, 2008.] and the film is scheduled to be released October 2, 2009.

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