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FROST/NIXON

Screenplay by Peter Morgan

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This is the second Academy Award nomination for Peter Morgan. He was previously nominated for:

THE QUEEN (2006) -- Nominee, Writing (Original)

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Following his 1974 resignation, Richard Nixon withdraws from public life until talk show host David Frost persuades him--with the help of a sizeable payment--to participate in a series of television interviews. For Frost, the much-anticipated event offers a chance to establish himself as a serious journalist, while the disgraced former president regards the interviews as an opportunity to reestablish himself on the political stage.

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